The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-12-21

argument with him. Dispute not, but light /.
If you enter into aparley with Satan, You give
him half the victors 2 The reason ID obvious;
for we caf,net pa.ley with Satan witlout giving
up principle; and whenevrswe allow ourselves
to debate the qiiestion,whetherw we will do wrong
it is almost certain that we shall yield. Prin-
ciple being abandoned, there is little else to
guide, but evil passions, which strongly prompt /
to sin.
From the fl.cn ..oud Wing.
Thc NntIssaaE Democracy.
The result uf fae elections in Massachusetts
and New sYork ii Important in several promin-
ent respects. In the first place it demonstrates I
that straight-out abolitionism and Sewardsm, If
not uttery prostrated,s is crippled and borne down
while comparative conservativsin, in the plural /
/ ity triumph of-the American party aud ia the
number of votes cast by the Hards and other
parties of more iatnnal tendencies than the
Black Republican, is looking up, is on the in
crease, and bids fair to SO strengthening itself
as to be able and nake.a bold stand in the next
Presidential campaign, in defence ofthe Censt-9
tuition, the Union apd the rights of the States I
| In short, the maority against the Free Soil Flu
sonsts, both in New FORK and Massachusetts
will from present Indications, be quite enough
for the pract cal purpose of maintaining in fact
all existing legislation upon the subject of sla- |
very, and will be sufficient, also,if properly com
bined, to prevent any other than Constitution
al States Rights man being elected to the Pres
idency. With Pennsylvania and the North wes-
tern States all erect upon sectional issues ,as we
have no doubt there will be, there is but little
! hope for Ses ard or any of his reasonable con-
i federate elements. The conservative element
at the North is again, we beheve ia the ascend
ent: and this element is hardly less hostile to
/ Seward and his destructive policy than we of
4 the South are. We take it, therefore that the
4 IRreslde.cy no matter whether he be Wing Dem
6eraf or American. Forit is evident now that
ef lhe parIies that pretend e be nationas
aational. This being SO, the cont| -
4 will be between the Adminissrat ~ - 5olls De-
mocracy and all those who are opposed to the
s, Administration rallying under the American ban
ner. OF course it is too early to speculate
concerning the probable result of such
contest; but with knowledge of the fact
that the Pierce Democratic par y is split
up, divided, and at daggers point IN almost
every State Of the Union, it is not with
out the range of probability to presume that
the chances of the American Auti-Administfa-
ton party are in respect less bright and hope-
than those of the Forney and Kitchen Cabinet
party. But we leave further speculations for a
tl further period.
i In the next pace, we observe that the result
OF the late elections at the North prove conclu-
q svely, what we have often asserted, tlat there
, is no such thing in existence as a national DEM
3 locratic party In New York, for instance, the
: Hards is the only party which Southern Demo-
e] Gratis can. in any event, recognize national
It party: and theirs is almost as nothing to the ag
S gregate vote ofthe State-5eing probably some
r forty thousand in an aggregate vote offive han
: dred thousand. 1t vii thus be seen that the
pf,r
II State is clean out of sight ahead of the Hards in
point OF numbers. And thus the number of the
" Hards is so Infinitely small as to be OF no ser
). vice to theMD Democratic party in National con
: test. The Hards, the Examiner contends was
ssthe only national party in the iield' in the New
York election. And, Of course, this is the on
lly wing Of its purity in that State which the Ex
aminar andits Southern friends can affiliate will
:. or admit to seatsin the Cincinnati Convention
In this view OF the case, the prospects Of the na
:, tonal democracy for Presidential success ars
= drsary and cheeris s. enough. Th national dem
( ocsats at the North are few and far between
:. and the idea Of carrying single Northera Sta-
II by means Of their ength aud their exerllon
4. alone.ss only ridiculous. So 1.-THE Wing part,
!; IS dead, and the American party is dead, tn,
s. s. national Democratic is not certainly less dead
= But wa have great faith In the capacity of til
Cincinnati Convention to reconcile antagonis
:. tic elements ard to relieve the Democracy 9
= its trouble. There is q mysterious and mon
,Is strous virtue in Democratic couventons. The
- can heal all sorts Of wounds aud patch up e
s lnanner of difficulties acting, as they Away
- do, with an eye single to the spois and with
8 heart intent upon securing them, at wflateve
- - sacrifice of political principle = They have tn
- ~ faculty Of framing platforms which means ep
q cry thing or nothing, Just as suits the latitude q
= - the peculiar views of It's Interpreter: aud canse