The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-09-23
Telling their own story

The New York Day Book. paper that
aided with all its might to elevate General
Pierce to the Presidency. has seen, along
with number of other honest, but most
shamefully humbugged journals of that
time, the error of its way, and manfully
comes forward and makes confession. It
does more than that even, it shows up the
imposition of Pierce 81 Co., upon itself and
others, in terms that exceed any denuncia-
ton of the Administration by the Wing
press, for the unpatriotic and ruinous policy
it has seen proper to pursue. The sad ex-
perience of our contemporary Of the Day
Book, attaches importance TO its opinions
now. 1t processes to represent the conser-
yative, anti-aboliton sentiment of the Nor
thern States, and to maintain the supremacy
of the Constitution and laws upon high ma
tional ground. Like large number of
Wings both North and South, whose minds
were poisoned against Gen. Scott by the
calumnies of his political opponents, in at
tributing to him abolition sympathies, it was
induced to advocate the election Of General
Pierce, as better "Union man" than Gen.
Scott. How far its course and the election
of Gen. Pierce has been productive of the
desired result, the opinion now expressed
by the Day Book will serve to indicate. 1t
has previously made confession of the "take
in" practiced upon the Pierce Union men,
like itself, but in the issue of that paper Of
the 31st ult, an elaborate article appears,
from which we make the following extract
owe have watched with no little interest
the contest going on between the two par
ties of the democratic party, and with NOR
tifcation and disgust have seen the "aid and
comfort" given to the freesoil faction by the
National Administration. Had Wing Pre-
sident made half as many freesoil appoint
ments in the State as President Pierce has
made, it would have killed him politically
as dead as Julius Caesar; more than that, it
would have killed his party, and consigned
it to everlasting infamy. We had great res
pect for Mr. Pierce before his election. We
believed him a sound, reliable national dem
ocrat, and Notwithstanding one of bis old
neighbors and brother democrat told us
that che ought not to be trusted with the
patronage of the government" we still be-
has convinced US that the presidency could
not fall into worse hands. He is weak, vacil
lating, seIf-opinionated and deceitful, and
would hardly make good alderman. There
are but few men in the United States who.
after being elected to Office so distinctly on
anti -freesol principles, would dare SO over
so soon to the enemy; and we put il plainly
to every sensible man, would you like, now,
to trust Franklin Pierce with vote in the
electoral college, If the freesoil and slavery
parties were so divided that one vote would
turn the scale"
The Day Book goes on to show up tie
President, after fashion that would call
forth columns of denunciation from his pc
culiar defenders, here in the South were it
to emanate from the Wing press. 1t asserts
that elf he (Gen. PIERCE is not a Freesoil
Abolition President, all that We can say is,
he answers the purpose of one quite as well
as Hale OF Van Buren, would" That journal
but expresses the conviction entertained by
thousands of those who supported General
Pierce for the Presidency, that they were
deceived, but all of them have not the can
dor to come out and confess it.