Southern patriot. (Houston, Chickasaw County, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1849-08-01

10 a0opl mat ADVICE me irHfgS U0rl0,
and instead of being an irresistible
power in our hands as 10 should have
been, il would become SO i'm the hands
Of our opponents without an exposure
of their designs IN advance. Bcicy-
Ing il impossible TO thWarl The NICE
ting aud action OF thc then proposed
conventions and knowing i, 10 be loo
lalc 10 attempt clearly 10 demonstrate
TO Inc people oil the district lho .orm-
liable weapon the convention was
blindly placing in tho hands OF the
wings, ] determined TO take Tie only
step in my judgment left as caccudl
and adequate TO itnerpose a compo-
tent x thorough cOunlerpoiselo avert
the coming storm. In taking this
step too we'll knew that would
invite and should incur the displeas-
ure Of the mendicants and vermlae Of
my own party Disregarding this, as
ever have, and ever hope 10 do when
duty calls, | did not hesitate in nv
course then, nor do now.
The time seemed peculiarly FRO
pituous for a fusion Of parties The
administration being shacklud and
politically powerless for party pur-
poses, did think that every combin-
alton OF circumstances pointed Ia a
coalition as being more easily and
successfully formed now, than at
any time within the history OF The
government for years past Parties
wero called on to sacrifice less, be-
cause parties 1Ccre pOWcrSSS and a.
neither party were required to fore
20 an opportunity of loiSting upon
the country any of their peculiar
doctrines, it did appear that if Gin
ccrig and truth hitherto had been
burthen Of the wing song that party
would hardly fail to seize upon anc
put into practice the doctrines it has
preached up tor years. Scarcely
was it known that | was "a candidate
before the cry went up from all the
wing prss: ave hare them non
hcy are 'iUideg and Uc can conquer.
The announcement of my name
seemed to throw into the wing camp
a new idea. One Oft the great apos-
ties ofthat party DEPRECATED in tones
most pitous the non necessity for &
union OF parties, and showered dowr
upon his followers some sage advice
showing how easy it would be fol
f the wing party to succeed now tina
the democratic party was divid
ed.
After private consultation a gen
tloman was found supple enough {,
represent the No-party party. Ad
optng as bis own my general view
( of policy as regards the dangers T.
the South; endorsing the very argu
ments urged by me; abandoning, a
| had forseen, the whole catalOgu
Of wing principles, and committing
himself most only to those of tn,
democratic party, he was ready an,
[ prepared to urge a union Of partie
for the sake of the South.
Now if the wing party were reall!
favorable 70 a union Of parties, wha
, necessity was there for all this in
trige, the "private consultation
, which has been so industriously exeT
, ted for months past? They coul
) not with propriotY object to me oil
] the ground that | was democrat
. because their no-party-party candi
date has publicly endorsed the cor
J. rectness OF my political opinions upoI
!. all the old issues Of party policy
+. Having conceded the correctness G
G the old political issues they coul
$ not with prOpriety object to votini
4 for democrat whose opinions the
r adopt, and with still less prophet
4 can they ask US TO sustain their ma
because of his recent conversation
. This requirement would have bee
2 natural and proper had the demo
: cratic party abandoned its own chez
q ished principals and adopted thos
. of the wings. To admit that the
y have been battling against "hgt
!, and knowledge" FOR many long year
q and in the urgent advocacy Of errc
y and political herisy, and then ask th
party to the superiority OF who's
foresightthe country is indebted f
: the discovery of those political trutt
s and to whose prudence in uphOldin
q and forcing them forward again'
3 embitteTed opposition, the countr
!. has increased and pTospered almo'
|. beyond human calculation; to a.
! NIT this, and then to ask the part.
i under whose direction all these gre;