Year: 1859

big fleas have little feas.


And these have less to bite 'em


While these feas have lesser feas-


And SO, ad infuitum p'


The above poetical effusion may be said to
trace, as with finger of light, the career of
party once known to mankind under the
appellation of Whiggery, but which has
degencrated through tie mutations of past
years into a confused mass of dilapidated


materials, which are scattered over the whole
country, and have been denomnated by all
right>minded persons as novel nuisances


1t requires at our hands an Herculean effort
to produce the requisite courage to strike


blow at its Lilliputian progress, and thereby
save some of our friends from the mortifca.
tlon which must result from an esDose of its
intentions and designs in the event they


attach their fortunes to its fate. We admit
that the task is more painful than pleasing,
while at the same time we believe that all
human undertakings are both instructive
and destructive from the very nature of
mental and physical organizations.


To every intelligent reader it is known
that the remnants of diSbanded opposition to
the Democratic party are again attempting
to reunite their broken bands and corrupt
cohorts under some standard inscribed with
mongrcl principles, which will soon be un-
furled to the breeze. We do not allude
particularly to Mississippi, but other South,
ern States in which they have proceeded to
make nominations for the various offices to
be filled at the ensuing election. To i'm
aglne that this banner will be nucleus
around which will be gathered the fossilized
remains of political corruption, would not
be violent presumption. The basis of
union among them is that which belongs to
robbers in predatory excursion-a division
OF spolls, "ancarjnq consequences"


Should the control of the Government
fall into the possession of the Opposition, we
verify believe that its fate would be a more
unenviable one than that of the man who
event down from Jorusalem to Jericho, and
fell among hie0es, who stripped him of his
ralment." Roaming over an almost bound
less extent of territory, no two advocate the
same policy, because each of the incongruoust
component parts of their political faith
breathes Carthagonian animosity towards
the other; but then it is frequently the case
that we witness a marvellous adaptability to
accommodate the whole to the condition of
affairs that surround each part


Parties, hitherto, have been so organized
as to guarantee sameness of sentiment to
the great body of their advocates, in order
that discordant discussions, growing out of
continual contradiction from Ignorance of
their policy, might be abandoned. For this
reason, an outline of principles, commonly {
called "political platforms" was adopted, so
that each member of the organization could
be furnished with the rudments and funda-
mental doctrines of policy which must
work certain results.


Unlike all the other parties which, for {
half century have waved the flag of oppo>
sition to Democracy under different names,
this, laying aside every feeling of veneration
and respect for political precedents, scorns
that steady devotion to fixed principles and
certain measures which alone is great and
manly in human action.


We come now to discussion of its objects
as they appear to our mind from the lights
before us. One of the authorized exponents
of the faith of that party has recently pre- {
sented to the country synopsis of its polls
cy, from which we extract the following, as
a specimen of its treacherous tenor. To the !
people of the South, the coming aggressions
of the North should fade into insignifcance,
when brought into comparison with the Q
damnable sentiments of the clustering Bolts,
of the Old Dominion, who, by his abominable s
advocacy of detestable dogmas, has damp
ened the impetuous ardor of his jaded ad,
horents. The following words are infamous
enough to invoke the contempt of all decent
and respectable men. He SAID


"It has not been very long since gen. /
teman somewhat prominent IN the ranks of
the Democracy, whom met on the street, !
said to me, 'Mr. Bolts, I have question to t
to you, if you have no objection.
Certainly not, SIR I want to know said a
he, If you are in favor of coalition with
the Black Republican party in the election
Of 1902 'My Igood friend, said I, 4 don't A
wish you to misunderstood me l wish to {
say, that it there was State in this Union
OF free negroes, and the Constitu- \
ton gave them the right to vote, would be a
much obliged to them to help me to elect \
'"i P"iVJ' HauSHtoI anu applause. L u
put the question to him which l propounded j
while ago in your hearing, from the re
marks which read, if he would not gladly Il
receive any aid to rescue the ship on fire. p
Would you, said |, mot do it?' 'No, sir S
said he, 4 would rather be beaten than re o
'eive aid from that quarter" K


Would not the honest sentiment of our O
respectable community feel outraged by lis ]
.ening to so ignoble an admission of moral d
iepravity and political turpitude. Though a
Bolts has been long blasted by notoriety and
covered with ignominy, it seems strange that
IN audience would applaud his windy de- S
,lamation. He seems to be the legitimate N
representative of all political villainies, and B
veil does he wear his honors. A perverter T
# facts by profession, he is coward from K
instinct. T
For the edifcation of the people of the P
State, as we'll as for our own qualification, we N
you'd like to know if our contemporary Of m
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