The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-06-05
THE AMERICAN PARTY-HOW IT
WAS DEFEATED.

The Memphis Eagle and Enquirer says
The Democracy defeated the American party
first, by the cry of ewing trick" next by
charging "Abolition on Fillmore" and by
calling on the old line Wings to "vote for
Buchanan to beat Fremont" How are they
next to defeat the Americans? They ought
to be ashamed of the first means, for their
subsequent conduct clearly shows that they
did not believe what they asserted. The
second, they can have no means of resorting
to again. Harris is claimed by one editor Of
the Democracy, as nearer the Wing doctrines
than Hatton. So we 60. Now, we want to
see the instrument by which we are to fall the
third time. We want to know what sort of
death they intend to prepare for US. We
think they have exhausted their resources
We think the arsenal of their humbugs is
empty. The people begin to read them by
the star light, and behold Them as they are,
the dsiurbers Of the public peace, the hungry
trampers after office, the complotters Of dis
union, and the confederates of the foreign
hordes that swarm upon our shores from Eu.
rope. They have defeated us, and we are
told by them that the news of our defeat has
increased the tide of immigration. No doubt
of it. No doubt that " hen the news of our
overthrow went over the water and penetrat-
ed the sunless lanes of rotton cities, and the
Scared walls of the prisons, there was great
jubilee. The filth and breathing dirt spoke.
The sigh of the jail.bird changed to laugh
The rum holes and the subterranenn world
OF Enrope--a world that knows no law--no
sunight-no God-began TO spew out their
reeking masses Of iniquity. And here they
come, breeding pestlence wherever their
course is.
Such humanity ms this, is welcomed and
squatted on the Government lands, and led
like so many dumb brutes TO the polls to vote
down American citizens. They are dumb to
us, for they speak many languages not I'M
derstood by our people. But they can put
vote in The ballot box, and it goes as far rs
Washington's would 90 if he were living
They learn, us II first lesson, hatred for the
"know Notlings," for they are taught by
their teachers that after performing their first
duty--of voting-the next is TO hate the
Know Noihngs, whom they are instructed to
regard ms the most intolerant tyrants on earth,
and present the worst form in which humani.
ty has yet appeared to the world. And so,
the tide of our history surges on, whittier, no
one can tell. We have had mobs already.-
They result from this sentiment of hatred TO
Americans. They result from the lessons
given them by their teachers on this side of
the water. Our fathers taught us in our
youth, that we had acountry-an inheritance
iorever-told US how their fathers fought for
it through seven long and terrible years, and
won it at last from the foreign invader, by the
sword-told us how strong we had become
so strong that Europe combined in hostii.
ties against us could not subdue us-how we
need fear no third invasion. But they did not
ioiesee that an invasion from abroad pouring
in upon us from year to year its half million
Of strangers, in masses,
"still as the breeae, but dreadful as the storm"
would involve US in conflict no less
to be dreaded. They did not foresee that, or
they would have told us.