The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1855-09-07

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throw and suppression OF the reb<l7iop.s At Lex.
ington and at Bennington Court House the for
eIgn party, with arms in their halj3ssaud cold.
bloodcd murder ID their hearts, rufhl6i1y attack.
ed unafmed patriots, recklessy and deliberately ;.
shed the first American blood and. thought thus
to crush out republicanism' from The. minds and
Learts of the people. The report Of these acts OF
outrage was the tocSin for en- uprising Of the )
masses, and the American standard was nnfirled..
The sturdy yeomanry of the country hocked a.
round the stars and stripes an intensely American
feeling was awakened, the doctrine thatt Ameri.
cans should rule America was proclaimed every.
where the sons Of The soil pressed-side and side
and shoulder to shoulder to vindicate their rights
and American liberty and American Union were
triumphantly established ia spite Of all the co.
horts of foreign despots and the insidous wiles Of
domestic traitors.
How complete ID the parallel the American
party is now seeking to preserve and pcrpetuate
in their pristine purity and excellence the very
principles, the very institutions, for which the
martyrs Of tie Revolution suffered. Like them,
the patriots the Americans, the hative-born adj
vocates OF constitutional freedom, are now beset
on all sides by the mnions and paid advocates Of
foreign influence and foreign despotisms, and are
called traitors and sthieves and owls and mid.
night providers and 'assassins' and thugs and
sbloodhounds.' The American party now, as
then, has been spoken of in terms of contempt by
its opponents, and its strength has been ridculed
Now, as then, the enemiesH American princi.
pies, maddened at their inability to stop the rap
I'd spread OF Americanism and to repress the
gro wing enthusiasm of American feeling, have had
recourse to violence, and hare deih@fately insti-
gated the shedding of Amefican blood in the
streets of Cincinnati and oE louisville. Now;
as then, the prediction will bcveri6ed that athe
blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.
that the out-pouring of inn1ce1tj nnCEfeudipg A.
merican blood upon the paFemcnts Of tie quiet
streets BY the hands Of brutal foreigners win pro-
duce throughout the whole country b more inten.
SIZED American feeling until Louisville and Gin.
cinnati shall be to tie future what Lexington and
Bennington court house have been to the past
Our opponent cannof now expect the aid Of
Hessian Ieeio1s arms to carry on their
seeking only their codn<i 6of ~ re-esfab.
lishment and perpetuatiod = pfinofnlos
upon which our Republican Goy <fnment was /r
founded Hhese advocates Of Sag Niehtism, Y
Foreignisn1, and OF Roman Catholic intolerance
are less powerful from the fact tha they have not
the aid Of foreign soldiery, with which to repress
the efforts of the American party; but all their
words and actions, their incendary speeches their
vituperation of native Americans, and their re-
sort to bloody biolence, manifest their willing
ness to availthemselves of every means, no matter
how foul or dangerous and deadly to public peace
or private life and property, to maintain the
power which has been attempted to be exercised
IN behalf OF foreign RIGHTEOUSNESS and papal dee-
potism. 1t is time that an intense and all-pef4
' ding American feeling should be aroused. It
is,time that natiye-born Protestant citizens eve
ny where throughout the Union should be awak.
ened to sense OF danger from the insidious eff
| forts 0fIforegn influence and the nnscrupulous
aggression of Papal intolerance. It's time that
the friends of American liberty should every
where band themselves together to.pnt down this
anti American party seeking to rule in our midst,
Ind should unite once more in defence ofsour
fcommon country, our constitution, and eur I'M
ion, against the wiles and Vaccinations of dema-
gogues and panderers to foreign favor who are
seeking to crush out Repnblicanism and to make
Protestantisn crime. Let the principles and
purpose q The American party be every where
proclaimeds let the base Efforts and objects of It's
Iopponents be at oncelmade known, and we have
no fear Of the result. As in l776, tie hearts Of
the great mass of the native-born Americans are
;iright. They love the name Of liberty, they re-
3 we're the Union, and now and ever, a 10 the past
!; time, they win be firmly united and come for
ward in one serried phalanx to protect md pre-
| serve American freedom and American institu-
tons from domestic traitors aswell as from for
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by its opponents, but. wherever they have been
made known, they have found willing respons'
ties have attested their truth and patriotism ant
nationality. We trust, that during the coming
year, thev may pe proclaimed ~ every town and