The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-07-25
Knoxville. July 4. 1856.

KNOXVILLE July I, 1856.
TO Mesws Geo. w. Bridges, John Crawford,
and others:-
Gentlemen: Your polite invitation request.
ing me to be present at Athens, on Saturday
last, to attend ratification meeting OF the
friends of Buchanan and Breckenridge reach
ed me at Kingston on Wednesday last. AS
was engaged there nearly all the week at
tending the Circuit Court, it was not possible
for me TO be present with You, or make any
reply to your complimentary letter until now.
would have been glad to have been able
to be present at your meeting and comply
with your request to address it on the i'm
portant political issuesof the day.
As the Wing party has not and will not
have any candidates before the people for
President and Vice PRECEDENT, have to make
my choice from among the candidates of the
other parties. In doing this l find no difficult
ty. The Democratic party has placed itself
in direct antagonism to the abolition party,
and the contest, in my estimation, is between
the candidates of these two political parties.
AS believe the success Of the Abolition par.
ty, by its sectional prdudices and unjust ad-
ministration of the government, would make
our confederacy intolerable to the South, l
! take great interest in its defeat and am anx-
ious for the success Of Buchanan and Brock
enridge. Why any Southern man should
hesitate, with the platform of the Cincinnati
Convention before him, to support the nomi-
nees Of that Convention am unable to see,
except it may be from old party prejudices-
these | have no inclination to and will not
indulge in when our country is in danger,
and the dissolution of the Union the great
subject of contest.
The Convention which nominated Messrs.
Fillmore and Donelson, struck out the twelfth
section Of their platform which contained an
assertion Of the rights of the South and in
serted in its stead an ambiguous phrase,
without point or meaning; so that the only
national party upon which the South can re-
| ly for support is the Democratic party. A
large number of this party in the non slave
holding States are now battling manfully for
the South and the Union. They have by
their platform ut Cincinnati staked the sue
cess of their candidates in this cause on this
issue, and as Southern man, one who de-
sires the perpetuity of our glorious Union,
feel bound in this great emergency to give
them all the aid and comfort can. Although
l do not desire or expect, gentlemen, to min
gle very actively in this canvass, the cause of
the South having been entrusted to ADLER and
better hands, yet whenever convenient OPP
portunity may offer, and any OF my fellow
citizens desire it., 1 shall not decline in this
dangerous crisis of our government to give
my reasons more at large IN support of these
positions than can do by letter.
Very respectfully, your Ob't servant,
JNo Ii. CRozIER.
In giving place to the above icorrespon.
dence we wish to say it was unnecessary
tLo THAR
quest to publish (Which reached us on Tues
day morning of the present week,) with the
reminder that they were subscribers-we
would have complied just as cheerfully iftheir
names had never been upon our books-in
conducting our paper we do not recognize
any of those ortlof obligations, whether to
political friends or foes. In such cases we
make no distinction between subscribers and
the unfortunate people who don't enjoy the
precious privilege Of paying for the Post.
There is another matter, however, connect
cd with the letter to Mr. Crozier to which we
desire more particularly to invite attention.
In paragraph, when this correspondence lirst
appeared in the Knoxville Standard, we said
the committee in trying to make the impress
sion that there were "nany old line wings"
in McNlinn county who intended to vote for
Buchanan had committed wrong. The
committee now ask us to publish their letter
to Mr.. Crozier, inviting hun on "behali of
the democratic party and many old line
whigs," thereby making an issue with what
we said on the subject. "Mary," according
to Webster and other competent aud recog-
nized authorities, means "a great number"
Now the committee know very well there is
not "great number Of old line wings" in
this county opposed to Fillmore, or for Bu-
chanan-they know very well that no great
number of old line wings" asked them to
invite Col. Crozier TO make Buchanan
speech here-they ought to know that as
well as we do, and that that part Of their
letter is boncombe and bogus. Not only 80,
but moreover one hundred of our subscri.
bers in this county call at the printing Office
for their papers, and we thus have an oppor-
tunity of seeing men weekly from every dis
trict and neighborhood in the county--we
have been constant in our enquiries and have