The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-02-11
The Whig Party ITS Principle OF
Action.

Parties. ike individuals have their gem
ealogies. They are remembered for the ppr.
Iity Of their principles, as individuals are for
their virtues. Generations may pile upon
generations, bnt the heroic deeds OF an hon
lOrable ancestry are never forgotten BY thei,
Ircmotest descendants, either in the paternal
Tor maternal line. New names may take the
place Of old ones, but the present stock. i
noble. is the source to which NE delight to
trace our lineage.
!, SO il is with parties. History brings up
| the record in this case. and the purer their
principles the brighter they shine, as they
are transmitted from generation to genera
ton. Thus do We regard Wing Principles
at this day. They have stood the test Of
ages, and glisten like so much FURNISHED
plate that has been in use from time imme.
mortal.
We are told that the inhabitants of the
banks of the Nile have tradition that the
greatest Of the Egyptian pyramids was built
by the antediluvians, and venerate the great
obelisk as the only work of that mighty
race, that has withstood the floods that
changed the face of nature. Something
like this is our reverence for the Wing party
Not because it is a party. but because We
believe it to.be the casket in which precious
jewels have been preserved, and the medium
through which immutable principles have
been transmitted to US by sages and patriots
of old. The Wing party was not erected
| this year. nor few years ago. It's founda-
tons were laid, and its superstructure rear
ed by the mighty men of ages now remote.
It's principle Of action is CONSERVATISM, and
here is tie distinction between the Wing
party and all other political combinations.
It is the CONSERVATIVE party that has wealth
cred the storms in England; yea. from the
time of Charles to Victoria, aud which, in
old Father Land, = still holds its position
in defence Of the rights of the British citi-
zen, and in support of the English constitu
ton, alike against the entertainments of the
crown. the heightened monarchal policyo of
the Tory party, and the wholesale destruc
ton Of the Radicals; and which in our own
America, has steered the old Republican
Ship of State through the narroWs, the flats
and rocky shoals for three fourths of CEN
fury
Turning over the leaves of our past his
tory, we find that this great party, through
It's conservative principles has been the ac-
tive agent in developing and preserving our
new system of goyernment-the life-giying
fluid which has flowed from the heart to
the extremities, and kept, thus far. in har-
mony and union, grand federative system
with central head, around which revolve
thirty odd Independent sovereignties, each
tremendously in in its own sphere,
yet supporting and rejecting the light of the !
federal head which forms the sun in the /
system. The identity, too, of this party
cannot be mistaken. 1t is the fruit of the
seed sown by those who secured the invio- I
Liability of parliament in England: who
wrought out that reformation which extort-
ed the great Magma Charta from the Crown;
which was sown by the Huguenots of France,
and planted in our Western Hemisphere by
the pilgrims at Plymouth; by Raleigh's
along ALTERNATE sound, and
by Captain Smith at jamestown, in the old
mother Of States.
The same party controlled the storm in
he days of our Revolution, and placed that
great act of American Emancipation-the
separation of the colonies from the parent
government upon the firm and impregna
,le basis of PRINCIPLE. and stripped Il of ,
very vestige of a factious spirit that after
might not have precedent for
governments for light and trivial
auses, but turning to the history Of the 4
ines. and to our Declaration of Indepen- I
leace. there read that principle alone con- !
rolled, and great and grievous causes i'm !
1elled the separation. Passing through the
teVoluden. the Father of his country
vas called to ne helm of State by the same
great party, and its sauservativs principles ;
hone brightly through his administration, 9
nd his laat admonitions breathed sAe spirit g
f that party and plead for conseryatisn !
4 the formation Of our Federal Constitu- {
ion. we again see that party prominent and
Give; and led on by the old Republicans of
he day. with James Madison at the head, !.
hey formed and adopted a constitution. :
goiding the great central and oyershadow-: /
% idea Of consolidation on the one hand. 5