The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-10
ATHENS, FRIDAY, AUG. 10, 1855.
THE RESULT-GREAT KNOW-NOTH-
ING VICTORY-OVER THE LEFT.

ING NlCTORY-OVERT THE LEFT.
The long agony is over, the storm has
swept by, the battle is ended, and victory
has again perched upon the democratic ban
ner. The fight was hard one, the contest
close, and il has proved disastrous to the new
party. Tennessee has followed in the wake
of Virginia, and we suspect Kentucky, North
Carolina, and Alabama have followed Ten
nessee, and that Georgia will follow the 9TH
ers. "Sam" and his adherents, who were said
to be as numerous as 4" autumnal leaves"
have gone down before the fierce charge Of
the enemy, and instead Of the swelling
notes of triumph We were promised, we hear
nothing but the shrieks of the dying,
the groans of the manned and wounded,
and the Saure q,ti pea!" of the flying
The Know Nothings madea gallant fight the
wings pretty generally pitched in, and even
the Temperance people, with Philip s White
Mt their head, rendered what aid they could
by assuming tho character Of skirmishers.-
But it wouldn't do-Andy Johnson has prov
ed more than match for all, and is again
elected Governor of Tennessee by some ff-
teen hundred or two thousand votes. "What-
ever is, is right" is no doubt true as gen.
eral proposition, but, nevertheless, there are
some things which look wrong to man up
n sapling. AS we said last week, the fight
was between the progressive Democracy and
the Know Nothings, and while we could
have reioiccd with the latter had they been
victorious, we cannot help sympathising with
them n little in their defeat. We hope they
may have better luck next time, in the event
they conclude to make another fight in Ten
nessee. As to the trip up Salt river, we have
made it frequently, and can assure them it
is not so bad when you once get used to it,
and that they will find plenty of those same
old coons there to welcome them to their
babiations on tho banks of that saline
stream.
In reference to the Congressional election,
in this District, it is quite a different affair
with us. The defeat, though not exactly a
Waterloo, is still bad enough, and candor
compels us to admit that we have been dis
appointed in the result. We knew that tf-
teen hundred majority would be hard to
overcome, but more desperate fields had been
won, and we thought they might be again
We were only mistaken in our calculations
some six or seven hundred votes, that's all.
Col. Smiths majority is between seven and
eight hundred. The fault, at least as far rs
the good will to produce different result, is
not with us. We sang to the people, but
they wouldn't listen-we piped to them and
they refused to dance-we showed them the
shute to take, and they needed us no more
than they do the voice of wisdom when she
calls aloud to them from the streets. It's no
usc talking, however-the hunt is over, the
game, though scared, has not been run down,
and we can only come to one conclusion on
the subject of these elections-a conclusion
with moral to it, worthy the attention Of
all who dabble in politics.
The race is not to them wots got
The longest legs to run
Nor the battle to them peepel
Wot totes the loudest gun.