The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-05-01
The next Governor.

| 10 the wings stanu any cndHCe LOT the next
Governor in Mississippi? Not if they submit
ito caucus Buff they will ns every county
put up honest and talented men for the Leg
islature, men gifted with the power of dis
cussion, men who understand the history Of
the caucus system, who can with blunt hon-
esty--with the spirit of Rough and Ready
/ if not with eloquence, expose the consequences
| II has brought upon the State, then there will
be possibility, and even probability, that
1--we will elect the next Governor. The people
ness with which they take up s'old Rough and
Ready.n They are determined to get ahead
Of caucuses and crush them forever; and to
stand again redeemed, regenerated and disen-
thralled freemen as their fathers did in the bet
ter days Of the Republic. If the people will
select speaking men as candidates for the Leg
isIature, who can thus render assistance to
their candidate for Governor, wa may 60 into
the canvass with reasonable probability Of
success. But if our candidate for governor
be left unaided, to enter the contest and do all
the work himself why he had as well s'give it
up 81" WltlOut uu CuoLt, w uiuSt iudkt u
string and united pull together and the battle
cry must be, SUP WITH OLD ZAcK TAYLOR AND
Down WITH KINe CAucusp' and the people must
again resolve to do their own fighting, as they
have had to do, and all the caucuses plunge
then, into besides. These cabals must be put
q stopto An able man must be put up for
congress in every district, whether there be
any chance for him or not; and let him 90 be-
fore the people and discuss the caucus sys-
tenn, in all its horrid consequences. II will
tend to arouse the people TO do their own vo-
ting instead Of merely registering the edicts
of caucus. Il cannot be that they will al
ways submit to caucus domination. great
leader and great and pure man Of the locofo-
co party, MI. Calhoun, has already taken strong
ground against the caucus system. md doubt
less there are many other able and pure men
who will rally in common cause with the
wings to put down this corrupting machinery
IA machinery unknown to the constitution
the rankest usurpation, as it is the most sub
tile and ruinous to liberty. 1t steals the right
of the people unawares. 1t allows them to
60 through the form Of voting, while they dare
not vote any ticket but that which the caucus
has dictated. Isi.- not SOL We ask candid
and sensible men, men Of judgment, if they
have not by moral computation been coerced
20 vote for men that their unbiased conscience
did not approve. We say again, cup with old
Rough and Ready and down with King eau
cus.n Up with the untrammeled right Of
suffrage, and down with the wire-work ers who
steal way. Let strong and united effort be
made to redeem ourselves from his corrupting
vassalsge and degrading thraldom. 1t must be
done, or the forms Of liberty will soon depart,
as already the substance has fed. But who
is to bear the standard of freedom into the fight
against the vassals Of King Caucusa Already
has every anti.caucus paper in the State sx-
pressed it's preference for General PA TRICK
HENRY. Hei is good man, and true, and the
blood Of the revolutionary Henry which runs
in bis veins has neither been contaminated nor
degraded. The same splendid hatred Of ty-
ranny, in all it's forms, the same stern disgust
for the principles that would steal away the
rights Of the peopl,, the same intrepid FIRE
that, in prophetic vision, led the Patrick Hem
ry of the revolution to foresee and denounce
executive usurpatioD, now dwell in all Its
richness, its pure and unsullied manliness, in.
the heart of his honored descendant. We Join
in then with the wing papers which have put
up bis name, and say, up with Patrick Henry
and down with King Caucus. Let us have
liberty once more; give us freedom forever
from the cruel and degrading vsssaIage King
Caucus and his minions have fastened upon us.
-Souttron.