The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-04-04

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NIGHT 1egilstus wewin mMicn. however. that q
awrong .eonstssction wss pst upon our mention Of
Mr.. e. II. Ysrgw and hin souse. We i~Aeaded. IN
or remarks sbsst - LegiSGse. y b vsicfay inn
psztiil % II regarded political parties, and - we
had been told that Mr. Yerssr had vsssd fcr come
extravagant measures. we admitted fhst he had TO
our knowledge, introduced ahe TN raising the fees
Of the Court Offices in ems County. and said II the
people were sstisRed, we WERE We have since
learned Chat MIR. z. introduced the Bin on apca6cA
from many citizens If tkis County. and that the
people arc satisked-inasmuch as the fees for some
Of the duties of the county officers were not remu.
nerative for the labor performed. For example. by
the old law, the Sheriff was allowed but IS cents
per day for boarding prisoners-every body can see
that he lost money by them. We mention this mat
ter not in the way of apology. but IN justice to our
sdf and to Mr.. Y@ger- We believe both his and
and DR. Holmes course during Che late session, is
entirely satisfactory to their constituents. Genl
Sarke introduced and maintained through its pas |
sage, the bill to raise the Governors salary; he was
warmly opposed by Col. Cobb of Lowndes. 1t was
shown that the salary of the Governor was not
enough to support him. He is liberal, hospitabe
gentleman, and of course. in ms position his expen
mueh greater than private gentleman's need
be. We believe that public officers should be well
paid and then be held TO strict account to the people
fer the performance Of their duty The bill to give
$40 600 annually to the Oxford University, no
American should have voted for. 1t is party In
sitution and but Sag NIGHT Democrats viii send
their sons there. Mr. Alcorn, of Ccahoma, said, in
the Of his remarks opposing this bill, that he
would not vote for it. because he would not do any
thing tohelp countenance Institution where II
Ibis con should 90 for an education, he would be
taught that his father was conspirator or traitor
$50 say we-a SON Of ours should grow up with
no other education than the sturdy English tongue
and loveof his NATIVE land before he should 60 into
. hall of learning presided over by man who has
desecrated the sacred Office Of instructor Of youth, by
dAbbng in party politics. utterng impotent imPre-
cations with voice now tremulous with age, that
ought to be spent in teaching lessons Of patriotism
aad piety. against the sons Of the SOIL 70 pander TO
The bass passions u foreign interlopxs and party
ihaeks. We said, and still cay, tAs americans
should have opposed . stern opposition to all the
prAgate measures passed, and when they were pass
ed in spite Of them, recorded their protest In re
gard to the printing we understand the editor of tn,
Central Sag NIGHT organ. says we made mis-state
ment We heard the Appropriation Bill read. and
there were six thousand and some hundreds Of dol
y lars charged for printing done for the House, ant
three thousand and some hundreds for the Senate
making in all ten thousand. or within few hun
,c dreds Of that sum in ALL In regard to the sum Q
900 for the last four years. told that thi
~ sum had actually been paid, and that the Audito
!, had il charged under different heads. We suppos
it may be that only forty mine thousand is TO be ez
hbited 30 the people the sum paid out but every
NJ body in jackson and in the Legislature knows hO'
"a the thing has been managed. Mr.. Barksdales say
ing that thing is thus and 90, thing not thu
and 50, does not make it he says, any one tn
has polluted his hands with that vile. slandero,
sheet-the Mississippian. win very easily oompr
IN henl. The Sag NIGHT editor does wen TO defend q
Legislature long as they let him put b
hands into the Treasury at his pleasure. he viii
=; fend them. We will mention that the info
nd nation in regard to the corruptiOns existing
r. jackson, besides what our own observation taug
us, came from members Of the Democratic part
men who went home perfectly disgusted with poll
ng cal life. Whether their love Of party win cho
ex- down the indignation and shame they felt at 4
yer lopen mendacity Of their party, whether tn
KS viii be true to themselves and the commonweal
the and expose it to the people in their districts,
Of course we cannot tell We shall betray no con
,r;- dence We have done what considered to be Q
duty, and If we awakenpubic attention to the M
ter, we are well paid. As for the bark Of the Lit
vir Zee that guards and georges the public money,
old not regard it, not being hurt We have never
DIV. the Mssissippian, and never shall 1t is PAL
If not Et Tor decent families.
IN The spite of the Sag NIGHT editor is not of da
growth It's seven years old-the lifeof a salami
der, born and bred in fire. It is old saying a
Few true one that the injurer nevera forgives Be,
MP years ago, we commenced our editorial life. The
oil Fiction that led toths strange step in MS, is too
cred to be brought in. here. Enough, thatwe "
here struggling for bread for ourself and three Ii
al children, that werea stranger in strange la
-. homeless, almost penniless and in debt We "
the entering upon an experiment and life and its sus
nor nance hung upon the ISSUE We applied for the
printing and this great Hector Of Democracy, d
the proprietor of the Yasoo, Democrat" 81
tioneered against with zeal that would have d
him honor in better cause. He was elected prir
rd@ defeated to thegat indignation Of this &c
~ rous ,sympAthizing community the sum issue
osth but one hundred dollars, but TWAS large t.
the then. We yin do the Democratic gentleman I
casting vote against u.s. the justice TO say
ms vote gave u the ofse Tor years afterward wi