Washington Telegraph

The Mississippi Whigs—It appears that if the Whigs in the Mississippi Legislature would have accepted the tempting offer made by the ultra Southern Rights party, they could have elected two Whigs to fill the vacancies in the United States Senate, and also a Whig Senator for the long term. but they were too honorable to abandon the Union Democrats, with whom they act, and nobly rejected the alluring proposal. This we learn from the Jackson correspondence of the Natchez Courier. The writer says,

"And now, sir, triumphant as these Senatorial elections have been to the whole Union party, the noble stand taken by the Whigs here has given the Whig party a triumph that no elevation of an individual can assimilate to. The Whigs have had it in their power to elect off three Whig Senators. I say it, and can substantiate it —but if they had for a moment yielded to the tempting offer, they would have ceased to be Whigs. Their faith would have been compromised, and, compromise men as they are, they could not compromise that. Yes, sir, there were three Whigs who could have been elected without any difficulty: S. S. Boyd, of Natchez, A. K. McClung, of Jackson, and Wm. A. Lake, of Vicksburg Judge Boyd was the favorite with all, but the Whigs have told the Union Democrats that they did not harmonize with them for the sake of office, and the Whigs showed the Union Democrats that Whig faith might be relied on."