Columbus Democrat. [volume] (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-18??, 1851-10-25


Eta IrI1n PANS ifr ultsf scna ob.ieltione %
Acting Gal Guol. 81 lhs al 30 - uarf-
iinEly ieui ihsu 81 ihe past canvas. Cor. Co..
ion. ~ Jewell suoEu. j. candidlie ~ cbsa.
celiof, lihoogh wlib Be H0r1 prcllrti 81 s. s..c-
iiea ilan ifhe uers - 70 its SEQ. as8
besa making political sPsecles doring tie can.
sass.
n one eastern couniF. ihe Goyemor, IA de6n.
Jog BE position, assured lhe people'stalhe stood
where be had sgef ssooi-ihai h. lad been a
whis. and was q Wig ssill--lbal be belonged d
hal seelion oflhe Wig paHy which ealeHained
Sale Rights pFineiples--ihal he VISA SIale
Rights whig-lhsl he main b0dy flI8 dane
cfallc pany had coma over 10 him. and met bin
On he State Rights platform, while he ellei
portion. together with part Of the whig party. bad
eiuBgto federal doclriues.-Tho Governor call.
I'd to remembrance that lathe nnlhhration times
Of 1893, be (beIng laen IN the Legislature, bad
fioenlly opposedihe Proclamation Of Gen. Jack.
sen, and had stood almost. if not quite alone, IN
denounciRg il; and that be was unchanged,
standing now where he stood then.
Many jackson Democrat, who had heard The
Acting Governor thus boasiing of his being =
ed-lashioned nullider, of bis having so violently
opposed Gen. Jackson on that account. Of his
being now justly where be was then, and Of the
great mass Of The democratic party having come
over to his dandard--nlany an old fashioned
democrat. Wa say,on hearing these boasts. has
concluded not merely not to vote fsr John |. Gu
lon(or Chancellor, bui that Il would be much
more consonanl with bis political faith TO vote
against any party which had him COT a leader.
Wo have all along believed that the present
wAs but a revival fine notification contest, the
Union party standing where the Union democra.
cy under the lead 81 Andrew jackson then stood,
and the State Rights party standing where that
same party stood Ia 1888 and 1884. The latter
party now Is led by many Of lie leaders of that
day, and will receive The same febuke at the
hands Of old fashioned democracy, which il re-
ceived then arsbake OF which The election Of
September was but ioreiasie. The wind
spoke IN whispers q month ago; month hence,
Il viii DO a gale, dissipaling the very elements
Of faction, Modification and disunion.
While ON this subject. ifmay be as well 10 no
iIce the ullraism which has distinguished Gov.
GuiOu. Az PauldIng Jasper county. we under-
stand that be proclaimed the distinction between
the present State Rights and Union parties 10 be
the same which distinguished The Wing and
Tory parties il 1916 He compared the State
Rights party oihe wings Of The revolutions, and
stated that like them. they were battling or the
rights fthe people against power and prisiedge
while he likened tho Union party % tho Tories q
The o!dcn time, who baiiled against the Rights 81
the people, and Tor power and privilege
We submit two questions to the people cana
man Of such sivleut views, who thus siigmalizes
aparIy comprising ihres .iifhs Of the people Of
| The State, be d suitable candidate for Chancellor
lof the Stale IN Office where moderation equity,
justice and callior should be the jewels Of him
who holds IN And secondly, can the principles
afthe stare Rights party b. truly democratic,
when one ofiheir chosen leaders en,crtalns and
pronuIgaies such sentimentsl