The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-05-06
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TIle Oh Wlale pirit!


Wings have very generally seemed disposed
to suffer Locofocoism to do whatsoever i
may please to do unchecked.b by any opposi.
ton. Many Of themsbclicve that the besl
policy for the Wings to pursue IS to keep
cool and quiet and permit the men into
whose hands the rcins Of Government have
passed to have their own way They con
tend that all that is needed is TO let Loco.
focoism have rope enough and twill save
Jack Ketch the trouble Of sdjusting the
moose aboutits miserable neck
The Locofocos never made a greater mis-.
take than in supposing that, because the
Wings were quiet, they were subdued be
cause their guns were silent, they were spik-
ed. When the Disunionists were beaten,
they very properly 'sacquiesced' in the de-
cision against them, and crawled and sneak
ed back into the open bosom of Locofoco-
ism. which is always gaping to receive rem
egades and factions Of all kinds. But the
Wings, though beaten and discouraged
thereby, did not "acquiesce." They have
no such miserable word as submission in
their political vocabulary. They have for
years contended FOR principles rather than
for power, while with the Locofocos the
great object Of struggle has been power
The Wings are unsubdued thong inactive.
They are reposing in inglorious ease. to give
Locofocoism fair opportunity Of exhibiting
itself to the country.
What! the old Wing spirit dead? That
patriotic fire gone out which burned through
so many years Of encouragement and en-
lightened the gloom through which our par
ty was called on to pass? Oh. no! That
spirit and that FIRE can never cease to ami
mate the hearts and illuminate the paths of
the Wings. The Wings want but fOr an
occasion. They know that the Government
is in all its departments hopelessly surrend-
cred into the hands Of the spoilers, and
hence It is useless now to rally against the
dominent party. But they wait only for the
coming round of the proper occasion, and
then. The bugles Of the party will be sound
ed, and from hill to valley. from city and
from country, from the lowly and from the
lofty abodes alike will come thronging thick
and fast the legions of the Wing party,
which. if they have known defeat, have also
experienced the enthusiastic delights Of tri-
umphant victory Thick and fast as fall
..aatumnal leaves in Vallambrosa" they will
come, and With firm hearts and stalwart
arms, soon assure their old and inyeterate
enemies of.their sincerity and of the
s1Iight that slumbers il freeman's arm. !"
We can assure the Locofocos that the
Wings have not the slightest intention Of
submitting to the political bondage which
would be imposed onthem were they basely
to desert their time honored standards
they have, IS already stated, eontended
for principles. principles considered by them
Of the greatest importance to the we'll being
Of our cOnfederacy. and just IS soon IS an
opportunity is afforded for the. successful as
sertion Of those principles. they viii come
forth in al their strength and striFe man
fully for the aseendancy.
The difcfsuce between the Wings and
the Locofocos sic hot nominal but fnnda-
mental. A Wing who Is wiling to permit
Loeolocoism to pr ed onward IN the work
81 debasing our Government mnstbe poor
creature Tme hlgs viii naFaf surrender
nor desest the standards o. their partT e
the Government IS doomed 70 destruction
because Of the madness 81 tie LoeoIoco
party. tie Wings will Il least. even il shat
areas calanIly, have TIE consolation Oi feel.
ing that they warrsa against i long and
well ana filled only because success was
impossible
Tie Wings hare seem |ns sloomieE days
than the present days 81 which the sun
was darkensd and not ! lay Of hope pierced
tie overhshgIng gloom When Jackson
md Van Buren, were Presidents there seem
{ cd IS Loss chance that az Whigs would
s4er Sc able y establish themselves e pow
8 Ellan there IS a present Bp! sas short
year before the gree. Nhig victory q 1910.
tbs question vs. seriously debated g some
81 the Wing papers Whether Il Vas net BET.
ST. Is lisband b Wing party than 70 con-
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