The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-10-09
The Coming Contest.


Ne one who has noted the political deVel
Opments of lha last five years, can doubt dat
the Wings are in decided majority in this
country.-They are the Democracy, so far as
merican public opinion is involved in our
political contests; they ave also the Democra.
cy of numbers: but they. comprise tens Of
thousands Ofgood citizens who perform every
duty Of life, except that which controls the
causes that make the destinies Of life 10
republican people the duty of suffrage
Not only do they neglect the solemn dulles
Of preparing tickets for popular support,
which if elected, will Vndicate the great aud
holy principles cherished by them, but they
even disregard the obligations legal, a
moral, religious duty--to art;cipale 10
the elections of the Country, We would
counsel no one to embark IN political life.
or to do more than, as citizen, he is bound
TO do, in meeting his share Of governing this
country, and with il the great destinies de.
pendent upon it. But we know no dnlg more
important, no derelictiOn more blame worthy,
than those which bear upon the right 81 suf.
erage. That right controls interests infinite
in their influence, moral, religious and phi>
lanthrOpic, for time and eternity. upon the
human race, and no % n who shares in that
right and its responsibility, can excuse upon
| light grounds, his neglect and disregard Of
IFS Obligations. Yet it has been 10 great,
a culpable extent, neglected. A period has
arrived when, if there be any thing in the tie
which binds the citizen to the community,
the political duties of our voters must be
met. Those duties demand. in reference
to the vast interests before our people, i'm
mediate union, organization and effort
Never were subjects more grave presented
for the decision of people. Wise men re.
gard this country as the seat and scene Of a
great, perhaps final struggle between all
the great principles Of good and Of evil which
must decide the destiries Of the millions
and the centuries Of the earth. The Wing
party is the party Of Progress fer the right
In the right-the party of elevation, moral
physical and intellectual, to all Gods chill
ldren-the party opposed to all that tends tc
lower the American freemen to the level Of
the European slave, or to drive him onward
into guilty schemes Of crime and conquesis
which must result in pouring our nationa
character into an ocean of moral degenera
cy, where the virtues of Penn and tht
Pilgrims will be lost and urlamented.
The opposing party is one that manacle
the hard hand Of labor with the g lily thong
of foreign policy-that reduces the Amer
lean laborer to the level of the British pa u
Per-that builds up national debts raise
armies and taxes-and finding a country i
tPeaoc and hupincSr, Faises storm and Iempes
around it, checks IFS industry, loads ii wit
debt, and reduces il, young aud vigorous a
il is, TO condition of industrial VassaIag,
to paralytic Europe. lis every sep la
staggered into error; lis every change la
established wrong; its every triumph ha
recorded shame. Mere madness woul
have lacked the ingenuity to do so much o
mischief; mere Wickedness would have wan
ted the courage, Il has stumbled upon
violation of every principle Ofrlghl or polio
whether bearing upon the country or itsel
and stands before the country miraculuo
! combination Of political mons trosilie:
/ There is no interest, no right, and no hop
that it does not menace. Circumstances hay
made the issue now, and ii must be me
i Upon the question in Pennsylvania, Deepen
. not merely on the Tariff, the interests Of Il
: Dor, the hopes Of industry, in all its thousan
e happy branches, but other and darker que
= tons, involving even national exstence,au
= individual security, to the American peopl
The aged, the disinterested, the pure al
the retiring, should recognize in this cris
solumn and most important duty.
N philadelphia North American.