The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1854-12-15

J1o. u. CHA 1ToN on a
SHE venerable of h Dee has
oul anlalIy s ! patriot q q. policy q
id American national organization. on only
segses Is Tint the expression 81 such sentiment.
las been 50 long delayed. Six years a when
ha vas called 70 Gen. Taylor's Cabinet. and a
Score iaiy of State vas prominent ID shaping @.
policy 81 bis administration. ho vas besonght ~
soma 81 the best men s. tie country 70 induce ths
President % recognize il bis Inaugnl d Bis
Message % Congre tie necessity Of the very
principles to which auch genial endorsement il
nov given. And though is large American heart
confessed the imminent dangers Ia our political
system which foreign influences were wor still
be hesitated to take bold ground ii opposition.
Many 81 our prominent statesmen have been ehall
palsuaded but there have been few, Who like
Archer, 81 Virginia. and Carrot Davis, 81 Ken.
lucky openly asserted american principles and
threw themselves into the breach b guard TIE III
situations Of our eonntry from the as nlts o alien
Ignorance, intolerance and bigotry But short
time since members Of the new organization were
appointed 70 90 abroad and preach tho new politi.
cal gospel and the most glorious results have at
tended their labors Tho seeds Of Americanism
planted have yielded increase thousand fold, and
tie germ which only little while since was but
4 tender shoot IS now wide branching tree, mn
der which the nation may take shelter.
We regret that the length Of Mr.. Claytons
speech win not permit Us ID publish # entire, and
We win therefore content ourselves with making .
single extract from il. Mr. q after briefly re-
viewing the Delaware platform, says:
a party formed On these principles must ne
cessarily be thoroughly national and not sectional
in its character It can have no geographical di-
visions. No parallel of latitude Or longitude can
divide It into discordant fragments, to form the
elements Of future separation and civil war Ignor-
ing the slavery question as proper element 81
party organization and as utterly untitled for par
II combinations It would refuse to test the suita-
bIeness Of any man for public Office by the wheth-
er be was FOR or against the mere extension Of
slavery ii some Territory Of the United States,
Always content to leave that, as wen is every 9th
e domestic question, to the people Of that Terri
tory Who alone ought to have tie right to decide
Il, IS soon IS sufficient numbers have settled there
70 form SIC commonwealth N0ninter-
penlion IS tle principle nov protested 81 tie
pilty itsell. nt u s. not the princip
On whieh they have acted. Their practice ia
and their professions have never agreed on this
subject"
We have repeatedly urged and endeayored to
impress with humble zeal, such principles IS Mr..
Clayton entertains, upon the country; butt seems
leeesary that the prominent men Of our Union
m .e hold Of Americanism before its plain
viii Be generally confessed let them
ted, and it matters but little whether
their inception rests with Mr.. I.evins,
ania, Mr.. Clayton, of Delaware, Mr.. /
Virginia, Or Mr.. Davis, Of Kentucky.
broad banner to the breeze, inscribed
lon to American citizens ana American
al and every true hearted A merican viii be
ound II is ranks doing service Willingly ehd gal
antIy An we trust is that this movement of
Ienator Clayton win be followed up ~ others
ho think with him, and that no time viii be lost
! promulgating those principles il every State,
nd organizing thoroughly, upon % American
National basis, to carry them into the next Pre-
idenial election. # therefore, The policy Of
zoung Malcolm, when approaching Dnnsinane,
as been necessary ito shadow the number Of our
ost and make discovery err - report Of Us, it
no longer required, and 20 We may counseI. our
american friends, 'your leafy screensthroW down,
ID show Ike those you are let the character, |
6iects and principles Of Americanism be brought ]
to the blaze public scrutiny. and stand or Gil
pom their intrinsic merits. We have no fears !
the result; and look forward with confidence to
ieir universal supremacy. d