The Woodville Republican

The Dead Lion.

We have heretofore noticed the fact of
the failure of the Flag of the Union to re-
organize the whig party of this State, with
Gov. Foote as its head and leader. The
attempt elicited the unqualified disappro-
bation of nearly every whig paper in the
State; and not a few of them have in-
dulged in severe personal remarks towards
the unfortunate Governor. His own dogs
are about to devour him. Now that the
old lion is dead, all the little animals that
formerly crouched and trembled before him,
are wreaking their vengeance upon him.-
Even the Natchez Courier (et tu brute)
comes up to kick him. We invite the at-
tention of our Union democratic brethren
to the extracts below, from the Courier and
Columbus (Miss.) Argus:

[From the Natchez Courier.

The whigs of Kemper county, at a recent
meeting, passed a series of resolutions,
which are the subject of much comment in
both whig and democratic journals. They
advocate the policy of a distinct and imme-
diate reorganization of the whigs of this
State; oppose any and all amalgamation or
co-operation with either wing of the demo-
cracy, and recommend whigs to vote for no
candidate for the U. S. Senate, who is not
firmly and unalterably attached to the prin-
ciples and organization of their party.

Several of the whig papers in the State
have, we understand, taken the like ground.

There can be no question that thousands of
Mississippi whigs were thoroughly disgusted
at the sight afforded in the recent canvass, of
Union democrats coalescing and commingling
with avowed secessionists, in the sup-
port of a presidential candidate-nay more,
of voting openly and above board for a dis-
unionist as presidential elector. It was
unquestionably calculated to irritate the
whig masses, who had so patriotically aided
the Union democracy the year before, to
preserve the state from the heresy of seces-
sionism : it tended to produce in the minds
of the former a distrust of the sincerity of
the latter in their previous professions-an
irritation and distrust, which are at present
manifested in such resolves as we have al-
luded to, and in the impulsive comments of
a warm hearted press, deeply attached to
its political principles, and clinging more
firmly to them in the hour of defeat, than
even in the day of triumph.

[From the Columbus Argus.

Gov. Foote's Position-The Duty of
Whigs —Governor Foote has written a
letter to the editor of the Flag of the Union
which has resulted in the withdrawal of his
name from the columns of that paper as a
candidate for U. S. Senator.

Gov. Foote's letter and the Flag's com-
ments upon it may be found in another
portion of this paper. If after a perusal of
these, together with the numerous fraternal,
brotherly and harmoniously spirited articles
now constantly appearing in democratic
papers that advocated the compromise and
Gov. Foote last year, whigs endeavor to
persevere in the organization of a Union
party in this State, merely to give to Gov.
Foote the senatorship, they are unworthy
the name of whigs, and deserve not to have
the wholesome and conservative principles
for which they have ever professed so much
attachment, either established or perpetua-
ted in the land in which they live.

We see nothing ourselves to be gained
by the whigs as a party, in affiliating with
any wing or faction of the democratic party
to effect any purpose, for our experience at
least teaches us that they will at any mo-
ment forsake principles for spoils, and aban-
don us at their convenience, if loaves and
fishes are in view or the promotion of their
own principles can in any degree whatever
be effected by the transaction.

We are satisfied too that no coalition with
the democratic party or any portion thereof
can be made without seriously injuring our
own party and advancing theirs; this is a
truth which needs not argument to sustain
it. Besides. Gov. Foote proclaims himself
to be an orthodox democrat, and takes the
occasion to inform us in his letter to the
Flag. that he is "inflexibly attached to the
principles and the policy of the democratic
party;" not telling us, however, (as we
wish he had) what those principles and that
policy are-whether State Rights, Compromise,
Freesoil, acquisition of more territory,
Repudiation, or what-that he, "if again
elected to the Senate, will in all respects, as
he has formerly done, conform his action in
that body to the fundamental principles of
the democratic creed,' --and he states, in
another place, that he "shall continue in
the field as a democratic candidate for the
Senate."

By these and other assurances, we are
made known that the whig party have not
anything to gain by advocating his election
before the people. The compromise mea-
sures are settled, definitely too, and there is
no issue of principles in which the whig
party can co-operate before the people, with
Governor Foote and his Union democratic
friends. The quarrel is purely a democratic
one--if indeed there be any quarrel, which
democratic papers of both the State rights
and compromise school deny-and is an
affair among themselves, and in which the
whigs have no business to intermeddle.—
They would be much more commendably
engaged in righting affairs in their own dis-
ordered household-in retrieving the losses
they sustained by coalescing with a portion
of the democratic party last year, when they
might as well have won the victory within
their own folds, and have gained the credit
for themselves; for the whig party in the
southern States is undeniably the Union
party-the compromise party. and if the
conservative portion of the democratic party
was sincere in its professions of attachment
for our principles of adjustment of the
vexed questions at issue, as we doubt not
they were, they would have acted with us.

Though as good a compromise man as
any, we were at the outset opposed to the
formation of a Union party composed of
whigs and democrats; and now that an on-
portunity is presented us to get out of it,
we intend to avail ourself of it the whig
party is good enough Union party for us,

Let whigs set about organizing the party
thoroughly and planking a State policy, and
prepare to nominate candidates who will
advocate the measures they may adopt in
convention, instead of running after strange
gods in the democratic party. Let them
favor the payment of the Planters'Bank
bonds, a judicious system of internal im-
provements, free banking and free schools,
and they will find themselves no longer in
a hopeless minority.

There is a degree of endurance beyond
which those most obstinately wedded to
olden party ties will not go, and the time
has come when the people of Mississippi
will throw off the democratic yoke, if the
opposite party advocate a series of measures
calculated to develop the resources of the
State and place her upon an equal footing
with those of her more fortunate sisters.

The misrule of locofoco legislation is over
in Mississippi, if the whigs but do them-
themselves justice and act wisely.