Port Gibson Herald

In the last number of the Natchez Free Trader, we find the following brilliant article:

"ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD "WHIG."

By reference to Brande's Encyclopaedia, it will be ascertained that "whig" is a modification of "whigamores," first applied in England to marauding parties of Scottish borderers, who lived by plundering the unprotected and unsuspecting farmers. Its adoption by the advocates of a protective tariff, distribution, a national bank, and a bankrupt law, is as appropriate as it is significant to their purposes and objects."

Such, then, are the sentiments of this Locofoco editor, with regard to the word whig. Does he forget that the time-honored name which he thus affects to despise, was borne by our revolutionary fathers? Does he forget that Washington, Jefferson, Madison, and all the framers of our glorious Constitution were known by that title? Perhaps, however, this may be an additional objection with the editor of the Free Trader. He has probably the same hereditary antipathy to the name and those who bear it, as the Pennsylvanian, who, when asked if he would support the Whig ticket, replied, "No, d-n the Whigs, they hung my grandfather in the revolutionary war." Such a reason as this would be in admirable unison with his support of the grandson of old Ezekiel Polk, the Carolina tory.