The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-09-26
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the North.
We insert below the conclusion of very
able article from the Washington Organ, taking
glance at the Geld since the elections in North
Carolina, Kentucky, Missouri and Arkansas.
Nashville Patrio.
1fany Southern man wishes to see the power
of the fillibus;ering Democracy in the North
west, let him look ut Iowa, State that cast
her vote for Pierce in 1851, now in this month
of August, 1856, and in view of the Cincinnati
platform ard its nominees, casting her vote by
five thousand majority for the Republicans!
Buchanan cannot, we repeat carry one single
flee State, and why! Because the South, in de-
handing OF the Native Americans d surrenier
of tLeir votes to Buchanan, manifest fAed
purpose to create sectional contest, and when
they thus seek this contest in the face Of GER
tain defeat, wilithe North decline it!
| The friends OF Fillmore in the North are
| national men-they are willing to fght In
contest tor national principles, but they will
not enter the lists for sectional candidate, ana
they justly regard James Buchanan Is equally
d sectionsl candidate with ]. c. Fremont Be-
sides, the pseudo Democratic party, both in
their resolve of last December, through their
! Congressional Caucus, and in their resolves at
Cincinnati, violently and bitterly denounced
the doctrines OF the American party.
We say in all frankness, candor and sincerely
| to the Southern Democracy, that, could they
i persuade the Southern Americans to cast their
votes for Buchanan, the effect upon the North
of such policy at the South, would inevitabi,
be, to drive every friend Of conservatism be.
tween Northern and Southern sectionalism.
1t would be in vain that we should deplore
such q contest, and lament its result, which re-
suit could be nothing less than the election o
Fremont, and such scenes of bitter strife ant
warfare as this country has not yet witnessed
Can anv man Of common information doub
that, if this Presidential contest could be mar
rowed down. by the folly and preverseness o
the South, to Buchanan and Fremont, the re
suit would be the election of Fremontl Rea
what Howell Cobb said of the probable elec
ten Of two Republican members of Congress
!, from Democratic Illinois to supply present va
n cancies!
Look at the thirty y-odd freesoil Democrat
n presses of New York, that have gone over I
/, Fremont! Look at the masses of foreigner
e throughout the North and West that have gon
e over to him! Look at the election of Blair,
; Freesoil Buffolo-platform Democrat, elected b
It the protesting Democrats of ST. Louis, Missouri
Is in place Of the gallant, gifted conservative an
l. national representative, Luther nj Kennel
There has been general stampede Of Freeso
n Democrats and foreign Democrats, from II
! ranks of the Democratic party, Of the North
= dead-deGd-dead!
81 This pseudo Democratic psrty exists only
!. the South, and is it chooses to seek section
h contest with the cohores of Abolitionism al
+. Foreignism at the North, against the protest
= tions aud remonstrances of the American par
in all sections of the country, it will hencefo
- ward cease to have an existeace. 1t will
20 crushed.
> = The Americanparty Of the North, the ri
n. more and Qonelson men Of that section, sta,
n. now as the only barrier to-the success of r
: publicanism, and this barrier the Southern ID
av mocracy seek to destroy! This National Am.
: ican party is purged of its abolition elemen
IA Il is a conservative Union,loving party.
.r lean, if sustained by the Americans South, I
Ii. feat the Vaccinations OF the disunionists, b
- tif in its folly or its madness, the South sh
If. lcreate purely sectional issue with the Repr
an licans, by uniting upon Buchanan, denouucil
ignoring, and desputing the conservative e
~. ments the American party, we, a. least, sh
IN IN not be responsible for the consequences.
~ Wedo not anticipate such q state ofthil
.;n IN Notwithstanding the powerful efforts Of
.h ..h ssquatter sovereignty" presses, and the |
=" efforts of the Pearce, Pratts. Johnsons, Dixo
and few others disappointed .ofd.ine Whie
!. who now sleep under the same blanket \
fer the Forneys, Bentons, Cambrelengs and y
Burens! We hope, and we believe that, bel
[ol. November shall arrive, the weakness of
Cincinnati platform and nominations will
Q me soapparentto to the whole conservative
nos - ton Of the people, throughout tie length
! = breadth of the land that the national nouai.
viii receive the undivided support Of the fr;t
: Of The Constitution and Of tie American
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