Columbus Democrat

It is a fact, that every abolitionist in the House of Representatives voted in favor of S. S. Prentiss and Thos. J. Word, and against Messrs. Claiborne and Gholson.

It is a fact, that the entire delegation from the State of Vermont (a state whose Legislature passed abolition resolutions, and whose representatives are all abolitionists and anti-masons) voted in favor of Prentiss and Word, and against Claiborne and Gholson.

It is a fact, that the entire delegation from the State of New Hampshire, (a state whose Legislature passed resolutions against abolition, and in favor of the constitutional rights of the south,) voted for Messrs. Claiborne and Gholson, and against Prentiss and Word.

It is a fact, that the friends of the tariff and a national bank, in the House of Representatives voted in favor of Prentiss and Word, and against Messrs. Claiborne and Gholson.

It is a fact, that nearly all the opponents of a high tariff and a national bank voted for Messrs. Claiborne and Gholson, and against Prentiss and Word.

It is a fact, that a large majority of the southern members of the House of Representatives voted in favor of Messrs. Claiborne and Gholson, against Prentiss and Word.

It is a fact, that a large majority of the friends of Prentiss and Word in the House of Representatives are in favor of a high tariff and a national bank, and a goodly number are also tinctured with abolitionism.

It is a fact that a large majority of the friends of Claiborne and Gholson in the House of Representatives, are opposed to a high tariff, all, with one exception, against a United States Bank, and all opposed to abolitionism.

Here are facts which cannot be controverted, and what do they prove? They show most conclusively, that the friends of the south and southern institutions in the House of Representatives, are the warm friends of Messrs. Claiborne and Gholson. They show also that the enemies of the south and southern institutions are the friends of Messrs. Prentiss and Word.

With those facts staring you in the face, will you, freemen of Mississippi, consent to give your votes to men who if elected, will be taken into the embraces of your openly avowed and unrelenting foes—into the embraces of Adams, and Slade and the abolitionists of the north? Will the proud state of Mississippi meekly bow her neck and receive the yoke of abolition as prepared by Messrs. Adams, Slade, and the other allies of Henry Clay?

If her citizens are prepared for these things then will they cast their suffrages in favor of Messrs. Prentiss and Word, for whose success the abolition members of the House of Representatives feel a great interest.

But if on the contrary, people of Mississippi, you are opposed to the machinations of abolition Adams, and Slade and others, the natural allies of Mr. High Tariff Clay, then will you go to the polls and vote for Messrs. Claiborne and Davis.

In sustaining C. and D. you will be lending your aid to men who have fearlessly stood up in the Hall of Congress, and asserted the constitutional rights of the south, men who have splintered the lance against the champions of abolitionism, and thereby incurred their deadly hatred. Hence it is that Messrs. Claiborne and Davis are marked as the victims of their direful disapprobation.

This being the true state of the case, it now rests with the patriotic voters of chivalrous Mississippi to say whether they will sustain their friends or their opponents. In such a contest who can doubt the verdict of the people?

We can imagine to ourselves that we hear in the dim distance the roaring peals of a people's thunder vibrating along the banks of the Big Black, the Yazoo, the Pearl, the Tallahatchie, the Noxubee, and Chickasawhay valleys like the mighty stream tearing away the last vestige of abolitionism, tariffism, and bankism, which still lingers within the limits of our great cotton state.

This will be the rallying cry and battle shout of every native and adopted southron at the April polls. They will re-echo their strong voice, and that voice will be wafted on every breeze, over hill and dale, and proclaim on the 23d and 24th of next month, the high resolve of freemen, and their unshaken confidence in the ardent patriotism and unbending integrity of Mississippi's favorite sons, John F. H. Claiborne and James Davis.