The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-06-08
May 81, 1855.
NASHVILLE. Nav 90. 1855.

SIR AS am not NuIltier or Adolf.
zionist, or an apologist, in any degree, for
President Pierce and his Cabinet, in their at.
tempt to govern the country by coalition OF
the most dangerous lnctions in the land, YOU
will obge me by erasng my name from
your list of subscribers. '.~
You maintained the opinion during the dis.
cussons on the Compromise of 1850, and
after its passage, that that measure was II
cowardIy surrender Of the cause of State
Rights, IN which respect you agreed exactly
with such harmonious Statesmen rs Mcssrs.
DAVIS (the Secretary of WARP SouIe, (late
Minister to MadridD Giddings of Ohio, Sum.
ner of Massachusetts, and Seward of New
York. 1t you have changed that opinion, or
If any OF those have, who co-operated with
you in the memorable crusade Of that period
against the peace of the country, have seen
no evidence of it in the columns of yOur pa-
per, but on the CONTRARY, much that is cacu.
lated TO deceive the people, and under the
guse OF the word democracH to nauguratc
another slavery agitation.
IilS32, Tennessee, with but few dissent.
ing voices, in accord with Mr.. Madison. the
suthor Of the celebrated Virginia Report, de.
cared her concurrence with Gen. jackson,
when denOuncng the attempt of South Caro-.
lima to nulify the laws of the United States,
as Treason. And this is now the sentiment
Of nine tenths Of the people of this State
Yet it is notorious that the individuals the
most prominent in adherence to this Treason
are those specially sought for by President
Pierce to ill the most elevated and response
BILE national trusts; but not word is ever to
be found in your paper warning the country
against conduct so obviously the result of
the intrigue which has surrendered the power
of the Federal Government to the nullifyinu
factions Of the day.
We all remember that the most active
leader of the Tennessee division of the new
school of democrats, after mysterious
flourish of patriotism on the top OF his Mount
Pisgah, came down and informed us that his
heart would break before he could rejoice at
the passage of the Compromise, and more
recently, that tho present nominee to the
office OF Governor, by the same school of
democrats, shocked the religious sense of the
age, in calling democracy the jacobs ladder
of the sacred scriptures. II the people of
Tennessee are prepared to Gil their chief
offices with those who preach this kind of
higher ld,Oisn, do not see how their voice
Is to become potential in putting down the
ianaticlsm of such men ms Giddings and Sc
ward. The people of the North have cor
tainly equal rights with us of the South, and
1t may be- expected that they will exercise
them with ms much freedom as we do ours
If We are to manage our political affairs by
the aid Of visions and dreams, from the tops
Of a new Mount Pisgah and Jacobs ladder, il
is but natural that our brethren of the North
should avail themselves of the same assis-
tnnce.
But this trickcry and humbuggery belong
not 10 the creed of the old fashioned Tonnes
see democrat. He has always been content
to follow IN the footsteps of Washington.
Jefferson, Madison, and Jackson, who never
failed 10 make war on qualification, wherever
IT appeared, whether preached in New York,
South Carolina, or Mississippi. Those pa
rlots and statesmen taught us to look alone
to the Constitution Of the United States for
the measure of the powers of our Federal and
state governments, and for one am satisfied
70 s'and by that sacred instrument, unchang-
Gu 10y 'he Jacobladderism of Gov. Johnson,
inc higheridoiSm of Senator Seward, or the
'ess mysterious doctrine of nuHifcationism,
as interpreted by ,ho two famous conventions
when The country has witnessed, the one Ms.
sembIcd at Hartford, and the other nj Nash.
vile, and both protesting to act in the name
OF State Rights, and strict construction of
the powers of the Federal Government,
Yours, &c, A. J. DONEl.SON.