The Athens Post

THE NASHVILLE UNION vs. PROTESTANTS.

The Nashville Whig says: "In the Daily Nashville Union and American, of the 18th May, appeared a long editorial, laudatory of the Catholic Church, and disparaging to Protestantism. In that article the Union goes on with monstrous effrontery to say: 'FOR HUMANITY THAN ANY OTHER CHURCH,' declaring that 'CATHOLICISM HAS DONE MORE goes on with monstrous effrontery to say: "A church that can boast of an existence of thirteen centuries—passing through all the various vicissitudes of her eventful career, unveiled, can certainly allow, with all her atrocious barbarity, many bright spots which may be placed in favorable contrast to the wrangling sects, which may be placed in favorable contrast to the Protestant church, with its thousand and one wrangling sects. Men are beginning to see through the transparent gauzy that veils this know-nothing movement. They are beginning to ask what has Protestantism done for the world? What has she done to alleviate and enlighten the down trodden! Is the race any better off for having accepted her faith! These Reverend hypocrites—these scribes and Pharisees—are treading on a terrible volcano. They will find their treasonable schemes and infernal plotting against the liberties of the state tried and condemned by the pure light of God's own truth and love, which shines and throbs in every pulsation of humanity's heart. If Protestantism proves recreant to her high trust she will have to pass the ordeal of enlightened public opinion and be consigned to her merited obscurity. Popery with all its crimes against God and man adapts itself to the times and circumstances, and thus saves itself from being absorbed in the mass of conflicting elements."

The article from which the above is extracted, was published in the daily Union and American, of the 15th of May, but was omitted from the tri-weekly and weekly! Why was this? We copied the extract above soon after it was published, and subscribers to the tri-weekly and weekly Union and American charged us with pretending to quote words from that paper that never appeared in it. We refer such persons to the daily Union and American of the 15th of May."

The above extract is a fair sample of the language employed by the foreign party in their efforts to uphold the Roman Church. Will the people, the Protestant people of Tennessee, endorse these sentiments by their votes?

Public Opinion on the American Platform. From.-The New York Commercial Advertiser, which is a high-toned conservative journal, thinks that Sam's platform has too much of the pro-slavery element in it for general use. Taken as a whole, the Advertiser appears to like it, although it says the advocacy of these doctrines is not confined to the Know Nothings, but they are the sentiments of All Americans. If this is the fact, then they ought to signify their adhesion to the principles by joining the organization that is pledged to enforce them. The Advertiser says:

A few words on the general character of this new party platform, omitting at present however further allusion to the slavery question. With the exception pointed out, it will be generally pronounced unobjectionable. Its acknowledgment of the Almighty's favor upon the republic, its inculcation of patriotic sentiments, its maintenance of the supremacy of the Union, its requirements of obedience to the Constitution, its avowal of hostility to public and party corruption, its determined resistance to the aggressive policy of the Papal church, its strong assertion of the right of every man to the unrestrained and peaceful enjoyment of his own religious opinions and worship, its advocacy of reform in the material of our National Legislature and of the restriction of executive patronage, its sentiments on education and the use of the Bible in the schools, its recommendation of an open avowal of principles, will find a response in the breast of every true American. Not only do we find in these views nothing to disapprove but we cordially approve them. But then their advocacy is not confined to the Know Nothing party. They are sentiments common to Americans, and such as this journal and other conservative papers have again and again promulgated and defended.

Mr. Stephens' letter as published in the Appeal contains the following paragraph:

"The great struggle will be on the admission of Kansas. Let us not, then, ally ourselves with any party, North or South, hostile to that measure—that is the first point to see to. Let us, in the next place, act, co-operate and affiliate in party association with those men, and those men only, at the North, who sustain the principles of the Kansas and Nebraska bill, and the principles of the Georgia Resolutions of 1850."

What the Georgia resolutions of 1850 are, we are not the least concerned to know. But we do know what constitutes the platform of the great American party. We know that it more than meets the case as stated by Mr. Stephens. We know that it "sustains the principles of the Kansas and Nebraska bill," and we call upon Mr. Stephens to "stand here upon his bond." We call too upon him to co-operate with the great American party!

The Nashville American Gazette has the following:

"Behold how Brightly breaks the Morning."

—James M. Quarles and Hon. Alfred Robb, two prominent democrats from Clarksville, have taken the stump and are doing gallant battle for the American cause. The ranks of "Sam" are rapidly filling up—the lugubrious faces of his foes grow hourly more lean and long—their knees smite together—the hour of their doom is told. The 2nd of August will tell the election of Gentry by an overwhelming majority.