The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-12-07

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Thc 1rns Issuc. Il
our. kati-American opponents ~ qd|le ovefF
ZONE bf our victories ii Maryland, Maasaehusett4
and New York. They ard totally unable 70 sp-
prcciate The immense Demonstration ID favor Of
Sam during the recent elections in The above
named States. Tie American party have car
ried them triumphantly, and IN the State Of New
York we find the Pierce a ~ minus about
l50, 900. and should the Hard ) Jnocrats ever be
induced to join the Softs 1.-THE Abolition Pierce
Democracy then they would be about IS or60-l
600 ID the minority. So New York will cast
her thirty-sx electoral votes for our Presidential
candidate in 1856. The true ,ssusis at last be.
fore the people, they have discovered that Wing
gerry and Democracy are out Of the question, and
that the true issue is Amsricanism. The people,
the only leader we acknowledge, are determined
that our land shall be governed only by sons Of
the soil. We have never yet admitted that the
soul of Democracy opposed US, for, like the soul
Of Whiggery, it is now luxuriating in the land of
departed spirits. Nor does the body Of Demoe-.
racy oppose us, for it is now only food for worms;
but the shell which once contained that body has
been filed with vituperation and the essence Of
federal plunder--the public are the unfortunate
recipients of the disagreeable gas, which is the
result of this combination, and we find men for
the sake of public plumber, sacrificing every prin-
ciple of patriotism, bending the pregnant hinges
of their knee to some august master, and for the
sake Of a name, Of party without principles, do
ing violence to their own conscience and their
own convictions, by acting with our opponents
] Americans, the time has come for action. You
dare not in self-defcnce, longer oppose our great
national principles. Your own safety demands
that you should act with rs. There is no time
for the South to linger. Whiggery and Democ-
racy have not shielded US from Northern aggres-
sion-the North is the home of foreigners-they
imported the spirit of abolition and sustain that
spirit by an accumulation of 100000 per annum
I-foreignism is deadly foe to slavery--the i'm
mense immigration causes q decrease in the value
Of labor, and it is the interest of native Ameri-
cans, North and South, to check this immigration
at once. The true issue is the union Of the
States, therishts Of the South, and the elevation
of pure and honest natives to all Offices of honor
trust and profit, and unmitigated warfare to all
citizenship which bo9q y humble submission &
a foreign master. Sober rel tn 0r6r (hese
! subjects viii convince all men ca lheM duty tc
: their country is superior to party ties, and thai
an alliance with foreigners and politico-religion
lists, is destructive of liberty and republicanism
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National Convention Of the Amer
lean Party.
! We understand that Mr.. Bartlett, the late
: President of The National Convention, which
: assembled in Philadelphia, in June last, by au
|. thority vestsd in him, has appointed the 22d o
February next, as the time of our National Con
i vention to meet,ifo the purpose of nominating
n a President and Vice President
= We do not certainly know that our infor
nation is correct, but if tits SO, we regret tina
ii the convention was not called for later day
: We think May or June would have been NOR
, satisfactory to every portion of the Union, ali
: would be glad to see the time changed to
If more convenient season. But whether the Con
e vention assemblies in February or June, we hav
! an abiding confidence, that such men will b
! nominated, as win inspire all thinking men wit
J. a conviction of the patriotism and CONSERVATISM
It ofour principles.
We believe it is the destiny cur party to crus
: with an iron heel, the offending head of blacl
* republicanism, and forever put that fame of al
IS clifton which threatens to fire the citadelof o,
m liberties.
We embrace the principles contained in tt
10 American platform, from sincere convictic
IN that it possesses the purest principles of Conse
~ vatism, patriotism aud Union, which have ey
= been presented to the people by the platform
u any party whatever.
he AS party, we have been the best abus
a. Of any that ever existed; not that the offendil
n cause was reallyin US, but that success won
y, interfere with the plans Of a party already
Mt power; party that has shown itself to be .
ne most corrupt that ever polluted the name Of d
=, 20 mocracy We mean no offence to individuals VIII
ey we thus speak Of party with which they G
nd operate, but we warn all true Democrats to lea
III the sinking ship under the direction of Frank
~ Pierce, ere they are swallowed in the maestro
We of public Indignation We want party Of .
ton and not of words we want no medu
position upon the slavery question--we want
determined cry from every conservative man
n, the Union which will forever silence the sound
i'm brass Of platforms which have only been for
is ed BY the old parties to strengthen the force
n. Abolition and free-soil and BY sectional str
" constantly to endanger the Union. We wa
he party which viii forever supercede the nece