The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-09-15
NORTHERN WINGS.

We are indebted to the Richmond Wing
for the following article, which, the reader
will observe, comes near @filling the bill"
The position of the Wings of the North
occupies a considerable portion of the atten.
ton of Democratic papers and Democratic
politicians OF the South. Apart from their
own domestic troubles We know of no SUBJ
ject over which they are disposed to bestow
more of their tender consideration. Indeed,
we fear, 10 the plentitude of their sympathy
they are doing themselves great injustice by
attending to other peoples business when
they might be more proftably employed at
tending to their own.
The position of Northern Wings on the
slavery question is held up at the South rs
shocking TO the senses of every Southern
man. The peculiar guardians Of Southern
rights are particularly shocked on this occa-
sion, and their papers, from the metropolitan
organs to the most obscure country prints,
are terribly Mortified at the Abolition propen-
sites they pretend to discover among the
Wings of the North. For our part we thought
they had made this discovery long ago. 1t
has been an old song with them as far back
as our recollection OF political affairs extends.
Twenty years ago the Northern Wing party
was pronounced by the Democracy to oe as
much abolitionized as they contend il is at
this day. Every succeeding year the same
old song has been repeated occasionally with
the variations, and in the year 1854 this start
ling fact has been discovered ouer again. and
the Democracy are again roaring themselves
hoarse over it.
The Wings have been in power several
times since that period when the majority of
them were such outrageous AbolitiOnists.
The have filled federal offices from the Presi.
dency down to n custom house collector, and
yet, wonderful to tell, the Constitution is still
preserved, the Union is not dissolved, the
South continues to exist, and negroes are to
be found in abundance from Maryland to
Texas! What is somewha: astonishing also,
during the reign of Whiggery the Fugitive
Slave Law was actually signed and enforced
by a Northern Wing President, and its pro.
visions carried out by Northern Wing officers
But Nebraska had not turned up then, and
the crushing testimony sprung upon the coun-
tryethat Northern Wings must be Abolition
lists because Northern Wing members of Con-
gress saw proper to vote against the repeal of
the Missouri Compromise, along with Demo-
cratic members, and Northern members of the
Wing party happened to be opposed to the
repeal of that Compromise in company with
scores of Northern Democrats, with here and
there Southern Democrat even, and in that
number no less personages than Southern
Democratic United States Senator, n Demo-
cratic representative of the Virginia DemOc-
rncy, and prominent candidate for the Dem
cratic nomination for the next Governor of
this State.
We will admit, however, that the Northern
Wings have not acted on this question as
our regret at the course thev have taken, and
have not withheld our censure. But how is
it with Southern Democrats, who fill the land
with their patriotic denunciations of the
Northern Wing party? Have they judged
their Northern Democratic brethren by the
same test? Have they said aught against
those of them who stand precisely where the
Northern Wings stand on the slavery qucs-
ton, or, have they uttered n syllable against
any longer affiliating with them! On the
contrary, have not some of them manifested
n decided preference for that of the Northern
Democratic party against which the consera-
tive portion of the Northern Democracy have
long commended, and are now contending, in
opposition to Freesoilism! How do sundry
of our Southern Democratic contemporaries
stand on the war now going on between the
Hards and Softs of New York! Have none
of them word to say for their old friends
the Hards-with Bronson Mt their head!-
Could they not spare portion of the time
they devote to inditing dreadful accounts of
Z - H. .;1 Ah,I;t;no Will, o,J 4, ,,,,I;nn
their brains to know how Southern Wings
are longer to cooperate with them, in consid-
ering and defining theit position towards the
different factions of the Northern Democracy!
We arc surprised that they should waste
their time and talents discussing the future
of what they pronounce n defunct party,
when both are so much needed in preserving
their own party from Abolition contamina-
ton, and, very probably, from political death.
II might, furthermore, not be amiss for them
to turn their attention to the contemplation
of the fact, That whilst they are Mortified at
the position of the Northern Wings, they are
eulogizng and defending an A1-
elevated to power by Freesoilers,
which has filled tho Federal offices ut the
North with Frcesoil favortes, and which hes
itates not to cast the power and patronage of
the Government in favor of the Frecsoil party
When they have cleansed their own record,
their condemnation of Northern Wings will
come with a better grace.
MAURY CoUNTY.-The spirit of progress
seems to DO at work in this good old Locofo-
co county. The following is from the "Ka-
!iedascope," printed at Columbia
"The days of miracles are past The dead
haue been raised, but such things will not &C.
cur again, until the last trump shall sound.
Al oil a,Ilar,a., liz,