The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-08-17

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Responsibility.
One Of the corps of scribblers for the Yazoo
Democrat, in lengthy article about poor little
Jack" says
The public are informed that as long as the
Democrat is made the medium of assault upon
the FEELINGS of Jack, the Banner will endeavor
to defend him. Mr.. j. W. Wood, of Holmes
county, considered that an unprovoked assault
had been made upon himself by an anonymous
contributor to the Banner. He demanded the
name of the writer, but without success. A res
ident of Marshall County, Mississippi, whose
character as gentleman has been vouched for
by one of the most respectable citizens of Yazoo
City, considering himself as slandered by the
same anonymous writer, demanded his name. and
yet he met with no better success than Mr..
Wood had previously met with. Each of these
individuals are ichue men and gentlemen; yet
they happen TO be Democrats and therefore the
editor ofthe Banner sees no injustice in refusing
to give the name of the writer who assails them;
but this negro Jack, il seems, has claims upon
the X. N party, for services rendered in getting
up tfTemendous applause, and Wherefore the edi-
tor of " The Org1n, will defend him $50 long as
the Democrat is made the medium of assaults
upon HIS FEELINGS.
We only notice this paragraph to correct the
misstatements in it, hardly worth noticing. it is
true, considering the source they come from:
but still, as respectable people might be misled
by them we will notice them in brief
First, then, in regard to Mr. Wood, it is false
in conception, false in utterance, false in toto,
that any attack was ever made inthis journal
upon Mr.. Wood We have before proposed,
and do SO now, that if committee composed of
men that any picayune college in the land will
pronounce and endorse as belle lettre scholars,
viii take "Madson's'' first communication and
so render it that it looks like an assault upon
Mr.. Wood, we will give up the name Of the
author But to crafty intense curiosity, even
when told that Tom, Dick, or Harry is in
suited, we give up no authors name. We be-
lieved at first, and believe now, that Mr.. Wood
was persuaded that he was insulted, by men
having sinister motives, thinking that quar-
rel or fight might be got up at other PEG.
pies expense,while they would enjoy the specta-
Gle.
As the epithets "villifer and scoundrel," in
Mr. Woods "card" did not touch gentle.
man, Madison felt no special vocation to ap.
ply them to himself, believing most firmly they
could find more fitting owners in the camp from
which such missiles come.
The president of MARSHALL whose respecta
bility is vouched for by gentleman of thi.
place, we suppose means the B ok pedler ina
has been canvassing our county for the las
fewweeks On this head we have only to sa,
that he did apply to the political editor for thu
name Of our correspondent and was told yer.
properly too that "Madison' was not his cores
pondent, n he tad called upon us we shoul
not have felt authorized to give .Madison's'
name to him till we had been assured that h
was the one that Madison warned the people
against and also till he could prove that he il
innocent, of the charge made az inst him.
There are men in this county who have stron
reasons to suspect that there is an iteneran
t pedler in this county that sells more books tha
he shows to everybody. Is the gentlema
from Marshall the one? Where is Genera
r Quitman's vigient committee tooverturn this
cart and see if thers is not a little inquisitio
in the bottom oft. Once for all, we reassel
. that no man has ever been attacked privatel
: or publicly in this paper and could not get q
much satisfaction as a gentleman wants. Ru
e fans and towards can't draw us into treacher
e to our correspondents by threats or insults