The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-05
A FALSE PREDICTION.

Ing beautiful apostrophe to the American
party and its banner:
A FALSE PREDICTION. 1.-THE time is nj hand
when the socaiied American banner shall be
trnmpled deep in the mire of ignominious de.
feat and disgrace-when there shall be none
so poor as to do it reverence"
We came across the foregoing sentence in
the columns of an exchange paper, some days
ago and cut il out with view to its publica.
ton. We now carry out that view, and call
the attention of the public to the atrocious
sentiment it contains. Wehave never known
anything of the kind to excel it, in bold, rank,
unmitigated deprovity.
But, TO adopt the only construction the best
friend of tie writer could desire for him, and
there is no loophole for escape. lie has eff.
fectually imprisoned himself The "bonner''
alluded to, can be none other than that used
by the present American party, and they use
but one, and one only--the Star Spdngled
Banner OF their nativSland. No other flag
floats from their masthead. No other symbol
wooes the breezes Of heaven over their places
Of meeting. No other enblem-and none
other Is needed-gracss their council halls
The star.gemmed signal Of freedoms might
and sovereignty is all and all with them
Aud well may it be, for no such standard ever
glittered in the sunlight since the morning
stars first sang togsher for joy over new
born world.
But this withstand we are sorry to say
there are many like him--for wretched, parii-
san purposes, when not n single principle is
involved, so far as their side is concerned
bonstingly and arrogantly predicts that such
a banner shall be tramplei deep in the mirc
of ignominors disgrace and dcfeati" I'M
thinking, rash and unpatrotic men! Tram.
pie Mat flag in the mre-deer in the mire-
of disgrace! May the spirit of patriotism
forgive them, for they know not what they
say or do. Before that banner is torn from
its lofty height and tralled in the mire of dis
grace
"Ful many pcnnson shall he torn,
Aud nany knight to earth be borne,
And many a banner rent"
Hundreds of thousands of gallant hearts
throb and bound at the thought of it. 1t in.
spires proud and glowing recollections. Hun
dreds of thousands of strong arms are ready
to protect it to the death; and hundreds of
thousands o! eyes are watching it with IN in.
tensity and eNcorness not surpassed by that
Of the poet Key, when, from his foreign prison
ship, with straining eyeballs he sought to
penetrate the gloom Of the morning to dis.
cover if the flag Of his country still waved
mnjesticslly from the ramparts of beleaguer.
ed fortress, or whether it had gone down be.
fore the fearful bombardment of the night
previous. To the young patriot, seconds
seemed minutes, and minutes days, and hours
weeks--as with beating heart and almost
maddened brain he watched the dappling of
the gray tints Of the Eastern sky into day,
and awaited the beams of the morning sun to
clear away the mists of the waters that oh.
struced his vision in the direction of the oh
ject upon which his whole soul was centered.
At last, last-but, oh, how long it seemed to
m!-his wish was gratifed. His own glow.
ing lines best describe his feelings:
"on the shore dmy seen through the mis,s on the deep
Where the foes naughty host IN dread silence reposes
What that which the breeze DER the towering steep
As 1t fitfuly blows, half scnceas, half discoses
Now, 1t catches the CLEAN =. The mornings first beam
In full glory reflected now shines on the stream,
TITS the star-spangled banner! Oh long may It wave
Ger the land of the free and the home of the brave"
That is the self same identical flag the
American party is now fighting for and under;
and as Great Britain, aided by many thou
sands of foreign mcrcennries, failed in the
first and second attempt TO trail it in the mire
of disgrace, we imagine little need be apprc.
hended from the anti-Americans Of the pres.
ent era.