The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-10-03
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The cisIzens'of \ azoo and he rest Of man.
kind, were sssttled from their false security, the
other day, ~ he d blestion III ire Sun Erira.
Of The renns, lvanis Address and JUDGE
BURRUS' Lettetii Never has such bomb
she'll burst in the Amer,caa camp beforehand
the fact that we are alivs, and the AMERICAN
Hammer still floating triumphantly, q convinc-
ing evidence that the party III Yazoo is decided
in It's principles. past peradventure, or the
shocks that II receives from the desertion Of its
old sdherents. OF Judge Bur-us' letter, ws
have very little say, because there is no poini
in 1t, upon which we could bang remark, If
we were disposed 10 make one. The Sag
NIGHTS call him bolter-we do not. Eversi
Spring. we have heard him make pretty much
the same argument, or attempts at argument,
that his letter c,nisins; and Il is now but
clap-trap to pretend that like Saul of Tar
sus, the sca,es were suddenly torn from his
eyes and.h 6s:become converted to Say Nlcht-
Ism. But we presume they have kept the
Judges cool support of Mr.. Buchanan, as
GROWING mercy, to close the canvass With, and
make boiling respectable. But It will not do.
The publication of this letter has had a good
effect, If any. upon the American cause in va
zoo, and the Sag NIGHTS are welcome to all the
capital they can make out Of it.
How an old-line Wing, can still call himself
Wing. and support James Buchanan the de-
famer Of the immortal leader and idol Of the
Wing party, HENRY CLAY, without feeling
the blush of shame suffusc his cheek, we can.
not see. And now when the National Conven-
ton Of the old-line Wings, have endorsed Mr.
FILLMORE, and the whole party have enter
ed warmly into his support, the NATION
AL INTELLIGENCER in the lead, there is
no longer subter(uge or excuse left for those
who have made the present crisis an oppertu.
nifty for deserving Their old friends. Let them
go. Some Of them long for the fesh-posts o
Egypt and some are doubtful of the success o
American principles and prefer being on thu
strong side, and some perhcps are honest, blu
at a tight pinch. We incline pretty much t
Mr.. Calhoun opinion that no man that changes
his political opinion after he is thirty years old
do it at risk of having their motives seriousl
} questioned, and must expect 20 60 il alone, 70
! a man that changes canrot expect to carry 9th
, ers with him, as no sensible mariner On the pc
Utica, sea wiH lie TO a foatmg anchor. Sata
bolted from Heaven and took a third part {
= the angels with him, but he stands alone in hi
: immortal and Internal bolt. Our boilers mus
90 out alone, as Cain did into The land of No
:, and behold everybody turns away and bolts frol
e them, as they bolted from the AMERICA
!. party. In conclusion, we desire our friends
different paiis of the county, not to be at q
;. discouraged by Judge Burrus' letter. 1t col
v tains his views no doubt, as he very frank
If admits himself ''clumsily put together" H
q could de- Better No Soubt. ut when We consi'
]. er the circumstances and friends by which til
, old Wing, Union man and American, is su
rounded. we make every excuse. Whom II
J. gods doom TO distractions they first make MAJ
II We wish him joy though to tell the truth,
r will hurt our feelings very much to see, hi
@ "riding behind the unsrasied Democracy.