The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-05
A FALSE PREDICTION.

ing beautiful apostrophe to the American
party and its banner:
FALSE PEEDIcTIox.-"The time is at hand
when the so-ediied American banner shall be
tramPled deep in the mire of ignomnious de-
feat and disgrnce-when there shall be none
so poor as to DO it reverence"
We came across the foregoing sentence in
the columns of an exchange paper, some days
ago, and cut it out with a view to its publica-
ton. We now carry out that view, and call
the attention of the puolic to the atroeous
sentiment it contains We have never known
anything of the kind to excel it, in bold, rank,
unmitigated depravity.
But, 10 adopt the only construction the best
friend of tie writer could desire for him. and
there is no loophole for escape. lie has ef-
fectually imprisoned himself The banner
alluded to, can be none other than that used
by the present American party, and they use
but one, and one only-the Star Spa"gled
Banner of their native land No other flag
floats from their masthead. No other symbol
wooes the breezes of heaven over their places
OF meeting. No other emblem-and none
other Is needed-graces their council halle
The star-gemmed signal Of freedoms rciirht
and sovereignty is all and all I'm them
And well may it te, for 40 such standard ever
gn'tere': in the sunlight since the morning
stars t-,st sang together for joy over new
Dorm world.
But this writer-and we are sorry to say
there are many like him--for wretched, parti-
san purposes when not single principle is
involved SO far as their side is concerned
boastingly and arrogantly predicts that such
a banner shall be trampled deep in the mire
of ignominous disgrace and defeatl" I'm
thinking, rash and unpatriotic men! Tram.
pie that flag in the mire-deep in the miro
of disgracel May the spirit of patriotism
forgive them, for they know not what they
say or do. Before that banner is torn from
its lofty height and trailed in the mire of dis
grace
'Full many pennson shall be torn,
And many knight to earth be borne,
And many banner rent"
Hundreds Of thousands of gallant hearts
throb and bound at the thought of it 1t in.
spires proud and glowing recollections. Hun.
dreds of thousands of strong arms are ready
to protect it to the death; and hundreds of
thousands Of eyes are watching it with an in
tensity and eagerness not surpassed by that
of the poet Key, when, from his foreign prison
ship, with straining eyeballs he sought to
penetrate the gloom of the morning to dis.
cover if the flag of his country still waved
majestically from the ramparts of beleaguer.
ed fortress, or whether it had gone down be-
fore the fearful bombardment of the night
previous. To the young patriot, seconds
seemed minutes and minutes days. and hours
weeks-as with beating heart and almost
maddened brain he watched the dappling of
the gray tints of the Eastern sky into day,
aud awaited the beams of the morning sun to
clear away the mists of the waters that OBJ.
structed his vision in the direction of the oh
iect upon which his whole soul was centered.
At last, last-but, oh, how long it seemed to
m!-his wish was gratifed. His own glow
ing lines best describe his feelings:
"On the shore dmly through the mist the Deep
Where the foes naughty host in dread silence reposes
What is that which the breeze DER the towering Steep
As it itfully blows, half conceals, half dscloses?
Now it catches the CLEAN of the mornings first beam
In full glory reflected shines on the stream,
Tis the star-spangled bannerl oh, long may II
Ger the land of the free and the home Of the brave
That is the self same, identical flag the
American party is now fighting for and under;
and as Great Britain, aided by many thou
sands of foreign mercenaries failed in the
first and second attempt to trail it in the mire
of disgrace, we imagine little need be appre-
hended from the antiAmericans Of the pres
ent era.