The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-11-16
EXTRACE
From Gayarre's Address to the People L.s
isiana.

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We gi5e an extract from this splendid
effort in behalf of American principles. Our
readers will remember that NJ. Gayarre, for
private reasons withdrew from tn. order in
Louisiana. His card of withdrawal was pub
lished nth tbas aIitss. How much reason
the Ant-Americans had to attribute that step
to a change Of his principles, these extract
will show
"Among tbose who may read these remarks
there are many, no doubt, who were active par
tisans in the Democratic or in the Wing ranks.
Lappeal to them and say: whenever you wer-
called upon to make nominations for Offices in
those preliminary meetings which precede our
elections, were you not frequently compelled 10
give way to some foreign interest. When you
proposed an American, were you not ansaered
Americans have had more than their share.
The foreign interest must be consulted. An
Irishman. q Frenchman, German, must have
this or that Office And if you remonsti ated,
were you not met with threats! Were you
| limperiously told: 1t shall be so. an j yau
are not satisfied, quit rhe country, and make
room for Others That is, for those heter.ss ell
ter emigrants who are the new Lords and Mas
ters of tine land, at least in some localities, and
on certain occasionsi And had you not to SUBJ
Init to this foreign dictation, although the bush
of shame or Indignation may have risen to your
cheeks, and although your blood may nave boil
! ed m your veins when the conviction Eashod on
your mind that, perhaps after all. your Ameri-
can independence was but an empty boast.
Have we not seen our governors, our senators
our very highest dignitaries throughout the u
nited States pandering to the same exigencies
Have not important appointments been mad
/ avowedly to couciliate tie foreign interest on
q election days? Are not many of our senators
land representatives in Congress wasting pre-
eious time in preaching wild doctrines of inter-
vention in the affairs OF other nations, or in re-
commenting some quixotsc crusade for the r.
i lief of all those who are supposed to be oppress-
ed throughout the whols world! Are they n I
constantly disgusting the sober portion Of their
constituents, by declamatory andschoolboy in
z lvectives against the fancied or real tyranny Of
some European ruler or other, merely to please
foreigners, and notbecause tie Am rican inter-
est requires it in the leasta lie it was not well
ascertained that there exists am ng us fseiga
influence which may at any time be used v
4 tunpsi 5ciplsd demagogues would a well know,
!, foreigner, now residing in Il gland hive dared
TO threaten the Senate of the United States, aid
lmadly to declare that he would olnnel them to
4 reconsider the course they had thought proper
G f to pursue on a certanoccasionI Would anoth
: er foreigner have publicly sail toa military com.
: pany of his countrymen, who had been disband
s led by the lawfully exercised authority of an "A.
d mercan magistrate: For. every nlusket thai
is taken away from you, provide Will
) three --9r words of the ike imports These ar
]; the sgnssof potentous evils aud are we to bs
It blamed, if we have bound ocrselves by sacre,
e oath to remedy them! Is It not nj inperatv.
j, duty VIII ch we have neglected too long
l. that there be no other interest consnIed in IA