The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1850-07-05
MIR. NICHOLSON AND THE NASH
WILLIE CONVENTION.

VILE CONVENTION.
When we first took issue with the Nash.
VILE Convention upon is sweeping con-
demnalion Of the Senatorial Compromise,
:'s concession Of the "non-interveniion"
doctrine. and its premature pledge of rev-
olulonary resistance 10 the federal author
I,y, we had no expectation tina, we should
so soon have occasion to congratulate the
public upon the powerful aid OF Hon. A.
o p. Nicholson, in behalf of conse rvative
rights and southern consistency. Tha.
gentleman voted for the resolutions as adop-
ted by the Convention, and was member
Of the committee which prepared and re.
ported them TO the Convention, with
unanimous Recommendation. He expires.
sed dissent from the address in its original
form, but allowed it to pass the Conven.
ton, as amended on motion of Gen. Pillow,
withou, further opposition from him.
In his elaborate letter 10 the Nashville
Union, he subjects the address 10 a search-
ing analysis, strips it of The false gulse of
sophslry and doematsm so plausibly
thrown around it, and shows that its posi-.
tons and its arguments, alike un,enable,
are pregnant with dlssenson and dIscord
in the South, compromising Southern con.
sistencv, and the high constitutional doc
trine Of "non-intervpnIon" bv Congress,
upon which the South had stood as The
surest buIwayk other defence. Henceforth,
II, il NOT b. said that we have ungpnpious-
" assailed the Nashville Convention. Mr..
Nicholson, the leader Of the Democracy
IN Tennessee. has done more than any 9TH
er man in this State coud have done, un.
der The circumstances, to rob It of any pop.
ular prestige, il might have possessed, and
TO dissipaIe the whole proceeding into
rhin air."-JNashville Wing.
News from Santa Fe, has produced much
excitement in Texas. Public meetings
have been held in Austin and other places
and an extra session Of the Legislature willy
probably be called.
The rivers in Texas are overfow wed, and
the crops generally, are much injured, IN
all sections OF the State. The Mississippi
is rapidly falling.
We publish The Address of The Nashville
Convention in full. in to.dav's issue We
intend reviewing It at our earliest convs.
nlence. ln the meantime we ask for il a
deliberate perusal and a careful consIdera-
ton. We look upon it as at once ultra,
weak, and hostile to every sentiment OF
devotion to the Union. II springs new is
sues never dresmt of previously nv the
most excited. and weakens the South bv
erecting platform so dlsla", and isolated
from the prejndices. convictions and pro-
n"uncsh opinions OF large maj.ri," Of The
Southern people as 10 dive them into an
inevitable opposition. We sincerely re.
nrei this bur we will not he one Of the
builders Of political Babel. around which
null fcaiion, abstraction'sm and cnnserva,
usm shall babhIe dissonan, jareon. To
rslk OF the inhahiianis OF California being
vet ciIizens nf Tennessee. Virginia and the
Other States from which they originally
went, may be necessary 10 a lame and
singular conclusion. but it revolrs com.
mon sense and repels rejecting reason
Memphis Eagle.
A TWILIGHT SKETCH -'Twas evening"
All nature was hushed in ca n, repose. The