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The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02
THE BANNER.
FRIDAY MORNING, MAY ?, 1856.
war upon Boards.

The Nearolitan government has issued an edict
against the wearing Of boards People that sport
too much hair orcibly taken to the barber shops
by the police and shaved The government looks
upon hairy face as indicative Of revolutionary
tendencies. The readers of Russian history will
remember that Peter the Great, in civilizng The
Muscovites, compelled them to abate the bear and
assume the looks of men, by cutting off the beard.
In Bulwers novel of "Devereux," is notice Of the
mode in which the government Of that day dealt
with even the high nobility that dared to 90 about
the streets of st. Petersburg dsfgued like goat.
'Devereux went on mission from England to Rus
S6a. and had just reached the capital. Among other
strange sights, was the following:
IA singular sight now struck my attention:
apple Of men with boards that would have hidden
pssowary, were walking slowly along in Their
Hous long garments, and certainly q say it reve.
MIly) disgncing the semblance of humanity, wher
las they came byk gate, two other men Of as
fshing height st9 ,,,Tth, each armed with a
.E EpE of shears. b = ~ was over off -s..s-.
q
-. It tMt tSN N. NJ I... .ahttscences so eXpcdi
cl6pTt&~ w VA " N "a ciators who preserved
!. TfUI6und silence dufn this brief affair then re
we'd little, and the mutilated wanderers pursued
~ way with an mir Of extreme discontinue"
IS Aope the Ncnpotans will be followed in thei
,apt at reform; and though own gov
sd feel no apprehensions from the plot
men, we sincerely trust returning
ri decency, to say nothing of good taste, vii
with the disfguring fashion of mutachioe
kecs. The little girl who said the man ha
Gllar on his lip, merely expressed the matt
t0Sust that every body with mvitiated tast
7 a man with long hair about his moutl
rsne has said, very aptly, that mustachio o
W yis momfning-weed, worn for the lack
Viebe head The wise old Peter of Russ
~ auN16 You cannot civilize make anythn
FEyeg man while he looks like beast; he mu
hlN|0 sumo the semblance Of humanity, before
assf be cultivated as man.
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02

IL" Pap, Iplanted some potatoes in our garden,
said one OF the smart youths of this generation to
his father, ''and what do you think came up Z .
"Why, potatoes, of course" "No, street there
came up drove of hogs and ate olein oil. The
old man caYed IN
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02

IHE LADIES AND THE AMERICAN Parry
A lady correspondent Of one of our exchanges
thus freely expresses her sentiments upon the
Subject Of AmericanisTi.
{n times Of yore, Spartan mothers strove to
inspire their sons with an unquenchable spirit
81 6aifiotism. Once our Puritan mothers glo-
red in imparting to their children the true pfin-
r'n|e5 Of freedom--liberty and justice. And
|Is|| We, American women, con sent to forget
.<Ir noble example and let the love Of our
to4nIry, whose borders have been baptised with
he nreciols blood Of our foretathers and the
|sars of our Puritan mothers, become. blotted
1.|1 from existence in our heartsa No! believe
01I Hc principles, and spirit of patriotism
lid love Of liberty. are ADVOCATED by the
|&cE|csn party apd press, which Is to make
/, . know and feel as II we lived I'M country
3 e.ol|4 and riQhtfully our own to protect--ou
d 20 govern. May God bless the party styles
:. nsr;can and may success ever attend j, unit
IS known, and rules from the Atlantic'i
&l<,ep 70 the broad Paci6cs blue waters,
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02

PRENTICE SoLD.-Ihe Boston Post says: Kate
sent the edi. or of the Louisville Journal a poem
called s'The American Banner" which said edi-
tor published with profuse compliments and which
was only slight alteration of fLongfelow's Hymn
of the "Mofavian Nuns, upon the occasion of
presenting the consecr ated banner to Pulaski foI
his legion! This accident to Mister Prentice hop
pened on the first of April.
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02

A SHADOW VA fellow went to the parish priest
and told him that the night before he saw ghost
I'm what shape did it appear7" asked the priest
g 1t appeared in the shape Of great ass" "Ge
home and hold your tongue about it." reoined the the
shadow
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02

-PIcTURE or PREsIDEsr PiRKcEsThe New
York Evening Post entertans thir aopinion of
the Democratic President whom il helped into
The White House. - 80
q Mr. Pierceis q small lawyer from Concord.
Of slendp-sapacity, and no firmness of principle
--apR Rn'eh Nose Intellectual character is best
| Iexpr Ahomely metaphor sometimes
askes when they say OF d feeble
minded nd Git he ID rather slack baked. !"
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02

u The Memphis Appeal admits that Mr.. Fill
more is national man. The admission, to be sure,
comes ike drawing an eye-tooth but We hope the
editors now feel better. Thay have admitted what
every wellinforned politician knows to be true
and the mere partisan, who for party purposes would
seek to soil the fair and national character Of
such man Millard Fillmore, deserves the scorn
and contemptof every honest man. Hear what the
Appeal says: Il Eagle and Enquirer.
eve never have, and never will, knowingly, dc
any political opponent injustice, and have always
been willing to admit that, while acting under his
oath of Office, Mr.. Fillmore deneaned himself in
such a manner as. to entitle him to place in the
category of what we term national men"
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02

Mr.. EyEaErT-The New York Commercial
ADVERTISER thus notices the effect produced on
the audience by the delivery Of Mr.. Everett's
Grafton on Washington, in Brooklyn:
At one time the emotion was so strong--for
it was more strictly emotion thansxcitement--
that it overleaped all restraint. Sedare clergy
men on the platform, and young men and old in
the audience, simultaneously spreng to their
feet, and cheer after cheer resounded through
the building. We know one, at least, who Eel,
it in no irreverent sense, good to be there 7
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02
MR. FILLMORE.

The Me mphs Bulletin, a journal inimical TO
the American party, has been indaced by the re-
spect which true patriotism, dstinguishedseryice,
and extraordinary ability begets even among po-
litcal opponents, to speak of MIR. Fillmore in terms
of high praise. In reply to the illusions made
to Mr. Fillmere's celebrated Erie letter, it says:
"'rhe reputation Of public man, is property
which it is disloyal to ilnpeach, unless upon good
aud solid grounds. Whatever may be Mr. Fill
more's after career--whether the recipient of new
and fresh honors, or the defeated candidate of an
unsuccessful party-t is indubitable andindispu-
table that he has fairly earned the reputation np
on which reposes the confidence his countrymen
He has fairly and fully won the title to full trust
in his loyalty to the Constitution, to full faith in
his integrity and justice as q statesman toward
a Il sections ofsthe Republic. II he has not, then
Lit is ont OF the power Of any man to deserve and
establish confidence. Il.
By al act OF God, he was placed in position
which, to annan not of infexible integrity and
honesty Of purpose, would have been sorely try.
ing On the one hand all his feelings, all his pre-
judices, eyen many of his opinions, had been cast
| in the mould Of section. On the other, the Con
stitution and his oath of office. Un!atering, firm
1 y, promptly, under the influence only of an hon.
est conscience aud an enlightened mind, the man
of section was transformed into man of the
nation. Not since the days of Washington, has
there been Chief Magistrate who, in al the act:
ofhs administration, exhibited more Of the spirit
of an equal and exact justice to all portions 0
1.-THE Union, more of implicit obedience to and
maintenance ofthe requirements Of the Constitu
tion. = = t. s
j Since bis retirement from Office there has beer
II no act of his to tarnsh this lofty rtnown: anl
when the Party Press goes behind this bright anc
!; clean record toaind the means of regepaering dis
trust and suspicion, it does itself aninjury, b.
exhibiting the willingness without the power Q
iinhicting a.wrongsess ssFi 10 re- Hsz1esss
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02
EAETs.rs1.

TO the union oil TINS gtorlouS COnledefacY. was
awakened last night, by thai, one voice of an
intellectual and morally great man that thou
sand demagogues can never destroy or friiter
away. -.~
A WORD FROM THs ENEMY.--The New York
Times, which has not often lost an opportunity
TO fire into the American party, says:
We haze not hesitated to sdmton all proper
occasions, that the American movement was
not without its provocations and uses II has
not been able to effect any great national pur-
pose, botye.it has done some good, The very
discussion to which this movement has given
rise has proved beneficial II has ELECTED much
previously undeveloped truth: it has corrected
opinion; it has chastened, il not eradieated reli
gions bigotry and intolerance, on both sides. and
has impressed the different classes of our popu-
laton with juster views Of their relative rights,
privileges and duties. These are among the
results of the late Native American demonstra-
ton, from which the country will derive advan-
tage, and which have obviated the liability OF
future conflicts.
EE- A few years since before Pierce was
heard of--New Hampshire was as firm, in a
political sense, as her own granite. We would
as soon have feared for Virginia as for her. Yet
now that Pierce has handed New Hampshire
over to Black Republicanism, we are compelled
\ to listen to such vaunts as the following from
the Concord Republican: 9sa.H .t
Frank Pierce is politically dead, and if, per-
chance James Buchanan should be the nominee
of the Democratic National Convention, ant
should be obliged to. recognize the acts of his
predecessor as National and sanction them as
/ Democratic principles, then be, too will be
condemned by the people of New Hampshire
Alas for New Hampshire.--iN. Y. News.
i Federal Union please notice.
L ~ --~~~-~---------~---@-~>--~~--~
OLD DOCUMENTS ARE DANGEROUS THIGGs.-
+ tits stated that the Hon. James Buchanan. de
, livered Fourth of July Grafton at lancaster
in 1916, in the course ofwhich he said:
!" Above all, we ought to drive from our shore
: foreign influence, and cherish American feeling
: Foreign influence has been in every age th
= curse of Repubcs--its jaundiced eye sees ev
= ervthiny IN false colors The thick atmospher
: of prejudice by which it is ever surrounded, tx
!, cIuding from its sight the light of reason.p
:, Well, what of it! asks the New Orleans Be
y Didu't Mr.. Buchanan once declare that if h
|. !. thought he had d drop OF Democratic Blood i
!, Ehia veins would let iE cut, and he is now
:, patent pure steel Democrat. Consistently i
: politicians il. altogether novelty ~ Columbu
Il Enquirer. - - ..4s - 4
2 PIcTURE OF PREsIDEsr PIEEcR.-The Me-
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02

noted for his want of courtesy. When pleading be
fore Lord Mansfield on some question of manoria
right, he Glanced unfortunately to say " Ny lord
can illustrate the point i'll an instant in my owl
person. l, myself, have tsoo little manors." The
judge Immediately interposed with of his bland
est smiles, 1--WE all know it, Sir Fletcher
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02

P. T. BARsuN.-A private letter from Mr Bar
mum to gentleman in Boston concludes as follows
81 have no inducements to struggle again to &c
quire wealth for the enormous debts against on
account of the clock company will overshadow me
to the grave. / have paid and secured all of my
private debts -
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02
AN ADVOCATE OF AMERICAN PRINCIPLES.
YAzoo CITY. MISS, FRIDAY. MAY 2, 1856.

a shameless use of public patronage he can
procure plurality of voters in the Cincinnati
Convention he will urge his adherents TO abol-
ish the two-lhirds rule,and destroy principle of
vital Importance to the weaker portion of the
Republic. .es.,...l Pa
But no matter. what evils may betide the
country, provided Mr.. Pierce can continue to
preside. The wisdom of Solomon, the glory
of Trajan, the valor of Adrian, and the virtue
of Antoninus, are happily blended in this match
less man. fs $780,. r5ar1
RoMANIsM IN AMERIcA.-A Buffalo German
Roman Catholic paper published vaticinatory
article, from which the Commercial Advertiser
translates the following view of the Catholic
force in this country
Whoever undertakes the spiritual power Of
the Church in the United States, wanders in a
fearful labyrinth. We have not only seven
arch Bishops, thirty three Bishops, and seven
teen hundred and four Priests, all in the service
Of the Pope, but we have also thirty-one Collie
ges, thirty Seminaries, and a hundred and
seventeen Female Academies, all founded by
Jesuits; bringing danger and death and unbelief
American Known othnsism and un-American
radicalism. And the Hierarchal band, which
! like golden thread, surrounds forty-one Do
ceses and two apostolic vicaratvs, aud stretches
from the Atlantic ocean to The still waiers of
the Pacific, and mountains an invisible, secret,
magnetic connection with Rome-this Hierar-
chy is to US sure guaranty that the Church,
perhaps aftor severe struggles and sufferings,
will one day come off victorious over all the
sects of America. It. is computed that there
are, at present more than two millions of Cath
olc inhabitants in the United States, who are
baptised and coniirmee saldiers of the Lord. and
who at the first summons, will assemble in raak
and file; then will men not undervalae the pow
er OF the Catholic Church, in he United States
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02

TURNING THE Z TABLEs.--Lord Erskine declared
at large party in which Lady Erskine and Mr..
Sheridan were present, that GA wife was only tin
canister tied TO ones tail = upon which Sheridan
presented Lady Erskine with these lines: -
Lord Erskine, at woman presuming to rail,
Calls assyife d lin canister, tied to ones tail :;
And fair Lady Anne, while the subject he carries on,
Seems hurt at bis lordships degrading comparison.
But wherefor6 degradingf Considercd alright.
And should dirt its original purity hide,
That's the ultof the puppy to whose tail it is tied
The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-02

@To-DAY AND To-moRRow How well and
trathfdl does DR.. Cummings speak Of to-day and
tomorrow. He says: aThe present rolls on.
ward into the unknown future, thither the soul
turns ii silent hope, and ironi the golden harves,
Of prospective joy, the pearl gathers IN the ripen
ed grain Of Ute. Life 8 lides onward sternly to-
day we. behold the line of mortality
lxecast the anchor intoath sea Of immortality
To-Day we stand npop the Shore Of time 4
row the light q God eternal day breaks through
The harzo earthly night, and on. Tie plains Of par
adisc wesbehola the Tree Of everlasting liis.
New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-04-16
A NEW DODGE.

We have already had occasion to call the atten-
ton Of eur readers to controversy which has for
some time been going on in that large section Of
our religious world which calls itself Evangelical,
touching the policy and conduct of the American
Tract Society in relation to the subject of Slavery.
As this Society was instituted for the purpose Of
circulating publications not merely to promote the
interests of "yital gOdliness" but those also of
"sound morality" the subject Of Slavery might
seem to be one upon which, cOnsidaing the rela-
ton which it bears, not merely to the nation but
to the Church itself, some decided expression of
opinion loudly called for In fact, this is one Of
those numerous cases in which decided express
sion of opinion cannot, by any art or cOntrivsnce,
be avoided-the very attempt in such cases, to
escape from an expression of opinion being of IL
self decided committsl to a certain view OF the
case. II might seem TO the uninitiated that So
ciety which has issued special tracts against into1
cating drinks against dancing, against the use Of
tobacco, and against theatrical exhibitions, might
have put out at least handful against system
which reduces some four millions of our colored
population to heathenish state of degradation,
even the elders Of Evangelical Churches and man.
ayers OF tract societies included, is hardly less dis
astrous So far, however, from anything of that
sort, the mOralis,s and theologans who have had
and still retain the management OF the American
Tract Society have taken care not 10 allow even
any incidental allusion TO the subject, but have
carefully struck out from all their republications
whether the writings Of English or American
esssyists and the0logans all references to the hold
ing of slaves as being crime, SIM an immortality
or al evil, or even to the mere fact that such an
institution exists on the face Of the earth.
In the days of the Caesars it was forbidden that
the statues Of Brutus and Cassus should be carried
in the funeral professions of the members of the
families to which they respectively belonged, in
company with the statues Of other ilustrious pro-
gentors Of those families, as was the custom Of
tie Romans in case of funerals But the effect OF
this prohibition we are told, so far from causing
Brutus and Cs.sus TO be forgotten, to the
absence of their statues on these solemn occasions
to be more remarked than the presence Of all the
other statues beside. In the policy adopted by the
managers Of our American Tract Society, they
seem TO have fallen into exactly the same sort Of
blunder as that committed by the Romsn ty
rants. The careful and scrupulous exclusion of
the subject of Slavery and Of every slusion to it
from their tracts has not failed to draw
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period OF delirum-tremecs WHICH follows the IL
to.icatoo sid frsnry Of war. to promote his party
ends.
There are many questions which passed over in
the excitement of the hour. will on the advent Of
pesce ,tsrt IL TO prominence We shall have, hrs',
an srra;gtment on the fall Of Ksrs, which will
hardly be washed away, even by the well whipped
cresm of diplomatic phraseOloy. On this VII
follow many of those personal conflicts and Dis
agreeable exposures Of which the Graham and
Napier sousbble is an Illustration. Men VIII nos' IN
happily. sitter Nspoleon's maxim, wash their dirty
linen at home. ard we have no doubt that the Earl
Of Cardirsn Will be called on 10 explain bis ex
papation that the horses of his brigade, as be de-
clares. dned off their own tails, in the Crimes, f1
mere personal fancy aud private purposes OF their
own. Then we shall have if q dissolution does
not prevent it, Lord John Russell's effort TO re-
cover his position upon broad educational
measure, founded on the maxim of Daniel Web
ster. "thst inasmuch ss the existing tendency
." of things il 30 extend popular power, the peace
" and well-being Of society requires correspond
:" ing extension Of popular knowledge And we
shall see all the parsons and squires IN the land
up in arms against them. By one or any OF these
questions Palmerston must fall. What next
The present Parliament OF England IL IN an an-
archie condition. Party organization still exists
but it is wholly out of gear, and men cannot tell
whittier things are drifting Even when peace
comes. constitutional Government is likely to have
a severer trial than when was formed, in commu::
nifty Of danger, community of forgiveness and for
getfulness. In thus speaking We will with the
Able St. Pierre, not maintain that We are abso-
solutely right but should rather say such is our
oninion for the present
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t;op,l nroy;soo ia all that prevents the Society

tion.l provision is ell that prevents the Society
from speaking out on the subject of Slavery, it will
be very easy matter indeed to unmuzzle IT, The
future policy Of the Society will come up for discus
SIGN q, its approaching anniversary; and we hope
that the Society viii have the manliness decidedly to
take one ground or the other. This has now become
question which can no longer be blinked. Il slave
holding consistent with vital gcdiness and sound
morality that is the simple point If it is the
Trac; Society is bound, under existing circum-
stances not merely to refrain from saying anything
against it, but to publish tra.t in its behali-Per-
hsps a reprint of Dr. Adanss South Side View"
or Of some Of Dr.. Lords pamphlets. IT, on the
other hard, slaveholding is an immoral and IN
Christian institution certainly it is not the Tract
Societys business any longer to suppress the pro-
testations Of pious men of old againstit.
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COL. LANES MEMORIAL.

Eouo.iA correspondence OF ms " l.
WASHINGTON, Monday April IA, 1856.
I submit below the Memorial and Affidavit Of
Col. JAMES II. LANE, Senator elect from Kansas,
presented to-day to the Senate by Mr.. HARLAN Of
Iowa, in yindicatiOn of Col. Lanes good name
against the wanton ard villainous imputatons Of
certain Pro-Slayery Senators on Thursday last.
"Who is this Col. Lanei" "Who vouches for
Col. Lane ?" wac tauntiDgy asked by Mason and
others, and, nobody responding it was coolly In
ferred that he was some anonymous, irresponsible
vsgabond, who had palmed of spurious, fabri-
Gated Memorial from Kansas on the Senate As
he had always been Democrat, had entrusted his
Memorial to Gen. Cass, and had little intercourse
with our side Of the House, the Senators who sus-
tanned the Memorial were taken completely By
surprise Che was an utter stranger to Gov. SEW
ARD, Mr. HALE, and others who stand for Free
Kansas, and they had to bear in silence the slurs
ofCrittenden and the insults of Mason who insisted
that as q man is known by the company he
keeps, so is the company by the man. Yet
Mr.. PUGH, who thus sat silent, is an Old
acquaintance, and / think classmste Of
Lane, Who is son of Gen. Amos Lane,
Jackson magnste of other days, was himself
leading canyasser for Gen. Cass (who also sst
SILENT and to-day protested that bis doing so is not
to be construed an acquiescence in the charges,
taunts and suspicious 80 flung out in his presence
When Mr. HARLAN proceeded to-day to read from
official documents the testimonials to Lanes gal
lantry and admirable conduct at Buena Vista and
in other Mexican conflicts, and to show that no
was in 1852 chosen Democratic State Elector,
Lieutenant. Governor, and Member Of Congress
he being then but thirty years OF age-i did think
a tpge of ,hame Redeemed the cheeks Of some who
should have defended him when so wantonly as
sailed az a forper whom nobody dared defend.
DOUGLAS followed Harlan, arguing that man
may have been Democrat some years ago, and
get be morally delinquent now; and he pitched
into F. P. Blair, who happened to be in tho Sen
ate chamber as an instance Of good Democrat
who had fallen away into I" Black Republicans n"
But this was a dodge, and q very shabby one.
Harlan did not cite the eminent services OF Lane
to the Democratic party as any evidence oil good
character or merit on his part, but as reasons why
some Democrats when he was so grossly, wan
tonly assailed should have been able and ready "
defend him.
The debate which followed was able and spirited
on both sides, though did not think PUGH made
much headway WADE's remarks were especially
manly and telling, the manner even better than the
matter. When Seward mildly limited on Thursday
that the cavils against the Kansas Memorial were
worthy rather of crosse HAMMERS in county coun
than statesmen in the Senate, Crittenden nared up
ipcontineutIy; but Wade to-day told the nasa
party plumply that they were acting IKE pe'o-