The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-09-12
CowARDs AND SONS OF CowARDs


city of Penn, and in the city Of Rip Van Win
! kle, possessed as much brains collectively as
Choctaw Senate, when by their council fire,
! they could hear that their pery ertstence as a
nation depends upon the Irish population of
This country. - Il in becomes anv
/ American to taunt lrishmen on the score of
bravery. Native courage is commodity that
needs yet to be proved to exist. The flag of
America is not yet seventy years old, and
thrice the native sons Of America have de-
serted it. Therefore, we advise these coioards
and sons of coioards, to boast moderately
As shop.keepers they are excellent; rs mer-
chants, enterprising and persevering, as usur-
ers they have no equals in The world; but as
soldiers, every native ought to belong to the
peace society."-Boston Pilot.
Tell me that the foreign power in this
country is not dangerous and formidable,
when such sentiments as these can be boldly
uttered In our land When sheet, backed
by its foreign hordes, and by those who up
hold them in their insolencs for the sake of
their support, can utter such calumnies against
tie native sons of the soil, and such foul
ISLANDERS against the sleeping dust and living
fame OF our Revolutionary Fathers, it is time
that the alarm was sounded BY those who
love their country and its honor, and revere
The names of those patriot men who laid
down their lives TO secure an inheritance of
liberty for their children.
Americans! are you towards?
Natives! are you sons of towards
Sons of Revolutionary sires! does your
blood run regularly through your veins when
you are slandered thus, and your brave ances-
tors, who defcd the tyrant's might, are, SO
near their resting place on Bunker Hill, called
towards! Do you not feel your heart leap
like n Gagged lion, while you, your friends,
and your immortal sires, are thus lbeied and
DETAINED?
If you do not, you are unworthy the name
of an American You disgrace the land of
your nativity, and dishonor the nobility of
your fathers! You sink yourselves beneath
contempt.
Look to it then, every American born citi.
zen, that you do your duty. Pat such
check upon such foreign iLsoence as will
silence it forever. Support no man who will
sloop so low rs TO ask the small favor of
vote from such villainous foreign slanderers.
All parties, save the great American party,
WOO favor of these insolent traducers, court
their support, smile at their inuendoes, and
coquette with them for their favor, while we
of the American party hold ourselves proudly
above such Contamination, and think that The
very touch of such would be pollution.
How Go Americans ike the other promi.
nent sentiment in the extract? Our "rery
erisience as nation depends upon the Irish
population"
What do Americans say? Are you pre-
pared to accede to the Iris'l, the honor of
keeping our nation alive? Are you not ready
10 show the Irish that Won can guard your
own political interests without their aid-and
that you are ready and able to defend the
fame Of your noble forefathers from Irish
slanderers. II is time the stand was taken.-
Americans to your duty.
To OUR SOUTHERN FRTEKDs.-There is
matter for reflection in the following extract
from an editorial article in the New York
Express, under the above title:
II is very easy for ne Fillmore men in the
North to throw every Northern vote, we
think, in every Northern State, against Bnch,
anan. We have but to coalcsce with AbOli.
ton, and divide the Electoral tcket;-aDd
the thing is done. Pennsylvania, even,
Buchanan's own State, can be carried against
Buchanan BY 10000 majority. But we fight
this battle upon principle,-snd considering
Fremont anfitin person, and treacherous 10
the Union in political posiion,-we cannot,
and will not, form coalitions that may give
him even apparent streng:h,-merely to en-.
sure a nominal victory. Buchanan is weak
in all The Northern States, us the successor
Of The Pierce policy, which even The South
disowned in throwing Pierce over, and in Ia
king up Buchanan,-and il is very easv 10
defeat him. In our own Slate OF New York,
he is not even practical candidate, rs yet
only candidate in theory. The battle
here is really between Fillmore and Fremont,
and we show that we think so, daily, by
directing all our fire upon Fremont, and ig.
noring even the existence of Buchanan
Hence, If Buchanan is to receive Northern
votes, it is only by the division of the oppo.
siton, and whatever Electoral tickets, he
wins, will disclose him TO DO in the minority.
WALKING ON THE WATER.-Galignani'
4 Raris) Messenger says: "An immense crowd
was assembled on Tuesday afternoon, on
the bridges and quays OF the Seine, 10 wit
ness The movements OF well dressed man
who was walking on he river between The
Pont du Carouse aud The lock ut The Mint,
apparently with the greatest case. He had
each rool in u small triangular box, securly
fastened with straps round his legs, and in
his hands he carried long balancing pole,
smuinr 10 those used by rope dancers, ex-
cept that ut each end was attached large
inflated bladder. When getting off his BAL
ance, I've dipped the end OF the pole and the
resistance caused bv the bladder touching The
wafer restored him to his equilibrium.
New MATERIAL roa PApER.-The peo-
ple's rags are so far from meeting the dc.
mand OF The paper.makers nowadays, that
experiments are making upon all sorts OF
material TO supply the deficiency. The Plan
ct brought down from Lake Superior
thousand pounds of moss for DR.. Terby, Of
Detroit, who has been making experiments
upon il in the manufacture Of paper The
Doctor says that moss makes beautiful
white paper without any preparation Of the
raw material for the common paper mills
a. N .....t. "a Ia aoual IN linan rams and