The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-04-08
AMERl CANIsM aud the RIENzI CLIPPER

up above here, on the Mobile & Ohio
Railroad, ina very silly article, attempts
The complete demolition of Americanism
and the PRAIRIE News par
ticularly. This is indeed bold lick for
such clipper to strike, and we think
little premedtation would have clearly
demonstrated that the troubled sea of
politics was no place for bark of such
tiny dimensions.
We published, some time ago, the plat
form recently adopted at Frankfort by
the Americans of Kentucky, at the same
time making some comments. This the
ClVper called Americanism looking
up" and quoting some of our remarks,
says "it is the same old tune to the same
old song" He further says, the News
feigns to imagine that the Democrats are
standing in opposition to these two planks
in the platform, viz: The Federal I'm
ion must be maintained and The rights
of the States must be respected, and con-
tending that they embrace two antagon-
istic principles" We based what we
said upon an assertion made in the .South-
erm Mercury zone of the unwashcd") J.
This paper said 1--WE say the Federal
Union cannot be maintained and the
rights of the States respected" We
quote from memory, but with perfect
assurance of being correct. This is an
emphatic declaration from the Mercury,
which was made in an attempt to ham
die" this same platform. The Chppe,
triumphantly asks, "who ever heard of a
sane Democrat contcnding respect for
the rights of the States was antagonistic
to the maintenance of the Union, and
rice rerSa ?" Whether the Mercury is
sane or not, we are not prepared to say /;
that question is open for discussion and
decision between the Clipper and itself.
There is split in the family of the "un-
damned" which will have to be mended
by themselves. The Clipper is profess
edly Democrat, the Southern Mercury
ditto. The Mercury rather likes all the
principles of the American platform, ex-
cept the first two. These two the Clip
per says are good and instinctively takes
up with them. Which is the best Demo
craft Which the best American
The Clippers insinuations about econ
structing matches with which to blow up
the Democratic forte" and feigning to
see things which are right before our
eyes, could, with much more propriety
be kept nearer home, where classifying is
more practised.
In the same editorial he remarks:
1--WE were prepared to see almost any scheme
resorted to, in order to humbug the people, tol
the purpose Of raising little copital, upon which
the broken down party could commence business
again, but to man possessing the intelligence
of the editor of the Ners, i'll the middle of the
18th century, with all the ardor of his nature
fighting phantom Of his own imaginaicns, does
we confess, rather stagger us"
None are quicker to suspicion than the
guilty, and he thinks Americans have
been quietly watching the stealthy, tricky
Vaccinations of some of his own party
and are now ready to put in practice the
honest and patriotic precepts which the
majority of the dyed in the WOOL strive
to inculcatc. So far as regards fighting
a phantom of our own imagination, WI
will say to him, there is authority fol
every thing we say, when we vouch foI
its truth-if any one doubts this, W,
would prefer he would say 50 in plain Ian
guage, than to deal in inuendoes and falls,
insinuations.