The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-08-29
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D0xEfSon Clue
Last Saturday, agreeable y appointment,
here was alarge and enthusiastic neeting
y the Court House. the President u the |
Club, Mr.. y. w. Puryis ia The Chair. df. !
Ter the meeting was organized. Mr.. Puryis
made one OF the best talks 1t has ever been
our good fortune to hear. II was not q po-
|itical speech, It was simply . talk from
m honest heart to hearers, whom he sup
posed to be like himself, honest men, and
honest seekers after truth. The fact alone
Of this good man, being so warm In the A
mevican cause, IL suf1icientto recommend it
totheresPset Of ell pFsjudiced minds. Mr..
Purvis is not Know Nothing--he never
belonged to the secret .society-but he is
an AMERICAN, and took his stand openly
on the side Of AMERICANISM. when its
enemies were pouring vials of abuse upon
1t. and calling it's adherents by all the foul
names their evil imaginations could invent.
He said his first determination to quit act
ing with the Democratic party, was formed
in jackson, at the time of holding their
State Convention: in the summer of 1856.
They passed resolutions 1denouncing the
Know Nothings as set of oath bound .con-
spirators; their resolutions said that there
were spies in the midst. and among them,
all reporting their most trivial actions to
their midnight councils. etc. Mr.. Puryis
rose in bis place, and said TO the chairman,
"Sr that is FALSE He knew he had broth
ers and friends in that order so abused
his neighbors all around him were Know
Nothings, and was he to believe those vile
ISLANDERS upon men, he knew to be true and
honorable, because DEMOCRATIC conyen-
ton uttered thems He then began to in
yestigate the object of the American party,
and found il was a most patriotic object.
He could see no wrong 10 foreigners in the
citizens of this country entering into sol
emn compact and uufurling their Banner to
the breeze With the motto
AMERICANS shall rule America"
upon its folds. For his part he had enlist
ed under that Banner, and he was no three
months volunteer; he was in for the war,
and whether we succeed or not, whethe
victory perches upon that Banner, or il
trails in the dust, he should never desert
| it.
The June convention of 1855. which
openly organized the American party. pro
mulged platform, which was gloriou.
document. Upon that platform he had
planted himself as free American citizen
the had right so to do, and no cry of "po
flitical parsoa" from high sources, or low
down sources. should nake him desert tn,
! glorious princi les Of the AMERICAN
! party. 1t had been said that the conven
ton of February last had done away will
the l2th seeti of the first platform ant
i thereby compromised the rights of tn
I South. He denied that the section provi
!. ding for the rights of the South had bee,
i abolished-he contended that only the mer
4 verbiage had been changed-that even If
4 had been taken away, its place was fille
by living timber from the CONSTTTU
TON. WILLARD. FILLMORE! TIL
name Of tbs great and good mar ms he !,
est and fearless patriis..., was to him sufIiciel
p guaraass..re mai. the platform upon which b
: stood, was sound Que. Hes the conser,
t alive and true American had stood at IL
helm, when the breakers rose high and Ii
: ship of State was rocked among It's ontel
! ding breakers. He had stood firm, lookir
4 neither east or west, or north or south. b.
' with an unquailing eye upon the polar ST
: of AMERICAN liberty. the CONSTITl
lTION. He had guided the ship throug
safely, and now when there is forebodiT
! in the sky above, when porten.s that u
dullest must understand portend coming e.
are glooming not far away before our onwa
: course, who could be so well trusted wi
II the helm of State as the % m who had on
u piloled us through like storms? For hi
q self he was known to be Democrat
a States Rights Democrat, and he now sa
D. that he believed that the only man th
j. could save this UNION. was MILLAF
X FILLMORE. lie believed that the AME
mi ICAN party now occupied the Therme
n yla of the war between Sectionalists--tl
= it must do Is duty and stand in the breat
j even il the last man falls defending il. -
: spoke of Fremont the recreant son OF Sor
Carolina, VIII, had reared the black q
Ut against his mother State. and said the So,
es Carolinians should raise for him pyran
e, of gophers and tad. polesl Mr.. Puryis
III yefted tothe great change which has co
to over the Democracy in regard 70 The I.
5e- MEXICAN party. Last year no epit
lot was vile cough to designate these no
he sons Of the soil---they were called vip
ial and Murrelites, traitors and conspirat'
in Just now Senator Pearce Of Maryland
RI found out there are two great nationalT
is ties-the Democratic and the AMERICA
ofl And the Democrats now say our objects
IL our aims are patriotic. our principles P
- and good but the country is not read.
~ receive them. and besides FILLMO
Ine ca not'be elected, therefore they come Y
II nj honeyed words begging Us to vote for
me chanan to save the Union Pretty VI