The Yazoo City weekly Whig. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 18??-1855, 1855-03-02


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would have them IL With open door
&c better prepared 70 arrange sr
rem q opposition; butWe look upon th Is
efeez q las american party d among is
lures contendlng for tight and again
q organ band Of gners. aided 81 few
native demago gnes and Il Is roper That It's mea.
sure should Sc devised Il bat they may
benore eiectnally Carried cut they have com
bined in defence 8 be Constitution and liber-
ties Of the country, and there can Be 10 danger
Of their planning secretly log the destruction 81
either. The optcry that has been raised against
these carnations, because 81 ecret pro-
eeedipg comes from ths same Be oas wlode-
nounce' Ell secret organizations those
q which they have the regulation Tie Ma
sonic and Odd Fellows associations aFe equally
Objectionable hem, because they do not want
any secrets b eS which they cannot contr6l.
They like u haps finger ii every BE. and q
vision Of every man business. Intent 90
one object alone, the acsIts ion sc power, they
send their emissafies Is every direction, who
assume every form to worm themselves into the
confidence Of the people that they may abuse ii,
and render Al things subservient to tIleir main
design. We are not surprised lint they should
Indignantly exclaim against the American party
for is secrecy, for they End ii that secrecy an
insurnountable obstacle to their Vaccinations
against the party. Disappointed and defeated
ii Their object. they endeaYor to excite public
cOnmiaseFasion By charging Tie Americans with
religious prescription and intolerance Holding
the doctrine that all who do not adopt their faith
and become their slaves, are heretics whom. Il
i jnstiaable and praseworthy to persecute and
punish, they effect 10 be shocked that men 81 j /
different belief should combine ii seli-defence,
and for the preservation Of their rights and lib
cries; and appeal to the people against what
they cali prescription and intolerance. But tie
appeal win be rejected with contempt No one
intends to persecute them for their religion, 81
iorany other cause; but they win Be are ted II
their designs against the free ins
country. Tier not BE- la with pow /
e . cur n So, and ii they
eleated moro .dlly BY secret than BY
open proceedings, the former should Be adhered
% BY al means
4 large portion Of the foreign imnig who
have arrived II this country. within the past few
years. are mere machfnesin tile hands 81 desicn-
ng men. Having no minds Of their own and
bound to believe andobey IS they may Be com.
handed even though that action may Be des-
trnctive Of the government Of this country.
gontending against such i foe, the Americans
re fully justified IN fighting them with their
~ eapons and depriving them Of the means
i doing harm. Now il the time to strike whilst
he power to strike efectually exists "A few
rears more Of the continual stream Of foreign
immigrants with the present facilities 81 nata-
alization might turn the scale and enable the
ofeign population BY combination to dictate as
d who should govern our country and what laws
hould be passed and indeed this power is said
o have been exercised already to q CONSIDERABLE
lxtent through secret names. Let the Arneri-
ans then pursue their patriotic course and adj
laFe to their secrecy. They have already ac-
omplshed much and harmony and perseverance,
Villrender them entirely successful at the next Z
Residential election
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