The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-20
WHERE ARE THE ABoLITloNIsTsl

The very extraordinary position he has taken |
In the present canvass, continues to assert |
that tho American party North is Abolition
lied. II IN mere waste Of time 10 adduce
argument for the consideration Of a paper evil
dencipg such an utter disregard Of incts.-- |
The Advertiser and its co-workers have set
out 10 do certain tlivg, and ms the truth
would defeat their purpose, they fly to mis-.
representation and deception. Under such
circumstances it is folly to expect them to
heed the truth when # is sprend before them,
or to give nm opponent creditor motives bet.
ter than the very questionable ones by which
they themselves are actuated. The Adver.
tiser and its candidate have taken for their
motto sails fair in politics." and MS long as
this dshonoring sentiment prevails with them
we shall never expect to see either converted
from the error Of their way, or brought with.
in the bounds of grace. Still it is our duty
to exhort them continually on the subject,
and to see that the people are not deceived
by their monstroous Misrepresentation.
The Advertiser knows very well, and Col.
Smith knows very well, that the leading Ado.
litionsts are all opposed to the Know Moth
ing movement, its objects, aims and ends
the editor of that paper knows the great file
leader of Abolitionism, Seward, has always
bitterly opposed the American party, and de-
nounced it because Of its object to cut down
foreign influence he knows, and Col. Smith
knows, that Seward is now in alliance with
John Hughes, Archbishopof New York, and
other distinguished Roman democrats, in hos.
tile array to the American party--hc knows
that Horace Greeley, without whom there
would bc no abolition party, traduces, de.
nounees, ISLANDERS and abuses the American
party with as much vindictiveness, and far
more ability than either Col. Smith or the
Advertiser--he knows that the four or five
Know Nothings who voted for Seward enter.
ed the Order for the sole parpose Of betray.
ing its interests and intentions, which they
did by joining with Free Soil democrats and
Free Soil wings and eleeting Seward, and
for which they were promptly expelled the
Order-the Advertiser knows that Gddings,
Fred. Douglass, and nearly, If not quite all,
the leading abolition leaders, stand in regard
to the American party on precisely the same
ground as that occupied by Col. Smith and
itself--the Advertiser knows, or ought to
know, that in all the Northwestern States,
in some of which the foreign population ex.
ceeds the native.born, there abolitionism rules
and predominates--it knows, or ought to
know, that nineteen twentieths of the for.
eigncrs who yearly land upon our shores,
come prcjudiced against tile institution Of
slavery, and Immediately identify themselves
with its enemies-it knows, or ought to
Know. that the nbolitionists rely upon foreign
immigration to fill up our territories and pre-.
vent the admission of any more slave States
|, 1t knows that the American party wars
against this foreign element by which the
aboitionists hope to confne slavery to its
present limits, and finally overwhelm and
crush the South-the Advertiser knows, and
Col. Smith knows, that the American party
has been purged of whatever of aboitionism
it contained, and that it has planted itself up
or platform broad and national, and more
favorable to Southern interests than any
party, pretending to BE- national, has ever be.
fore dared to adopt-the Advertiser knows
oil these things, Col. Smith knows them
and yet they both take up the stereotyped
cry oftle Washington Union, "Ae .Rmerieun
party is aboiitionized!" and refteratc II with
all the gravity and seriousness of men who
really believed what they were asserting. 1t
makes no difference if Seward and Greeley
and other distinguished nbo hionits, were for.
merly whigs-they abandoned that party
before its dissolution, and are now ia frater-
nifty, tleek BY jOwl, with those who oppose
the American party, warning, like the Adver-
ser and Col. Smith, against it. We don't, of
course, charge the last with being actuated
by the same motives which control and gov.
ern the first, but their efforts are intended to
bring about the. same result: the overthrow
of the American party-they are in bad com
pany, and must take the consequence of the
; ill.advised association. These are "solemn
facts" which We commend to the deep and
earnest consideration OF the Advertiser be.
fore ]: proponnds any more interrogatores
to the Athens Post.
The TRuTH.-Speaking Of the ,dssatis-
faction with the platform adopted oy the
American party at Philadelphia, expressed by
; the anti American press, the Richmond Wing
says, their course in this respect wis deter
mined upon lOng before the Ton panlion ns