The Port Gibson reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 185?-1857, 1853-12-07
NJ The Natchez Free Trader thus dis.
courses on
The Moral of Our Late Victory.


We have now sufficient information to give
us almost the exact result Of the recent elec-
ton in the State Of Mississippi. Our candi-
date for Governor, notwithstanding the low
and slanderous assaults which we're made upon
his private character at too late day to be
answered before the election wherever they
had been circulated, has been triumphantly
elected by majority of but little less than
five thousand and the other candidates for
Congress in every district and for the State
at large, two of them, at least, on account OF
the formidable odds which it seemed they had
10 encounter, Wright aud Barry, against our
most sanguine expectations. We have secur-
ed in the Legislature a majority OF about
thirty true dcmocrats-men who arc truly
devoted to the political principles as we'll as
to the usuages Of the democratic party, whose
election, therefore, will secure wise, just, and
proper legislation, as we'll as the election to
the United States Senate Of a statesman who
will be a true representative Of the MissIssip-
nj democracy. Itis also evident that the peO-
plc have reiterated their former decisions on
the question Of the Union Bank Bonds; have
again decided that they were issued in violation
of the Constitution and laws, the preservation
of which, in their dignity and integrity, is
the uoblest duty, as we'll as the highest into
rest of free people Thus the democratic
party. with its principles inscribed upon its
broad banners as of old, has been victorious
n every quarter Of the field and at every con-
tested point; and it only remains for them to
ponder we'll the moral Of the victory, and to
reap and secure its legitimate fruits for the
people Of Mississippi !.
Tbs policy Of reunion Of the democratic
marty on its time-honored principles, without
any surrender or compromise of opinion IN
regard 10 the agitating questions of 1881, has
been sipnally Yindicated and triumphantly
sustained. The democrats Of the State Rights
division had acquiescence in the decision OF
tbe tribunal which they themselves invoked,
thc State Convention Of 1851, which they re-
rarded as tho decision Of the State acting IN
iis capacity as q sovereign. Yet during inc
presidential canvass. rs well as during 'nAs
which has lust terminated so gloriously, no
demoeratic State Rights press, with one or
two naltry exceptions, and no democratic
S,a,o Ric6ts sneaker has been heard, IN eth
a. - retraetinq or modifying opinion or senti-
msnt me- expressed in 1851; but have uniformly
declared that under the same circumstances
tbeir action would be the same. Therefore;
in the glorious result which has been achieved we
the people have endorsed the party which .p-, up
held tie people, have endorsed the party
which upheld the banner Southern tights 10
K1s5l. though is certainly true that q portion
of,Iose WHO compose the majority still diner
S.ar, ,beir marty as TO the active policy OF re-
n:O,ance - advocated in that memorable year
Vet. YsI from the result. the conclusion inevlIa'
lttSSS hst;n 4 similar emergency, the demo
Orst;e Ors psrty Of Mississippi would be as firmly
sraaao snndod P together, aud with as commanding
majority Uu IN defence Of the rights Of the South
ma,o g ~ 3he States, and in resistance to wrong
rOs,oo nou and oppression as il has been IN tae
uso uacaps militant contest Therefore. may tl'
friends and admirers Of those two distinguish na.
ed democrats, JEFFERSON DAVIS anu 0O"'