The weekly American banner. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1855-18??, 1856-12-26
MI II from tie American Organ.
To nc Americans Party Of the UNI
ted Stntes,l

Will you. allow an old Democrat to give you
a friendIytslkt II have had it In contemplation
for several months to address you, bnr fr om OBJ
yious reasons delayed doing so till after the T
Presidential election, us thought that then you
could not impugn my motives, as you might
have done before. -
/ have for many years been an adv NJ
one Of your principles, va: that the
naturalizing foreigners should be exte~
tw cnty lone wears or even for lifetime and ney
met with an opponent till the advent Of the I
Know Nothings and that raised such mi ex- |
element that it closed helmou.h ofevery DEM |
ocrat and many wings who were unwilling to
unite with a new party that had @takenwueret
weight upon itself than we thought it could
carry and more than we'were willing to Shout
| der. d -
| I desire to see reform in this on6 respect
and as far as know there would be but feeble
opposition to sucha MEASURE among the Dem
ocrats, unless twas party that aimed to put
down the Denocratic party. In my opinion,
tyou committed two fatal errors; one, in attemp-
Ting to raise d separate party organization, and
the other in embracing opposition to Catholics
, in your party creed. There was no use in rais-I
}, ing distinct party for one particular item or
, plank in party platform. as men can reform
party or church much easier by remaining
HeihOcTS III CHufCu VI party, tilut ny iCdV>
ing it and trying to raise an excitement AGAINST
it. Luther did not quit the church of Rome
when he undertook TO reform it, and Wesley
4 did not forsa Ike the church of England when he
r undertook his reformation there. Before your
; advent all Protestants, and especially all Prot
estant ministers, were opposing the encroach-
mcnts of PapaEy, but as you made it a
: political questtap and undertook to raise party
!, on that question, you put almost an entire stop
u to the mouths aud pens Of the Protestant cler-
gy If indeed yor did not array many in fa-
: fvor of the CATHOLICS you did against them.
Now, these are facts that are seen and de.
e plored by others, as we'll as yonrselves-but |
have a remedy to propose, and am emboldencd
X to make the proposition from the fact that
ID fully believe that most of the members OF the
n American party are honest men, not desiring
v political power 80 much as a political reform
n I am willing to admit that yours is national
le party, but too weak to carry so much weight
l. as you have taken upon yourselves, and there
( no probability that it vii. acquire strength
'e enough to do anything as a separate party; yot
is will no doubt admit that the Democratic part,
a is National U.nion-loving party, with som.
Ut few cxceptions,to be found ameug i.s member
ship, not as natural result, but from the po
n, liar organization of such members. Then ma,
So plan Is for you to abandon separate party or
ne ganization, and the lmpractica5e portion o
to your principles, and join the Democratic part,
1T and help US TO work ont reform in the natual
d. ization laws, Say nothing about opposing 70
a rcigncrs that may De worthy of Office, and max
d, no opposition to nlturalized foreigners, 9th
gh els who may have acquired that right by flin
n their declaration to become such, and then non
,is such will have any cause to oppose you or com
as P lain of opposition.
he You may think such a proposition to be yer
W, presump'uous, but think upon mature relet
gs ton you will see i.s reasonableness Try tn
TO plan and see how much good you can do, an
rd, then ifyou fail as members of the Democrat
party, you can leave ! am private ind
BOT vidual, and have consulted with M man of an
n: party Ahnut writing this communication, and 4
ge one rs to blame for it but single
The GEORGIA DEMOC RAT.