The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-07-13

more-they will make such immense quaint.
ties Of corn that there will not be room suf.
!fcient in the county to build cribs to put il
IN.
GEN. ZoLLrcorFERs SPEECH our
first page will be found the speech of Hor.
+. X. Zolicoffer, candidate for Congress in
the Nashville District, on the American ques.
ton. 1t is an able document, replete with
facts that cannot be controverted, and we
commend every one, wing and democrat,
American and anti-American, into whose
hands this paper may fall, to give the speech
careful and considerate perusa, and then
to hand 1t to his neighbor, that he too may
have the advantage of the facts aud figures
set forth. Let oil read it, ponder the startling
truths It contains, and then cast their votes
for the foreign party If they can.
W- The Chattanooga Advertiser, having
fully posted its readers about the progress of
democracy in "Dndc county, Ga.," and dis
sected the Philadelphia Platform with an af.
fectaton of skill peculiar to one sensible of
immense critica; niccties, has now turned its
attention to the Congressional canvass in this
Distriet. In ito iosse Of the 7th, it ventures
something like a column, in which the Hon.
Sam. A. Smith is glorifcd and the course of
the Athens Pest deprecated and charged with
being unjust We do not know that it is
necessary for us to notice the article further
than to remark that the positions Unsigned
! Mr. Smith by this paper, upon the subject of
internal improvements, are such rs his course
in the last canvass justly entitle him to-
Thousandsof people heard him at that time,
not one Of whom, except the Advertiser man,
who seems to be fast losing what little claim
he ever enjoyed to candor and fair dealing as
an editor, will insinuate that we have mis-.
represented the honorable gentleman. If two
years ago he took, g position antagonistic to
his; party and afterwards recanted tiff he
then promised to Qhtsin million and quar-.
ter ofacresof land q The Rabun Gap road ,and
failed, even to az pr suciVan appreciation
if the: promise a from the South Caro-
lima delegation Ts5l6ne Of those strokes Of
the imagination in which small politicians,
like Col. Smith and the Advertiser man, oc.
casionaly indulge forcertain purposes--ifhe
was elected Congress promising largely
and failed 10 rtdoem the promises, or even to
make an effort 70 redeem them--the fact
is not with those who opposed his election.
His our duty 70 remind the people of the
gentlemans fshortcomings-to place the
facts before them. nothing extenuating nor
setting down aught in malice. and for them
to determine whether they will agains honor
him with their confidence. The Advertiser
ought not to complain of7this, nor be guilty
of the folly Of denying what it's can didats him
self is forced to admit. ~
Col. Smiths extraordinary use of the
frankihg privilege, of which we have hereto
fore spoken and to which the Advertiser al.
ludes, is without precedent--his "brilliant
congressional career" is an unmiugated hum.
bug, as he has never achieved any thing above
mere partisan speech, and his "fathfulness
1.-THE iutercstslof his constituents" amounts
in the main to nothing more than pretty
liberal circulation of documents intended to
Attengthen the foreign party in opposition to
bis own sountryufsn. His position in the
present canvass, that the American party
North isabolitionized and the anti. American
party sound on the slavery question. is motto.
rlously untrue, yet he has the effrontery TO
90 about the district SO procIaiming, and the
Advertiser, true 10 its insdncts and with the
fragrance osformer associations Z n clingnp to
~, gsments, takes up the hnlse cry and re.
xeIEoes u with all the yociferousness of a re.
assntimportAtlon. And in the same breath Il
undertakes 20 lecture DIS, and in.imates that
we deal unjustly with the gentleman whose
organ ita.pites to be. Could impads nce and
neckleasness 60 furthed For ils 6wn sake
weAops ths Advertiser viii not repeat the.
, silly humors displayed in lie article of the
7ih-such tsattleis only calculated to injurs
lis candidate, and the poor fellow 10 badly
enough defeated already.
~-Our Macon and Atlanta cor m er.;,i