The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1859-09-07
The vicksburg Wings Ticket.

The Vicksburg Wing has nailed to its mast
head the following ticket, and recommended ii
to the support of the Opposition at the ap-
preaching election
For Governor, H. W. WALTER, of Marshall
county.
For Secretary of State, Fl. H. SoUTHwoRTH,
of Sunhower
For Auditor of Public Accounts, A. K. REY-
NoLDs, Of Tishomingo.
For Treasurer, JOSEPH REGAIN, of Clai-
borne.
Personally these are very unexceptionable
gentlemen; but be they ever so popular as
men, we will venture to predict, that if they
consent to the use of their names as proposed
by the Whig, they cannot make respectable
race, encountered, as they are, with the bur-
then of monstrous heresies which it has piled
upon'their shoulders.
Our neighbor of the Eagle, speaking in the
name of many who have heretofore differed
from the Democratic party on minor or settled
issues, utters the following strong and indig-
nant remonstrance against the movement of
the Whig:
The Wing lays down, for its candidates, in
all its naked deformity, a platform of submis-
sion to Black Republican President-such
as the infamous w. H. Seward-and whole
sale opposition to the Democracy of Mississip-
pi which includes, of course, warfare against
protection of slavery in the Territories
SpreaS it upon the four winds; let it be known
to the people that the Vicksburg Wing has
made platform, which whitfield down to liv
ing issues, simply means, SUBMISSION TO BLACK
REPUBLICAN, RULE-No PROTECTION TO SLAVE
RY IN THE TERRITORIES. And with temerity
(not to say impudence) unparalleled, it has
not only presumed to put forth ticket on its
own responsibility, but it calls upon its nom
inees to stand upon its own freesoil platform.
Now we are no Democrat, but if this is Wing
gerry, we are no Wing. We have high regard
for the gentlemen called by the Whig to sacri-
flee themselves, but we venture the prediction
that they will hastily decline the proposed
honor
The effort of the Wing, and its score OF
abettors, should be secuted by every lover of
his country, and we call upon the people
throughout the land to crush this incipient
effort to establish a freesoil party in our midst
for intentional or unintentional, such will
be the legitimate result of the success Of such
infamous sentiments. We are no fire eater
we are not fond of ''blood" and ''plunder'' and
civil war; We trust that a protecting Prov
idence may preserve in its purity the Union
of the States but rather than be beggar at
the doors of Congress-rather than be vassal
of the North-rather than sacrifice our Con-
stitutional rights, and bury our manhood forev-
er, we would prepare to die amid the crash
and ruins Of the Union" These are our
sentiments and by them we will stand or
fall
We have repeatedly called upon the men of
the South to present united front in the
coming Presidential contest, if not in body,
at least in these cardinal principles of selfpro-
lection in which lies our only safety.
1t is admitted that no organization Of the
Wing or American parties exists either in the
South or at the North, and with the present
lights before US, the great battle of 1860 will
be fought by the Democracy in opposition to
Black Republicanism. Is it not madness and
folly to create division amongst ourselves p
We need not say we do not embrace the creed
of the Democratic party, but the Fillmore
maxim Of resistance to a sectional President"
and the old Wing doctrine of protection of
slavery in the Territories meet with our
hearty endorsement, and are not, par excel
le'ace. democratic principles because endorsed
by the Democratic platform. These are the
principles of large majority of the Southern
people, independent of party, and the misera-
Bile managers and wire-pullers of the would
be Opposition party having discarded the true
and living issues of the day, will meet with an
inglorious and merited defeat.