The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-12-14
"AII are not Thieves that Dogs
bark at"

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"AII are not Thieves that Dogs
bark at" !
We have been surprised and Disguised to see
The adherents of the Pierce dynasty still hurl at
US THAR biiingsgate and vituperation, still insist
that the great American Party is but band of
midnight assassins and robbers who not only
murder women and children to succeed in their
nefarious designs, but in all their savage nature
would suck the life blood Of the Republic for q
support. Such meaningless abuse will recoil
upon the low born vituperators and the honest
indignation of the people will display itself at
the ballot-box. Why gentlemen (s) are you not
aware that we are no longer secret party. do
we not hang our banners on the outward wall
have we not proved ourselves foemen worthy Of
your steel Have you forgotten your overthrow
in Kentucky? Has the voice of California died
away DO you remember orr signal triumph in |
Nev York, ID Maryland loe1achusette I'd
New Jersey. Has not The W 8 IL vouhd-
ed and dying in Texas, in Tennessee and even
in this district yet reached your ears certainly
you must be puny band il you cannot at one
fell swoop destroy this small party of assassins
Lay on Macduf say We, you are but writing
your own epitarh.
Have we no principles, gentlemen (a) that you
can attack, or does your cunning tell You that
you dare not oppose thems Will you still call
us foul mouthed abolitionists when the 18th res
olution Of our platform stares you in the face
will you still say we are the allies of Seward
and Wilson, when we have lately borne to the
earth the black banner Of abolition amid the de-
spair and curses Of those gentry.
Will you yet charge upon us, that we crush
freedom of opinion. that we only aim at power'
We point you in reply to the melancholy ghosts
of dead men, whose heads have fallen under the
proscriptive axe OF the Pierce Administration |!
These men suffered for the mere expression o.
opinion and you have sought, by the iron rule OF
power to crush even the thoughts of men. Is
this not tyranicaf-is this not usurping power
which the Constitution forbids? have you forgot
ten that the true source Of power is in the peo-
pie and not in the creature of the people! Do
you not know that you are planting the seeds of
q revolution, that frsemen cannot bear oppression
and are you not aware that when they whose
duty it is to obey the Constitution, seek to be
supreme, that the energies Of great people are
transmitted into fearful element of universal
desolation! Cease then, you that are men, this
senseless abuse, if you love foreigners better
than natives, declare your sentiments boldly, blu,
seek not to pander to the foreign prejudces by
the cry Of oppression, whilst in the same breath
you say that you don't love foreigners much af.
ter all. Your dupicity is thinly yelled, your
! motives are transparent to the keen observer
whilst you are throwing dust in the eyes of the
benghted. We have beenS com6ted in some
grand battles. but we count more victories than
our opponents-in the opening fight we suffer.
r ed from the small arms Of the enemy, but now
] that our "hying artillery" is in the field, every
!, echo bears upon its bosom the notes Of victory
Then move on cheerily, Sons Of the Soil; oul
early misfortunes but foreshadowed success;
I for
. ls--aSweet are the uses Of Adversity,
!. Which like the toad, ugly and venominous
Wears yet precious jewel inits head"