The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-12-28
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAF MORNING.
VOL. l--NO. 80,


Is the raacc Rreeressives
Thee Is something striking Ii the following
train of thought. though II i opposed to The re.
ccivcd opinions Of this age. II win be at oncs
recognz zed q from The pen Of Emerson. We do
not receive bis startling paradoxes Is true, nor
assent TO all which even this paragraph assertA
bat it is slrkingl7 suggestive Of thought.
THERE'S no more deviation III tho moral stand.
aid than 10 the standard q height d bulk. Ne
greater men are now tlar ever were Il singular
equality may be Observed between the great men
of fhe first and of the Iast ages nor csn all the
sciences art, religion. and philosophy of the
nineteenth century avail to educate greater men
than Pluiarch's heroes three or four and tw .nts
CENTURIES ago. Not in time z,<he race progrcs.
sive. phoeIoa Socrates Anaxagoras, Diogenes,
are great men, but they leave no class, He who
Is really Of their class will not be called by theft
name, but VIII be his own man, and in his turn.
the founder ofa sect. The arts and inventions
OF each period are only its costume, and do NOT
invigoratc men. The harm of the improved ma
chinery may compensate for its good. Hudson
and Behring accomll shed 30 much in their fish
ing-boats, as to aslanish Parry and Franklin.
whose equipment exhausted the resources of sci.
enre and art. Calico, with an opera glass, dis.
covered more splendid series Of celestial phe.
rl1nena than any one since. Columbus found The
New World In an unlocked boat. It is curious
t) see the periodical disuse and perishing of
means and machinery, which were introduced
with loud lauaation few years or centuries be-
fore. The great genius returns to essential man.
We reckoned the improvements of the art of war
among the triunnphs of science, aud yet Napoleon
conquered Europe by the bivouac, which con-
cska1 1off
cumberfng it Of all aids. The Emperor held it
impossible to make . perfect army, says Les Ca
sas, without abolishing onr arms, magaziaes,
icommissafles, and carriages unti in imitation Of
the Roman custom, the soldier should receive his
supply Of corn, grind itin his hand-nill and bake
bis bread himselEs
Society Is = wave. Tie wave moves onward
1f E1e xa1er of which t 8 composed does not.
| T. u unity is on] nenal Tho
psrscis Who make up nation 66xf 4<nf
die, and their experience with them
And 50 the reliance on property, Including
reliaRce ongoyesnments which protect it. is tn
want OF sdkreliance. Men have hooked away
from themselves aid at things so long, that they
have come 70 esteem The religious, learned add
civil institutions guards of property, and they
s deprecate assaults on these because they feel them
TO be assaults on property. They measure their
: esteem OF each other BY what each has, and not
E by what each IS. But q cultivatetl.man becomes
Y ashamed OF his property, out Of new respect Cor
his nature. Especially he hates what be has, if
: he seethat It is accidental, came to him by in-
hsrltance or gitor crime then he feels that it is
not having; it docs not belong to him, has no
root in bin, and merely lies there, because no
Q revelation Or no robbcr takes it away. But that
| whicis mailis does always BY necessity acquire,
and what the man acquires islising property,
: which does not wait the beck of rulers, or nobs.
or revolutions, or fresD storm, or bankruptcies,
4 but perpetuelly renews itself wherever the man
brcathes. Thy lot or portion of life, said the
e Cahph Ali "s seeking after thee; therefore be at
e rest from seeking after it, Our dependence on
these foreign goods leads US to our sayish respect
e for numbers. The political parties meet in nu.
m rens conventions; the greater the concourse,
d and with each new uproar of announcement, The
nsl delegation from Essex The Democrats from n.
eI Hampshire! Tie Wings Of Maine the young
patriot feels himself stronger than before by new
b thousand OF eyes and arms. In like manner the
rsfofmers summon conventions. and vote and re-
ptl solve in mulntade. Not so, q friends. will the
OIL God design to enter and inhabit you, but by
method precise y the reverse 1t is only as mar
II puts OF all foreign support and stands alone tina,
lie y see him &c be strong aud to prevails He is sc
m much weaker BY every recruit TO his banner
h. not a man better than town. Ask nothing O
men and il the endless mutation, thou only frn
) column must presently appear the upholder of al
i. that surrounds thee He who knows that powe
aaI IS nborn that he is weak because he has locke
n. for good outsof him and elsewhere, and so per
he ceiying, throws himself unhesitatingiy. on hi
thou yhts, Instantly righls himself. stands in th
", erect position, commands bis limbs, works mira
IT. ces; Just man who stan Is on his feet is muc
10 stronger than man who stands on his head.
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