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

From lepgthy and able editorial in the
Memphis Enquirer, upon "the deep disquiet
of the county," We extract the following
paragraphs. Americans read and ponder
them:
The late horrible affair at Louisville is a
lesson to be deeply studied; and no time Is
more appropriate for study than to-day. In
time of profound peace our land has been
drenched in blood and the native.born cti-
zen feels an emotion which mere words can
never portray, when he is told that by the
hand OF foreigners, American blood has been
freely and wantonly shed on American soil.
We shall he told.that "al this is the result
OF Know Nottingham" At the street corners
IT Will be 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 oil this
despicable toadying to Foreigners" and IL is
this-UNT1L FOREIGNERS CAME AMONG
Us, WE HAD NO ELECTION RIOTS
UntH their advent" wc heard nothing of bal
lot bores being broken, or bioodshed at he polis
Aye, more than this--,ce hear Of no riots tchsre
there are no foreigners. Remember this, M.
tive.born citizens! Think of IL, speak Of it
among yourselves and to your neighbors, your
wives and your children--Ndt ,chere there are
no foreigners there are no election riotsl H. is
holy truth and A proud. patriotic answer
to the demagogue, who forgetting, or having
never felt that noble enthusiasm which should
thrill his bosom for being n native born citi.
zen, can find any glory in proclaiming, that
"Americans and not Foreigners were To
blame Out upon such lean, jnundced pat.
riotism II is but upon par with the
national pride OF the man who is so vilely
base--so utterly void Of all love Of country.
ne to avow that he "feels no better for being
born an Americana"
The american party" will be charged with
desire to disturb tllekpeAce Of the country,
II is a vile Islander ufs6n the American char.
| actor; for, at the election riots at Louisville.
American rolanteer companies were called out
to quell them, AND THEY DID RI. This fact
alone is worth volumes Of such SANDER "A
| will soon flow from all quarters opposed to
"Americanism." But "the end is not yet"-
This is hut the 'skirmish of the vanguard"
The war is only begun. The claim Get IN bv
| the mass Of our foreign population is neither
abandoned nor abatod. They know that
their strength consists in the court which
demagogues pay them, that thrift may fol.
low fawning;" and they do not intend to
yield any advantage which such political
! ahasement places within their grasp. We say
o our countrymsn, the fight is coming. Al.
ready the dcep.toned thunder is heard in the
uislHhce. Inc tlHck sIOrfn Is gathering force.
and "Americans' must breast il rs notriots
who love the land of their birth, and who
will not suffer its temples Of liberty to be des
ecrated by the Goihs and Vandals of the
present day. We claim nothing but our
rights. Our war is ever and only on the de.
fensive. Here end here oni.N are the homes
OF our childhool--the graves Of our sires-
the mountain All stream which make beauti.
FIJI and holy all that belongs to our "native
land" These and thousand other like
reeollectons 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 rule hand
her affairs"