The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-09-05

U8tu OF my lie i Sc L4h1{ eAAAAefs ~ @SS
much done that could wish had been
undone. much omitted that could wish
-, been uerformed. But am not sorry to b
~ ~. been Wing and Afterwards an American,
y. the side Of 50 many gallant and true gentlem'
am proud of It. and of the rot unmanly
-. ungenerous course that pursued on the ii
~ Of political warfare. lam wiser to-day, thin
sle than / was Yesterday and hope to be wi:
"a Tomorrow than am to-day. My judgme
L. is more mature, and my opinions, Ihope, mt
iAf accurately formed. than when I was Sol
A., years Younger. Some have changed, a
- others have developed themselves and expa
..o ded but in the main think stand where
always did. Hmy motives are impunged al
unworthy ones sought to be assigned for n
"a present action, shall remain entirely sllen
~ for am less than nothing in this prese
. great exigency of the country, and the vail
Is of what have written does not at all DEEPER
to on the motives that actuate the writer.
he Permit me to add word or two for Il
of ticket. know the candidates well. Ge
Lane is frank, fearless, upright, honest, VI
VI pretending man. whose honor is as spotless
N his sword. He is no orator, no lawyer, but
Ill plain man, possessed of an ample fund OF con
~ mon sense do not know how familiar
may be with the rules of photography but
think the Mexicans and Indians have neve
l. complained that he could not make his marx
It was discovered, remember, that Genera
Jackson could not spell. and the same objec
ton has been since to others, whom the natioi
has loved to honor. hope the General
possessed of that accomplishment; but if un
fortunately he is now and then guilty OF {
mistake, we will forgive the old soldier, in con
sideration of the glories, that, in large mea
sure owing to him, cluster, around the flag o
our country, and blaze on all its folds. He
has, at least fought like soldier for his coun-
try. and if he had fallen on any one Of his
fields, and at any moment ofthe fight, it would
have been with his back to the field and his
feet to the foe;" and the whole Republic
would have mourned for him, as one Of the
brayest Of her sons.
Only four years since. John G. Breckin.
ridge was nominated by reclamation for the
Vice-Presidency, and his whole party received
that nomination with singular gladness and
enthusiasm. In the Ashland district, in
which the great Wing leader had his home,
the young Bayard of Democracy, without fear
and without reproach, had before then met
the Wing array, before that great party
had been taught elsewhere to lower its crest !;
1 and he had conquered; and what was more
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miration of his opponents. Kentucky has
lately had no honors to bestow, that has not
| thought ham the worthieSt to bear. None
anywhere reviled him, and few men, at any
time, have so united and deserved the good
opinions Of their countrymen.
None wondered at this, none seemed to en-
w him, none coHld. deny that he deserved his
honors, and that he wore them with rare and
admirable modesty. Young, handsome, brave
and eloquent, with large and cultivated intel
lect and much dignity Of demeanor, he is emin-
tly unaffected, frank, generous and genial so
that none, think, have been much with him
without coming to admire him and to feel for
him an affectionate esteem. have never
seen person who has seemed to have larger
charity for the foibles and, shortcomings of
others. That he has been nlaligned since his
nomination for the Presidency, as it is not I'M
usual, 50 it is not worthy Of. his or your
notice
Whenever new national party is organized
If it would command success, it must inscribe
upon its banners an undying hostility to that
system Of corruption by which the treasury is
plundered 10 reward partisans, the offices of
the country are used as bribes and free |
thought and an Independent vote are punished |
by loss Of employment and want of bread in |
the house. One of certain delegation to |
Charleston, who was in the market, he and |
bis fellows said, on leaving Washington to at
tend the Democratic Convention, that he new
er saw man like Breckenridge; 'for," said he,
.he win not promise anything" / know of
no other man In the Union, and certainly
there Is no other candidate, who has the posi-
ton and popularity, with the inclination and
viii and the freedom from the trammels of
pledge and obligation, that will enable him to
initiate reform which is rapidly becoming
indispensable, if we would not have the re-
public die and rot. believe that since he
has been Vice. President be has never interfer-
ed in any case, to ask for any one, contracts,
patronage, or place. He has made no pro-
misses Of Office in the event of his election, for
he has had no party or cabal insisting on and
intriguing for his nomination. I know him
to be an ardent lover Of the Union, sober and
rejecting statesman, opposed to the practice
OF prescribing men for their opinions, far above
the tricks and chicane of faction, and hating
and scorning all that sayors Of corruption and
makes Of the State carcass to be preyed upon
by Aha hannas. Fam snrs- 4bat he hassneyer
been in the least degree responsible, even by
approval, for the removal from Office of the
friend OF Mr.. Douglas course, indeed, in
taking which the President is far more likely
10 do him injury than service.
] am content with these candidates; and for
The principles which they represent earnestly
hope fof tAelFs eaeotion- - That aspends upon
the South. To maintain the Constitution and r
thereby perpetuate the Union, is her task.
1.-THE Constitution, as q compact between
the States, and to which the States alone are
parties The Union Of these perfectly equal
States, treating together as peers, and as crea-
ted by that Constitution this Confederation
Of Republics, which Is also, for certain pur-
poses, that and one nation, at the same time
. union Of States, and not of some States and
some provinces the equal rights of every
State, everywhere, and not less in the Terri
tories, which are their common estate, than
elsewhere the right ofeyery State to demand
protection in the Congress Of the assembled
States, Of the rights Of their citizens and their
own in those Territories; and equalopportuni-
ty each State and every section, fairly and
honorably to compete with each other in the
effort to people the young Territories, and so
to mould their institutions as they grow and
ripen into States - If the South inscribes
these just and equitable principles on all her
banners, and swears her children to their
upon the sacred alters of the gods
she will ct last succeed in obtaining their re-
everywhere; and then 1t Will no |
longer be unwise IN her to consent that the
Union shall still expand, and new stars in the
South and in the North be lighted up in the
sky.
Ifthese principles aie not true, that is not
wise and it is also not wise, il, being true,
they are to trampled under the hoofs Of AFRO
CAN'T power, bounded on by sleek Hypocrisy
md Fanaticism. Ii she is true to hereelf, all
will be well But If she yields one jot or one
little of the truth, she yields the whole, and
III her glories fade.
Forgive me that have grown garrulous.
md Will endeayor to forgive myself
i have the honor to be very respectfully,
zour fellow-citizen, ALBEIT PIKE.
Hessrs Read Fletcher, j. C. Murray, r. W.
Millsaps, and others, Committee ofcitizens
Of Jefferson county.