The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-05-30
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NDh,. 2--NO. 9.
J Americans A 60 yoar Post.


Americans to your Post. -.
Below 3 an extract which We taka
the liberty Of making frofn lett.r froih
b friend at Washington city:
1 Nothing is talked of'here bntthh
Democratic convention, and who will
! be the nominee. The race is bsfweeh
Pierce Buchanan and Douglas At first
| Buchanan was thought toLave the. in
1side track; then Pierce whipped hith
out and took it: and after a resting spell
1.-THE Little Giant comes in, and tn. prroo-
liabilities arethathe will get it, br Ione
of the three, and contest is getting
warm and bitter.
/ "our 1.-THE Americana prospects are
brightnihg. I think. We have no cause
to complain of them. Should Bnehahah
not be nominated, Pennsylvania may
1 be put down as nndeniably certain .ftoor
| Fillmore. $50 says F., whose ''op-
portunities for knowing are first 'rate9
Let me beg you to stimulate our
| friends to 90 to work in earliest
GREELY ON THE AMERIovN PAkTY--Ft
is proper occasionally, TO refresh. ths
minds of the DeInocats who denouuca
1.-The Amercan party as being dnsBuni
1 on the slavey question. by giving ex-
tracts from leading free ifan1 aboli-
ttion sheets at the North and West :,
| The following is from the New York
Tribune which we comm end to our 'op-
ponents: $ ,7...
us there any need to to go fhlther
in the way Of exposing of the Know
| Nothing sn the slavery question: We
| have seen a great ado made over the1 9th
section at Philadelphia, and beheld, il
Indignantly repu Iiated, yet only 70 be
| followe !, By tae above substitute What
choice is tar. between tn ,tw- lfth S &c
tloa ani tae n.w crseR DOES NOT
! EVERY BODY SEE VII } W SHE'S
ITO EE THAT THE ONE P5SIr Y
,Sr AS ESSENTIALLY PRo.SLAVE
AS THE OraER MD Ltt-T e. E
KNOW-NOrHiNG5 ARE ACTING. Dir
e. ..TLY IN. THE INrERES Or TdE
SLAVE. Traders
! THE NAT1osAL DRaocsArIc BScoaD or THs
!, SLAvtsY, QUEsrrox. are tne wo.as Of
r''snklu PIERCE, in apuoic speech on tie 5sn of
June, iS45: sali .aF
'Hs had only to say now. what be had always
sal, that he regarded slavery one of the great.
est moral and social evs-a curse upon the whole
country, aud this he believed TO De the Sc timeut
of all haen 0f all parties at the North"
| Hs,e are the words of the Washington Union.
che national Democratic organ, pubisded dlr.ny
| me Presidential eanvass OF 1882: ).
"1he Fee etsoii D eghocrati>leadrrs Of Shs Il nth
ire regulsc portion OF the Democratic party,
.nd Gu. P. rec, if el.ted, VIII make no aotlnc-
on between them and the rest OF th. d.'n 'cfas;y
. u the distrlou;oa of official patronages aui in
ne sel.cloi ot agents for administering tae Gov
z ram nt"
: True, this pledge was not Kept; bns htv
vas j, broken! I, IVES broken by des. Pi RED
| nsk.ng distinction in iavor OF "tne Frecsoil
Democratic leaders of the North" y
Aud here are the words OF he same Wishing.
r ton u ion during the past year-words which
n nave never been taken back, or deaiei: :.
. Il, is no part Of the creed o d-narcras, az
such, either Ell her to advocate or oppose tho ex:
teaslon Of slavery. He may do the one or thf
totber, in the exercise Of his rights c.tze, aud
not otffaad against his fellty,"
u Now, read tha above record all ye Sag emo
cratic editors and leaders, and if there be spark
i; Of molesty left in yoa, blush with shame at your
r erontery in charging the nericans OF the NortF
with Frecsol affinities! blush with shafhe, apd
e hide your heads in contrition. that you shout5
IS ever had the cool reendacity to claim that youl
Il corrupt and spoisse party was the pecuial
I friend OF Southern rights!- Memphis Eage ana
Enquirer.
: DeA- A fellow whose conntenance was uglj
! enough to scare the evil one was. giving son'
l. aourishes in public house, he was observed b,
r a, Yankee, who asked him il he didn't fall into
) brook when he was young, ! s5...
r. What do you mean y,u impudent rascal?',
"Why,I don't mean no,hin', OILY ou've 60
: such an all-ired crooked mouth, | thought a
q, how you might have fallen into the Brook whe
,r you was baby. and your mother hung YOU u
W by the mouth to dry.''l- 45a s.sg .x
4 reA- "Well. Pat, whichis the way to Burling
/ lton?' How. didyea know my name was Pat?
"Oh, guessed IT," .Theni if ye are so goo
ar at guessing, ye'd better guess the way I
I: Burlington.
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