The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-03-04
FILLIBUSTERISM ON THE EBB.

1ounS Auerlca mas spoken III tne Cenate
! And what has Young America in the Senate
to say? Well, as near to nothing as can be
5 The big balloon ofManifest Destiny collapses
and flaps about like a sloop's mainsail in :
calm. The gale is over, the bubble is burst
the kite string has broken, and Young Ameri
ca drifts heter-skelter in the sky, or scud:
back, struggling, for a shelter, like hens run
, ming for shed in shower Filibustorism /.
nowhere. Soule, and Ned Marshall, anG
Douglass, and George Law, and Sanders, anG
number of others, big and little, that started
just after the Presidential election, to raise q
steam on this notion of Manifest Destiny in
general, and Cuba Annexation in partienlas
have made as greata miscarriage in their eff.
forts as Lopez himself did. Undertaking to
set more sail, they have had all Their canvass
blown away. They went aloft on the ratlins,
with great show and pretensions, to hoist their
wind bags, and have not only lost them over
board, but have barely saved their own bacon,
by coming down by the run on the standing
rigging of the ship.
This figurative mode of expression must be
excused These brilliant Fillibusters come
before us so in flashes and streaks, that we
can only deal with them in tropes and figures
of tlashy description. 1t were as sensible
to attempt to apply geometrical measurement
to fog bank, as to deal specifically with the
vapors these gassy fellows generate. They
are as ridiculous as the Millerites, who put
on their ascensionrobes, and gathered crowds,
while they climbed into high trees to take
their fight, and who leaped only to break
their neeks, or to stick fast in the mud. 10
Mr.. Ned Marshall started first to "blaze"
out the road for Young America to take,
which would lead to Cuba, and after going all
around Robin Hoods barn, ended in the lame
and impotent conclusion that it was no 90,
but that path could be cut to Hayti, and
recommended his boon companions to take
that as better than nothing. Mr.. Soule fol-
lowed amid great clatter of tin pans and
sounding of rams horns on his expedition
lillibuster-wise, He travelled on for some
time, and at the end, his followers, hearers
and readers concluded that his road led no.
achere. He got no farther ahead, so far as
anything practical was to be attained, than a
horse in bark-mill. And lastly comes the
Douglas, the favorite, and champion, and
candidate of Young America, to hold his
flambeaux to the path they should follow
The moment he stops talking all is darkness
again. The Fillibusters have crowded to the
shores at the sound of the bugles of their
leaders and impatiently await embarkation or
direction. But the atmosphere is misty, the
ways are muddy, the ships are not forthcom-
ing, the leaders are in state of obfuscatiOn,
and nothing promises to be done. The play
don't commence the entertainment don't
begin, and the audience are getting impatient.
We suggest that Fillibusterism is on the
ebb, and that unless somebody does some
thing pretty soon, Young America will begin
to dsband and dispersc. We don't want
them to take it hard of us to say so, but real
y we think that their prospects are growing
poor under their present leaders. Suppose
they should try a change There is Sken
Smith, and Rynders, and Mike Walsh, and
others, to be had. The old ones are getting
quite too old fogeyish. Turn 'em out and
try some new ones, We don't want to see
this party go TO pieces; it has mission to
fulfill in which we have an interest. We
have among us some chaps who have great
penchant for storm in the Caribbean Sea,
and who would be improved by it, especially
if it resulted in their getting overheard.
There is lack in Mr. Douglass speech
which strikes us with great force, consider
ing the prominence given to the subject by
his lieutenant in the House. We alludc to
his omission to say word of Hayti.
Mr.. Marshall, seeing the need of doing
something for the illibusters, after finding
the Cuban scheme exploded, gave delicious"
picture of Hispaniola, and turned their eyes
thither. But his suggestions have fallen still
born. The Senator is silent as the grave
thereon. No echo has been awakened in that
quarter to inspire the hopes Of the little band
Of patriots who sail under the flag of Young
America. There is no longer Cuba, or even
a substitute for Cuba, held out to them.-
IIayti would do better than nothing, but even
that it would seem is not hereafter to be con-
sidered legitimate plunder. The hopes of
the Fillibusters have turned to dust and ashes
We do not wonder that their organ is adver-
tised for saleA-stock and fuke. But who will
buy The Democratic Rerie,c after all this col
lapsing of the Young American Leaders, and
especially after its awful faur pas of publish
ing the likeness Of the ablest democratic
Editor" the sight of which, according to
Prentice has occasioned innumerable deaths
from conyulsions. Nobody. 1t is gone
case--leaders, party, organ, and all. Who'll
write an epitaph on Young America and the
Filibusters?-N New York Tribune