The Yazoo Democrat., 1852-09-01
Z Fl E D E M 0 G R A 7.
PHILLIPS & BOWMAN, ED1roRs
Want of ComffIemce.

In electing General Taylor President, the peo-
pie did not believe that he would become the
head of party administration. But when they
were undeceived-when the cabal which sur
rounded General Taylor manifested its character
and developed the spirit, plans, and purposes Of
the whig rarty--it was repudiated in every quar-
ter of the country. In nearly every State there
was a vote of a want of confidence in the whig
party. But it had no effect. The wings per-
sisted in their evil practices; and the vote has
been constantly repeated at each election by the
people Of nearly all the States, and by the rep
resentatives of the people in the State and fed
eral legislatures Even in England the popular
principle so far prevails that when the policy of
the government is not supported by the legisla-
ture 1t is changed, and no minister dare hold of
flee after the Legislature has expressed by its vote
want Of confidence in his administration Our
constitution provides short terms of Office and
constantly ly-recurring elections to protect the
country from the effects of official wilfulness
when it pays no regard to the voice of the peo
pie, and attemps to turn the government away
from the policy which the people prefer. One of
those elections is now near at hand, and the ev-
idence and arguments are being considered. The
appeal is to the country, and the whig part, is
making every effort to avoid by evasion, decep-
ton, and fraud, the verdict indicated by the pop
ular voice during the last three years. Itdoes
not meet the true issue. 1t introduces foreign
element, and appeals to the military spirit to
blind the eyes of the people; and it trusts to
pictures, songs, and secret circulars to misead
them, and to corrupt bargains and alliances to
thwart their will. They wish to use the militia
ry services of an individual not only to shield
and protect the evil practices of their party, but
to continue it in power while 1t adheres to those
evil practices which the people have so often
and so emphatically rebuked at the ballot-box.-
In the event Of General Scott's election-ol
which, fortunately there is no probability-the
Legislature would still be opposed to the execu-
tive for no one believes that the people will
consent to break down the commercial and fl
nancial policy of the democratic party, and sub
stitute the odious measures of the why system
The wings win not 90 before the country as the
advocates of the measures of the extra session
of 1911 20 which General Scott is thoroughly
Committed and the known opposition Of {
/ large majority of the people to any policy which
the wings can adopt proves that they are strug
Cling for northing but the spois of office. Near
| ly every State legislature is democratic. The
governors of twenty-seven of the thirty one
States are democrats. The Senate and House o
Representatives are both democratic; and tht
people of the Union are decidedly democratic
/ Under such circumstances the continuance o
the wing dynasty would continue the executive
powers in hands unfriendly to the policy which
is sanctioned by the people, and lead to contin
uance of the extravaganza and ineficiency o
the last three years. The whig party is un
friendly to the democratic system which is now
in operation; and although it cannot bring for
ward any rival system, yet it can do much BY
controlling the executive branch of the govern
ment to injuTe its practical operation; and il
cannot be questioned but that the most perfect
policy that can be devised may be broken dowr
by the rule of an unfrendly party, which is helC
| together by the spois of Office Union.