The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-28

upon The people; believing that they would
give their confidence TO one who, regardless
of mere party clamor, should noby dare 70
pursue the path of right! We are tired of
Drawing politicians; tired Of tenth rate men.
Our nation needs II Chief Magistrate who
shall lend dignity 10 his station, not one VINO
shat depend upon his station for his charac-
Ter and reputation, at home and ab oad As
we have somewhere tod our readers, The no.
lion" Principcs ard not Men" is Il false notion,
and has done us lHcgicuabc injury. Prin.
cipies and MaA AtliabIe; the lack Of ciihct
is ruinous. Thc1P,csidcnt Of these United
States should be y man Of experience, of de.
cison, of 6imness, Of la-.sccing saaaciy, OF
great prudence, Of unboundcd integrity, and
possessing the confidence of ihc people,
These qualities, we think, arc combined in
Mi'lard Fillmore, and he is our preference foe
tho Grief Magstracv in 1856"
eES" Week before last we published an &C.
count of an attempt to introduce party poll
ties into the Court and jury rooms at Mali.
sonvillc. As We knew the democrats Of Mon
roe county, with the exception of some half.
dozen Of the more violent sort who were in.
strumcntal in letting up The matter, were
heartily ashamed of it and disavowcd any
connection herewith, we had not intended
30 allude 10 The subject again. But the Cleve-
land Banner of last week, having misrepre.
scented lis, we must be allowed 70 COZ rect
the errors and misstaiemcnts Of that print
In the first place, the Banner savs, we visited
/ the offending grand juror with column Of
abuse, and charges that we are in The habit
| oftreGiing people who have no papers through
which 10 defend themselves, in that wav.-
! Now all we said about the Grand juror wa.
comprised in less thaH twenty five lines
and instead Of pouring it down on the poor
| fellow TO the tune Of a column" to quote the
expressive ard characteristic language of the
! Banner, the hardest thing we did say Of him
| was, that he was "a wellenough meaning
man, without any remarkable decree Of
Gstu'cness,' and that IL was, perhaps, furtu-
nate FOR postefity, that he did not live in
! Brrcorhc county, IN the nci.'bol hood Of old
/ Billy Jones. the foo.kiler- Under the same
| circumstances we would -ay the same thing
Of the e1itorof The Banner or any other Of
4 those terrible fellows who are 20 fortunate q.
to have papers to defend themselves
! The charge hat we assail persors who are
not in a position 10 reply, is entirely cratui.
tous aud without senblance Of foundation.
No paper in this State has more religiouelv
bs'ained from assaul,ng private individuals
and none that datbles in politics at all has
treated opponents with more liberaliiy and
fairness, aud this no one knows better than
The Banner man. Instead of castgating
and reprimanding them in terms cornmensu-
rate with their monstrous political sins and
heresies-nstead oflashing them as we might
have done, and as their facitious aud un-
grateful conduct frequently merited-we have
overlooked the lrovocaton, and like other
good men engaged in Just cause, have
sought by Kind words and gentle arguments
70 win the ;ransgrcssors back to the paths Of
patriotism and correct principles from which
their blind guides had SO far led them sstray.
That We have not been more successful, was
no fault of the teaching, but owing entirely
to the perverse and vicious character OF the
material we had TO work upon, being Of that
description generally which prefers darkness
to light.
But to be serious. In regard to the affair
at Nationwide, our notice Of which seems to
have created a very profound sensation IN
the neighborhood of the Banner" Office,
and to have elected more serious article
than weusually meet with from that direction,
many democrats present were unsparine in
their condemnation of IT, denounciug the
grand juror in language that we cannot 1c-
peat in our columns without giving offence
For ourself we had no other feeling for the
man but that of pity, and should not have al.
luded 10 the subject at all but for the fact that
we knew he was not tho author of the inter-
northumberland the matter had been talked
of weeks berore-wNs cut and dried for the
occasion-that 1t was not prompted by real
sense ofduiy, or an honest seeking after truth
but was the offspring OF a little, low, dirty
contemplate party prejudice that any sane
man ought to be ashamed Of To rebuke the
fell spirit Of party nalevolence and prejudice,
which is daily becoming more rampant and
abusive and which would not only destroy
social rela, ions, create dIseord and illfeelings
between neighbors, but even invade our halls
of justice, assail the judge on the bench, and
enter into the verdicts OF juries-it was to re-
buke this fell spirit, thus manifested, that we
introduced the matter into our columns, and
not, as the Banner charges, for the purpose Of
castigating the simple instrument used on the
occasion. And we think the Banner would
be much more commercially employed in as
sirting us to put down and Danish the vile
spirit OF prejudice, fraught as 1t is with so
much mischief, instead Of encouraging it by
complimenting those who are trying to bring
it to bear in all the relations Of life. lie
would run no danger of making himself "lu.
dcorous" 10y sueh course, and less OF hav-
| ing the correctness of his motives questioned.
t3y- We are unable to account to our
friend at pikcville for the non-arrlval Of his
paper. If the oversight occurred here we
viii see that it is not repeated. We hardly
think it did, however.
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