Weekly flag of the Union. (Jackson, Miss.) 185?-18??, 1856-01-16
THURSDAY, Y,..... JANUARY ia. 1856


I A. A. BLAcK, Esq is authorized to receive
and receipt for subscriptions, to the Weekly and
Tr-Weekly Flag of the Union
Col. JefE Davis, Better.--
Col. hrpley, the recipient-general of all
the hehests. confidential and secret. of the
absent spirits of his party, from Mr.. Calhoun
down to Father Stonestreet, hasrecently given
to the world, against The express soishes'
OF its author. too. We learn. one of the most
Characteristic letters that has enriched the
political literature Of the country this many
q day, If, however. Mr.. Tarpley as the SELF
constituted keeper of the consciences of his
private correspondents, deems il proper to give
publicity to their wishes. privately expressed
to him, due regard for his honor and integ-
rity justifes us in enquiring whether or not
such supposed betrayal of confidence in this
instance at least, is not in accordance with the
express wishes of the writer, nevertheless
Does any one the least familiar with the
history Of. this State for the last seven years
believe for lnolnent that the studiously
renndsi peFioes 3. laas lstssr 1sels juseaaed
solely for the eye Of personal friend Where
the necessity, in private ehit-chat with an
intimate chum, to make the ad captaa'dun'
protestation that his allegiance to Missssippi
and duty to the South were paramount to all
personal considerations Why express the
happiness it scould afford him should the
injury resulting from his non-election to the
Senate of the United States be confined to him.
self alone? Why alldde to the reluctance with
which he accepted his present position And
why obtrude so prominently his sacrifices for
his party in 'dofing Senatorial robes! why
all this in private letter to a friend as tami-
liar with his history as was the writer him.
self? Upon no other hypothesis can 1t be
accounted for but this: Col. Davis wished to
remind his forgetful party of his superior
claims, and was yet too modest to do 1t direct;
hence the circuity adopted.
But could all these queries be satisfactorily
answered, still the letter itself contains other
ani incontroyertibfe internal evidence OF the
fact that it was deliberately matured for the
public eye. and to effect the approaching
aSenatSria election. We allude to the Marcus
ntedius shrewdness and suacttcr ga gss01io
which he meets and tries to coueiliate
agGaistic claims from the Northern part of
Sthe State,>and the ingenuity with which he
treats with seeming indifference the suggestion
ofhis name in connection with the chief n,agis-
tracy of the nation thrusting the crown
aside fer the nopce when he certainly
knows that his election to the Senate is the
only thing that cal give him a scintilla of
hope for the Presidency; and no sane man
doubts that such is the opinion of himself and
friends. But We. quote the paragraph as a
S specimen of killing of opposition kindly--of
choking an infant Hercules with sugared pills
Col. Davis says:
have seen something of the maneuver-
s ing to which you refer in the attempts to
alll,sG, ny riends Hith the shadow of naming
ne i, &c ffscatt
aIlEt AZ 1l9 loos1fdtIOH -GIla5 the DeInO6raslE
north IS Ientitled TO the next Senator am
too mindful of my obligations to my friends in
the northern part Of the State to permit my
name to be an obstacle to the accomplishment
of any wish they may have in this matter;
but there is broad distinction between few
anxious candidates and the mighty people
among whom they live; and I would certainly
bel tat had labored to but little purpose if
had now to declare that my love for Mis-
issipi was not graduated by the proximity of
.tsparts to my ownsdwelling place"
The richest partiof the whole thing is that
Col Davis does not want to be balloted for
with any thing Ike formidable opposition. In
ther words. he IS a candidate against the
world if his election is certain; but then. if
any serious doubt exists of the final result, he
is not in. Suchisnot his language it is true,
but then it is the plain import.
AS outsiders, We care very little about the
= Senatorial election. nor do we suppose that our
friends in the Legislature busy their brains
about it yet We could not but allude to this
coupe de main in political strategy, of one of
the prominent aspirants, which, but for its
semi-transparency. should be considered a
master stroke.
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