Columbus Whig

ONCE MORE WHIGS!

Every indication portends the ensuing year one, of deep and exciting interest in politics- The Tories are already beginning, to marshal their discomfited phalanx, and the rallying cry resounds in the camp of our enemies. Emboldened, by the treachery of Tyler, and a consequent supineness which has temporarily produced among the whigs, they have the audacity again to challenge us to renew the contest of 1840.

Long accustomed to wield the destiny of the republic, and to gloat upon the public treasury, they yielded this dominion with reluctance, and desperately will they fight to regain it.

We rejoice, however, to see the same spirit which animated us in this memorable contest beginning to pervade our ranks. If accident and treachery, have for a time thwarted us, in rendering effective our favorite policy, it will be like pent-up waters, loosed, which flow with a new and still more resistless force. Every whig heart sickened when it became apparent, that Mr. Tyler had betrayed his friends and openly thrown himself into the arms of his enemies, and the simultaneous gush of indignation from them, fully manifested, their abhorrence both of the man and the act. But he has met the fate of all traitors, and we let him pass.

The approaching canvass, now claims our attention, and the announcement of the year '44. awakens recollections of '40. and we are admonished, that if we would again conquer, we must be urged on by the same holy enthusiasm and nobleness of purpose-this resolved, and who can doubt the issue.

If in the accomplishment of any mighty work a leader is needed, who combines all the necessary experience, sagacity, and lofty chivalry, have we not the man---the gallant "Harry of the West."

One who has devoted a long life to the service. of his country, looking neither to the right nor left, has pursued her interest alone. Early placing himself upon firm and enduring principles, he has defied alike the cheerless winds of adversity, and the envenomed shafts of malevolent political adversaries.

This is the man, whom we have selected to bear aloft the whig standard, and under this banner we shall do battle, whether it be destined for triumph or defeat.

Whigs of Mississippi ! arouse once more, in defence of free principles. Have you not the same spirit which vanquished your foes, when you cast your votes for the lamented Harrison? Have you not the same high motives which then prompted you to action. You have to meet the same wily foe, and nothing, but a simultaneous and determined action, can again tame his haughty crest. The old public office holders and defaulters, will flock around the Van Buren standard, like starved vultures, to a dead carcass; but the people will never come. The Praetorian bands will again be drilled, the glittering lure of the "yellow boys," will again be brought into requisition : in short all the mighty engines, which a fallen and corrupt dynasty can devise, to influence human action, will be brought to bear ; but the people unawed and unseduced, will re-endorse the stern mandate which hurled them from power, in 1840.