The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1851-08-01
CIRCULARS--"I.OCK SHARP

voters of the Third Congressional
District" and signed, "your obcdient
servant, VIM. NJ. Churchwcll." We
had an intmation a day or two ago
that it was in contemplation to issue
something of the kind from the Knox.
vile office just on the eve of the
election, when there would be no time
TO correct its statements or caution
the people agains, them. These Cir.
culars will few days previous to the
election be thrown broadcast all over
the District, asCo|. Churchweil and his
friends seem determined to leave no
means unemployed to defeat the far.
mer OF Marion and thwart the wish
cs of the majority. While Col.
Churchwell has been ever since he
arrived at the age Of twenty one, do.
ing every thing in his power to pro-
mote the ascendency of the party of
which he is prominent. and innuen.
tial member Col. Anderson has been
battling maniully Tor the conserva.
tive principles of the country. He
has been an earnest and ardent SUP
port of the adminlstra ton, and this
OF itself constitutes an objectionable
offence in the eyes of Col. Church,
well and his Knoxville friends, and
for this and this alone they desire to
crush him. We would ask here
what claim COL ChurchwelI has upon
the dominant party in the District,
that they should forego their princi-
pies and send him to Congress to
fight agains, the adm nistration? He
is the last man who ought to ask them
to do so unnatural thing.
We have barely time to glance at
the contents of Col. ChurchweIl's last
issue, TO be sent out just son the heels
of the election" Nor is it necessary
to treat it very seriousl though in.
tended to have a tremendous effect,
the dcmagogueis so paIpable through
out the whole of it that we suspect it
will hurt the man who stood at the
breech Of the gun quite as bad as the
one against whom it was aimed. The
Col. sets out with long yarn about
the Gal phin claim" and charges that
Col. Anderson lodged the vote on a
resolution in relation to it. The
4,stness of the Ga phin claim wss de.
termined by a Democratic Congress,
under Mr.. Folks administration, and
the act authorizing its payment was
signed by that Iamented Statesm an.
and it was paid. The claim for in.
terest came up after the principal
had been paid, was referred to the
proper officer, the u. S. Attorney
General. and decided to be just
That's the whole history of the busl-
ness. and if the Gal phin claim was an
unjust one, as Col. Churchwell con.
tends, there is no shadow OF Justice
in laying the blame on Anderson
he was not in Congress when the
claim was allowed, and whether the
claim was Just or unjust, we will re.
mark that President Polk was not in
The habit Of approving measures at
feeling the public interest without ex'
aiming them well. At a subsequent
session of Congress resolutions were
introduced the object of which was to
censure Gen. TayIor-not dime OF
the peoples money was involved in
their passage or reflections; and be.
cause Col. Anderson did not vote for
these resolutions his competitor is
very wrathy and indignant, and wants
the people of the District, the men
who supported and sustained Presi.
dent Taylor to the hour Of his death
and who revere his memory. to beat
him. A proposition was introduced
later to refer the question Of interest
to the Supreme Court. 1t passed the
House, Anderson voting for it, and
was voted down in the Senate by
Democrats. And why did they vote
it down? Simply because the deci.
sion Of the Supreme Court would
have been final. and that decision
would have sustained the Attorney
General, and thus nice little political
capital would have been lost. There
are some right sharp sighted Demo.
Gratis in the Senate. But we think
Col. Churchwell will hardly be able
10 trick the people of this district ont