Southern shield., 1856-10-25
AMERICANS, I'D THE POLLS!


 to insist upon Americans in Arkansas voting at the coming election. If there be an American who thinks thus, we would ask such an one if 1t be not his dufy as well as his privilege to vote? To vote for Fillmore, Donelson and the Union, to vote for peace and tranquility on ce more, in our now democratically distracted country?
 Americans of Phillips county, if duty calls you to the polls-go. Let no trifing consideration keep you at home. You know you arc in the right, then vindicate yourselves by your &C., tion.
 Be not dosp3nding-be not ''bread and butter'' patriots Ask no ques tions as to whet ther you shall succeed here or not, Duty demands! your country calls = rally around her stan dard with sqch enthusiasm as shall astonish tbose narow-hearted policy shirks, whose only political faith is to be on the stroug B side. Convince the willy, purso-pr3ud Pierce Democracy that though the y may, by dint of mum bers, put you down, yet you are not crushed, d,-nay, you are not disheart- ened. You lav c true American hearts in your bosoms; you are sons of the sire8 of '76; yoa can breast the gath ering storm, an I with the calm phiIos- ophy of a true nd answering patriot you can survey, in the prospective, the awful crisis upon which the administra- ton Democracy are hurriedly precipi- tating this country. And can you not say by your act Is on the 4tb of No yember, in the language of the Hero of New Orleans By the Eternal" it shall never COT he. Yes, Americans of Phillips county, can you not say by your votes that by your consent the Pierce and Bucba anan democracy nerer shall involve our common country in civil war, anarchy and blood-shed.
 If such is youf resolves, then to the polls with bluni ing enthusiasm. If your State is to be lost, let county pride stimulate y ou to action. Watch the ballot-box as closely as ifyou were sanguine of success. Guard against illegal and iD1po Fied votes. See that none vote in this county only its own citizens. It has been suggested to us that Democratic voters will be bro't from adjoining counties in order to secure Phillips for the Democracy.- Shall such things be? Will Americans suffer their d5arcs trIghts thus trampled upon? No. never, never, while true American blood h ere courses through the patriots veins.
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 tz= We have noticed a little para graph going the rounds of the Sag Nichtpapers stating that Mr. Fillmore, whilst President, was the cause of the murder of the fifty Americans who were shot in Cuba in 1851!
 This certainly caps the climax It bears off the premium for unprinci- pied and unfounded charges against that great and good man, Willard Fill more. The author of the article knew better when he penned it, or he is a lamentable ignoramus. Those unfor- tunatc men referred to, themselves and the Sag-Nicbt, progressive De, mocracy, who melted them to make an attempt to reyolutionize Cuba, were the cause of their being shot by the Spaniards, and Mir. Fillmore had no more to do with 1t than the Great Mo- gul. Those men thus massacred had exp&triated thcmse Ives, had abandon cd their own country to reyolutionize another, were taken, and before news could be brought to this government that they were prisoners and would likely be put to death, the deed was done. But we will here tell what Mr. FiIlmore's Administration did do in regard to others-nore than one hun dred engagedin the same expedition who were subsequently, taken and con- veyed as prisoners to Spain. Itprocured from the Spanish Government their release from an imprisonment, at hard labor in the unhealthy mines of Spain.
 This is what Mr. Fillmore admins