The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-07-11
VOL. 2--NO. 8.
The New York Herald ON the
Slavery AgitatOrs.

The New York Herald ON the
Slavery AgitatOrs.
The Richmond Enquirer, the special Virginia
organ of Pierce and Forney, is very much fright
ened in reference to the prospects of the residen-
tIal canvass. In the excess of its alarm it blind
ly assails the New York Herald, using against
us language, epithets, adjectves and substantives
not exactly refined, polite or parliamentary, nor
according to the rules of deceucy and good TASTE
They have, however, very much the flavor of Gov
Wise's peculiar stump speeches of year ago,
with something of the studied blackguardism of
Senator Sumner, though lacking Summers careful
avoidance of hshy vulgarisms. Extemporaneous
specimens of this style of democratic eloouence
are very abundant here in that classical region
known as the Five Points; and one might fairly
conclude that our Richmond cotemporary had
acquired bis degree in Cow Bay, he is so flippant
aud fluent in its choicest expletives. These how
ever we presume, are rather natural to his tenn
perament, his instincts education and associations
than otherwise, and we must, therefore, receive
them as the incohorent vaporings of noisy fell
low, unduly excited by politics or bad liquor.
Our badly frightened Richmond cotemporary,
however, betrays very contracted view of South
ern rights when he charges that our opposition to
the -nigger-driving democracy is hostility
to the South. The idea is perfectly absurd. For
thirty years in the editorial harness. we have stead
lily and uniformly vindicated the constitutional
rights Of the South, as we do now, and shall con-
tinue to do. The New York Herald was the
only journal of the North which, from the start
came out and supported the bill of Senator Dou-
gas for the repeal of the unconstitutional Mis-
souri, Compromise act-from the outset, we say,
when even Pierce and Forney faltered and turned
pale. Upon this law as upon all other questions
and measures affecting Southern interests, we
have been, we are and shall continue to be, among
the supporters of the rights of the South as guar
anteed in the federal constitution.
But this simple, consistent platform of princi-,
Piles appears to fall short Of the standard of the
dynasty of Pierce and Forney, and, we fear, of
the democratic dynasty appointed to follow it.
We have high opinion of the craftsmanship of
Mr.. Buchanan, but a very low estimate of the
malign influences surrounding him, being substan-
TALLY the same which have debased and displaced
this poor and imbecile Pierce administration. As
local institution of the South, we have main
tanned the ground that African slavery, as q So
cal system, is the best adapted and the only prac
tical system of any yet devised for the good of
both races living together in the same community
We have no share in the belief of our negro phi
lanthropists that this peculiar institution demor-
alizes necessarily, either the white or the black
race We believe too, that the bulk of the South
ern people content with the concessions of the
constitution, and are devotedly attached to the
Union. 1t is only within the last few years that
an active class of agitating politicians of the
school of Henry A. Wise, have risen up to the
control of the democratic party-agitators whose
ultraism upon the slavery question is as wide Of
any healthy political organization as the rabid
fanaticism of Sumner, Greeley and others Of that
school. This new school of Southern politicians
differs as widely from that of the Madsons, JEFF
fersons, Clays and Calhouns of the old school Of
Southern statesmen, as the Summers, Stewards,
Hales and Wilson's of the North differ from the
extinct party organization of such men as the
Websters, Choates and Everetts of this section
e BY the new school of Southern fire-eatine poll
ticians the great body of the Southern people are
e as much misrepresented as are the conservative
. masses of the North 10y our modern anti-slavery
9 disorganizers. Hence we have thought proper
J, to style the Southern democratic leaders of the
: school of Wise and JEFF. Davis. the political Mig
e ger drivers of the country; and such as Seward
Sumner and Wilson, and their followers, the DO
litical nigger worshippers We shall stick t.
these designations, and we hope that the time i
not far distant when both nigger drivers aud mig
8 ger worshippers will be overwhelmed and pulycr
It lied by the crushing weight Of q conservative rev
olution, sfiesh from the body of people" Nortl
n and South. We are decidedly in favor of sucl
le revolution, and anxiously await the devclope
t ment OF the popular movement which is to carr
e it through. Nothing more. w