Nashville daily patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1855-1857, 1856-01-16
Anti-American ChIvalry-A Woman AS
sauIted.

Anti-American hIValry-A Woman AS.
sauIted.
The Burlington (Vt.) Free Press records
an instance of anti-American chivalry as fol-
lows:
"John Chout, President Pierce's Postmaster
at Underhill Center, was arrested on the 9th
ult., and brought before Justice Hollinbeck,
charged with assault and battery on his daugh-
ter, young lady of thirty years of age. The
offence committed by the young lady, for
which she was beaten by her father, as appear
ed before the Court, was the reading of Know
Nothing papers. lie pleaded guilty, aud was
fined 81 and costs"
Bravely, most bravely does Mr.. ChOut
carry out the proScriptive principles intro
duced by the Pope's serf who yields the
mace of power in the Post Office Depart
ment. He deserves promotion. Such zeal
as his should not be suffered to hide itself
in the petty Office Of Postmaster No, no,
the hero of Underhill Center should be
called to Washington, where the theatre Of
his usefulness could be enlarged, ad GbjtUm.
He ought to be elected President With
him in the Chair of State, the successor Of
the great Pierce, the anti-Amercans might
calculate upon achieving a height of re-
'nown the like Of which has never shed its
lustre upon an admiring world ! The wo-
men, it is true, would have to hide their
diminished petticOats, and thinking no more
of porting over the hostile denunciationS of
Sam and his coadjutors, prepare their ten
der backs for the lash of the chivalry. But,
what of that Did not the scourge of the
Pope's Austrian vasSal drain the warm
blood from the backs of liberty-loving wo-
men Of Hungary and is not the example
fit one to be followed by the panderers to
Roman Catholicism in the high Offices of
the United States AYE, let anti-Ameri-
cans shout. Let them raise the red ban
ner of Chout, and inaugurate the era of the
knout ! Let our ANDY look to his laur-
els /; they wither in the superior emerald of
the hero of Underhill Center. He must do
something more than he has done, or his
dreams of the Cincinnati nomination may go
contrary"l
Badinage aside with our contemporary
of the Cincinnati Times, we chronicle this
occurrence with regret. 1t is humilating
to learn that father and a public official
had become so far stepped in, and imbued
with, the proscriptive spirit Of his party,
had become so corrupt from his long deal
ing with such party, had so deadened or
outlived every feeling Of the parent, that he
would brutally beat, or even raise his hand
against member of his own household, and
that his own offspring, because her pure
spirit would not and could not adopt the
damnable doctrines first taught by Jesuit,
and carried into effect by the harpies of
the administration who acknowledged his
power. "Train up your child in the way
she should CO." may be regarded by Mr..
Chout as virtually to mean that she should
be indicted into all the chicanery and
knavery that he himself had subscribed TO
for the purpose Of securing such spoils of
the party as fell to his province.
Noble Mr. Chout," continues our
Queen City friend, "who would sacrifice
his own child for the glory of the Pierce
and Campbell administration, and who
would for the perpetuation Of such dynas-
a. x.yif
germ of that pure love of country which
he had failed to contaminate, and which
was manifest in the bosom Of his daughter
and which her womanly spirit rose in its
native majesty TO assert. As an official,
and serving under the present administra.
ton, we know of no reward, emolument or
position to which Mr. Chout is not entitled
but as simple citizens of the American Re
public, we can only hope that such con-
temptible scoundrel will receive the scorn
and Indignation of all honest men; that
he be secuted from all decent society, and
made TO associate with jackalls, or what
would be more suited 10 his capacity and
spirit, that species Of the animal kind named
jaekassess, whom we verify believe his as
ISOLATION with would inevitably and inter-
minably disgrace. Weknow of no degree
Of meanness to which such being, whom
it were libel 10 call man, would not de-
cend, and would suggest as a suitable en-
ployment for his declining years, the super
intending, under government Of course,
of hospital for the retirement Of super
anuated bed-bugs."
MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON RAILRoAn.-
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