The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-06-06
The CnnlIvass.

The sumner canvass promises 10 be rich indeed.
The UNDERWRITING propensitics Of our opponents
who furiously denounced our poor tsrelfh section
Cor that infirmty, are openly confessed in the
Senate. Senators Brown and Benjamin have both
declared the cxistenceof an irrcconciable difference
between the "alhes" North and South. upon the
question Of squattsr Sovereignty in the Kansas
NebrsslA cot They admit that this difference ex.
istsd when the bill was passed. and that these two
iaet,ns Of the national ~ democracy agree to pre-
ss 1t ,hs sxprsssiOnov opinion on tLst p.in..and
20 give TO the people ofths Territories call the pow.
Or they can" Gov. Brown admits that this was
wrong and he seems little humble and penitentbut
his great killing grief to know how Pierce stands
ON the question.
Mr.. Cass ssys that both Pierce and Douglass agree
with him that the people Of territory in their terri.
toral pupilege have the right to exclude the South
from every part Of such territory; and poor Brown
responds-'I don't howl hcpe not" But the
richest Of all is. that Gov. Ngler. and South Caro-
lima Orr went on TO teach the Connecticut Democ-
acy the real beauties Of the Kansas policy and Big
ler in the sight and hearing of Orr. declared to the
Yankees that the ,chole Democracy were agreed in
opinion that the territorial population might at NJ
fine, prohibis slavery If they saw proper Poor Mr.
Orr seems to have kept silent, for the good of the
cause and permitted the Yankees to believe that. Sc
far AZ he knew, the assertion was true The same
game was played in New Hampshire when Cobb and
Orr went there to aid the Pierce Democracy.
Then when we look to the organsof the candidatee
the scene opens still more richly. The Examiner
s for Buchanan. and feels the tender points in his
history Listen to its honest confession:"As the dee
trine of claims to nominations and 10 Offices cannot
be allowed by the Democracy it would be idle and
impracticable to attempt 70 restrict the oestowai o.
them TO candidates of unimreachahle rcords, and
awless public careers-sisnpiy because mere are rc
ssch candidates to be f6and" "The fact is, regret
ne we all NAV, that there are such things as Inn
maculate public men, or Aawless political records
The Buchanan man then goes on to show what
b,osches may be seen on each political escutcheon Of
Pierce, Douglas and Hunter. Verify may the De
moccy, looking at each other exclaim with the good
man Of old, "There is none that doeth good, no, moi
one." And yet they cry aloud against poor Fill
more and urge his rejection on account OF that Enc
letter of eighteen years ago.
The Examiner" says again, that Dir. Buchacar
"took the lead in asserting the test principle OF tn
Kansas Nebraska act that the Missouri restriction
had been repealed ipso facto by the passage OF tn
territorial acts of 1850" That is tsay as the "Ex
aminer'' frankly admits. Willard Fillmore. by hi
laprroval of the Compromise of 1850. consummate,
the repeal of the Missouri Comprehensive Com
promise Of 1850, 20 6ercely denounced by the Fire
ieaters of 1851 now the corner stne Of the Missis
sippi Democracy, who now thus glorify and exal
an act of Willard Fillmore-that Democracy whic
makes it's creed of his work. whilst it denounces him
self Altogether,th signs of the times arc exceed
r ingiy rich in promise.