Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1855-07-22

| Tread them down. Insult them. Rob them o.
| Ill they hold Gear. Cover their system with OBJ
oquy. Deny the faith of their fathers. Disput
the first principles of their National EcOnOmy-
Deride and scott at their original law and eonsti-
tuition and covenant. Make it a crime to be
staunch for the principles and the honor of thei
ancestors. And by the combined power of thrCau
and OF brides, see what you can. do to obliterat.
forever on earth, in her last stronghold the germ,
| OF faith and liberty for mankind =
And the challenge was eccepted-and The battl,
tought-and the throne with all lis insolent baugb
tiness found itself defeated before the strength OF
helpless righteousness. The love of God. and Of
the truth aud liberty of the fathers was omnipoepr
| then in desecrated Jerusalem. "God was in III,
midst Of her-she could not be moved
But woe TO that throne that makes that isSu,
against Gods truth and power in the heart of
cummunity-and fails For after the hour of en-.
duranee comes the hour of re action and the recoi
of a truth-oving, God-fearing. lougsuHering, out
ragged public sentiment is the fearfulest phenome
non Of human history. 1-l g. .5 -
In the hour and power of darkness, nothing
seems so hopelessly hopeeas-so dispairingly impo-
tent as that ungauutleted hand which cannot sfrike
for liberty and God, hut which can only be nailed
to cross -ar g.
Seven years Athal.ah drank deep in the cup Of
gratifed ambition. How public officials fawued.
and renegade Levites ereuehed How all these
mlscreants in Church and State, whose only def
milton Of patriotism is punder, whose only notion
Of principle is pOlcy--how they truckled and kiss
ed the latchet oil her sandals! -l-
Talk to them about Jewish principles! Tell
them about Moses. and David, and Messiah
Nonsense! Stuff! Those things might dc Cor cd
women and children, But men of sense k0ew
that that thing bad had its day--and now--Tyfe
was in the ascendant. Tyre was the merchan,
nation Of the world-patroness Of arts and com
merce- And in accepting her system Jerusalem
had only to come to feel the pusations of the great
heart of humanity r- -a 1-
And they fell on their faces at her footstool and
kissed her sandals again. The daughter Of Jeze-
bel smiei complacenty, until the hour of reaction
came. -..z
An unusual sound broke upou the startled ear
OF the court. There was sound of multitudes
mastering, and the cang of arms, and the response
of trumpet and horns And there was distant
murmur as il tie roar of the sea- which seemed TO
say "God save the King" -as
Was it possible? Had she not slain every de-
scendant of David? Could one OF that fated line
have escaped, aud been till now concealed in the
cloisters of the temple by yon artful priest! Im-
possible. 1t must be some eOnspiracy-got up by
q new aspirant to the throue. This must be met
at once and crushed. And with the characteristic
boldness and propttude of her nature she descends
from lions palaces to MOriah's courts. All her
officers Of sta e, her admirers and sychOphants, and
military retinue attend Eer-and as she draws nigh
louder swe.ls the chorus of chauating, and the
cry, "God save the King !" till the very ground
shakes at the shout. The people are there. The
people are aroused. And tie voice Of the people
is as the voice of many waters.
A bold woman then was she, when she came
within the vast area where were gathered Jsrael's
thousands and when she saw shield, and spear, and
orderly array, and beheld By the pillar princely
FORM son OF David, with the crown upon his
brow. A bold woman was Athaliah, that she
stood her ground, with unblenched cheek and un-
quailing eye. Did she not see Jehoiada behind
that boy the master spirit of all, and did she not
feel his calm cold eye, with its deadly expression
fasten itself upon her?
Yet she turned not back, nor fed, nor ialtered.
Her step was as free, her bearing as queenly and
her mien as naughty as when she trod the halls of
Samaria, and Treason! Treason was the only
word that broke from her lips. No compromise
here. Either she must fall or be that stood against
her. Truth to God was treason to her, and mnst
be trampled down.
The stern High priest accepted the issue. let
truth TO God be treason to thee and such as thcu,
and let the end come.
Have her forth of the ranges And whose
fooweth her, let him be slain by the sword"
In an instant she was 10 the hands of armed men.
Both she and her followers, those courtly miscre-
ants who scofed at the obsolete system, were hur-
ried away to the city gates.
And there, under the very shadow as it were of
the palace she had so long called hers she fell and
all her retinue with her-and the house OF Ahab
and Jezebel ceased 10 exists
So may it be with all those that rise up against
the truth and against the Lord God of our fathers
-Indepelldant GREY.