The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-10-05
PARTY NAMES.

S'' "'yuoS anu WToI'S w ~ o'y'o '"e'
and that they are just rs good Americans MS
those who claim to be the "Amcrcan party"
We have no doubt the term, or name, sounds
little harsh, unpleasant and disugrceabe,
but we cannot see how, under existing cir.
cumstances, our sensitive opponents are TO be
relieved. There is in the country great ma.
tional party, imbued with sentiments purely
and Intensely patriotic, who see, or think
they see, danger to our institutions from the
immense waves of immigration continually
breaking upon us and from the tremendous
growth of "foreign influence" brought TO
bear upon the civil and political affairs of the
nation through the ballot.box by the loose
ness and incllicency Of the naturalization
laws us at present existing and administered.
This party, actuated by the same identical
principles that inspired tho revolutionary IA
Tiers and enabled them to achieve n heritage
for their children more glorious and fraught
with richer blessings than any ever wrought
out through human instrumentalities-this
party, warning against and trying to root out
the foreign weeds which the corruptions of
later years have sown in our soil, to pluck up
and cast away the dangerous element of for.
eign birth which is mingng itself in all our
affairs, not assimllating with the institutions
of the country, but aiming eventually to dis.
place them and build up others of antagonis.
tic characteristics party, born of patriotism
and nourishcd and sustained by love of coun.
try, the memories of the past and the hopes
of the future, and battling against evils of
such fearful import, calls itself and is in SEN
timent, motive and deed, "The American
Party" On the other hand, there is another
party in the country calling itself "Dcmo.
cratic" which Is at war with the "American
Party" fighting against the American senti
ment, and pandering to foreign or anti.Amcri.
can influence, that power and thrift may fol.
low-,hat takes the immigrant, fresh from
the rotten and rocking desro;isms of Europe,
with all his prcjudiccs and imperfcctions
about him, by the arm the moment his foot
touches our soil and extends to him in full
privilege Of which he knows nothing, and
which it denies to the native-born short of
n probation of twcnty-one years. This party,
thus acting, is the antagonsm of the other,
its opposite in action and tendencies, if not
III sentiment, and therefore anti. The one
claims to be "Amcrican," plants itself npon
sound prlnc!'cs, and avows its determine.
''oh 20 effect certain patriotic purposes. The
other makes war upon this, and avows its
determination TO put down and crush out
the doctrines and principles the first nd.
vccatcs. They are antagonstic, and if the
first is American, that which wars against it
is necessarily ard inevitably anti American;
and it those who compose the first are emit.
tied to be designated as "Amcrcans," or
members of the American Party, as they mn.
doubleday are so entitled, we can see no
great improperly or injustice in calling their
opponents anti.Amerirans. This is the result
of their position upon the great issue whe-
Their Amercanism shall prevail in America,
or whether we shall continue to depart more
and more from the guides and landmarks
laid down by the fathers of the country, un.
til every thing American is lost sight of in
the lust for spoils that charactcrizes the pres.
cnt party in power, and which leads it to seek
assistance from source every day becoming
more potent for evil.
II our democratic friends who complain at
being styled anti.Americans, would ponder
the subject n little we are confident they
would soon see the matter in the same lirht
that we do-tlat the fault is not with
the Americans, but grows out Of their own
position Of opposition, and that there is no
escape from it so long us they remain in bad
company. We know that the masses of ma.
tive citizens who oppose the American move
mcnt are honest and patriotic, and if for
eign soldiery were to land upon our shores
that they would be among tho first to rally
to repeI them; yet they are members of and
act with party that welcomes yearly an in
vasion Of iiyehundred thousand to our shores
An element more dangerous to our institu-
tons than all the soldiery of Europe. De-
ceived by corrupt leaders and presses and led
astray by false lights, the ignis-fatuus of
party, the decciving .vapors engendered by
rottenness and corruption-thoy either can.
not or will not see the Inconsistency of their
position, but keep right on, aiding the evil,
unconsciously it may be, and fighting Off the
corrective sought to be applied. While they
remain in that position they ought not to oh.
ject TO their appropriate classification in the
catalogue Of party names. They are dcsig-
mated "anti-Amcrican" because they are Civ
ing support to an anti-American sentiment
just MS those who oppose the admission of
any mo.e slave territory into the Union are
called Aboitionsts because they give aid and
comfort to the fanatics who aim at the de-
struciion of the institution where it already
exists.
~ We learn from the JonesbOrough
Journal that the track laying on the East Ten
nessce and Virginia Railroad is nearly COM
peted to Strawberry Plains, l6 miles above
Knoxville, and that passenger train will
commence running to that point in few
days. Also, that Nathan Cannon has been
appointed depot agent at Knoxville, and our
clever friend, 10. Sewer, Conductor We are
oJ NJ tho approoch of the time when