The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-08-03

Public speRk>ng.
Pursosut q prsvious n5Iip ||on, walker
Brooke elaressed Che cit zens II d. place b .
Saturday night last, and so5sred ! division 81
time with The Antics. TIlislvss accepted, and !
RoIet oowman q - selected . answer
Dsosks. The Isltsl opsned q & I11sterIy a..
suhsnt of one hour and a lit Ii 0hieh he
looked sttheq l<stions a issue 6r1bina nation.
y a. then IN : SortAsyn point Of view. We
have not space 70 give u abstract Of his
speech noracould we d { jueti< richly speak
ing. since we would 81 % ie1y entirely on
memory. In Discussing the subject II South
ern light he showed that the Abohtionists ere
attacking our government at anew point; that
they send their emissarics to the old world, to
thoroughly indoctrinate all emigrants in aboli-
tonism pyeyions to their embsrkation, and in
deedto spFtad their prnciples,as far as possible
among ali foreigners, porion Of the proof
addnced. consisted Of . letter from Mazzini.
dated = July 1863. md read before an Abolition
meeting in New York. in which Mazzini pledg-
ed the Republicans. should they be successful
to aid the Abolitionists. This much it is r,ec-
essary to mention. that what follows may be
understood.
Mr.. Bowman followed, and in an exordium Of
about fifteen minutes spoke with his usual Hu-
ency and eloqucnce. But when he approached
the questions he soon ran out, and all his elo-
quence departed. Its indee1 apainfhl thing to
beholda man Of sense attempt Ike Sisyphus, to
roll the huge stone Of error upthe high Lii of
truth and landit safely on its summit In order to
establish one error, Mr.. Bowman had to assume
positions which completely overthrow one or
more of the errors which he had previously prop
ped up to his own satisfaction. And by astrange
fatility, these conflicting positions were brought
into such immediatejuxtaposition as to be at
once clearly seen BY even the least practised,
so that there was no need that Mr.. Brooke
should waste time in pointing ont the discrep-
encies. For example, to prove that foreign
ers were e good citizens as natives, Mr.. Bow
4 man alluded to the fact that an Irishman had
lost his life in attempting to carry into effect the
fugitive slave law: that another Irishman John
Mitchell) fresh from the Emerald Isle, had re-
sisted the tide Of Northern fanaticism and de-
Tended the institution Of slavery. just here he
alluded to the letter sof Mazzini, which Mr..
|. Brook had read, and said tllat Mszzini was an
individual foreigner the letter expressed but his
individual opinion, and that foreigners are not 4
be judged by him. What then becomes Of biz
appeal to the Irishman who lost his life il at
tempting to carry out the fugitive slave law, an,
4 the example Of Mitchell! They go for nothing BY
his own showing. But his showing does no
, fully represent the facts of the case. The Ir
ishman who lost his life was but an individual
$ John Mitchell was but little il anything more
but Mazzini was host, the representative an
embodiment of the opinions Of thousands of Re
= Republicans" whose acknowledged head h
: is. Mr.. Bowman, howeyer, ought not to be jude
e ed by his efforts in so bad cause. Even as
h was, he did enough to show that he would d
Is well in abetter cause.
70 Mr.. Bowman, having spoken an hour and
Z half was followed by Mr.. Brooke in speech
fifteen minutes, in which he noticed the >saliel
e points of Mr.. Bowman's remarks, and entirel
IN routed him.
OF On Monday according to previous notice, Ger
or VIM. r. Miles addressed large audience, a
tracted from all parts ofthe county by the r,
NOR that there would be discussion here b
at tween him and Mr.. Brooke. But the only col
n dtion on which the Antics would give M
Brooke time, was that he should open the .discu
SION at their own meeting, and their champic
should reply. Mr.. Brooks friends would D.
ph submit to such an unprecedented arrang
ment,
ne Gen. Miles made the best speech we ha,
oil heard on his side of the question, and we belle
the best that can be made. 1t was interspers
to- with wit, and anecdote, but was chiefly on Il
a pathetic. Being himself Of the Romish fait
~ his heart was in the subject, and he appeal
oil powerfully to the sympathies of his audience
oil But his appeal was made on the suppostion tn
nd the American party would prescribe and pers
u cute Papists because they pray after differe
my manner from themselves. In a matter touchi
p. himself 50 nearly, we cannot expect Gen. Mil
ne to see with our eyes, and to perceive that in
70 king stand against 'sthe aggressive policy q
Co corrupt tendencies of the Roman Catho
= Church in our country" we do not design or
Q. sire any persecution Of Papists on account
:, OF their mode Of worship. We can see MOTH
10 aggressive in that. But Gen. Miles
on MES that Papists owe any temporal allegian
'or to the Pope. Well, that may not be the pl
per way to express the idea to the mind of T
pist. Catholics" says Brownson, "must Z
:. suppose that Protestants use our terms in G
= sense" And, as matter Of course we mi
he not suppose that Papists use our terms 10 {
i'm sense. Now Brownson's softened express
=, 10 this that good Catholics believe in the abb
!, lutte independence and supremacy Of the spil
me ualo rder, and the subordination and snbjecti
me Iof the secular order. But if Gen. Miles spea
is saws he understands the suh;ect