The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-12-16
HOW the WINES nave Chnnged.

How the Times Have Changed.
The recent events, upon which We have
coinnasged, IS they have transpired. have
combined to present the singular spectacle
Of Locofoco Administration ii strict ALI
ance with the Freesoilers Of the North and
the Disunionists Of the South. while the
Union and Compromise portion Of the party
IS at open war with il What renders the
state 81 things more peculiarly remarkable,
is the fact that the Loeoloco papers Of the
South, With a few honorable exceptions.
take the side Of the Freesoilers in the con-
troversy; and are laboring with all their
might to bring odium upon the Old.line Un-
ionists. No fact could more clearly demon
strate the influence Of Executive patronage.
Whatever else we may say with regard
to its course. we are not among those who
impeach the consistency of the Administra-
ton in this matter. The Locofoco leaders
sold the Government and it's patronage to
the Freesoilers and Disunionists at Balti.
more, in May, 1889, and they arc now only
executing the contract in good faith. They
are now merely counting down the silver;
but the unholy coalition BY which they slip
ula,ed to pay is of eighteen months stand
ing.
The Miasissippian. victsburg Sentinel,
and other LocoSoco organs Of the South.
would have been horriGed at the imputation
of an association with Freesoilers prior to
the Presidential election: but, now. at the
dictatiOn Of the Administration, they brave
" defend the coalition, and denounee the
Dickinsons and the Bronsons; who resist the
ratification Of the bargain. We must re.
peat, that General Pierce and his Admins
tration are consistent, but We cannot say as
much for the editors of the Southern Loco
focO papers which now defend the freesoil
alliance. because the could never, during
the Presidential campaign. be brought to
acknowledge that the Van Burens. Dix, &C.,
&C., were received into the ranks on equal
terms with Dickinson and his friends!
Judge Bronson himself distinctly admits
the agreements forthe division Of the spoils.
He says that he ardently desired cordial
union and amalgamation between the differ
ent wings Of the party; but thinks that the
Freesoilers should have surrendered uncon-
e the Canpze,iss sing, Blu.
says BE. "a very different course was pur-
sued; and the Freesoil leaders camc back.
50 far as they came at all, under league or
treaty between them and few leading dem
ocrats, with no stronger bond Of union than
an agreementto divide the Offices" Here,
then, is the highest democratic authority for
the charge of league or treaty between the
Locofoco party and the Freesoilers. The
"few democratic leaders were the directors
and managers, and their "league or treaty"
has been fully endorsed by General Pierce
and his Administration, and by his organ,
the Washington Union, which daily and
triumphantly points to this league or treaty
in vindication Of the consistency Of its en-
The Mississippian. which is party to
the league, is right, perhaps, in defend
ing the Administration in its course; but it
should frankly acknowledge. which it has
hitherto refused to do, that the President
owes his election to the Barnburners or Free
soilers, and that they are now his staunch-
est friends. all through the Northern States,
while the Union Compromise democracy
are arrayed among the bitterest Of the OPP
position.
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