The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-11-17
WHY 1T WAS so,

WHY IT WAS so.
We considered it our duty to give, to an in
quiring and anxious people, some reason VIII.
we did not poll a larger majority tor Taylor il
this county, and we had spent some time in in
~VestigaIing the causes. Ii was at first suggest
ed to Us that some Of those consistent aud TIA
Wigs, commonly known as Clay wings, bat
probably voted against US or not voted. The
ideo was too absurd. What Men, Ewhc
call themselves, par ereeleaec, Clay wings, mol
vote for Gen. Taylor, who has often ayowed
that he had never been anything but u wing?
Not vote for the man that Clay himself voted
for! Tell that to the marines! old Salts are
not 50 easily gulled. Those men never could
have been so weak Northumberland if they Were,
God grant they may never again exercise the
right OF suffrage. In politics il is much safer,
much better TO do wrong than to refuse to do
right. In the one case your new allies will
shew you a little outward respect, however
they may despise you, and however much you
may desPise yourselves, as you necessarily
must. A man who has voted against his par
tyso or refused 10 vote with il, must feel awful
mean when he finds his new allies defeated
How docs any one suppose the first Mississippi
Regiment would have felt, after Buena Vista,
IL tlfy had deserted to Santa Anna? That is
a horrible snpposition-and we have thought
i wouId be almost as disagracef full for a Clay
whig, q Madison county wing, to vote for Cass,
as for one Of the | I Regiment to have deserted
othe Mexleans. We don't intend to give that
aaone of the reasons.
twas then suggested that, probably, some
oftho3e honest Democrats who had promised
10 vote for Taylor had not complied with their
pledge. But this secured impossible. Can i il
be supposed that any honest man, who, from
conviction, without any hope Of reward, and as
Old Zach says, without any enemies to punish,
had voluntarily promised his vote for a certain
ticket, would fail to redeem that promise? We
should not like to accuse any one of this. face
20 face, il he was a stonter man than we are,
we know who would have to suffer. The dis.
nonor OF these would almost equal the treason
Of the first class.
II was then mentioned that probably many
from other counties had voted here. BIZ,
upon inquiry we learned, that leaving
out the Q Texans who wrung themselves in.
the vote from other counties was, as near a
could be asceriained, pretty equally divided !.
SO we were completely nonplussed. At last
we began to receive our exchanges. First
came the Yazoo Democrat--Taylor increase
10 that county--cause, voters from other coun.
ties; carroll Democrat, ditto, ditto, and so they
went on. Light dawned upon our bewildered
mind. The Madison wings, believing their
own county strong enough, had gone off to
assist their weaker brethren. We beqap ,o
count up those that we knew were absen,
We made out some fourteen or fifteen within
ourknowledgo that were necessarily absent in
o1ner counties, or had voted in Kinds. OF courso
there were many others, in other portions Of the
county, IN a similar situation. And ali he
osasEs had gone to Yazoo, Carroll, Tishemin-
60 Leake, &c., and that's WHY 1T WAS SO.