The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-11-16

hlletin, an Independent paper:
ksoN's INAuGuRAL.---O all the ptia-
Dghts'in the world, one of the most itia.
rs to see great intellect and strong soul
plessly struggling in the letters of n root.
ed aud grovelling prejudice, from which they
vainly seek to free themselves. such n spec
tacle does Hts Excclcncy Andrew johnson,
Governor of Tennessee, present. Endowed
by nature with mind far above the strength
and vgor of that OF most of his fellows. aud
soul warm and big with symputhics for
humanity, he is yet the veriest of slaves TO
the bitter prcjudices of class Forgetting, or
overlooking the anomaly which his native
land presents, lie regards the condition Of
man, alone as he finds it in books, or US he
sees it in the artiticinlties Of European civil
cation Here, where he was born, aud all
around him, these artificial inheritances of
oaste a. no where to be seen. All about him
on til, contrary, under the magic cuchant.
ment OF American RepuOlicanisn, the world
by which he is surrounded is full Of creations
which are the offspring of the natural egnqG
fy Of man. Everywhere there are to be seen
the children of ignorance risen TO he :he
lights Of intelligence of their agc-the of
spring of vice and debauchery transformed
into the strongest props Of virtue and public
morality-the victim of pinchine penury in
childhood raised to be the luXurnnt miilion-
y
around him, in this teeming and busy Ameri-
can life of ours, there nrG but continual evi
dences that the ignorant are ignorant only
from choice or slUthfuluess the obscure are
kept in obscurity only because, for the want
of manly energy Of purpose, they choose TO
remain obscure; and that the poor remain
poverty stricken only through their own
thriftless mismanagement Gov. johnson
himself, is a striking exemplar of the trutli of
al L.; ,f
life-lacking all means Of even common ru-
dments of education until he had arrived at
wears of manhood-fiiendless alone, unaijed,
by his own energies of mind, and will, and
industry, he has forced his way upward to II
distinction, intellectual us well Us political,
which few men of his age and circumstances
have gone beyond.
And vet, Gov. johnson, We regret TO see,
still ever and ever seems to feel rs il he were
still of that class of the ignorant, the humble,
the obscure, the poor, who in his Imagination,
are Kept dozen By dnoihcr 'cidSS" dJoro Mcm.-
This feeling leaks out in his public speeches
ut the hastings; il reveals itself III his official
communications; il breathes through his last
Inaugural. His mind seems to he haunted by
phantom of AristOcracy aud lie is continu
ally running tilts at it. The wudmills Of
cultivated mind. refinement Of manners. and
the possession Of wealth, are, to his imagina
ton vertable glamts-emenies of the "com
mon people," which ii bchooves him to attack
and slay. Hence he announces that there 1t
II settled hostility on the part Of all those in
possession of considerable extra learning
wealth and power to every plan, effort nnt
undertaking that has u tendency to improv,
md elevate the great mass Of the people,
and that "whatcver tends substantially {,
benefit the common people, will he general.
viewed with hostility BY the pseudo arstoc