The Athens Post

The Louisville Courier closes a well written article in relation to the late defeat of the Whig party as follows:

The Whigs, in the midst of their defeat and its first consequences, have a great deal to encourage them. "It's always darkest just before day." Let them look to the old landmarks—stand by the good old principles, without quixotically warring against the new —cling to each other unswervingly, burying past dissentions and their causes—"work and wait," and three years hereafter we shall be stronger than we have ever been heretofore.

We have had cause to mistrust each other, not to mistrust our principles. Let us dig out and cast aside, as unworthy of us, all the old roots of dissention, and our party will again be, where it now ought to be, in the ascendant.

Popular convulsions are periodical. They have come heretofore—they will come again, unless we cease to be a free people. For ourselves, they do not alarm us. As Republicans, we acknowledge their concomitancy with the spirit of our institutions; as Whigs, we do not fear them.

They were with us, in the election of General Harrison; they were against us, in the election of Franklin Pierce. When that is said, all is said.