The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-08-24
SENTIMENTS OF THE PRESS.


From lengthy and able editorial in the
Memphis Enquirer, upon "the deep disquiet
of the country" We extract the following
paragraphs Americans read and ponder
them:
The late horrible affair at Louisville is n
lesson to be deeply studied and no time is
more appropriate for study than to-day. In
a time of profound peace our land has been
drenched in blood and the native-born citi-
zen feels an emotion which mere words can
never portray, when he is told that by the
hand of oreiSners, American blood has been
freely and wantOnly shed on American soil.
We shall be told that call this is the result
Of Know Nothngism" At the street corners
it will he proclaimed by small beer politicians
that 'if you had let the foreigners alone this
would not have happened" There is one
conclusive, overwhelming answer to all this
despicable toadying to Foreigners" and it is
this-UNTIL FOREIGNERS CAME AMONG
US, WE HAD NO ELECTION RIOTS
Until their advent" ace heard nothing of bal
lot boxes being broken, or bloodshed at tie polls.
Aye, more than this-lce hear of 40 riots Where
there are no foreigners. Remember this, ma
tive-born citizens! Think of it, speak Of it
among yourselves and to your neighbors, your
wives and your children-thdt ,chere there are
no foreigners there are no election riots 1t is
holy truth, and proud, patriotic answer
to the demagogue, who, forgetting, or having
never felt that noble enthusiasm which should
thrill his bosom for being native born citi-
zen, can find any glory in proclaiming, that
"Americans and not Foreigners were to
blame" Out upon such lean, jsundiced pat
riotisml 1t is but upon par with the
national pride Of the man who is so yilsly
base-so utterly void of all love of country,
as to avow that he "feels no better for being
born an Americana"
| The american party" will be charged with
a desire to disturb the peace OF the country.
| It is a vile Islander upon the American char
acter; for, at the election riots at Louisville,
| american Votanteer companies we're called out
to quell them, AND THEY DID IT. This fact
alone is worth volumes of such Islander as
will soon flow from all quarters opposed to
"Americanism. But "the end is not yet"
This is but the "skirrnish of the vanguard"
The war is only begun. The claim set up by
the mass of our foreign population is neither
abandoned nor abated. They know that
their strength consists in the court which
demagogues pay them, shat thrift may fol.
low fawning;" and they do not intend to
yield any advantage which such political
| aOhseI1ent places Withln their grasp. Nesay
TO our countrymen, the fight is coming AL.
ready the deep-toned thunder is heard in the
distance. The black storm is gathering force
and Americans" must breast it as patriots
who love the land of their birth, and who
will not suffer its temples of liberty to be des
ecrated by the Goths and Vandals of the
present day. We claim nothing but ouI
rights. Our war is ever and only on the de.
fensive. Here and here only, are the homes
of our childhood-the graves of our sires-
the mountain and stream which make beauti
full and holy all that belongs to our "nativt
land" These and thousand other like
reeollections should make doubly dear to US
the principles which we cherish; and while
dwelling upon their value, let us also remem
Der that Rome did not fall till the rude hant
of the Foreigner ~as laid upon her temples ant
her affairs"