The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1844-08-10
VA zoo CITY:
WEDNESDAY, NOON, AUGUST ~


~ 10y AlSsle-A :, ~sJlNs AUGUST 4S 1914
Principle alone 10 the anlmating ina-
pulse o. the DemoeFacy.
The Democracy have ever made il contes
Ofprinciple in the selection Of proper men to 81
The high Offices Or orr government, and il il MOI
AZ this time when victory is secured to them that
they viii liserge in The least from tie course H.
lcated to them By the position Of this polar star
Of equal rights and equal privileges. By lis
steady and unfailing light have we always been
enabled to avoid danger and successfully retrieve
every disaster And is it now when the dearest
principles Of cur creed are menaced by the oppo.
nents Of equality and the supporters Of exclusive
grants and privileges that a freeman's mind
should shrink with fear at their hostile array!
No. Atno one time in our history as nation
has an over-ruling Power failed to place III our
van an honest and fearless agent around whom
we might rally, and with him succeed in breast
ing and bearing down all opposition that reared
its poisoned crest in menacing attitude against
the ramparts Of our glorious constitution.
We have always fearIessly met our foe. And
in every contest have came of victorious. II
our happy country the democracy Of numbers
have 10 every contest swelled thefranks Of the
masses; and if resort had not been had to
fraud in 1926, Whiggery Calias HamillOniaD fed.
eralmOnarchy,) would long since have been con-
signed to the grave that conceals from view TIE
remains Of those who wFested against US when
we were cOntending for our freedom.
For his active part in that fraud--tbe gross
subversiOn Of the viii Of majority Of the
American peOple--has Henry Clay reaped po-
litical infamy sufficient TO foreverbar to him an
entrance even to the portals Of that high Office.
the ultimate attainment Of which he has eyer
been striving for. It is well too that he alone at
this moment should be the opposing candidate
toOur choice. A TeParatiOn is due by the Amer
ican people for the wild, reckless, and ribaId Ii.
Gene that il lis destructive course over our
landin A0thfeatened 10 Fhze to its foundations
the splendid structure OF our government, and
in its enthusiastic madness placed in the chair
as the ruler Of "a free people, one who On every
occasion would have been Sub eryient to the
''most gracious no,p' of The lord Of Ashland IT.
il well that we have once again. this man before
us TO receive for the last time another sentence
sof condemnation from the American. people.
Thus will atonement be made for the Tadness Of
40 and the retirement into private life by
Henry Clay prove to the world that renegades
can never enjoy the confidence Of free people.
That principle ever impels democracy, none
who have been close observers Of the political
history Of our nation can, for moment even. in.
7dulss doubt Of It's original particles have
been the same in all ages since the creation
having, for its foundation, truth and Justice
nation after nation have been induced 70 rear
onits pillars structures that might bid defiance q
tyranny and oppression. They have failed. be-
cause they were regardless of the admonition Of
former agO',and forgetting that ..eterna vigilance
y the price Of liberty,'' they let the grasping
viii ofcupidiiy lull to rest their incident minds
and when at last they woke it was bv the tbong
and goad, and too late they found that PRIV.
LEGE had drained from them the blood az ,es,,.
tancs-lhersiore, contention was madness. Itl
isthe object Of our opponents ne this time %
saddle upcu our county an institution invested
with privilege most odious 10 every feature. 70
give il breathing time enough to secure in its
clutches the holy rights transmitted BY our fore
fathers, and the day would soon appear in our
country that would expose to the sight OF toilins
milliOEs an aristOcraoy more iordly and ever.
bearing than that which now subsists and ban,
qnets daily upon the tears and blood Of the Rus
sian seri.
That she principles Of democracy are unchan-
ginssHnd indissoln5lg connected, linF b. link,
with truth aud justice, has every evidence been
daily given 10 man. since The earth became bic
dwelling place. That democracy has slsafs
been the aame Wilh the damoorat'e party of our
oWn county q eFideaeed By our history. And
lhat is important bearings never change from
heir original purity, We would call the alten-
ion our readers to letter on rs GRIT cslamn
llQuf hrlt page. They win see that though age
.Ehitils % ths Sage Of The Hermitage Che deep
,uilinss or Abe grave, stiH every pulse is bis
ime worn frame throbs high with hopes 81 tne-
itsi fof the Democracy,
oc-We send the frt No Of The DEnocnArI
o our neighbour IN town indiseriniuaiely.-
Those disposed to.eneourass us rillplease call