The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20
lw From .hs Roche..er lN.Y.l Ameriea,

From the Rochester (N.Y.) American,
conservative paper Of very high respectable
ity, we clip the following:
An OATH AS Is IAN OArH.-A recent
number of the Dregheda Argus, m Irish Ro-
man Catholic paper, contains the following
statement In reference to T., countrynen In
the United States =
"The conduct of too many Of our country
men who have emigrated isanything but what
II ought 10 have been, aud us necessary
consequence, the we'll disposed are often con.
founded with the turbulent. Bgots find arr
gumentsin Tho foolish and irreligious associ.
atoms into which many Irishmen allow them.
selves to be entrapped."
That journal proceeds to give the fol-
lowing oath which it is asserted that the
Irish Catholics take when joining Sc.
cret Society, existing here as well MS in Ire
land. .~
VI. Patrick MKennan, swear by Saints Pc.
tor and Paul, and by the Blessed Virgin Mary
to be always faithful to the society (Ribbon)
to keep and conceal all its secrets; and its
words OF order; to be always ready to execute
the commands otmy superior officers; and rs
tar as it shall lie in nv power TO extirpate all
the Professionals, and walk in their blood to
the knees. May the Virgin Mary and all the
saints help me. To-day, the I'd June, 1853.
Pat. M'kennnn, from Tydavenetc, county
Monaghan"
The Drosheda paper gives publicity to this
beautiful little obligation 10 order to com
plain thatsuch oaths "fender nugatory all
the efforts DC our (Catholc) Clergymen to
combat Know Nottingham"
The American Cct, Roman Catholic or.
gan published in New York, says in reference
to the above:
I'VE would respectfully caution the Irish
editors against giving crcdence To statements
damaging to their c0untrymen in America; we
have enough to contend against, without
having them quoted in testimony against
u.s."
Sensible! Why will "Irish editors" let
such eats out Of the bag to scratch and bite
the innocent "Ribbon men" in America, who
have so much "to contend against!"
t5- The Danvillc Register pays the sub.
joined just and high compliment to the fidel-
ty of the American party upon the question
of Southern rights:
"But apart from the momentous issues
which 80 evidently separate the American
from this new psuedo-Dcmocratic, Foreign
party, for the southern pattiotth there can Ge but
one alternative. The path duty before him
is open, plain aud palpuble. No man can now
wink so hard MS not to see that the American
organization constitutes the only political
barrier between southern rights and northern
aggression. 1t is the only political organi-
cation that has in national concave, openly
repudiated freesoilism. 1t is the only body
who has dared to stand up, on the soil of
Aboitionism and openly avow its pro-sIavery
proclivities in the very teeth of northern
fanaticism Instead Of trucking to this de-
mon Of Discord, for political effect, as both
the old parties at the Forth were alternately
in the habit of doing, the American party has
openly repudiated it at the risk of political
disaster. And in doing this, they constructed
apaiicrm Of principles broad enough to ne
commodate every Union-loving patriot in the
land; but 10y far too narrOio, to accommodate
either the FreesOiler, Jesuit, Socialist or Dis
uniOnist. To the southern patriot then, the
american party has commended itself rs no
other party has ever done. 1t has made
sacrifices that no other party has ever made.
Consequently it should he fostered, cherished,
and sustained hy every true hearted American
within her borders. II the south coldly turns
from the support of this party aud the north
splits upon lis platform in contempt for its
pro-slavery doctrines, the day is not far dis.
tant in the future, when there will be other
issues more direct and even more forcibly
thrust upon her consideration. But they will
be issues the result of which my envelope
this country in the smoke OF u conflict that
will shiver the golden links Of the chain OF
our national union"
.B- The st. Joseph's (Mo.l Gazette gives
a melancholy picture Of the state of things
on the Plains. 1t is thought probable that
nearly or quite all the emigrnnt trains tor
California and Oregon have been plundcred
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