The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-22

no rumDllng, yeI u SliiS ''o iahu, ou'SihS
like sudden earthquake wherever its fires
are called to purge freedoms palladium, and
make the ballot what the trainers of the Re-
public intended,
IA weapon surer yet,
And mightier than the bayonet;
A weapon, that comes down as still
AS snow flakes fall upon the sod,
And execute freeman's will,
As lghtnings do the will of Godl''
East and West, and North and South--in the
chief marts and capitals of the Union, its
stroke has fallen swift and sure, and politi-
clans and parties, stripped of every guage OF
accustomed calculation, have only been aware
of its presence when they saw their petted
candidates and schemes, rolling headless in
the ditch of overwhelming defeat New Or
leans, long at the mercy Of iusolent, foreign
born brawIers, bears witness! So does Wash
ington, as il will, despite the executive gulo
tine that flashes its knife madIy and in vain.
So do st. Lous-where the German boosted
that the American should be put down-and
Philade phia-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 OWE city and State, this 81
lent scourge will fall, and manv dema-
gogue's back will writhe underline biting blow,
and all true men will gladly confess that this
is yet an American land, and that Americans
can and ciH rule il, MS they ought ever to have
done.
And far wider than municipalities States,
the blow will be struck all over the Union,
and the next occupant of the White House
chair, will owe his elcvation-of which he
must be worthy-to invisible hands Even,
now, while no man can say of it more than is
said of the wind, sit goeth and cometh as it
lsteth," there is fright and confusion in every
political camp. The master demagogues, the
whippers in, the men who have been the lead
ers, the Simpsons Of their hosts, grope stone
blind inthe midst of their temples, waiting to
be buried when the pillars shall be shaken by
the coming scourge. The tricky placemen
feel their doom at hand. They would trade
to avert it, but they idly beat the air in their
search for the angel of the scourge. Here
he is, and there he is, they ery-but they find
him not. One says the scourge is against
that party, and another that il 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 likely-having the power
to be false to this Union, this American Re-
public.
II any party may seem--as one perhaps
does--to have most severely felt the scourge,
it is because that party has most betrayed
and trampled on the principles that should
accompany its sacred name-a pretentious
cheat-has most enabled it to barter the Off
ces and interests Of the land to foreign
horde. No other party could have sold a
country and raised up in its midst a sedition
against its most cherished institutions and
ideas-nor can this one do it longer, nor could
il have done it, but for deusive 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, ur-
til every citizen shall be glad and proud to
say, al too, am an American"
The secret forces that WELD the silent
scourge, clearly understand their work. They
strike no indiscriminae blows, but smite the
jockies who have curied the foreign horse /:
(worse than the fabcl Greek,) who have Sc
duced and msled the people, and for a time
have played their game of place and plumber
without check. Theie are the heads 10 iop
oil, be they little or lig, be they representa-
yves or executives Us silence preserved, u
party organization avpided, aud eternal vigil
lance-the price OF iberty-written on its
front, and all men wi yet bless this scourge.
1t will purify the Ian twill bury all young
or old foreignalities, and, placing the desti-
MES of the countrj in American hands, at
home and abroad, will make the name of
American Republic honored and respected
throughout the word-which is not the case
now. We warn NOBODY, for VIC know moth
ing more than is opn and visible, to all who
choose to see. Butwe reckon n warning is
felt, and that it has struck deep in the right
quarter, and will strike deeper, until the joints
fpolitcal schemers arc made to rattle loud
or than did ever the dry bones" in the valley.
All we have to say is, God speed the silent
scourge, until its brivey begun work is tri-
umphanuy done!
An old 0antlema. fr;arJ Of ours onco sa;d