The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-10-14
COL A. Ii. e1liysll

IL IL nalara iol every man 90 Tel 3 be-
coming pride ii tle ability q Bis rspresen-
taiive Is Congress. ia ihe correctness q bis
political principles, and ID bis devotion e
that Union which tie most reckless have
saddenlr become afraid q abnso This
pride We feel. ID common With thousands Of
Others q our candidate for Congress. Alex.
Z. MeClung ID Congress experience and
age may give % some other members id
vantages a. position and influence which
experience IN public life alone can give; but
in that strength Of mind, clearness Of intel
leet. power 70 grasp and judgment 70 deter
mine the great questions which. from time
to time, present themselves ID hat deliber
alive assembly, he win find few superiors.
He is, as most Of his loW-citzens well
know, sound. sensible, eloquent and forci-
bic public speaker With no pretentiOns to
the babboonry and tomfoolery that 50 sig
nally distinguishes the efforts Of some Of our
opposition stump orators, he universally adj
dresses himself 70 the judgment and inteli-
gence Of his hearers. and discusses on high,
broad national grounds,the important issues
which he presents.
This is a period il our national existence
when great projects are on foot, and qoes-
tons Of magnitude and moment viii neces-
sarily be presented to and decided by the
next Congress. Questions. it may be. in
vOlying the foreign policy Of our govern
ment towards other nations, and deeply af-
fecting our internal peace at home. The
6lIibustering spirit is abroad Aggression,
the desire Of acquiring the property and
the territory Of foreign friendly neighbour
ing nations, is the order Of the day with a
certain class Of politicians. Immense
schemes Of Internal Improvement, BY the
general Government, viii be urged upon
the consideration Of the National Legisla-
ture.
Are ne undertaking the pretensiens Of the
Secession candidate for Congress in til
District. when We say that he is far inferior
i
to Col MeClung in ability. matured jadg-
ment and well digested views Of the i'm
mensity and fearfulness Of these issues. and
which can enable him to represent US in the,
hour that approaches, and enable him to
bear back with giants strength the waves
of injustice and corruption which, se,may
not only oyerWhelm his constituents but the
people of this whole country We would
de him no injustice by drawing invidious
comparisons. If Col. Singleton has won a
single laurel in his intellectual encounters
with his fellow mortals; if he has exhibited
anything, above the most common and ordi-
nary degree Of mental mediocracy, in his
efforts before or since his candidacy, we
would not pluck that laurel from his brow,
or detract one lots from the excellence of
those efforts. But the people feel that, in
the crisis through which the country is like
ly to pass, something more viii be required
than the uncertain judgments of ordinary
men, That talents and acquaintance with
the political history Of the nation; q knowl-
edge Of the relation which we bear to other
nations, and what is rightfully due to our
own; that these, and other things Of equal
Importance, will be required in AIississippi's
Representatives.
We may be asked if Col. McClung viii
be able to come up to the standard
which we have thus erected. Our opinion
of his intellectual superiority was express
ed in the first part of this article. The his
tory of his hfe. which is familiar to all.
must answer the question.