The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-11-23


Progress of inc Anasrican Rnrty.
aTo do, Is 10 sucessd our 6eht
Il wag'd n EIcavenss approving smile
| The smiIeof God i yicforyve
| For several years, feeling before that time
unknownto the American people, has been grad.
ually, but necessarily spreading throughout the
entire land It's effects began to make themselves
visible In Baltimore, about two years ego. 4
was then "a cloud Ike mans hand, and scarcc-
! y attracted attention. Il grew apace, however,
and men looked up, and talked Of 3 rainy day, or
gale of wind, by and bye all eyes werefxed mp
on It; Il became amatter Of intense interest. It
was harbingcr of storm, destined almost to
swing continent from its moorings--at least
martially to shape its destiny. A new party has
sprung up and spread with rapidity which be-
wilders men, when they think Of it. In its very
infancy i met the most deadly opposition; but,
Hercules 10 his CRADLE crushed the serpents that
coiled around him, 80 this infant party overcamel
all opposition It cameupon the political arena
apparently unfriended. No great name ushered
It into notice. No bugle notes gave warning Of
Its coming. 1t was the spontaneous bubbling
up OF fountain which had for years been swell
ling 10 the great National heart. It did over
How, and as was to be expected the effect was felt
at one and the same time, in New York and Cal
ifornia, in Maine and Florida, wherever. over this
wide land, an American heart beats, il felt its
pulsatlons quicker, and like the wind rushing a.
mongst the strings of the Eolian harp, every
where 1t brought forth response.
History gives us no instance OF any party which
in period so marvelously short, has gained 80
strong a bold upon the national feelings, as has
the American party. There must have been
necessity for it. then, or il never could have been
spread II there had not been fuel to nourish it
: the blaze would have gone out. What was the
feeling, and what the provocation that famed it
into passion! The simple feeling was NATIONAL
ity: the provocation an attempt to destroy, by
organized band Of Foreign politco-religionis
foreign in6dels, and foreign culottes the dis
tinctive features of the american nation. Our
: country. bought by the blood and toll Of our faith.
ers-by hunger and cold, and privation--by
death, and suffering and anguish--by the pray
r ers and tears Of sainted women, and the might
and valor Of brave men-all this was to be for
gotten, or thrown away, and America was to
become mighty entrepot for all the lazzaron oil
e Europe. A piebald crew such as would call up
Y by Byron's lines
And there are dresses splendid, bat fantist:.
cal,
: Masks of all times, and nations Turks ani
Jews,
And:harlequin, and clowns, with feats gym
: nastica,
o Greeks, Romans, Lazzaroni. and Hindoos
All these were not only to crowd in upon ne
J, but mt ducafcd, and incl IS many Of them wer
3 they we're to rule over US. Alreody tle balanc
z of power was in their hands, and - we're offer
e ing it for sale to the highest bidder.
/. This the American people determined to re
y Isist. Hence the American partyl And what ha
it dones Why, it is only six months in organic
cd existance, and yet It has met oil other partic
Z in:conhict. headed by the unterri6ed democracy
and even now it holds the balance of power.
has, ifthe telegraph does not deceive US, route
the COMBINED rces of Ha-ds, Softs, Woody hea
Il and Abolitionists in New York; aud the flag
t the American party waves to day. in al prob,
he bility over the Empir, State.
s. In Massachusetts,, the home of aboltionisn
we bearded s'the lion in his den," and e'ecte
Gardiner. constitutional man, as Governor
A. We turn towards the South, and in MarylaH
ne the headquarters of foreigners, where they hav
n many of them, wealth, where they have va
numbers, and had the entire influence of a p
X. pish administration to back them, the America
people pronounced their doom, and the who
motley crew, horse, foot and dragons, has be-
put to fight. The probability is strongly in o.
favor in Louisiana; and away on the goldt
shores of the Pacific the question has been as
ed, are you an Americana and Echo brings bat
the answer, American, American! Arkansl
is ours without q possibility Of failure; a
though Mississippi. heretofore bound hand q
foot in the letters Of Democracy, and careful
fed with governmental pap, The Sscretery
war has probably failed us. yet even there, b
we run the inimitible CLIsroH for Governor. J,
would have carried the State by thousands. Al
Kentucky? O, Kentucky is oars to the bac
10 bone-to the corel
pa We have, everywhere, done noblyt We q
ar not only satisfied. but our bosom swells wi
&c. pride, as we survey the mighty host that b
CT grown from. the mere handful Of two yea
- back.
We buckle on our armor with renewed con
dence for the Presidential campaign. and ,
X utter no political bravado, Blu: our own hone
conviction, that our mex. President will be ele
sd- ted by the American Party Mem. Eagle.
ing Z
''e ar C. G. Langdon, Esq, well known as !
I'M mer able editor of the Mobile Advertiser, b.
OF AZ. 81, sfhroo