The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-09-26

banks Of the Ohio at Cincinnati on the
north, ana Newport and -Covington on The ]
soy'h .bapk-and also on the bosom Of the
beautiful river (which was very imposing lin
numbers, the assembled multitude being vari-
Eously estimated. atfram $4,000 to loo, eco per.
sons. i, appears that the proceedings were
marked by degree Of enthusiasm rafely,
cqualed, never surpassed-an enthusiasm such
as no mere party demonstration ever awak-
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II we looked at this gathering as a mere
party demonstration, we should passit BY with
the simple mention. as portion of the news
of the day, that such meeihing had been
held. In fact, so we looked at it when the
meagrc teegraphic account of the meeting first
met our eye. But on reading the report Of the
proceedings, we were impressed with the con-.
victon that tie beautiful spectacle witnessed
on the bosom of the Ohio and on It's banks, on
the occasion referred to, was something more,
something far holier, an event much more
worthy OF notice, than any mere electioneering
demonstration that it was, in fact, noble
declaration by an immense gathering of the
people Of the North and OF the South, assem-
bIed on the dividing line between The two Sec
tons of the Republic, in favor OF the union of
these States, the glorious Onion under which
we of the South and our iellow-citizens of the
North are coniederacy .qla
"Great, glorious and free, ''8r
the envy and admiration of the world, and the
hope of the millions of oppressed people in
other lands, who sigh FOR the liberties we enjoy
a Union which has made us a 'sbeacon and a
| shining light to the oppressed eyerywhere--a
Union which has placed Us in our present COM
manding position among he nations.
| In this view OF the demonstration on the
| Ohio, casting aside all thorght OF it as party
| gathcing, seeing in it over ami above all other
things, noble pedging Of hearts and hands in
support Of the Union of these States by North.
crners and Southerners eomm:ngled, we can,
not pass it by with ieN lines Of noii e, es
We have tn mere party meetings of the pres
political campaign. Those we leave to be ful-
Iy recorded by the party papers. This is of a
Far noblcr character. 1t is worthy OF full
record in our columns, and sach we accord it.
In these owerhg days, when the existence
OF the Union is threatened by ia lions in both
sectioas 1of. tlle Republic; when Northern IA
natics urge the adoption Of measures which, if
carried out according to the design OF their orig
inators and advocates. must lead to disruption
| of the Union. because INJECTING gross wrong
on their Southern brethren,' which they would
not tamely submit to; when unthinking men
are calculating the value of the Union, task
to which they are woiuily unequal, because
lacking adequate conception OF that which is
when the baseminded and the un-
| patriotic enemies of the Union at home and
abroad are acting in concert, flaming the en-
bers Of discord and endeavoring 10 raise fame
in which one of the most glorious monuments
of human wisdom NAV be destroyed-we say.
in these days, it behooves every true-hearted
American to do all that in him lies to sustain
and strengthen the bonds which unite the cti-
zens of these States in one grand, unequaled
and unprecedented confederacy.
This we conceive TO be our present duty. and
in doing it we lay the annexed account Of the
great Union demonstration on the Ohio, taken
from the Cincinnati Tmes) before our readers
resting assured that everv patriotic heart will
glow with pleasure in reading the record Of the
noble pledge there given before high Heaven to
cherish and sustain