The Woodville Republican, and Wilkinson advertiser. (Woodville, Miss.) 1853-18??, 1853-05-03

AID 10 l~ullNlAAaAal anu rtiH ~ ~
the advancement Of particular men Of diqnes,
nv voice Is for peace.
The policy Of the country is fixed as TO the
measures about which we differed. Nothing
that we can low say or do will change or me
l%ieorate that policy. Whether for good or for
evil. it is unalterably settled. To discuss its
wisdom or its folly, its advantages or its disas-
ter, will only keep alive IN unnatural estrange-
ment among party friends, and thus promote
the prosperity and power Of a common foe.
Under these circumstances, Is 1t not the part
Of wisdom to bury our dissensions in a common
grave, return to our ancient standard, strike
hands in cordial friendship, and present once
more to the foe a serried and unbroken form :
Whatever Others may think, | advance this
course. 1t is tolerant towards one another,
and it is Just towards an enemy who has new
er hoped for victory but in our Discussions.
In making nominations for office, past diff
~fcrences ought to be forgotten. Every candi-
date should be tried by the standard of his
OWE intrinsic merit, and every one who FREE
LY and FULLY submits his pretensions to
the nominating convention, with a PLEDGE
FRANKLY GIVEN to abide by the result, ought
to be land must be, five have harmony in our
ranks, fairly and justly dealt by, gaining moth
ing on the one hand and losing nothing on
the other by the unhappy conflicts of 1851.
No man should be nominated because he was
a State Rights man, nor denied a nomination
because he was a Union man, or vice VerSa.-
This is what l understand by mutually forget
ting past difficulties and forgiying past injuries.
BY this standard every true Democrat, it
seems to. me, ought to submit willingly to
be tried.
Acting upon the idea that no differences
exist, and forgetting hat any have ever exist
edit will be al easy matter for the convention
to select able men of tried patriotism, and pre-
sent them to the country as DEMOCRATS. This
being done, the people will take them up and
bear them forward, in triun rh, 10 the positions
for which they have been respectfully nomi-
mated.
In giving these opinions, as | hope, unob-
t%rusively, | have been moved by the single
consideration of securing the harmony of the
Democratic party. If other counsels prevail,
| will yet hope for the success ofnur party, for
in its triumph alone do l anticipate the steady
progress, rapid improvement and brilliant des-
tiny of our common country.
. In taking leave of my constituents, many
Fleasing and some painful "reminiscences force
themselves upon my mind. If calumny has
pursued me and hung about me, like a black
cloud ready to burst with its thunders and
SWEEPING torrents upon me, justice, like a rain
bow of hope, has spanned it with a mighty
arch, and thus bid my heart be still. No pub
lie man was ever assailed with more bitter
ness-no one was ever sustained with more
firmness and zeal. / forgive my e;nemies-my
friends will never be forgotten. Their acts,
like refreshing showers after a long drought,
have revived and invigorated my parched and
almost withered spirits. love to linger upon
acts. They are green spotsin the dreary
desert through which the politician passes in
his pilgrimage to official station. They will
be enshrined inmy heart of hearts and cherish
ed to my latest breath, as the richest rewards
that a long public life has yielded.
70 all my late constituents l am deeply
grateful. But to the people ofthis, the county
of my residence, owe, and am proud to rem
der, this special tribute of my gratitude and
thanks. | do not deduct an atom from nv
obligations to others. But the people of Co
piah took me into favor when | was vet a boy,
and for more han twenty years, without in
remission, and with a fidelity that has never
%avered, they have helped me on from place
to place. | have been assailed without lner-
cy but the fury of the assault has never been
equal TO the vigor of their defence. / owe
them a debt Of gratitude, the interest of which
| shall never be able to pay. But they are in
dulgent creditors, and will never exact pay
ment. twill be the pleasure of my life to ac-
knowledge my obligations to them, and to all
my constituents, and when | come to die it
will be my last sad pleasure to enjoin the ac-
k~nowledgemel.t Of this obligation on my chill
dren.
A. G. BLOWN.