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

try loaves and fishes, give it their counte-
nance and support.
From CLEvELASD.-We have received n
paper giving an account of speaking which
came off at Cleveland last Monday. 1t is too
lengthy for our columns, and We must con.
tent oursef with mere allusion to its con.
tents. 1t seems that notice had been given
through the "Cleveland Banner" that, on
Monday, tho Cd, a gentleman whose fame as
an orator and debater is almost as broad rs
Bradley county, would "discuss the question
of know-nothing or the effect of secret
political societies in a republican form of gov
eminent; and also proposing to give the obi
cations, grips, signs, pass words and lectures
of the know-nothing order" Of course,
such bill was calculated TO draw, and from
early breakfast till noon the thoroughfares
leading to the city were thronged with anx-
ious people fastening on to hear the funeral
sermon Of the order. At precisely thirty
nine minutes past twelve, ESQ runs the paper)
the hotel-bell gave the signal that the hour
had arrived, and in three minutes the Court.
house was packed almost to suffocation. 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 existence-from small begin.
ming it had rapidly spread in every direction
its members were as numerous as the
leaves of the forest--their notes of victory
had been heard swelling from the strand of
New England, sweeping over the broad prai
rics, and way out to the "goden sands of
the far Patifc"-hitherto it had been con-
sidered invincible, 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. Well, after few mo.
ments' hesitation, during which the orator
rolled his eyes nervously over the crowd az
ter the manner of duck in thunder storm.
he commenced amid the most "perfumed 81.
lence"-it seemed MS if the winds were hush.
ed, the rolling spheres stood still, and all Ma.
ture listened, just as all Nature did on for
mer occasion when one of the g'has, whose
name we can't now call to mind, sang to the
woods Of Madeira. For one whele dreadful
hour such n stream of fierce invective, bitter
denunciation, and burning eloqucnce 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 of
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 beaten
most numerically, and finally picked up,
all bruised and bleeding, taken by the throat,
and remorselessly choked to death. But we
cannot follow our correspondent through the
details of that fierce onslaught. Suffice it
TINT il was terrible, crushing, annihiIating.
At the commencement Of that speech there
were nine hundred Know Nothings in Brad.
ley county, yet so convincing and irresistible
were tho arguments on the dangerous ten.
denotes Of secret political societies." that,
when the speaker concluded, eight hundred
and ninety.seven withdrew-from the order
and Immediately attached themselves to the
Sag NIGHTS Alas, poor "SAM'
p. 5. Our correspondent adds, by way of
postscript, that tho gentleman who ertn-
guished himself on the occasion, at the close
of his remarks announced that he was n
candidate to represent Bradley county in the
popular branch of the next Legislature, and
declared his determination to run till the last
day in the evening. lntwo hours afterwards
he was s%itched Of, and was seen making
tracks FOR the valley Of retirement evidently
impressed with the uncertainty of all human
calculations. And thus ended the farce.
$50 fades summer cloud away,
So sinksthe gale when storms are Ger;
| So gently shuts tho eye Of day,
SO dies wave along the shore."
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