The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-07-20

titiI NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. CT bpecthl pt44NtA41
on this point! They have never game \ mo-
and they hive been stripped of their estates,
imprisoned, exiled, or hung, drawn, and l1r-
tered, just as they would have been il they md
proclaimed the supremacy Of the Pope in the
fullest andNleast equivocal terms the his
tory of English Cathocs-who for three
hundred years have done ell they could do
but absolutely give up their faith, to prove the
loyalty to Protestant princes, and who have du-
ring all that time been punished as traitors to
the government-should teach us a lesson, and
make us refuse hereafter to burn one single
grain ofincense to Caesar, that is, the temporal
power five must suffer persecution, let us
at least have the consolation Of knowing that
we have not in the least prevaricated; it is too
bad to sacrifice portion Of Gods truth to please
the state, and be prosecuted into the bargain
PIP. 52-55s
Wei have copied the whole of the above in or
der that we may not be accused of garbling.---
We hope it will silence those who deny that Pa
pists claim temporal supremacy for the Pope
Mr.Chandler denied it in Congress; the Doub-
lin Tablet an Irish Catholic paper refuted his
positions and assumed the same ground with
our American Catholic Brownson. We quoted
the reply of the Tablet in the Wing of May Is,
to which we refer our readers. We will give
other copious extracts from Brownson from time
| to time,
B6~ For the benefit Of our friends at Coop
er's Well, who were disposed to laugh at our
town and county for its patronage of scientific
grunts and lectures,-and who. by the bye,
enjoyed the same quite as much as we dd--we
be seen that the introduction of grunting into
refined, fashionable, aud literary circles, does
not owe its origin to Yazoo City, but ithas been
known to give infinite delight to the elite of old
England. 1t was introduced ut the fste ehampe-
ire of the illustrious poetess, Mrs. Leo Hunter,
authoress of the "Ode to an expiring Frog OF
as Count Smorltork, in his delightful broken En-
glish. expressed it, perspirtng Frog. The ex.
tract will be found in the fifteenth chapter OF
l"The Posthumous Papers Of the Pickwick Club,
and is az follows. -
AS the enthusiasm inc Count Smorltork's favor
ran very high, his praises might have been sung
until the end of the festivities, il the four some
thing-ean singers had not ranged themselves II
front Of a small apple tree, to look picturesque
and commenced singing their national songs
which appeared by no means difficult of execu
ton, inasmuch as the grand secret seemed to be
that three of the something-ean singers shoul
E grunt, while the fourth howled. This interest
9 ing performance having concluded amidst tn
r loud plaudits of the whole company, boy forth
Il with proceeded to entangle himself with the rail
!. of chair, and to jump over it, and crawl unde
it, and fall down with it, and do every thing BIT
}. sit upon it; and then to make a cravat of hi
u legs, and tie them round his neck; and then to i
: lusrate the ease with which human being ca
: be made to look like amagnifed toad all whc
feats yielded high delight and satisfaction to tn
assembled spectators. After which, the voice
% Mrs. Pott'-who appeared in the character
S, Apol'o!-"was beard to chirp family forth, som
rs thing which courtesy. interpreted into son
. whichwas all very classical and strictly in cha
- acter, because Apollo was himself compose
b. and composers can very seldom sing their ov
e. music or any body else's either. This was su
In ceeded by Mrs. Leo Hunters recitation of h
=, far-famed ode to an Expiring Frog, which WI
ly encored once, and would have been encor
er twice, if the major part of the guests, wi
is thoughtit was high time to get something to es
~ had not said that it was perfectly shameful
nd take advantage of Mrs. Hunters good natur
&c So although Mrs. Leo Hunter protested her pc
tut feet willingness to recte the ode again, her Xxi
~, and coxsiderate friends wouldn't hear oft
IN. any account"