The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-12-22
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The Washington Union makes pitifal appeal
e The 'coussrYative AThiga q sustain the IA.
ninistFation. "Tha voice 81 Henry Clay and
Daniel Webster i excIaims ~ not pct extinct
proud and lofty spirit Of the olden time''
e plaintiyely urges ahas not been lost, and 81
the strength Of these loud sounding phrases Il 81
horts Conservative Yv higs "a eoms % tie. sd 81
The abroad bold end defiant ritaiit that cxists
- the Democratic party. What can have brought
the Union q The depth Of disqualification 81.
pied ~ this appeal il difficult to imagine Cer-
tainly ts condition must Be desperate and its dam
ger most imminent when ii consents to seek sue
cor from those whom il has spent Lifetime "a
maligningi and between whom and itself It has
widening for years the great gulf Of partisan BIT.
tarnessa and corrupt political demagogu With
lFFeyeFent hypocrisy itinyokes The memory Of lay
and Webster; buff these distinguished men were
now living. would they not be found battling with
FL their strength Of noble purpose and lefty ii.
telIect against the Administration the Union rep
resents2 Itwould Be . SANDER Oh their great
names to suppose otherwise An Administration
that has endeavored 70 rule the country and to
perpetuate its own power By an organized system
Of public rewards and penalties that enfofca g its
purposes with promises Of Official patronage and
frightens malcontents with the penalties ofremoY-
81 from Office which coming into power under "a
express obligation 10 discountenance agitation
within Or without Congress- has itself blown, and
kindled, and nursed To fame the ire-brand that
has convulsed The country -such an Administers
ton as this famous for its political tergivesations
and notorious for its national offences can have
no claim upon the consideration 81 national 81
conservative Wings, and will IN vain seek to rally
them 70 its support even ~ the powerful incarna.
ton of the names Of The illustrioua dead.
Were tie dangers 70 tie country aud tie Cor.
slisation which ths Union las d hs Know
Nothing novement rea, anl were it in tra.h
combination Of abolitionism proscriptiyeness, and
damagogueisn that it represents it to be- the con.
lseryative, national Wing would look elsewhere,
and to higher ground than the present Admins
tration can offer, for the rallying point On which
the hopes Of the country could be placed and
safely defended The Union must learn that Be-
tween itself and those it seeks to address there are
no aftinities that the wellfounded deep distgast
with which every true Wing looks upon tie Al
ninistration of President Pierce must forever
prevent them from uniting with it in any effort s.
entertaining with It any common purpose. Wra
ed, stranded and disconsolate, with the cond
ton Of the nation recorded against il, that Ad
ministration must fight its own battles, and 81
back for succor upon the bold, broad and defiant
vitality" Of which the Union pirates Wings have
had no confidence in it ID its day Of power, aud
can feel no sympathy for its reversss. It may
seek to die gracefully BY covering itself with the
drapery Of the Constitution, but the talent Of TIC
performer IS not sufficient to hide the stage tFie
from the audience. Let the curtain fall-it is j
vain to make . tragedy OF 81 what is merely !
passabIe farce. Bait 1mericaa