The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-10-20
THE NEBRASKA BILL.-LOCofOCo
DUPLIClTY.
From the Richmond Wing

Southern in every bone and muscle We
.hhor Abol;tionism in all its phases. we are
g. ,ho Constitution, the Union, and the
Rights of States. We have denounced aoo-
,ition Wings and abolition Democrats with
soual severity. We have exposed the tend
or.v and effect of their doctrines, and pointed
an, the radical and astounding revolution in
the government which they aim at. We ex-
meet TO continue TO war upon them and their
policy with all the energy and power when
God has given u.s. But we mean to be just
even to them. If We abhor aboltionism, we
abhor fraud and dupicity more.
To say that we are surprised at the fraud
urnt and disreputable course which the
Northern Democrats are pursuing, those very
men who were the nosest champions OF the
Nebraska bill, and who still profess to be its
earnest and uncompromising advocates, would
be to utter what is not true. we arc not
surprised. They are acting exactly as we
predicted they would act They are engag-
ed in a game they have played at often before
and with the most brilliant success They are
once more deliberately deceiving the South,
They are cheating it. They are swindlng it
to its very face And yet, with so many evil
dences of the fact before their eyes, Southern
Democrats are still lauding their loyalty, ex-
toling their patriotism, and swearing, AS they
were wont to do of similar characters in days
of yore, that they are sound, reliable, trust
worthy champions of Southern Rights, that,
in short, they are "Norttern men Uith South
ern principles"
No mistake about that They went with n
rush for Nebraska. They voted for the re
peal of the odious Missouri restriction. They
proclaimed their devotion to the great doc
trine of the right of the people to establish
government frame laws, and adopt institu-
tons, to suit themselves They did all these
things, and who so reckless of truth, who so
ungrateful, who so sacrilegious even, as to
dispute their orthodoxy, doubt their South
ern nflinties! Shame upon the man who at
tempts it! The idea is ridiculous, 1t is Il
vile aspersion upon the character ofhonorabe
men, of firm and disinterested patriots, ofjust,
conservative, constitutional politicians. They
are true, they are sound, they are reliable,
they are the friends of the South, the only
sincere, consistent friends the South has,
those Northern Nebraska Democrats, who
risked all, perilled all, and are willing to en-
dure all and to lose all, that the South may
live and slavery flourish. What self-sacritic
ing, what noble, what sublime, what heaven
born patriotsmi Was there ever any like it
in the worlds history before! Just look at
It Ready 10 be martyrs 10 their loue Of the
South, What picture! How striking and
painful the contrast between Northern Wings
and thcm-iends of darkness those, angels
of light they.
If not the exact language, this is the senti-
ment of Southern emocrats-this is the tune
they fondly sing in prnise of their Northern
allies. And yet these Northern allies OF
theirs, with here and there an exception, who
are they, and what are they, and what right
have they to the confidence or communication
of Southern men! We will do them no in
Justice. We would take from their brow no
laurel to which they are fairly entitled. But
we wish to examine, TO analyzc, and to test
them. And this we will do, rigidly, yet i'm
partially and Justly. We enquire, then, what
ofthose Northern Democrats who claim graf
itude and reward of the South on account of
their support of the Nebraska bill! Are they
the friends of the South, that Southern De-
mocrats would have us believe they ;
Let facts, Democratic facts, answer
Next 20 Douglas, Gen. Cass was the fore
most champion of the Nebraska bill in the
Senate. What is he doing now among his
constituents at home! Why, surely, he is
advocating and defending the Nebraska bill,
with all the power and energy of his nature
And so he is. But why' Upon what ground!
For what reason does he Recommend it to
the acceptance of the Northern people! We
answer, upon the authority of the Richmond
Enquirer, that he is urging it upon them "ds
Freesoil dui.sldrery measure" And this
may be alleged Of nearly all those Northern
Democrats who voted for the Nebraska bill,
whose course at home since has come under
our observation. The Enquirer quotes an
article from Gen. Cass' confidential organ at
Detroit, where he lives, to illustrate the mo-
tive, the purpose, the object which actuates
him in his advocacy Of the Nebraska bill
which article we copy, that our readers may
see with what bare-faced fraud and duplicity
Northern Democrats are acting towards the
South in regard 10 this matter. IL tells
most melancholy story Of the faithlessness of
their much auded "Northern allies" and one
from which we turn with adherence and dis
gust Here is the artclc:-
[From the Detroit Free Press Of Sept col
We cannot doubt that the Detroit Tribune
speaks by authority when it announces, as it
did on Tuesday, that Mr.. William A. Howard
us in favor of repeating the Nebraska act"-
The Tribune is Mr.. Towards peculiar organ,
and 1t would hardly make so material state.
mcnt without the knowledge and consent of
the person interested.
Let IL be known, then, that Mr.. Howard is
in favor of repeating the Nebraska act. Let
il be known shat he is in favor of rc.cstab-
fishing line south ofwhch slavery was and
would continue 10 be cgalized by Congress"
Let IL be known that he is in favor of de-