The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-09-26

party lines are fast being oblite<ated%t m-
portant to know the right course 70 n ~ Ed
by all who truly love their country. q feat
heart of the people Is firmly bent on d ming
the institutions Of the Repubhc Allt4Gy need
is light to show them tie right way The IA
grant deceptions and the abomnable falsehoods,
which are daily perpetrated by an unscnpulous
partisan press, have blinded many to the true
issues, and led them to adopt belief as errone-
Gus as it may be fatal. II the election of Col.
Fremont on bis sectional platform and sectional
popularity is to result in the destruction OF all I
the institutions which we have been wont to
love and reverence, it can only grow out of that
one vexed issue, slavery. No other subject could
by any instrumentahty be made sufficient for I
snch deplorable consequence. Other matters
and other issues may divide parties. but this |
subject alone can draw line of separation only |
to be passed in an ocean OF blood.
Two of the three great parties now opposing |
each other in the Presidential contest firmly
assume the ground that Col. Fremont's election
will terminate in disunion; and the Black Repub-
cans do not pretend 10 dispute its truth To
them it is matter of but little moment wheth-
er il be true or not If it should not go result,
it will inevitably lay the foundation of policy
which no earthly power can prevent from eyen-
tuating In that lamentsble catastrophe. This
needs no argument--all feel it. The lowering
cloud proclaims not more certainly the coming
storm. But does the great Democratic party,
when examined by its past history and present
platform, offer more inspiring hope to those
who love their country and dread the terrible
disasters which loom darkly and fearfully IN our
| future!
On this same great and absorbing issue of
slavery, are her skirts clear? Are her hands
clean? Can this party come boldly before the
4 ,ha,y p,n
spokesman and say Trust your last interests
and your peculiar institutions to our keeping;
they shall be as the apple of our eye.' Dare
they do il! James Buchanan has been all
things to all men-a Federalist and Demo
crat-for q bank and against t--for the tariff Of
'42 and against it--for internal improvement
and against it-for squctter sovereignty in one
letter in the next flor different lati,ude)
against it, advocate of doctrine Of noninter
ence, and author of one of the most vilainous
proposals of fllibustering ever published
ing for the admission Of Texas with slavery in
her constitution for the avowed reason that it
was the readest and most certsin wav Of de-
stroying slapery altogether. And yeti he comes
with flag fling and trumpets braying' as the
sole, pure. and Immaculate champion of the
South and defender Of her Institutions! Blot
out from memory his own most fathless and
teacherous record as a political trickster, and
his most foul and revolving history rs a person
al defamer of the illusirious dead; and how
does he stand as the embodiment Of the prDci
: pies of the Cincinnati plrtformi His nomina
ton was sagaciously practical for II would have
suited no one else-his desire to be swallowed
up and merged in the platform was PRACTICAL,
, sagacious, because only such platform coult
= by possibility cover up and hide his nantes
!, tergyersations and personal infamy.
Y TMYl n. Al
chair all was peace. The storm. that had lashe,
into fury the political ocean in 1856, had at las
= possed by--his steady hand and firm heart hat
ploted the ship of State through dangers :ha
appalled, the most experienced and resolute
p The dark demon of disunion had shrunk bach
!" ban1ed and dismayed, the future looked bright
= because at last we had settled all our confc,
! ing claims. The North and South met agai
= in friendly embrace, with no subject of dscor
= unadjusted. TWAS final and ,mplete sci
tlement. entered into under the most solem
: sanctions, that the subject of slavery therea:te
!, !, should be touched no more. Its adjustment wa
= to be a sacred thing like the constitution Of Il
~ United States to remain above legislation.
~ When in 1862 the Baltimore Democrat
- platform was promulged the compromise mel
- sures were confirmed, and the fugitive slave la
g sust aimed, a full and explicit annuncicton WI
which all alike, North and South, cheerful
w responded, was determined and resolute r
- sistance to all agitation of the slavery questit
lst both in and out of Congress. This was a cor
of plete and unqualified recognition Of the unco
ditonal adjustment Of the whole slavery que
ton by the legislation Of lS5o;and not merely
IN recognition OF its sacredness and perpetuity, b
iso a further pledge IS party principle that
nes should not be disturbed sa far they were at
AZ to control it., even among the people. TT
pledge was given by the immediate represen,
Inc tives of the Democratic party, fresh from tn
ind primary meetings, and supposed to be fu
nut cognizant of the spirit and wishes OF tho
or whom they represented.
"a Their candidate, Gen. Pierce, was elected
Anu an almost unanimous vote, and was installed II
Office amidst the loud acclams of people, 81
-, rounded by all the blessings of perfect pea
- abroad, undsturbed amity in their domes
ris- relations, and the highest degree of commerce
the agricultural. and manufacturing prosperity
,ro. The measure of their natural happiness v
full What has been the political history
The so called Democracy since that tin
it, The question of slavery reopened with allI
up startling and terrific hazards--the Norty arr
;so. ed against the South with all the yindictive
g rocity of the widest fannticism-the halls
Congress exhibiting spectacles degrading al
spe- to the actors and to the scountry--the Kans
Nebraska bill, with It's most peruicious and
NJ ltal principles, hurried through its Legislative
D lreer, with most indecent haste-the Misst
~ compromise, with all it's most sacred and pr
'ce's less blessings repealed the country redu
peo- to the verge Of civil war; the Kansas Frees
il rs and Missouri bordeyers arraying themsel
! sor instant and terrible confict-the wheels
government opped-anarchy and conful
the predominant--a storm raised, on which !
ven blindly hoped TO ride triumphantiy into Of
dol but which they are now powerless to com
Z ndeqnate even to direct--a factious. ain
sonabie refusal Of Congress to pass ap