The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1848-02-19

"HPusthg fesVFlctlohS on t6dCH w sidFFh W ie"uS
may not be repealed without injury TO the
commonwealth. These res %rictioBs should not
be enforced without obvious and strong n%eces-
sity. Their obliteration from our statute book
place us in a far better light before the
world, and would | think, be more in accor-
with the humane spirit which almost
universally prevails in the treatment of slaves
in Virginia, and certainly, would be more con-
genial with my w feelings. But am no po-
.litician, and merely meant to make a sugges-
lion, which may set others to lnquiring, and
lead not to proftless discussion, butte wise ac-
ton. ], B. JETER.
|
The p hticiqns at Washington, who have
the reins Of our government in their grippe,
while they see daily evidences that their ranks
are being thinned through the purity and pop
~ularity Of Gen. Tavlor, which fact is stimula-
ting them to monstrous exertlons TO make a
commencing interest in their favor, are not
insensible to the split among the wings with
regard to q convention, and to the nominations
Of Clay and Taylor, The democ ats have a
great deal more tact than the whigs-and sue
cess in any thing tests principally upon tact.
We have not the least doubt that the wing cau-
Gus, lately held in Washington, has wreathed
more smiles about the face of the President than
have been there for many q day. Henry Clay
is in Washington; this caucus of the wings
was a caucus Of Henry Clay's friends, prepar-
atory to the design Of getting him nominated
for the Presidency and although there are men
in this city and elsewhere, whose good sense
upon all other subjects would Give the belief
that theg had more knowledge, really believe,
il Henry Clay is nominated, that he would be
elected Such enthusiasts are more to be pit
led than condemned The nomination Of Hem
~ CLAY BY a convent n, viii be the only pos
slhla event that cun defeat Gen. TAILOR anC
. place Gen Caes in the Presidential chair! Thu
politicians Of the party in power would hal
+ with loud cheering such pleasing intelligence
If Gen. Taylor is nominated in the place o
n MIR. Clay, there are no hopes, or very vagu
: OleSa lbl tiIG u6IlbGIdiNC PH'tJN ""N 'NNy 49,
9 it, We sincerely believe that Taylor will h
d elected President, even if Clay is nominated
!. by the wing party; for we would then see tn
a second act Of an historical pIay-Ms res'gnd
At tlon of Mr.. Clay before tie election took place
for it would be madness tor him to continue
/, candidate, while the enthusiasm tor Taylor 8
an Independent was being demonstrated, as
,e would be, in every section OF the c%ountr,
Let the wings nominate Clay, and it will be
very closely contested election between Cal
and Taylor-but let the wings nominate oil
" Buena Vista," and such a majority in h
,r favor, as never was seen before, will be the II
Mt suit.
We trust that our wing friends will not col
oo ceiye that we are specifically speaking"
"A are not. We are giving the impression whic
" must be conclusive to any mind acted upon
ours has been, by looking o%verffty papers dali
4 from every section Of the country, for the la
two months. We nave witnessed the tide
/, favor of TAYLOR swelling with a rapidlty tn
- we never could have believed possible; al
i, while it has been gradually rising, we ha
witnessed the manDuvres Of partizans Of d
il fe ent hues to stop the current 10 its onwa
progress. But what can stop the determln
&c ton of twenty millions Of free people? A
~ attempts will be as useless as was tho order
Xerxes, that the waves If the ocean should n
n rise higher upon the sand.
Z Six or seven Stateshave formally recomme
ded or nominated Gen. Taylor for President
the United States; nineteen counties IN t
i. great State Of Pennsylvania have lone t
j same; twenty-three papers in the same imp
tant GEOGRAPHICALLY important with rego
70 the Presidential elections--have his nal
!, above their columns; over a thousand Journi
!, in the United States support his cause; a
over six hundred have the Taylor flag holstt
/, WAS there ever such a spirit exhibited beit
~ in the history Of this Republic! And will a
one pretend to say that any thing can turn I
Z, currents; or any possible event, save death, ?
i. vent Gen. Toylor from beng President Of
United States in lS49!
Do not belleVe tHat We WV"Iu soy - "
to dispurage the virtues or great abilities
~ Henry Clay. No American can be Pr0udsE
his extraordinary talents than we are :
with him, as President Of the United Stat
we have nothing to do; our pen and our asE
atoms are for Gen. Taylor: we have never
belonged to any party-and to no party' q
that Of the Country, do we hope ever 70
= long. We have never yet exercised the Prl'
eye Of a freeman, that Of voting; but =
", i've. We shall certainly do 50 for the man v
saws he il no politician! Hurrah! then
~ Gen. Taylor! and nobody else!
me TN. o. Nctioncl
The Hon. John r. Hale, he's written . lel
- ,ho oroun Of the Liberty Party, accept