The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-11-03
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~ We have neither the time nor the
space, nor are we sufficiently posted up on
the subject, to give full and satisfactory an
swers to the interogatories Propounded in
communication in another column, in regard
to Know Notbingism. We have, as We sta
ted on former occasion, no particular means
of information but our exchanges, and the
accounts in these are so various and contra
dictory that it is difficult to arrive at any
thing like satisfactory conclusion in the
premises. We can only say that, so far as
we have been able to look into, comprehend
and understand it, the movement appears
to be purely an American one, seeking AZ
fnity, assimilation or brotherhood with no
political party, faction or section; but set on
foot to correct and arrest an evil which has
already acquired sufficient magnitude to ex-
cite the fears Of the patriotic, and which
every thinking, rejecting man knows mus! be
checked at no distant Gay. We do notregard
the movement as political one in party
sense, started by designing spirits to secure
Office and the spells thereof, but that it origi-
mated among the PEOPLE, acknowledging no
bond of union but the strong ligatn:cs Of
patriotism, and appealing to no feeling, pre-
JUDGE, or sympathy but that based upon pure
love of country. In a word, that it aims to
arrest and break down the power which a
politico-relig body is striving to build up
in our country, and to render it harmless in
future to perpetuate evils of which it has al
ready been guilty. We do not understand it
rs n movement against the Romish Religion,
but against the interference of that Church
in tho political affairs of this nation, and
against foreign influence generally, and to
place none but Americans in offices of trust
and responsibility under the government
that the sentinels TO watch over the temples
of liberty shall be selected from among those
reared in the faith, and not from among the
uniformed myriads yearly cast upon our
shores from the reeking rotten despotisms of
the old world. We may be mistaken, for
our sources of information on the subject are
such only as we have stated above; but these
we understand, from our reading, to be the
objects, aims and ends of the organization
called Know Nothings. They may have other
and Interior designs, not yet developed; but
we only state what acts and circumstances
lead us to believe TO be the facts of the case.
If our surmses and information are correct,
we can see nothing in the movement to ex-
cite alarm or to merit condemnation; but, on
the contrary, much chat commends itself TO
the consideration and encouragement of eve-
ny man in whose breast love of the country
and its institutions is the predominant feel
ing.
As TO its being "whiggery in Disguise"
or "a trap to catch unwary democrats
the question is easily answered by pointing
to results. Two-thirds of the men elected to
office by the Know Nothings since their or.
ganization, as far as we have observed, are
democrats. This don't look much like
"whiggery in disguise does it!
as there an order of the Know Noshings
in Athens?" Our correspondent will have to
apply to some one else for information on
this head. We know of no such order.
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