The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-04-01
wha1 the wing PARTY has Done.


In a late number Of the the N. FORK Tri-
bune, we find some reflections on this sub
Iiect, sound and aptly expressed With that
paper, we condsidcr them well worthy of
present note, and probably of future remem-
brance. Such reflections ought to serve,
although we do not suppose they will, as a
severe lesson to the Tribune; since all the
whig party has done has been manly owing
to an administration, which but for that pa
per, and the sectional party agreeing with it,
might still be controlling the movements
of the Republic, and accomplishing the
good which it had commenced.
NatcAez Courier
"1thas preserved (says that paper )peace
from first to last, in the face Of strong pop
ular tendency toward aggression on the
rights of neighboring nations. No Foreign
State has complained has had reason
to complain-of any deficiency in good faith
or good neighborhood on the part of our
Government since General Taylor,s inaugu-
ration. And there is not to-day II .speck of
war upon our horizon, nor is there likely to
be, until our Government shall see fit to
create it.
1T has done all that it has had power
to do for National Development and Indus
trial progress. Never crowding upon the
Aboriginal tribes though sometimes con-
strainined to repel their savage forays on
our border settlements, it has purchased
many millions of acres of their territories
and paid them literally therefor It has
expended millions organizing, protecting.
surveying, &C., the new territories acquired
under its predecessor from Mexico or crea-
ted out flour more nothernly domain. Dr.
ring its four years large sums have been
expended in building Custom Houses, Post
Offices, Marine Hospitals, &c, lin all parts
ofthe country. And, though Systematically
resisted and baffied by majority of Con-
thing for our more exposed and crippled
industrial pursuits, it has had the satisfac-
ton of obtaining at least one handsome az
preparation for river and harbor improve
ments similar to that veoted by Polk dur
ing the previous administration.
cit leaves about sixteen millions of hard
coin in the Treasury, although the second
great source of national income-the public
lands-have been nearly sequestrated
throughout its term by the issue of bounty
warrants to soldiers in the Mexican and
earlier wars. And, although the nominal
reduction of our public debt under the whie
administration has not been large, yet the
real reduction of thatdebt, through thepay
ment of Indemnity to Mexico and to oul
own citizens holding claims against her fol
spoilations which our Government contract
ed by the treaty of peace to satisfy, the pay
ment of Indemnify to Texas for the surren
der of her pretensons to New Mexico, the
payment, of Fremont's and other claims
against the Government, and the allotment
of bounty lands to old soldiers, (which i:
only justification on the assumption that i
is done in satisfaction of an equitable claim
on the nation, must altogether amount te
many millions of dollars.
''Finally, the national credit stands high
er at this moment than ever before, and {
loan could be effected on terms more favor
able to the Treasury than atany former pc
Rod
'tSuch are the maternal circumstance.
under which the whig party surrenders tt
its antagonist the Executive power of tht
Federal Government It's brief official as
tendency has not been brilliant, forait ha
stolen nothing from other nations; It ha'
not been eventful and stirring, for it has wa
ged no war upon industry. commerce q
credit at home. No honest, enteFprising
law abiding citizen has slept pertarbedly
through the night from apprehension tina
some removal of deposits; specie circular
or what not would derange his business OIL
blast his prospects before morning."
There may come time, continues the
Tribune, even within the next four years
when to have seduously maintained Peace
Thrift, maternal Progress and Public, Credit
may be regarded as something more than
negative merits, and against that day the
brief record stands.