The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-10-26
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The most singular spectacle
perhaps exhibited to q republican people may
now be Witnessed in Mississippi There havo
been weeks at lime ut Jackson, whennot
State officer was at his post, but from the Coy
ernor down to the lowest Official were pcrambu.
lating the State, vilifying and defaming the best
and purest men Of the commonwealth. men who
assisted them into the Offices they hold, men
N no never held Offices themselves or desired to-
men who are to themselves In point Of patriot
Ism, talents, political aud personal honesty, -
hyperion to q satyr; and for no other reason mn
der Gods Heaven than that they belong to the
American party and believe and mean TO main-
tain, that sAmericans shall rule America"
Such spectacle was probably never seen be-
fore ii 4 republic We know that the Roman
Empire used to be knocked down in the army
to the highest bidder; but thet was after the in.
flux of Foreigners had destroyed their rationale
ty, "a 4 will ours, If their encroachments are not
The sight Is pitiful and disgusting, and no
wonder the people turn from them with sick
heart for the fate Of Republic reduced 30
How.
The American party never WINS born. It
sprang, Minerva fike, from the head Of Jove, and
has stalked over the land, and Old parties have
crumbled under his tread, and old partizans and
Office holders who have grown pleihoric and inn
pudent at the public crib, are struggling against
pit, kicking and scratching with the desperation
OF starving hyenas; shame and decency, y tney
ever had any pretensions to even these 4egauye
virtues, are quite forgotten, and to hide uIr own
corruption, like rhe scuttleish, they throw oul
their spawn upon the Americans But It viii
be of no avail-the people are aroused and love
,,lt 10 s,rov
party. We may b. b ,et. by the patronage of
Office, by the desperaa efforts o foreign and ma
tive enemies-by foreign gold and native fraud,
but we will ultimately prevail. or the hopes OF
liberty are set forever. Look back to history
look along the rugged cliffs of time and see the
beacon lights held out on the desolate sites OF
ruined cities and dead empires, and there read
q lesson Look at Greece as she was in the
time of Pericles, and then trace her degradation
| from the time when Themistocles, the great Lo-
cofoco demagogue of antiquity, revoked the laws
against the influx of strangers, and made citizen
ship Cheapin Athens. Sparta held her own
long after Attica had sunk under the intrigues
of the Surrounding States. Lycurgus, their great
est low-giye had bound them by an oath to
keep intact his laws till he returned, and then
went away and died in Asia Minor, and had his
dust thrown into his own Egeau, SO that nc
lpretext could be had for the Spartans to breal
I their faith-and one of his laws was that NJ
, stranger should hold citizenshipor accumulats
property in Sparta. They kept their national
lily as long as they were faithful to this law, bu
when they broke it they fell, not by foreign in
vasion, but by internal connection. Draco'
, laws were written in blood, and Miltiades wa
a tyrant. but well might the Degenerate Greel
of far after times slug:
aTis something in the dearth of fame,
: Though linked among fettered race,
To feel at least patriots shame,
Even while sing, sufuse my face
For what is left the patriot asked,
For Greeks blush, for Greece tear
The tyrant of the Chersonese
Was freedoms bravest, mobiles friend.
That tyrant was Miltiades!
o, that the present hour Would lend
Another despot of the kind
FL Such chains as his were sure to bind
A tyrant-but onr masters then
Il Were still at least our countromenW
MADISON.