The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-08-10

siensrsof she Declarations u Iodeps 1tpeebe:
ing fortIgners, and said 500 of WI Hp's
Major Generals were also Of f@ Nj.
True they were, and il was III oI1l61 Iion of
this fact and the close connn6 3 b them
that drew birth WashinRton's a - Z Litter.
complaining that Congress put lor1 n6Es ID
command, and recommended that none |s,f no-
tfoe born Anericdn citizens sheuld - given these
Offices Of trust. The nllusion q 1'ee wa nr-
fortunAte, for he was . thorn q lk0 sides Of 1Is
Americans The stump orators frequently On
that there was but one traitor to the American
cause. and that was Arnold American born.
Bat do they know one thing bis wife was q
English woman, and hated Washington. and
y made him the constant theme OF ridicule and
abuse. She instilled ambition into as Brave
! heart as beat at the opening of the war. Ar
mold was called the Tiger Of thu American
army. He lost leg In Its service at the bat
tie oil Saratoga-pity for his after fame, Il had
not been his head: but Washington never trust.
Cd him, for heknew he was ambitious, and though
he fought boldly for BIS country by day, he
camped with the enemy at night
TheRthey bring up Lafayette and De Kalb,
and kosiusko, why don't they say something
about Proctor and Cockburn and Packenham, and
the other men Of might and valor who came over
with the ferocious mDtto of the invader Of New
Orleans "Beauty and Booty" Such toadyism
and false representations are enough to make an
honest American sick. He spoke of John Paul
Jones. Far be it from us to depreciate the
services of that gallant sailor soldier. He de-
serves the need of uneying praise, and from
me will ever receive it, Show me where lies
the dust of one foreigner that helped rs in
those dark days and ! will honor it with e
gratitude OF true American heart. But Paul
Jones was soldier Of fortune: he left his own
country and changed his name in ours. enlist
q in our service, and was a true man, and
therefore flithful to the cause in which he was
embarked. But he did not stick to our service
during the whole war. He went to Russia and
enlisted in the service Of Catbarine, and when
L he diedin Paris, Doctor Franklin wrote to oul
Government and to that OF Russia, but neither
claimed his remains. The young man was
mistaken in his facts, though w should think
if he ever read history he has not had time te
. forget it; yet when he says that Paul Jones
commanded the first hostile feet that evel
went through the British channel-I need no
inform your school-boy readers, and you have
many of them, that the Tnvincibe Armad,
went there, aud other fleets also. But / vii
, come down to modern times as it brings up
thrilling historical "reminiscences.
! When the profigate. stipendiary 0
: Louis XIV came back to England Will
I his French Court, French Mistresses ant
Foreign Hangers on, the tickle populac
dug up the remains of the great Protect
!, or and defender of the Protestant faith
!. the true Enalishman and patriot to whom
in no remote degree we owe our owl
nationality-the stern old puritan OIL
! YER CROMWELL: hewho made Enc
land prosperous at home and feared an
! respected abroad. He who in view c
e the merciless prosecutions of the Prot
: estants i'll the Piedmont, sent word t
# the Pope if he did not compel the Duk
It lof Savoy to call off his bloodhound
: from the unoffending Protestants' h
It would hear British cannon at the gate
u |of the VATICAN within thirt
/ Idays-andsthe pope heard and .obeye
nim-his Sacred dust was burned at T,
? burn, but amid the jeers of the FoREIe
: and unpatriotic popnlace, came I'll
: booming of De Ruyter's Dutch canno
!. in the Thames. But have written tc
d longfo this time-willm my young frien
ID YERGER note these facts. Mr., YET
q GER like Eneas from the seige of Tre
y with Anchis es on his back, has to carr
1e his father on his. yong shoulders; f
P the great reputation of his family il
Us stead Of being help to. him, has bee
y a drawback; people expected too muc
and now when he has burst the gree
J, withes that SO long bound him and Ike
60 down his manly strength, the Ant
" still hang his noble father George
y. Yerger like the old man of the Sea upt
ne his shoulders and say he don't run b
e. fast enough for such parentage But
I'd, will take his whole family upon /
ed shoulders and come out with the ga
SEA liant Holmes so far ahead of the old vii
de broken party hacks that are ertef
'l Sc against him that they will never g
neaf enough to see how it was dol
lAnother time / have more to say.
Yours &C.,
st MADISON.
p. The Anti-C ath0licism Of the Anne