The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-02-16


een Was rs many years tie patron BIr.
Jefferson. however, allef he becaIno President,
l1efused 70 appoint CALENDER post master At
Richmond accompanying his refusal which
we very OWL, with present 81 fifty dollars 2
Callandes turned against him with tie inaligrity
of aYiper end charged that Ar. J had encour-
aged I'd aided him ID the libels he had PUBLISH
ed, especially scandalous pamphlet. entitled
he Prospect before lis, in which Washing
on vas shanefulIy yilifed Ire even went IS
publish autograph letters from DIR. JeI-
hereby i appeared shat M Jefferson
It'd Dot only contributed collars towards
publication of tie Prospects before ii, 4
but f'a + i furnished Information and had
seen and highly appro1 of part, It least 81
proof sheets. nj Jeifefson denounced him
asa lying renegade, and wrote 70 NJ. Monroe,
authorizing public statement, which was &C.
cordiugly made, that bis connection with Cal
lender had been only that Of . generous patron
to distressed man of letters
historical "reminiscences are strictly perth
nent to tie honlily Of the Washington Union On
the assaults upon George Washington and other
American Presidents Is going to show that the
assaults upon Washington proceeded from 10
federal. but . Democratic source.
Among the other American Presidents who
like Washington have been grossly tradueed By
abandoned politicians and presses tie Union emu
merates Jefferson. Madison, MonroeJ Jackson, Polk
land Pierce, omitting Harrison and Taylor, than
whom two juster men and pprer patriots never
filled the Presidential chair. Why this omission
when from the calumns THE Union itself it were
o sy to cnll as choice specimens Of vituperatiou
and abuse as ever polInte the pages of q public
Journal showing to borrow the language Of the
Union how certain the purest public men are Of
receiving the hostility Of the worst andhow dis
appointed ambition sacrifices honor and manhood
q achieve IS reYenge2
niQ artie'e ammence
i ne intentlono 81 the 30
| the subject through the adninistra is which sue
ceeded TO that Of Washington but he leaves the
task to another occasion and abiding merely to-
the spirit Of hatred which he says vas aroused
against Jefferson. Madison, Monroe, Jackson and
Polk. he deYotes nearly as much space to the as
saults upon Franklin as he did upon George
Washington. we sincerely trust the Union will
address itself to the promised task at an early day
and that in holding up to the public reprobation
the abandoned presses aud politicians who have
detained the American Presidents whom it mem
tons will be sure to remember not o forget as
it seems to have done in'the article before US to-
set forth the unapproved and perseyuring calum-
MES which we're heaped upon those truly 'Ameri-
cans Presidents William Henry Harrison and
Zachery Taylor. For many.of those calumnies,
and for some time the most active maligaant and
INSCRIPTIONS of the assailants of those Yenerated
men tho editors of the Union need not 90 beyond
the limits of the files of the Union ITSELF We cons
mend them to his diligent and careful examine
ton IN the prosecution Of his proposed task.
The OAREs or i 0RowNED HEAD In the
course Of his last letter to the Courier des Eats
Uais its Paris. correspondent E. GalIairdet has
tie following:
sThe Emperor has sought a diversion from the
pressing cares which the precarious situation Of
the army in the east has caused him. He has
save his ministers Id the place of ST Cloud. He
who IS ordinarily calm cannot now it is said con
cealhisirutation. Nobodgldares toapproach him
The Empress herself seems to have lost that SUI
prenie influence with which her grace and sweet
ness and beauty have hitherto invested her. In
the midst of continnedan violent rains. ST Claud
has become to her the most dreary abode. She
desired to return to the Tuileries but her august
husband for thirteen days resisted her wishes. He
recovered his serenity and consented to return to
the Tuileries when he learned chat Austria had
Joined the Allies His diplomacy has borne him
q great triumph; he sees that France returns to
him when at one time seemed 50 Iara way
Since their return To Paris the Emperor and
Empress spend much Of their time on the Champ
Elysees and tie Bols dc Boulogne. The Empress
appears to enjoy perfect health But the Emper
or's features bear The marks Of great anxiety ii
lustrating the truth Of the saying that there Is no
earthly crown which does no conceal thorn
Coon NEws ron Down East YoUNo Folks
in the good old times Of the Blue Laws any
couple ID Connecticut who desired TO enter mat
rimonialalliancee were compelled BY law to have
their Intentions published ii one or more Of The
sanctuaries and those announcements frequently
composed no small d tie interesting cerelno
mics ofehureh worsF But progress has At last
wiped out even satike ofthe primitive Gus
toms and We see BY the Middleton
News
& happy swain has to do, IS to 30
"a strar tell him II 5 whisper Of bis III
-hage bis name and that of tie bride
put 81 5 book disbnTse quarter, and then
se can "a straight and commit rnatriInony IS soon
lis Girl ear ret her bonnet oIs@zand priest 81
magistrate q BE found % perform he cereno
ny.
The narannrs 81 fan New York Central