Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1854-09-27
ga weapon surer vet,
- weapon surer yet,
And mightier than the bayonet;
A weapon, that comes down as still
As snow flakes fall upon the sod,

As lightnings do the will of God!'
East and West, and North and South in the
chief marts and capitols of the Union, its stroke
has fallen swift and sure, and politicians and
parties, stripped of every guage of accustomed
calculation, have only been aware ofits presence
when they saw their petted candidates, and
| schemes rolling needless in the ditch of over.
whelming defeat. New Orleans long at the
mercy of insolent, foreign born brawlerS, bears
witness! So does Washington, as it will, despite
the executive guillotine that flashes its knife
madly and and in vain. So do St. Louis-where
the German boasted that the American should
be put down-and Philadel lphia-desecrated too
long by foreign-born mobs-and Mobile, and
Norfolk and many lesser place we might name
And so by and by, in our own city and State,
this silent scourge will fall, and many dema-
gogue's back will l.writhe under the biting blow,
and all true men will lady confess that this is
yet an American land, and that Americans can
and soiH rule it, as they ought ever to have done.
And far wider than municipalities and States,
the blow will be struck all over the Union, and
the next occupant of the White House chair will
to invisible hands. Even now, while no man
can say oft more than is said of the wind. "It
goeth and cometh as it listeth,' there is fright
and confusion in every political camp. The
master demagogues, the whippers in, the men
who have been the leaders, the Simpsons of
thier hosts, grope stone blind in the midst of
their temples waiting to be buried when the
pillars shall be shaken by the coming scourge,-
The tricky place-men feel their doom at hand
They would trade to avert it, but they idly beat
the air in their search for the angel ofthe scouge
Here he is, and there he is, they cry-but they
find him not. One says the scourge is aganst
that party, and another that it is against this;
yet the only thing men know is this:-that it is
against all men, and all parties, who have been
false, or are hkely-having the power to be
false to this Union, this American Republic.
Ifany party may seem-as one perhaps does
to have most severely felt the scourge, it is
because that party has most betrayed and tram
pied on the principles that should accompany
its sacred name; because its possession of that
name-a pretentious cheat-has most enabled
it to barter the Offices and interests of the land
to foreign horde. No other party could have
so sold country, and raised up in its midst
sedition against its most cherished institutions
and ideas-nor can this one do it longer, nor
could it have done it, but for delusive name, |
and the easy temper, until thoroughly aroused
of the American people. The game is now up!
Neither coaxing nor threatening can stay the
impending blow, that is to punish the shame
less traders and traitors, native or foreign, until
every citizen shall be glad and proud to say, 81, /
too, am an American"
The secret forces that WELD the silent scourge
clearly understand their work. They aim at the |
right mark. They strike no indiscrimiate blows |
but smite the jockies who have curried the for
pign horse; (worse than the fabled Greek,) who
have seduced and misled the people, and for a
lime have played their game and plunder with
out check These are the heads to lop off, be
hey little or big, be they representatives or ex-
acutives. Its silence preserved, par Organlza-
ion avoided, and eternal vigilance-lhe price
Of liberty on its front, and all men will
yet bless this scourge. lt will purify the land
1t will bury all young ur old foregnalities. and,
placing the destines of the country in Amer
can hands, at home and abroad, will make the
name of the American Republic honored and
throughout the world (which is not
he case now. We warn nobody, for we know
nothing more than is open and visible, to all
Who choose to see But we reckon a warning is
elt, and that it has struck deep in the right
quarter, and will strike deeper, until the joints
If political schemers are made to rattle louder
han did ever the "dry bones' in the valley I
Ill we have to say is, God spread the silent
courge, until its bravely begun work is trium-
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