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


and tie people are resumiug their usual avo-
cations, and party impulses are temporarily
subsidIng permit me, through the Post, to
ask my countrymen to pause, at this auspi-
cious moment, and think and investigate,
each for himself and determine to act in flu
ture for his own and his country's good. In
nv estimation the American party commands
the respect Of all who entertain right views,
standing as it does upon platform patriotic,
conservative and national. Yea, more; for
the Protestant element in its organization is
destined to extend its lines Ohough not CON
vsrging) to the ends OF the earth. Protestant
IAN in the Re volution Of nc was the motive
power blessed by Heaven, to break the arm
Of both civil and ecclesiastical despotSm that
strove to crush our noble ancestry. And un
iii the decisions and despotisns Of the old
world are annihilated by the light of truth,
or baptized, if you please, with the same spirit
with which our fathers were baptized in the
wilderness in 20. there will exist an imperi-
Gus necessity for recurrence to first princi-
Piles for self protection. Popcs, and Jesuits,
and Kings, may court and fatter and make
pretences but acknowledgements
not deceived. The hearts of the lion and the
wolf though checked, are still unchanged,
and their inveterate hate for republication
still maintain. Whether we look North or
South, Professionalism is conservative What
regulates and controls chat heterogeneous
mass Of men of all is1as, which is rolling
Westward along North of Mason & Dixon's
linei Professionalism. And in the slave
States. although cursed with bad school sys-
tens, and burdened with nearly three millions
slaves, what has enabled them from time to
time to send forth those rays of light which
are illuminating the dark land of Ethiopiai
and what has laid that grea. platform upon
which an astonshed world will ere long re-
eognize Africa, regenerated and redeemed
answer, it is the light and truth Of Protest
antism. Professionalism is the great bulwark
of American republcanism. And this Gov
eminent, blessed as it is with Protestant
blood, and consecrated by Protestant tears,
has no affinity for Papal dogmas and delu
sons. Unrelenting persecution has been the
watch word of Rome for twelve hundred years
Liberty of person, property and opinion, is
the motto Of the American party; and they
are willing to protect the deluded Catholic
and foreigner, and guarantee to them and to
their children the blessings of free govern
ment as long as they are peaceabe and quiet
citizens. But they protest against foreign
and Catholic dictation, and warn them when
they burn our bibles and interfere in our
elections that they are treadng on danger.
Gus ground Let Tennesseeans who are anti
Americans, and who are anxious to demon
strate their enlarged liberality and philan.
thropy, spend their money in the purchase of
bibles and their time in the instruction of the
poor, rather than in building up Catholic
schools, as they are doing at Knoxville and
elsewhere, where the bible will be excluded
or burned, and principles instiled directly
at war with our free institutions Let it be
remembered that Catholic persecution drove
our forefathers from their homes to the will
derness, exposed them to the hardships o. an
UNEMPLOYED land and the cruelties of the
merciless savages, and that through all these
difficulties they toiled until they founded this
great confederacy, and cemented it with their
blood. And ought not their children and
grandchildren to support and sustain itl-
Aye, and is it not their imperative duty to
crush out in its infancy that spirit against
4 - r Al.
ton and persecutioni And when this great
experiment Of self-government has been fully
realized, and Professionalism performed its
glorious work in the destruction of civil and
ecclesiastical dcspotsmg then posterity may
read the conflicts of '7G, and of this day, and
appreciate The motives and honor the i'm.
pulses of American hearts C.