The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1850-08-16
der the Register is so sensitive on the sub
jsct at this particular time.

der The Register is so sensitive on the sub
sct at this particular time.
/ Next comes item number 8:
| "While the play wns proceeding this so>
pient Editor s'rut,ed the stage with all the
gravity. importance and effected wisdom o
Chinese Mandarin"
As it has been some years since we were
in China. we don't remember exactly how
the Mnndarins acted or how much gravity
and wisdom they affected, but as well as we
rrcolIect they are little fellows who s,nnd
in cer'oin pos''ons, bobbng their nodd!es
t" whoever may pass them, and who ex'
! pect to be brbbed to in return. The only
specimen of the kind we have ever seen il,
East Tennessee. was a little chap about
Knoxville in 1877. who used To promenade
the streets with all tho dignity of duck in
Hessian boots. bobbing his head to every
one he met. with the hope Of b"wing him
self into q sent IN the LeglsIn'ure, hut ns
his conde~cension was the only capital he
could start, the effort turned out to h" about
as frui,Irs. "a his more recent ones to brrs
down tn" rairnad.
Item 4 is as follows:
"rnr editor Of the Post has written him-
self d"wn an ass"
There is n forcibIc originality and point
sbnut that passage utterly Impossible t" get
over or round. A little further on we find
very scalhing atiack upon poor Duff
Green. If it should every ctme under his
notice We have no doub. he will feel much
like seeking refuge among The cypress knees
Of the Okafanokee swamps, or some other
out of the way place beyond the reach OF
the Registers arrows.
Mex, follows what purports to be week.
Iy bulletin. from The iles of the Post, chr
lcing the movements Of Duff CIR en-. and
in which "monry" nnj the Knoxville
Register" figure largest. and which - tn"
hest part Of the Registers article. 3e will
doubtless b. n.lunisI.cd At our bDdnps<
and canlur; but It ~ purt "f "ur prcspn.
business to a>tonish hI'n. We plead guilty
to the charge "f having prac'Icrd liu'"
chcnnery IN the connrcilon alluded to-
We don't approve, in n general why OF the
principle that .thc end jus'lfrs the means
it is not in accordance with sound mo,
rali'y. but then 1t is fashionable. in polls
tics, every day transactions. and pecunInry
matters. and as the Register has had some
little experience III deceit. it ought moi to
complain. For some time before the contract
was made with Gen. Green the rairosd had
been deud, dead. drnd--as dead ns any thing
well coul, hc-in fact almost nS deud ns oar
Knoxville friend was at The close Of the last
cnnvos>-and the presen, editors of the
Register were calling up the m"urnrrs, and
with ,rnrs Of hypocrisy in their eyes. were
trying to preach It's funeral sermon. u
must be remembered that notwithstanding
the gentlemen alluded to now declare their
,ppus,tinn was not to the rund. not IN
tie Directory. but to Green aud his con.
tract, vet they commenced their system at
opposition long before any nnc had heard OF
Green MS contractor. We say the enter
prise was dead, and the prcscn, editors Of
the Register were belob"ring the carcass
with their ponderous club. (By the way,
the Register is becoming somewhat famous
for lhat sort of valor which prompted the
iackas> to pluck dead lions by the benrd.)
Excitement was necessary to infusc new
life into the enterprise. Gen. Green was
some in ,ha, line, and we suspect that VIC
kelped him considerably-we did it. loo, al
our own Instance, and nobody else's. The
result Of that course is before the public,
Had any other been pursued, we ore coni'
dent The enterprise would now be in the
precise condition in which the Register has
iubored SO indusiriously TO place it-burird
so deep that the hand Uf resurrection could
not ,cuch il. We have here set the Regis
ter an example of candor which it would du
we'll to initiate. II is certainly more h"nor.
BILE to confess the 'so't impeachment than
10 attempt 10 lie cut Of il. as has b,en the
Practice of that paper IN regard to its own
course on the railroad.
The next item reads as follows:
"When the magnificent Railroad conirac.
or would finally reach home, the Editor of
he Post would wh"oP and >h"u, niicr him !
through The columns 1T h's paper. with
vod deal ui the sam" feeling that a Sch"ul.
,"y foiI"ws through the sir"e's big indian.
,pg'immpd with paint. ring through his
rose. peacock feathers IN has head. AMI oil
he other gewgaws with which the savage
nves &" ad,rn himselt, imagining that he
Ieriv-s a rejected importance from his
,rrxi'n,iv I" the b'g nnn 'hLi - being ex.
,,.Iicd "a a grand spectacle"
We believe W, will let our readers have
ha, para graph wI'huut comment.
The Register next complains that. sf-
er Duff Green had relinquished his con.
ract VIC did not deLouncc HIM. The Reg
s,er denounced him while he held on to II,
md he wanted US to denounce him for CIV.
ne 1t up. Such course on our part would
ave been nuts for the Register; but he