The Yazoo Democrat., 1853-07-20

&C. The North Mississippi Union is adopt
ing strange course, it seems to us. in reference
to the State democratic ticket When our friend /
Lewis returned home from the State Convention
he said he should support the entire ticket, and
flung his banner to the breeze, upon which It
,vas inscribed in full This was all right--denn
ocratic! Some three or four weeks since, he de-
clned any further support of the States Rights
portion of the ticket. But he now comes out
and says:
"As our present attitude Chat il, supporting |
the Union men the tlcket) rs dong INJURY 10 /
our Union friends, to benefit them and show
decent respect for ouselyes II becomes necessary
for us TO withdraw entirely from having any
thing 10 do with, or say about, for or against,
pro or con- the State ticket, during the canvass
Friend Lewis we know you to be clever fel-
low. and all that sort Of thing, from personal
acquaintance. bat this course is very unlike
Yourself, or we are mistaken? Can il be that
you are changeabe, that you will say one thing
one day, another the next! We think not.
Are you not mistaken about your real duty, for
once LET us reason together" When you
went home from the Convention were you not
willing to support the entire ticket2 Did you
not say you should DO so? If so. what caused
the change of determination? Did you not
know all about the men that you now know
Upon what principle could YOU support one por-
ton of the ticket and not the other? Are they
not all democrats and do you ask more-pro-
vided they are honest and competent? That is
all that the democratic creed requires, and do
you ask morcl But we fear that your love for
Gov Fooie has been one cause of this course of
r yours. You have right to admire and support
any man you please, but there is d little motto
which should be before the eye of every demo-
|, crat at all times and under all circumstance
"principfes befoie men," Then if you dem
ocrat of the Pierce and Baltimore Platform
stripe, how can you, with the above as your
motto, refuse to support all the men on the tick
let7 You do net, nor can you say they were un-
! fairly nominated. for you helped do it and after
wards sanctioned it all. The Baltimore Plat
= form and Gen. Pierces Inaugural both declare
that the Compromise measures were final set
5 element of the question of slavery, &c, G~c. tia
a it ought no longer to be cause of strife or agi
: taton, and that by-gones shall be by-gones.
this be correct, aud you claim to be Pierce dem
e ocrat, why can you object to any man on ac
J count of his course or opinions upon that ques
II tion? In supporting them you do nothing II
e injure your favorite, Foote, any more than yol
: would iniure man that did not claim to be
/ democrat. You perhaps think that because on
IS or two of the State Rights papers refused to su
: port the Union men on the ticket, you are JUS
ID tiiable in not supporting the State Rights men
ID We are sorry that any paper did so. but thei
il imprudence should be no excuse for your course
Is we think. However, we know of no State Right
Of paper that is now refusing 10 support any ma
Is on the ticket because Of his UnioniSm.
< AS il is, ii will make no difference in the re
a suit but we are sorry to see such state of thing
: Friend Lewis will you not think better Of tn
e. matter after more mature deliberatIon. Let /
ID be willing to sacrifice feelings where ii may
no necessary for the good of party and its che
ed iShed principles, when sacrifice Of principle
e. not required. There lives not the man whol
On we would not place upon the altar to be sacr
- feed for the good of our party This may
n. considered party prejudice, but it is not W
pe believe the democratic policy to be the true pc
no icy Of the country,--then their success is Il
ed country's good.