The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-11-28

And how she was beloved by all. I
TX.
We are born-a little while we stay
A pendant 'twixt smile and tear,
Thea ike meteor pass away,
Bnt where we go-- God knows my dear!
Ia The fnlsome fattery with which South
ern Democratic organs are slavering the North
| ern Democracy is supremacy ridiculous They
| boast loudly of the conservatism of this North
ern Democracy. They seek to persuade the peo-
pie of the South that they are indebted to these
| Northern squatter sovereigns for some underlined
protection to Southern institutions and they great
| y glorify the Northern Democracy for tie sue
cess of their party in the recent election. They
either deceive themselves or willfully seek to de-
ceive their readers. The facts exhibit an entirely
different state of case. If the recent victory of
| the Democratic party is worth anything to the
South the thanks of the South should be bestov-
ed elsewhere than upon the Northern Democracy.
If the defeat of the Republican party under the
lead of Fremont and other Democratic Freesoi-
ers has promoted the safety of Southern institn-
tons, the Northern Democracy are entitled to no
credit for the result. The battle was wayed by
them almost exclusively as party in favor OF
Freesoilism. Their rallying cry in most of the
i Northern States was Buck and Brock and free
KansasG' In their calls for public meetings, and
in the speeches OF their orators, they claimed to
; be better anti-slavery party than that of the
Republican freedom-shriekers. They contended
that the action of the Democratic party in the
passage the Kansas Nebraska billand the ador-
ton of squatter sovereignty platform had secur.
ed TO Freeselism all that the most anxious free
Jdem-shreker could desire, and that by this means.
y slavery had certaaply and forever been excluded
from every square foot Of territory belonging 10
{ the United States y =
I Such is the positiono of this very conservative
u Northern Democracy, outstripping the most
rabid Republicans n its hostility 10 slavery, and
lyet, we are deliberately informed, by Southern
Democratic editors that the people OF. the South
owe tn ir debt of gratitude for lakoring side by
5 side with Southern Democrats to prc,note South
ern interests and protect Southern institutions.
r Their barefaced inpudence is unparalleled Their
, assumption is ridicalously preposterous. Their
: dupcity is base and contemplate.
II this Northera wing of the Democratic party
S was all that Southern Democratic editors repre-
sent it to be, If it stood upon the same platform
advocating the same construction of the provisions
= of that platform that is contended for by South.
e ern Democrats, if it was really conservative and
: worthy Of the confidence of Southern men, it has
done nothing to benefit the South nor to entitle
it to single throb of gratitude in the breas. Eo
U Southern man. 1t has achieved no triumph
It has won no victory. 1t is powerless of itself
S It sin aminority in every Northern State, ant
has succeeded in a few of them not hy its own in
riusic merit and strength, but merely because thu
! opposition majority was divided. Wherever i
has been Involved in single combat with Repab
e lcanism it has been overwhelmed, routed, mos
- ingloriously defeated. Until lately, Maine. New
: Hampshire, Connecticut Pennsylvania, Ohio. In
Il diana, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, and Wisconsin
n have all 0een accounted Democratic States Ii
| no one Of them now has the Democratic party a,
. actual majority. In Pennsylvania, Indiana, New
|. Jersey and Illinois it has succeededin obtainn.
the electoral votes by mere plurality, and ii
!. these, if the contest had been only between De
q mocracy and Republicanism, the Democrac,
.r would have gone to the WALL it would have BEEF
q utterly routed as it was everywhere elseir tn
North, and in spite of all the unity of the South
e the Republican candidate would have been cleo
tied President. -
It remains to be shown BY the Conduct of til
q incoming administration whether either tn
5, South or the North, has any reason for grea
lie graduation on account of the election of jane
0, Buchanan If the policy indicated By the plat
t, form, in which, during the canvas, Sc inurne
himse is to be carried out: if the reeating dis
in uaionists, who are the most jealous advocates
n MS eiecIfOn, IRE TO De his caDfnet ADVISERS t
IS, be that his election will prove the most terribl
catastrophe that can happen to the country, an
that the people of all sections will have cause
l. curse the hour in which he was elevated to til
Chief Magistracy of the nation. But whateve
th fate betide, whatever may be the result Of til
rs election of buchanan, conservative men through
e, ont the Union may congratulate each other upo
the defeat of the Northern sectional party, bu
e. for that they owe no thanks to the Northern ID
er nocracy. 1t is nowhere reliable as conservative
party. : It is everywhere powerless itself. |
is Pe1nsyIvania and New Jersey and Illinois an
9, Indiana, It would have been utterly swept ava
BY the Republican torrent had Il bot been for I'll
he firm and noble and consistent conservatism of ii
Ie american party in those States, md whether q
e, South shall hereafter be disguised or delirhte
with the administration Of James Buchanan
should not be forgotten that the present adultatu
lie OF the Northern Democracy IS altogether uns1les
" tied, and that 70 the National Americans Of I'll
North alone the country is indebted for its pr
III seryation from the consequences OF the succesas
" Northern sectional candidate. Louisville 20
nal, right