The Yazoo City Whig And Political Register

HON. S. S. PRENTISS.

We this day place the name of this son of genius at the head of our columns, as whig candidate for the United States Senate. We need not say that Mr. Prentiss, in obeying this call of so large a portion of his fellow citizens, cannot but sacrifice, in a high degree, his private interests to the wishes and welfare of the whigs of Mississippi. The WHIG PARTY by union and the exertion of its real strength, cannot fail to elect him. If it should fail in doing so, it will be stained with the basest perfidy to its cause and our country, and ingratitude, most dark and deep, and eternal to Mr. Prentiss - an ingratitude which, in the beautiful language of Sterne, there will be no recording angel to drop a tear upon, and blot out forever.

We need not remind the public of Mr. Prentiss' distinguished political services - of his orthodox political sentiments and the manner, evincing the most extraordinary genius and fearlessness, in which he sustained those sentiments. We need not bring to mind the baseness of those minions of the administration who endeavored to place the right of suffrage of Mississippi in the hands of the General Government - and whose efforts, Mr. Prentiss, aided by the freemen of Mississippi, to which only they owed and professed allegiance, most eloquently and successfully resisted.

We need not again record the fact, that Robert J. Walker is distinguished chiefly for the faculty of malignity, which sprung from only the most narrow-minded selfishness of his nature. Mr. Walker, as occasion served, is the citizen equally of Louisiana or Mississippi - he must, therefore, be incapable of that sacred feeling of allegiance, which true Mississippians possess, and justly regard as the vital principle of genuine liberty. So far as Mr. Walker has ever betrayed any outward and visible sign of an inward spirit, so high and holy as that of allegiance, all must acknowledge, that it is to be perceived only in his present servile devotion to the corrupt party in power.