The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-06


IN oegan2aii umas thu a6ove obligation proves
the Srg Nuhus to bel k,bt il u1onstrous,-
u tnsrs WIS not the most incontestise gvf
dsnes OF the met wa could not Beiieve il. We
ASK every umn who reuds this piper to pon-
dsr sha nntter weil--to give it his earnest
consideration, and to nsk himself SERIOUSLY
whatier his duty to his country, TO posterity.
10 his Cod, dues not require him to assist in
putting down such IN order and the men.
who to secure official station and few pal.
try loaves and fishes, give il their counte-
rance asd support
FsoM CLEvELASp.-We have received a
paper giving an account of a speaking which
came off at Cleveland last Monday. 1t is too
lengthy for our columns, and we must con.
tent oursef with mere alTusion to its con.
tents. 1t seems that notice had been given
through the "Cleveland Banner" that, on
Mcnday. the I'd, gentleman whose fame MS
an orator and debater is almost as broad as
Bradley county, would @dscuss the question
of know-nothingism or the effect of secret
political societies in Republican form of gov.
eminent; and also proposing to give the obi
cations, grips, signs pass words and lectures
of the know-nothing order" or course,
such bill was calculated to draw, and from
early breakfast till noon the thoroughfares
leading to the city were throngcd with anx-
ious people has:enng on to hear the funeral
sermon of the order. At precisely thirty
nine minutes past twelve, ESQ runs the pnper)
the hotel-bell gave the signal that the hour
had arrived, and in three minutes the Court.
house was packed almost to suffocaton. A
moment was permitted to elapse, just enough
to allow the crowd to draw one long breath
of anxiety, and the speaker appeared. The
moment was an awful one. A new party had
sprung into exstence-from a small begin.
ming it had rapidly spread in every direction
its members were rs numerous rs the
leaves Of the forest-their notes of victory
had been heard swelling from the strand of
New England, sweeping over the broad prai
ries, and way out to the "goden sands of
the far Paeifc"-hitherto it had been con.
| sidered invincib'e, but the time had arrived
that was to determine whether this party was
to go on conquering and to conquer, or to
fall before'the fierce assaults Of one whose
ponderous battle-axe had never before been
lifted but for victory. We'll, after few mo.
ments' hesitation, during which the orator
rolled his eyes nervously ever the crowd af-
ter the manner of duck in thunder storm
he commenced amid the most "perfumed 81.
lence"-it seemed as If the winds were hush,
ed, the rolling spheres Stood till, and all Ma.
ture listened, lust as all Nature did on o for.
mer occasion when one of the g'hals, whose
name We can't now call to mind, sang to the
woods of Madeira. For one whole dreadful
hour such stream Of fierce invective, bittel
denunciation, and burning eloquence never
fell from lips of mortal man--Vesuvius un
der the late eruption. Mt Etna with the bel
lyache, nor Heccla laboring from an attack o
the cramp collie, ever produced anything
half so grand and appalling. Know-Noth
) ingism was first knocked down, then KICKED
for falling, then jumped upon and heater
most numerically, and finally picked up
all bruised and bleeding, taken by the throat
and remorselessiy choked to death. But w,
| cannot follow our correspondent through tn
r details of that fierce onslaught Suffice
, that it was terrible, crushing, annihilatino
| At the commencement of that speech Their
t were nine hundred Know Nothings in Brad
Q ley county, yet so convincing and irresstbl
. were the arguments on the dangerous ten
0 denotes of secret political societies." thai
!. when the speaker concluded, eight hundre
4 and ninety-seven withdrew from the orde
A and Immediately attached themselves to tn
;. Sag NIGHTS. Alas, poor "SAMw
n p. s. Our correspondent adds, by way q
postscript, that the gentleman who ertir
gushed himself on the occasion, at the clos
q Of his remarks announced that he was
!. candidate to represent Bradley county in til
+ popular branch of the next Legislature, an
a declared his determination to run till the la.
, day in the evening. ntwo hours afterward
/, he wss spiiched OF and was seen maxim
i tracks Tor the valley of retirement, evidentl
impressed with the uncertainty of all huma
calculations. And,thus ended the farce.
: 80 fades summer cloud away,
Q So sinks the gale when storms are DER;
q So gently shuts the eye of day,
So dies wave along the Shore"
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