The Woodville Republican. [volume] (Woodville, Miss.) 1847-1853, 1852-10-26
A Social Talk.

Come, reader, let us sit down here.
aud counsel together upon the great
and important proposition of choosing
our President for the next four years.
You see all those little busy morlaIs,
who parade the street aud clamor so
Justify for their favorile candida . 7
Well, they are "lorsaken so their idol"
and perhaps. at this moment, the great
est favor you could confer On one of
them, would be to engage in discuss
sion with him which would surely re.
suit in an invitation for you to treat
him--and after exhaustlng argument
aud reason upon him, he would be AS
far from conversion or conviction as
ever. Already in their blind and head
long devotion to party, they have for
gotten the relative position OF voter
and candidate, and are circulating
foul reports, which they intend TO in
lure their opponent, but which actuaI>
ly tends To sink the hfawling mendi~
canls in The estimation of all honora>
BILE men. From such mongreI
crowd" lei us move; and here in this
quiet place, counsel together as be
comes freemen, who love their coun-
try better than their party.
You know that Gen. Pierce was
born and reared in New>Hampshire.
a state while it is non>slaveholding.
has nevertheless, been faithful TO the
rights OF the master: and you know,
also, that Gen Scott, aliho' born in The
good old Dominion, has nevertheless
freed his negroes and moved 10 the
state of New.JerseS "a non slavehold-
ing state-and that the General has
declared that he considers it The duty
of every slave. holding state and mas
ter to liberate their slaves as speedily
AS possible even to the determination
OF slavery" Well, in such contest,
between two men thus geographically
located, you think the South has moths
ing to gain on sectional points, by the
lection of eiiherl See here: here are
two whig papers. both advocating
General Scott-but look, the northern
paper has it !" Winfield Scott, OF News
Jersey'--the southern paper has it
Winfield Scott. of Virginia" Don't
you see there is collnsion in this
that these editors are pandering to
sectional appeties. and each represen-
ting the General 10 suit himself-yet
making him entertain sentiments as
vastly different AS day is from night,
on the same issues. See here again:
the New York Tribune says that Scott
is the friend of the slave that the
whig platform is safer for the North.
and that Scott is safer for the North
than the democratic platform is, or
than Pierce is And, yet, you heard
Mr.. Simrall say the other day that
Scott and the whig platform were sa>
fer for the south than Pierce and the
democratic platform.
Now, here are conflicting statements,
and it is evident that either the north
or south is to be cheated. You say
rightly when you say the south will be
cheated, Sue is always being cheated
when she gets into trouble, she al>
ways patrioticaIly compromises-but
--ha. hal it is fact. sir, the north
compromises, and takes ALL"
But the past, is past-and we can
only remedy past errors by improving
for the future. Let US then assume
the position that man is nothing--that
1t is principle for which we contend.
In few years both Generals Scott 81
Pierce will be gathered TO their faith
ers; but their bearing on the destiny
OF the government may be eternal. Then,
as Americans let US see which is the best
pot for the north or south--but for the
whole country.
Recurring to the arguments Of Messrs
Greedy. (TrIbune,) and SimralI, am decl-
dedly ofthe opinion that Greely is right