The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-06
THE WAR BEGUN-NECESsITY FOR
ACTION.
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L AAAAA W AL OOn-R fOD
ACTION.
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The eorrurtiOns q political parties have
produced their usual effect We have had
PremonitOry symptoms of the result for some
time The scenes Of turbulence at Washing.
ton, ending with an assault upon a United
States Senator in the Senate, were unmistake e.
able. Civil war has been declared in the
West, and blood has begnn to flow. Such is,
according to the teaching of history, the natu.
raj result of corruption and profigacy among
political leaders. These scandals it was
which, first breaking out in the pro-consular
governments, and rendering the very name
oil authority by-word for all that was in
famous, were soon transferred to the Forum
and to the Sacred Way; and in the brief
space Of three generations destroyed the old
Roman republic to make way for military
desPotism. And it was these same phenome-
na-the same open profigacy among politi.
cians-the same turbulence and reckless dis
regard of law, producing the same results
"h'Sh heN Tue COuccTtdbfc VI the
French people to accept cherfully despotic
Emperor as the least of the evils among
which they had to choose.
The telegraph informs us that battle was
fought at Lawrence on Wednesday last, that
the city was destroyed, and much life lost on
both sides. 1t is stated that the hotel and
printing office at Kansas City were also de-
stroyed, and that "a few" lives were lost
there. Other collisions between the two fac
tons into which the people Of Kansas are d.
vided are mentioned; and if even = portion
OF what we hear be true. it can be assumed
without doubt that war exists in the Terrific
ry of Kansas. 1t may be assumed further
more that in the present feyerish state of the
public mind. the attitude ASSUMED by both
sections Of the country will rather tend
to aggravate than to arrest the mischief
Both factions of Kansas will be more likely
to receive reinforcements of exasperated bel.
legerents than to find the country meet them
with uniform expression of disapproval.
Such are the consequences of the present
organization of political parties, and the man
ner in which that organization is carried out.
Such is the net result of the labors of the
two or three hundred thousand politicians
who manage the principal political parties,
and who, being mostly briehess barristers,
equally remarkable for want of scruple and
principle and a superficial kind Of talent,
have assumed, since the deaths of Clay, Cal.
houn and Webster put an end to the second
generation Of great American statesmen, to
destroy the grand old organizations called
Wing and Democratic, and replace them by
parties whose characteristic was the driving
or worshiping of niggers. By wretched Sec
tional divisions, framed on no great principle
Of public good, on no measure of broad gen.
eral utility, on no grand political purpose;
but relying wholly on local prejudIces, and
border feuds for support, and looking to the
twofold aims Of first securing the government
spoils for this or that clique, and, secondly,
Of fastening a general political convulsion.
and precipitating the total ruin Of the re.
public.
Is it not time now for the conservative citi.
zeBs Of the republic to begin to think Of
themselves. of their children, and posterityf
Is it net time now TO think of those hopes
which men have cherished so fondly for this
young nation; hopes which have not ghost
of a chance Of being rAali,ad if "ivil war con
tinuesl
As to the blame, why every one can see
that it lies equally with both parties-nigger
drivers on the one hand, niger worshipers
on the other. 1t lies with the leaders Of both
who have besn preparing for years for the
disasters now upon us, and who expect to
make their fortune by tbem--with the hordes
of INSCRIPTIONS and unprincipled politicians
now travelling to Cincinnati, to practice a
jaggle Herewith the crowd of hungry of.
fee seekers who will shortly flock to Phila
delphia. there 20 breathe incendiarism and
strife, and what in them lies to render them
selves as dangerous and destructive to the
United States as the Marats and the Dantons
and the Cotlot d'Herbois of the old French
republic or the oligarchy Of Athens.
For the people at large the question is SIM
ply whether these roliticians-these two
hundred thousand hungry lawyers-are to
be allowed to ruin the country or not. This
is what the business people, the merchants of
this metropolitan city. the solid farmers, and
the manufacturers throughout the country,
have got to decide before next winter. Civil
war has already broken out. If it be not
nipped in the bud, before another four years
have passed over it will have reached the
heart of the republic, and our trade will be
ruined, and our national progress thrown
back a quarter of a century, or perhaps ar
rested forever, by the inscriptions juggles
and the violent fanaticism Of the late politi.
cal movements both North and Sou tn.
WARLKs PRoMENLDE!-TheW Washington
correspondent Of the New York Times
writes:
WASHINGTON, Tuesday, May 81.
The scene in the Senate to-day was excit.
ing. Senator Wilson, in defending Senator
.o;1 thet b,