The Yazoo City Whig. [volume] (Yazoo, Miss.) 1844-1851, 1846-12-04

AbOIitIOnfsm-LOcof ocoism---V w higism.
Ever since the FIRST defeat which the loco
foco party met with in the elections Of this
fall, that party and its presses in the South.
have been diligently engaged in endeav0r,
ing to couple the Wing and Abolition parties
together, and cry aloud that cit IS with the
assistance Of the Abolilionists that the
Wings have defeated u.s." A baser SANDER
could not have been perpetrated by the
locofoco press than this, and we hurl il back
on the heads Of those who are continually
trumpeting it forth. Indeed, so far as abo-
ltionism is concerned, as TO parties, the
locofocos are far in the ascendant, which
fully appears from men in their party who
are GbOlitioniSis and who hold prominent
places. Let us for a moment call the atten-
ton of those viIfers of the wing party, TO
the names of Marcus Morton, ex-governor
of Massachusetts, and receiver OF customs
for the port of Boston; George Bancroft,
late Secretary Of the Navy and now Minis
ter TO England; Robert C. GREER, one of
the Supreme Judges; Mr.. Gardner, the pre-
sent Lieut.. Governor oE New York; Mr..
Wimont, representative in Congress from
Pennsylvania, (and boast Of others which
we might name,) all Of whom are democrats,
and absHtionists OF the darkest dye.
The Vicksburg Sentinel of the 9th ult.,
contains, among a variety of similar para.
graphs, the following:
The rag Whiggery triumphs at the NORTH.
Young, the man whose election over Silas
Wright of New York, has so enthused the
Wings Of late, is a strong advocate of negro
| suffrage, and declared he knew no reason
why the color Of the skin should determine
the right Of voting"
The. nomination of the several Tickets
in New York, and the result of the election
at once proves the falsity of the above re.
marks. For had Governor Young been in
fdUor "of negro suffrage" he could Ger
tainly not have been elected, as the negro
clause in the Constitution was voted down
by an overwhelming majority, and had he
been the "advocate Of negro suffrage" as
charged by the Sentinel, he would have been
voted down also. And how the abolition SIS
elected Young, we cannot see, when they
had candidate OF their oGn who received
upwards Of fifteen thousand votes.
Again, We think the Pargaph given above,
comes with rather bad grace hOm a loco
fCoo paper, ain the South, particularly as
Tie Lieut.. Governor Of New York is a loco
and an aboitiOnist! and as u stand off to the
above charge against Governor Young, we
will give his (Gardner) opinion of "cOlOr, y
/ in his own words. In 1888, he (Gardner)
was candidate for the State Senate. This
question vas propounded to him by the abo.
litiOnlsts:
care you in favor Of extending the clccs
tive franchise to the coloIed man, the same
as to the white!"
He answered thus:
81 answer, YES, | am sensible that the
social condition Of the blacks will naturally
make them dependent on the Weather class
of citizens; and this class, with individual
exceptions, however respectable and how
!. ever honest in their views, are not the class
by whom the battle for popular rights is &c
be fought and won. / dc
not deem iheiI number or influence in this
State sufficient to justify US in Withholding
from them the right of suffrage. There
should be no exception to the doctrine o
equal rights without a strong necessity; anC
that necessity do not conceive to exist il
the present case"
Our readers can now draw their own con
illusions as to which of the two is the bes
aboIitionist.
And while the locofoco presses at The
Sou'E are charging the wings with being
associated with the aboltiOnists, their kind
red spirits at the North are charging the
wings with being opposed to abolilionism
Is it not little strange that the locos of the
South and North should differ go widely OF
this subject.
Far be it from US to charge the democrats
Us party, with beisg associated with the
abolitionists, but ''those who live in glass
house should not throw stones"
War with Mexico.
PROCLAMATION BY