The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1844-08-23
THE WING
YAZOO CITY:
Friday. Augu.t go, Is44.
FOR THE YAZOo CITY WING.
An Address TO the wings Of
MisSiSGiDDi.


Mississippi.
Having become a citizen Of the State,
and being a Wing, claim the privilege Of
addressing my brethren. As Wings / adj
dress you-as Wings our forefathers pro-
mulged their independence-as Wings by
"a patriotic sacrifice of their blood and lrea>
sure they achieved it-as Wings they pass.
ed from this 10 another and better world.
bequeaihlng unto US as a legacy, "pereless
and Priceless" that liberty which they had
won. Shall we preserve ii or let the spoil
er desecraie il! No, never. We will guard
and project it against his approach, whether
he advances openly as military chefIain,
nulli6er. or in the more questionable shape
of magician, abstTactiOnist,- OF the mper-
sonaIiOn of them all, "IittLe Jenny" Polk
Wings, We stand with reference 10 our
ferefalhers as Moses did before his God,
"upoD ground that is holy."-made holy by
their blood and sufferings. We will gather
together in the same camp, from time like
the Israliles of Old-wilh one feeling, enc
voice, to sing hosannahs to the most high,
for the perpetualon of our liberties. MAY
that voice be heard by the Locos, for we
are told that when Saul was possessed Of
an evil sPirit,' the sound Of music restored
him. The wings war against the "evl spir.
it. his imps and their wiles." The Nashville
Union, the organ Of Jackson and Polk says:
1--WE are FOR tOhGtth aDhigs are AGAINST, :"
therefore the line Of demarcation is drawn
between US. Wings, you are the lineal
protectors of the altar of Liberty On this
continent. 1t is your birthright duty. None
hot ltar h,f ra,hO
'w0rship in spirit and in TRUTH The loco
foco oblatiun cannot be received, it is an
"unclean thing' They are "not of US or
our house"-they worship an Idol, and are
the followers of the little ''graven images"
which he sets up; this is forbidden unto Us.
The locOfocO dogma 10 analogous 10 that
Of the Mahometan. "There is one true
God. and Mahomet is his prophet." A non
Sc outer by the bye. The faithful are
promised the seventh heaven and the graft
hcation of every immaginable desire on the
instant. Ifhe desires fish, flesh, towel OF
fruit, it falls into his mouth in half the time
dumb waiter would be in transitue from
the kitchen to the dining room, from the
tree Of happiness planted in Heaven by
t Mahomet. Whether this tree was scion
transplanted from the tree of knowledge ii
It the garden of Eden by Mahomet, is still &
5; Craze question. Mr.. locofoce, when yor
!; read this don't strain at the gnat, if you d.
e wait little, for will show you that yol
t. swallowed the camel, ''long time ago.
3 without the slightest contoftion Of face
t; LocOiocoism made sundry promises TO he
followers-a fairy land-reform, swe spin
reform in every department Of government
What was the performance The mlitar
chieitain made an immediate annexation
% Of all the ''spOls'' 10 his followers. Histo
ry perhaps, furnishes but one parallel case
that Of Attala the Soth. Economy wa
= promised, and the performance was an in
crease of the expenses Of the government
I'd from $l3 ,296,O4I d 10 SAC, 427,2 Th
no increase of expenses were only cent pc
m cent and large amount over, but if M
Van Buren, had not been arrested in hi
7 mad career, the expenses of the govern
rst ment at the termination of his second teri
,ix would have been cent per cent and Ger
ms again. A "better currency" was promised
Well, at this point brief retrospect b.
comes necessary, for the locofocos have +
; system Of mnemoriCks that can refresh the
memories with reference to their past bur
bugs, they are too much enjoyed in Il
: new issues" and the --latest phrases
see Charleston Courier, OF the democra
ic masses, e, 'Texas or Disunion," &c
ISL -, eraI Quatllebom, cmbOdying in the field
les Mars, Virginia abstractionists,' and sen
VII ing them forth as bratem bWlnems, &c. &,
eSn A committee Of Congress in 1881, report
q, that s. the government receives ils reven
IN" from 344 custom houses, % land Ofic,
SOO4 post Offices, l34 receivers of int,
use Use nal revenue, 81 marshalls, and 80 clerks
Oh' courts. These with other receiving 0fic,
saw compose an aggregate of more than 80
persons, dispensed throughout the uni
L who collect the public revenue. FIR
these persons the government has, for
g. ten years preceding the lst January Is
ting received $3.50 ,O66, 655 II. This sum
and been collected in every section Of this WI
i.-ll extended country. 1t has been disbl
ed at other points, many thousand m
~ distant from the places where ii was
w lected, and yet has been SO collected
distributed without losing, as far as