The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-12-28


ruptions of politics. Thenit was that combi-
nation Of honest men revived the patriotism and
of the olden time, under the appro-
pirate title of Americanism.
Yet with positive knowledge of this fact the I
Courier says;
1t has been brought into agitation with renew
ed fury the me st vexed sectional issues, and sue
ceeded in carrying in power large number of
its proselytes pledged to keep alive those ques-
tions: to keep them prominently before the peo- |
pie, and to exert all their efforts to promote |
The Nebraska go I|i111z& PncsIlsd ar.
inpe1Ilic ~ e, thodgh esnbodsed
ciplesV dst approve, this bill we say
an adminl9V ton measure-aided by all the in !
Ruence Of the President and his cabinet and car
ried through after the most exciting debate BY
administration votes, broke the magic wand of
the Democratic party at the North into frag
ments, and destroyed the party which hadup to
that moment exhibited consistence and power.
Know Nothingism was then in its infancy;
scarcely had acquired any local strength or be
gun to dream Of victory. A Democratic defea,
in every northern State, was the result of the
Abolilion;sm or An,i-Nebraskaism of the Dem
ocratic party, not of the organization of Know
N things into new power in the State. The
Democracy failed the administration the peo-
pie deserted dynasty which had shocked their
ideas of legislation, instead of the Know Moth
ings sezing upon the frenzy of Aholitionism to
. acquire upremacy. The Courier knows this is
the Truth though it ventures its sianderous
charge.
| Who have been the most deadly foes of the
4 American party at the north, The abolition
lists-The Stewards and Sumners-the National
Eras-and the Tribunes Of that party have pur-
sued it with untiring opposition. Does the Cour-
lier pretend the Abolitionis.s don't know theil
,Iown friends? That so astute leaders as mar
! shall, their cohorts would denounce their owr
allies?
"What has been,' says the Era of the lStl
November, the history of the Order in the Free
: States. from the time of the national schism
| It may all be summed up in one sehtence-un
interntting effort to perpetuate itself. either b.
making the anti-slavery sentimens tributary o
E BY braking it down.
; s. This has been its history, and in full view 0
. the fact how any real friend of Freedom cou
for D moment tolerate it. or hesitate to denounc
as the great obstacle to ar effective AntiSla
VERY union, passes our comprehension.
q See how utterly this has paraiyzed the Anti
d Nebraska movement in Indiana and New Jer
!. sey, and the most inextrcal endorsements i
9 which it has involved it in Pennsylvania! Sc
o how uncertain it renders the state of things i
Q Iowa! And what spectacle it has made of tn
r great States OF New York and Massachusetts
9 Had the Anti-Nebraska movement, in othe
e words, the Anti Slavery movement, been lei
y alone, Iowa, Indianna, Pennsylvania, New Jel
. sey, New York, and massachusetts, would hay
d been republican, ii fact aud name, and ther
! could have been no doubt as to their position
1856. Can any one tell us now where the
will stand! Your Union-saving Know Nptl
er ingism has conquered some Of them, given tt
in rest ID Nebraska Democracy, atrayed them .
nominally. against the Republican party, II
Z only party organized 70 represent and carry o.
z policy Of slavery.e Pr0pagandisnl, aye Kno
s Nothingism, has divided and con nues to divi
" the Free States,and unless its power be brolJ
y before next November, it will lay them pro
~ trate again at the feet of the slave power
80 Ia the face Of this fact knowing that d
by only the Era but every Abolition sheet in !
T. North, and every leading Freesoilcrin Of out
d Office has repeated the same assertions,the Co
|isr has the ineffable effrontery to say:
OF ssThe North or rather that portion Of It d
- der which Blue Lave, Abolidonlsm OF the So
81 II 5I lnfion flourish in unchecked growth, *
& . ceived 5E6 -. of carrying out its projectsi
IlesI der 4 6fise "a Ia land attractive as easilv