The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1844-08-23
-''May at last my weary age,
Find out the peaceful Herntitspe. -

Not so however. After having utterly fall
ed in all his ''experimenisn as a statesman,
he must still mix up in the political fray,
lie NEST still have bis cock IN the pit. TIE
one who Wisely showed the ''while featIi-
or" in Washington, got ''under COW" has
been twice "pittsd'' in tho Tennessee ring
and made "no SHOW still he pitts him in
the national ring, aqansRthat gallant old
cock ''of the slashes'' SIashed up he must
! be, for cock broth with Dallas for salad at
the locOfocO dinner on the fourth Of March
next. The old General while presiding,
will have occasion 10 excIaim, ''to what
humble uses do We come at last, my day is
past, my race is run. have even failed as a
Cocker" Sic transit gloria mundi'
MahOmetanism and Locofocoism are in
The very nature of things alike Humbugs.-
They both had the same general design
obtaining of power under false pretences."
/ Locofocoism has exploded blythe non fulfill
ment OF its promises; and The principal
rostrum relied upon TO embody and vivify
| il is ''Texas annexation" Mahome tanism
still exists, and Of the Two creeds it NAV
turn out best, for its promises are TO be ful~
filled in heaven, aud il is not even given 10
him OF The Hermitage. ''the greatest and
BEST" to fOre-shadOw its Judgment. In this
country the idea Of putting forth one man
as lis tuelary genius would be exceedingly
sublime were it not irresistible ridiculous.
Where,
sTO speak his thoughts is every freemans right,
In peace and war, in council and in fight" p.
Wings, you spoke your thoughts in the
fight of l64O, you fought it calamity. In
one short month after the citadel was sur
rendered at discretion to Jour noble chief,
Harrison, he fon by the hand Of DEATH
The command devoved upon your second
officer, capt. Tyler" He let the locefep
COS in at the postern gate.
, "Oh for a tongue to curse the slave,
. Whose treason like deadly blight,
e Comes Ger the councils of the brave"
When Arnold in 1850, proved traitor 10
D the wing cause, did the wings abandon il?
: No. Follow the noble example Of your
n forefathers. | sing TO you ga union of the
. wings for the sake Of the union"-a long
ppIh-a strong pull, add pull together
: II this had not taken place among our FORE
e fathers, would the Declaration of Indepen-
n dence be found bound up at this day as a
' carmen necessarium in the statute books Of
v twenty-six States, ''lree, sovereign and in-
q dependent" having a population of IT,
It OOO,OOC of souls2 No, it could only be
s found in the cabinets Of The curious, on the
: same shelf with "Virginia ahstractionist''
d and "Gen. Jackson's Cuba essays on the
y currency"
J, Throughout the revolutionary war, the
8 father of his country in all his correspon-
l. dence, official and private, inculcated union
5, as the means by which Independence was
d to.be achieved. In his farewell address he
10 bids Us frown down ''the first dawning of a
is disposition 20 sacrifice the Union" If |
IS mistake not the signs Of the times, union
le Of the Wings only can prevent disunion. II
: is a prOverb with reference TO society,
er ''show me the company you keep, and will
J. Itell you who you are" So it is with politi
lG cat associates by parity of Teason.-A Goa
1t litlOn between the ''hOnest nupi6er'' anC
n the Old Hero, who few years since appre
j. ciaied his merits so highly that he proposed
Id giving her finale as distinguished as tina
US which AhaseuruS awarded te Hartman, ha
be a very singular squirting towards the estab
to lishment Of Southern Empire.-A uniol
- of the Wings will prevent the attempt.
ry ;'Away down sout dar, close to de Moon
n Dare Ibis an ole chat dat they call Calhoun"
re Have an eye upon him. Let Locofocoisn
ts succeed, jacObinical as it is in its character
on having had thrown into its caldron "Nulli
he fcaii0n," "AbslTactioEs,' "Texas Annexs
lie. tion'' stirred up BY "Southern chivalry'', III
lily most harmless thing Of them all, still ;her
will be-