The Yazoo Democrat. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1844-18??, 1846-09-16
49, j True Democrat.

Iitude, hi 4 teedind enlightened age Of
ours. In earser days--times OF primitive,
honesty-mer were accustomed to stand
shoulder to shoulder through good report
land evil. Ills was, however, the era OF
iuoauantio. Gia,rlahhipsy,t hasR aW0n and ~
] thias ago, willie the present is the calcula'
Eting, selfish md enlightened age. Friend,
ship, now 4 endure, must be tributary
heart must ray the dollars and cents tltne
to heart, to ensure continuance Of the mis-
cradle sycophancy mis-called friendship.
Wbo, a few years ago, was the comPeef
Of ALEXANDER G. MCNUTT None ne
led the Democratic COhort--he was Chief
tain by unanimous acclaim; none were su-
perior--his rival was not in the State
M'Nutt was then iich; bis soul was as
large as his purse a big heart gave pro-
digaIiiy to the hand, and hundreds Of mis-
creants were exalted from deserved obscu.
rity by his generous benelaCtions. lie ask
ed but JUSTICE, in return. Too proud to
tie slave himself, he scorned the ablect
homage rendered to him by meaner spirits,
in the hour OF his prosperity and faTne.---
Many who offered him the incense OF hy-
poCritical adulatiOn, we're conductors Of the
press. They returned from haunting, like
craven birds Of prey, the executive man.
sion, to their own homes, and the flauery
which was too fulsome a dose for the Re-
publican stomach of the Governor, they
flung the nauseous stuff to the People, to
whom it was less Objectionable. But mark
time brings changes-it brought them to
M'Nutt. He appears before the heople for
he Office of Senator in Congress. They,
rue to the man who had served them with
inblemished faith in the counsels, and
while occupying the highest Executive of.
ice in the State, rallied around him, and
save sufficient indication that he was their
;hoice for Senator. But the glutted pan.
lers, things on whom he had heaped bene-
it, turned their poP.gun artillery against
linn with venom that has no parallel in
he black history of gratitude. Too noble
0 notice these creatures who skunk, in con-
ciOus tutpitude of heart, fIOm the scorn of
lis glance, he allowed their slanderous
'reath to pass by him as the wind, to pois.
n the moral atmosphere, and to stand as
lture record of their own dePravity. Had
1'Nutt changedl In fortune only. Not
rinciple had he deserted from no respon.
bility did he shrink. The political &C.
on of his life was his boats--the pride Of
le Democracy. The same genius was
igorous as in the earlier days Of his fame
&c had only proved the incorruptibility of
ne man. Who was more trustworthy
'ho more competent ? None-but he dis.
aimed to substitute the friendship of the
ungry small fry who fed upon the wealth
{ political men; who follow them as the
bark trails in the wake Of the ship at sea
aden with the dying and the dead, or as
he vulture and the raven follow on slow
wing the rear of an army, awaiting the
laughter of the battle and the fesh.feast of
he battlefield. Such was the influence
hat mainly contributed to the defeat of NJ
lutt and more glorious Is he in defeat
han he could have been in triumph, when
UGH spavnish allies were to have been
We call these "reminiscences occasional.
y, to keep fresh in the popular mind the
evious course of certain political games.
ers whom concurrence Of accidents has
brown upon the surface of political life to
how how admirably Nature can caricature
Ter own productions, by an occasional con.
rast Of the genuine with the counterfeit.