The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-06

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Al INiChN hECoSp Al IHE NoHTH.
! The anti-America orators in Tennessee
IRE travelling over m countrv and charging |
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WI" 's OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES wh'cn no'h'ne |
could be further from the truth. So far, the
nets of the party there have been rrcer from
Tho faint or Aha,;,;on,s, ,h.r ,hoso 80 ans,
H.. 80,
p"v ''"' mas ""o an e"'s'encc"" '""' sec"o"
Tor the last twenty years. Read the follow
ing from the Nashville True Wing, every
st,,or,nt 80 ,.,,.t, "a ;rcon,,o,or,;,,,.
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The American Record al he Norh-The
charge Of Abolifionism C0nfounded!
We understand that gross nisstatements
are sometimes made by anti-American can
didates in this State, representing that the
elections IN the North furnish conclusive EVIL
dence that the movements Of the American
party have promoted Aboltlonishi. Now,
let us go to the record for II is the habit Of our
opponents to make bold and sweeping asser-
TONS without proof.
or the Congressman elected to the incom-
ing Congress from the Northern States, just
hiry'fwo are set down MS Know Nothngs'
--to.wit. Eleven from Massachusetts; five
from Ohio; two from Pennsylvania; four from
Connecticut; three from New Hampshire, and
two from Rhode Island. Let us see who
have been turned ovt of'oflice to make place
for these thirty.two members of the hmeri.
can party. Let us gro the records, and we
will find that enc was the man who ntroduc.
ed in the last Conaaess the bill to repeaI the
Fugitive - 11nien others were men
who voted nti-fngitivc slave lr,w
OIL! and one other was the man who, in the
last Congress, steadily and boldly advocated
upon the h'or OF the House, The social and
political equality of The negro nih the uhite
man, urged that one hundred and sixty acres
OF land eicll, should he giren to the free ne
groes 81 ne Worm! Ten others We're either
anti-Netraska men or free sellers; and still
another was Wllmot Proviso member who
has voted to prohibit slavery in all the terri
tories Ct the United Stntes There were but
SIX Nebraska men displaced TO make room
for ms many Americans, while five of the thir.
ty-two were members reelected to fill their
own places. Now what results have we here!
Of the whole thirty two members turned ont
by TIE American party, t,oenty of them were
nboNtonlsts, freesollers, anii-NebrasRa men,
or nhti-'ugilive slave law men! while fire, in
GLIDING J.Scott Harrison, the sound, national
wing, and estimable son of the lamented
President Harrison, were reelected as Amer
leans; and but six Nebr ska men were dis
placed. The position Of the remaining mem.
Der, Maurice of New York City, beaten by
Mr. Vaulk, American, we have not been able
definitely to ascertain. Mr. Walk has de.
lined his position in Charleston paper
as ihat OF as sound conservative union
man.
Docs This look ike the Americans were
promoting Abolltionism See. They hurled
out Ihos. DAVIS OF Rhode Island, who made
blaeker abolition record in the last Congress
l I any other member from the Morrill,
ihey "crnshed out, Thomas d Elliott OF
MASSACHUSETTS, who introduced the anti'fugi.
i've slave nl'' IN the last Congress-thev an
hlh'ln,ed |rocEer and Edinonds, and VALLEY
ana iappan, wentworth and Dickinson and
G itiue Stare iaw bin. They put quietus tc
John G. Goodrich, who, not only voted fol
the ant-iugitlve slave law in the last Con
gress, nut was the President of the Abolition