The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-09-07
TERMS THREE DOLLARS YEAR IN ADEAke
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unnaturnuzed foreigners, ana allowing tncm 70 /
vote in the Territories
VII Hostility tothe corrupt means By which |
the leaders Of party have hitherto forced upon I
us our rulers and our political creed.
Implacabe enmity against the prevalent de-
moralizing system Of rewards for political SUBJ |
serviency, and Of punishments for political inde-
pendnnce.
Disgust for the wild hunt after Office. which
characteriEes the age.
These on tie one hand. On the other:- 81
Imitation of the practice of the purer days of
the Republic; and admiration of the maxim that
"otIice should seek the man, and not the man
office" and Of the rule that. the just mode OF as
certaining fitness for Office is the capabity, the
faithfulness, and the honesty of the incumbent
WIN. Resistance to the aggressive policy
and corrupung tendenciessof the Roman Catho-
lie Churchin our couhtry by the advancement
to all political stations-executive, Legislative,
judicial, or diplomatic-o of those only who do not
hold civil allegiance, directly or indirectly, to
any foreign power, whether civil or ecclesiasti-
cal, and who are Americans by birth education,
and training-thus fulfilling the maxim, sAmeri-
cans only shall govern America"
The protection of all citizens in the legal and
proper exercise oftheir civil and religious rights
every man to the full, unrestrained, and peace
full enjoyment, of his own religious opinions and
worship, and a jealous resistance of all at
tempts by any sect, denomination or church, to
obtain an ascendcncy over any other in the
State by means of any special privileges or ex-
emption, by any political combination of its
members or by division of their civil allegiance
with any foreign power, potentate, or ecclesi-.
astic. e
TX. The reformation Of the character Of our
National Legislature, by elevating to that Dig
|hiied and responsible position men of higher
qualifications, pure morals, and more unselfsh
patriotism.
X. The restriction Of executive patronage,
especially in the matter of appointments to Of
fee, so far as it may be permitted by the Con-
stitution, and consistent with the public good.
| XI. The education of the youth of our coun-
try in Schools provided by the State: which
schools shall be common.to all, without dstinc-
ton of creed or party, and free from any infu-
ence or direction Of denominational or partisan
character
| And, inasmuch as Christianity, by the Consti-
tutions of nearly all of the States; by the de-
cisions Of the most eminent judicial authorities;
AMI by the consent OF the people of America,
is considered an element ofour political system
and, as the Holy Bible is at once the sourse of
Christianity, and the depository and fountain of
all civil aud religious freedom, we oppose every
attempt to exclude it from the schools thus estab-
lished in the States.
XII. The American party having arisen up,
on the ruins and in spite of the opposition of the
Wing or Democratic parties, cannot be held in
any manner responsible for the obnoxious acts
or violated pledges of either; that the systemat-
ic agitation Of the Slavery question by those
parties having elevated sectional hostility in a
positive element of political power, and brought
our institutions into perilt has therefore become
the imperative duty of the American party tc
interpose, for the purpose of giving peace tc
the country and perpetuity 10 the Union
And as experience has shown it impossible
to reconcile opinions so extreme as those
which seperate the disputants, and there can bt
, no dishonor in submitting TO the laws, the Ma
tonal Council has deemed il the best guaranie,
of common Justice and of future peace, to abd,
by and maintain the existing laws upon th'
! subject of slavery as a final and conclusive set
z tlement Of that subject in spirit and in sub
stance.
And regarding in the highest duty to avov
, their opinion upon subject 50 Important,
i distinct and unequivocal terms, it is hereby de
clared as the sense of the National Council
e that Congress possesses no power under the cor
; stitution tolegislate upon the subject of SLAYER
e in the States where it does or may exist, or I
}, exclude the State from admission into the III
n ion because its Constitution does or does nc
recognize the Institution of Slavery as part
Y her social system; and explessly pretermittin
any expression Of opinion upon the power
i Congress N establish or prohibit slavery in an
! territory, it is the sense Of the National Coui
lcil that Congress ought not to legislate upo
y the subject of slavery within the Territory
J. the United States, and that any interference
il Congress with Slavery as it exists in the Di
e trict of Columbia would be violation of ii
spirit and intention of the compact by whic
,e the State Of Maryland ceded the District to Il
le United States and q breach Of the Nation
e Faith.
il XII. The policy of the Government Of Il
United States, in its relations with foreign GO
,e ernments, isto exact justice rom the strongc
d, and do justice to the weakest; restraining,
a. all the power Of the government ,all It's citize
of from interference with the internal concerns
us uati6nsw +nrhom we are at peace.
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