The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-06-08

the IDOL 81 lIIs countryn1eil.
II our roverniiI1 CLASSES 10 not mind what
they are about, the English people will become
"Know Nothngs;' and that not merely IN the
sense to which we have ub0ve referred. a
qtarte Of century has elapsed since they tho
roughly arcused themselves u 4 consideration
Of affairs. We deeply regret toexpresso our cofi-
viciton that there are ready the elements ct
national movement, very differeut from those or
ganizeds shams which have been gotup since by
religious or commercial demagogues feaiup-
heaving of the national heart and will--a some
Thing that will spring, not from passion OF IN
terest but from deep rooted conviction. Ii this
begins- it IS neye. wise to 90 to sleep over
volcano---wherc viii it stop? There are not
wanting profigate publicists, demagogues, anon
ymous or avowed, to turn it to account. If q
notion should sink into the national mind that
those who have hitherto been entrusted with the
work Of government have m;sinterpreted or
neglected their mission, might it not come to
pass that the English people in their tntn, would
"know nothing Of PARTIES or privileges, of tra-
dtion or custom, and would rudely take up the
neglected task? It's MT impossible that d spi-
rit Of fairness might lead To one Of those parties
being permitted one more trial. There il some
thing In the present attitude ofthe tories which
rather propitates public feeling than otherwise.
But would they be equal to the work. If they
should prove SO, no party feeling would inter-
fere with their unbounded popularity
Lord Palmerston stands in the way. He has
disappointed every one. Samson dozes, or co.
quets with the political charmers who will prove
his ruin. Neither at home nor abroad is minis
try respected. We are stagnant as regards do
mestic legislation, yet precious time is being
wasted in negotiations which the public begin
to regard as delusive. The Do Nothings may be
succeeded by the Know Nothings; and, bad as
matters are at present, England might find that
such change was for the worst.
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"SAM" IN MIssIssIppI.-Th The Jackson Southern
Mercury-an ultra-State Rights Demot ltic pa
per-is the first sheet in this State TO avow itself
openly and boldly in favor of the Kn9u-N Nothing
0rgaassafion, That paper of last week, in pub
Fishing the .American Platform (the same to
which We gave prominent insertion in our last, ]
remarks as follows: 1--WE give at the head of oul
columns today the Platform of the American par
ty of Mississippi To prevent any possibility Of
misunderstanding, as the State canvass is about
opening, we state now distinctly that we|shallsup
port the candidates who stand upon this platform
and no other, Especially including the rickety
concern expected to be erected here on the Isl
Monday of June.)
1t strikes us as rather remarkable, that in the
midst Of the howlings of the presses Of the S.att
which continue TO dange at the tail of the present
imbecile and Infamous Administration, that the
American party is the Wing party in disguise
that JONES, an old whee-horse of Democracy
| formerly of the Ticksburg Sentinel and more re-
Gently of the Mississippian, )shonld be the very
| first man in the State to announce his determine
ton to support at all hazards those only ;.he
stand upon the American or "Know Nothing
Platform!
Known othingism may be Wing tricks
trick of the Federdlias-an exclusive Abolt o.
trick; but, whatever sort of trick it may be, it i
undoubtedly fact, that its strong-holds are il
democratic localities, and that, as men avow them
selves it turns out that the oldest and most faith
full Democrats are in the lead of the whole move
ment. The Order is said to be oyerwhelmingl,
strong iu North Mssissippi-insome instance
embracing three-fourths of the voffrs of the coul
ties-and all know that region as the anchor @
the Democracy of the State. The city and Stat
elections Of the past year, also, fully corroboI
/; alive of the fact. Known othingism is unique:
} tionably quite popular with the Democratic mas
SEES, however distastefnl it may be TO those VIII
r hold Office under the present National Admins
' tration,
RnUyn0ad Gy-effp