The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-12-21
An ADVOCATE OF AMERICAN PRncIrLEs.
|1Azoo CITY. MISS. FRIDAY. DECEMBER Il 1855 !
The Americans at LouisvIIIc, XIV

The Americans ut Louisville, KY
At the great Mass Mee.ingof the American
party, held at louisville KY. on the 9th and
.2sth ult., the following resolutions were unan-
imous'y adopted:
!. lst The Union Of the States. founded orig-
nally on political and mercialnecessitiesaf-
fords the best assurance if not the only guaran-
tee forshe future preservationof the liberty and
promotion of the prosperity ofthe American peo-
pie It must and shall be maintained.
z2lS The General Government should be adj
t13ntste I'd G1er d strict observance cf ti,ss m-
tati5fls upon It's powers imposed by the Con-
stltution ard vet by asullicientuse Of the pow
ers granted it should achieve and promote the
subjects for which It was instituted :.
Sd. Cherishing our own right of private judg-.
ment in matters ofreligion, we respect the same
right in others As Americans we are opposed
to the union of Church and State .Weare op-
posed to Ecclesiastical combinations of whatev-
ever sect or denomination, to produce political
effect in our country. Advocates of civil iber-
ty, we are staunch advocates, also of a free
church. Auy attempt by foreign power to az
sumo political government within the limits of
these States, under thepretence Of Ecelesias-
tical jurisdiction, cannot be recognized in
any other light than as an assault upon the ia
stitutions Of America, and we will not sustain
anv one who advocates assists in, or willingly
submits to such interference.
4th Every government possesses the right
to prescrfbe the terms upon which foreigner
NAV be admitted to the privileges OF citizenship
within its jurisdiction. Such privilege to the
| foreigner is q boon conferred, and is not right
inherent. In this confederacy, where the sove-
reign power depends upon for healthy exercise
upon the virtue and intelligence of the voter and
acquaintance with American Institutions. the
prvelegeof citizenship should be granted only
upon such tests as certainly insure Qualhcations
linthe person equel e ~ RI6pzE 1|1E|.aEes q
| tho &XE T14nQU TO oeN RHcu.
perienG1I Ee existing laws teucif
naturalization De unsatisfactory and unsafe
/ To increase the guards around the right of suh.
rage and to insure fidelity to the Constitution,
founded on athorough knowledge of ani at
tached to American institutions, additional leg
tislatan is necessary to Congress.
i 9Th. No State in this Union oughtto confer
the right Of suffrage upon any utcitzens of TIE
4 United States.
9th. The people of Kentucky having in pri.
mary assemblies and at the polls ratified ant
approved the platform Of the American party
adopted at Philadelphia in June last, this meet
ling reafirms those principles. and calls upoi
every lover OF MS country anu the Union IN as
sstiDg to maintain them as the basis ef politica
i action.
7th. The Amer. cans of Louisville, while the.
deplore the events of the 9th of August, do no
feel in the slightest degree responsible for them
because they know and make this public decla
ration Of the fact that no scheme OF violenc
had been concerted, nor was any meditated b.
!, them. They know and declare that the rI0tin
oririnatpd from the wauton assaults made b
foreigners upon unofending citizens who wer
not meddling with the elect'oa. They are nc
to be drawn into further controversy upon thi
subject than to express generally that ,Riieneve
like occasion shall exhibit singular reckless
e ness and wickedness upon the part Of their ad
versaries, the Americans of Louisville vi
). firmly main4ain their rights at every hazard.
The meeting was addressed the first day b
Gen Williamson, of Pennsylvania, Mr.. Sheet
of Indiana, Mr.. Prescott, of Massachusetts
y and Humphrey Marshall Of Kentucky.