The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1853-10-21
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eides for . time, and perhaps ior long
tins the political condition Of our State.
On the frat Monday and Tuesday Of next
month men are 10 Be chosen into whose
hands The delegated power Of the people are
to be transferred. a portion Of our fellow
citizens are then to Be chosen from the great
mass, clothed with the Executive, Legisla-
tive and Judicial authority Of our Slate
One Of the questions which your votes will
decide is, whether The men, whose wisdom
and deyosionto her best interests shall now
be trampled down and thrust aside 70 make
way for others whose namea are not 50 much
remembered, except as the leaders or the
tools Of a certain disorganizing party.
We make no appeals to the prejudices,
personal or political. Of those who are to de-
eide between the merits Of the opposing
candidates. Neither The principles we Gus.
tain. or the men We support. demand any
such agency II You have not before Jon
as q candidate for Governor. man equal
in point Of ability, integrity, private moral
ity, and public services, to any Of Missis-
sippi's distinguished sons, then reject him
at the ballot.box, But upon this score We
are not afraid Of his rejection. Hon. q n.
RoeEAs is not only familiar to nearly every
man III the State, but he is prominently
identified with her interests. His whole
history proves him to be citizen honest in
public, and irreproachable in private life;
one who has discharged every trust with
ability, fidelity and 6rmness. Can you not
trust such man. Are you afraid that,
after having devoted his great talents to the
services of the State and the prosperity Of
the country, be viii. if elected Chief Mag
istrate. turn around and tarnish his unsul-
lied fame by an abandonment Of bis princi-
pies, or betrayal Of his trust? We put
these questions to the thinking, intelligent
and deeply interested voters Of the State.
who have known Judge Rogers from his
earliest entrance into public life.
OF John ]. McRae, the Secession candi-
date for Governor, we have but passing
remark to make. If it can be shown that
any one single act Of his life has oduanoed
the interests or contributed 70 tie prosperity Of
Mississippi, we are content that be shall be
rewarded for the deed. But ae1cu or WHERE
did such thing happen? Cast your minds
back along the line Of MeRae's past history
and tell US what he has done, or what he
has ever attempted. which entities him to
the highest Office in the gift Of the people?
His history is as blank as idiots brain, ex-
cept as it is blurred Or defaced By his con-
nect.e1 with the Chickasahay improvement.
the Union Bank and the secession move
ment Of a recent period. He gained some
notoriety by his course in that memorable
contest, and is now in fair way to win a
still less enviable fame by his famed aban-
donment Of his former position! If such a
man will do for Governor, he is at the SER
vice Of any one that chooses to take him..
The people generally, viii enquire what he
has done to entitle him to the high distinc-
lion be seeks, and finding nothing, will visit
him with weight of vengeance Of WHICH
he little dreams. We are not prophet, as
some others assume to be, but this predic-
ton a man slightly inspired may venture to
make. The two men are before you: into
whose hands viii you place the highest Of
fee Of the State?
But we sincerely trust that every Wing!
every Union Democrat are fully and deep.
y Impressed with the Importance Of the.
present contest in Mississippi, with the great
ness Of the stake which our country has IN
the result. with the magnitude Of the perilsI
and dangers which we see every day slowly
gathering and hanging ike black cloud
over our glorious Federal System of Gov
eminent, and which. if not speedily dispel-
led, must burst with destructive and devas-
tating fury upon the happy institutions which
the far-seeing wisdom Of the Fathers Of our
have handed down to as.
Whigsl Union Democrats Of Mississippi!
viii you discharge your whole duty in this
great crisis? We put the question % you in
he name Of the Wings and Union Demo
.rats Of Yazoo. They intend 70 do theirs
--they hereby give you their assurance that
hey oil do theirs; and they ask you il you
viii do yours. Brethren Of the Wing press
throughout the State, pass this question
rom the Wings and Union Democrats of
Yazoo, to tie Union men Of each sister
county ia Mississippi: VIZ got a your Wkois