The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-12-01
THE BOOK OF KNOW NoTHINGs.
CHAPTER /.

]. 1t came to pass In the days of James the
First of England and Sixth of Scotland, that
the Pope and the Devil laid their heads to-
gether, and formed most grievous plot; but
Jenny being bonny king and muckle
wise man, he smelt out their plot and pre-
vented it.
2. So also in the days of Frank, whose sur
name was Pierce, it came to pass that the
Pope and the Spois party laid their heads
togetheran formed most grievous plot, but
the everlasting Yankee Nation being n
shrewd, cunning people, and full of notions
guessed out their plot and prevented it.
3. Howbeit in those days the men of Yam
kee Land gathered themselves together in
tens, and in hundreds and in thousands, and
great was the CONSERVATION thereof all over
the land, amongst the sons and the daughters
of the SpOils party, for the Know Nothings
were upon them and none could tell whence
they came, nor whittier they went; or they
were n strange, invisible, but invincible peo-
pie, making sad the hearts of those who sat
in high places, and kept unto themselves the
gold and the silver and the jewels of the
nation.
a. Behold now the wrath of the Spoils
Party waxed exceedingly strong, and they
gathered themselves together in hundreds and
in thousands, marching up their tribes from
all the nations, and kindreds and tongues of
the earth, swarming like Egyptian Iocusts.-
When 10! these men of wrath said unto the
men of easy conscience, we will give unto
YOU share of our gold and our silver (every
man contributing according to the measure of
his official loaf) provided We will go up unto
the judges of the land and swear before them
that the youth of seventeen is twenty-one,
and that the imported immigrant of day or
n week, perchance from some foreign aims
house or Jail, has been n sojOurner in the
United States for five years or upwards, and
furthermore, solemnly affirm that you know
him to be II man of good character, and well
disposed to sustain the constitution of the
United States.
B. And it came to pass when these iniqui-
ties were beheld that the Know Nothings
cried unto them with n loud voice, saying, Ye
men of prOhigacy and corruption, get We out
of the temple which the people have reared
unto themselves, for il is said, My house shall
be called the house of prayer, but ye have
made il n den of thieves, and are henceforth
no longer fit to abide therein.
6. Now when Beelzebub was counting DER
his pelf, and sardonlcally grinning at his inps
it came to pass that those strange, invisible
people, the Know Nothngs, rushed over the
land like a mighty whirlwind, sweeping out
all the impurities therein, and Strengthening
the hands of the men of justice and the men
of wisdom. that they might hereafter rule the
nation with equity, and secure the civil and
religious right of all the sons and daughters
of the land
Z. But the men Of Gamaliel groaned griev-
ously in the spirit, for they held tenaciously
to the traditions of their ancestors, and insist
ed that all men must worship even as the
Pharisees of old; but the Know Nothngs said
unto them, verify, we have received new
commandment which we offer unto vou :
"That we love one another" and that We mani.
fest your deeds in sharing with your brethren
the loaves and the fishes with which ye are so
bountifully fed.
8. Yea, verify, the men of Gamaliel an
swered unto them, we would love you indeed,
aud share with you our mess Of pottage, did
ye only worship according to our holy trad-
tons, and no longer set at nought our sacred
ordinances, and scriptura interpretations, but
humbly worship according to the Canons of
holy Mother Church, as set forth by her
councils and Popes and follow obedienty
like babes and sucklings the paternal advice
OF our living father, Pope Plus the 9th, who
in his Encycica letter Of Aug. 18th, 1852,
says "The absurd and erroneous doctrines or
rawlings in defence Of Liberty Of conscience IS a
most pestileatial error--a pest Of all others
most 10 be dreaded in Stale"
Al aatI tnt IN
GamaIiel :"Yea, verify, ye be blind leaders OF
the blind, teaching for scriptures the doctrines
Of men," let us rather listen to the instruc-
tons of that wise and holy teacher who
taught long before your Popes and Councils
had any existence, and who soemnIy enJoln-
ed on us, ito be fully persuaded in our own
minds mot in the minds of Pope and Coun
cs) before we received the doctrines preach
ed unto us, lest they might be from men only.
Let us no longer degrade human nature by
the slavish practice of kneeling down before
the wearer of the triple crown, and kissing
his holy toel Let us no longer witness the
disgustingly degrading scenes OF weak, er-
ring fellow, mortal bowing down before
another frail mortal just as weak and as
wick ed MS himself.
things had happened, that the men OF CANAL
iel, with all the women and the children, the
sons and the daughters of the Spells Party
gathered themselves together and departed
thence. After being rowed up Salt River to
lis source, and passing beyond Jordan, they
entered the wilderness, and finally settled in
the land of Nod, where they slept with their
fathers, and the sons and daughters of the
Know Nothing, in pity and compassion for
these crring children of Adams sung solemn
dirge, Requiescat in pace, for the repose Of
their departed spirits
*Note-Nevertherss those strange lnvlsi.
bic, but invinci5le people, as they commenced
their labor of love with guessing out the plot
of the Spoils Party, and preventing its con
summation, very cunningIy guessed, that
though the solemn dirge sung by them would
m ke no difference with respect to the future
condition of those departed spirits, yet it
might possibly afford some consolation to the
living, and operate us warning unto them to
avoid the awful fate of that proiligate and
corrupt party. a. j. II.
WIN. ii. SEWARD AND HIS AccoMPLlcEs.-
One of the GOOD fruits likely TO grow out of