The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-07-25
KHoXyILLE. July 4. 1850.

KNOXVILLE, July 7. 1856.
TO Mes'rs 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 o. 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 be present with yon, 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 im.
| portant political issues of the day.
As the Wing party has not and will not
have any candidates before the people for
President and Vice President, have to make
my choice from among the candidates of the
other parties. In doing this find no diff ,ul.
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 prejudices and unjust ad
ministration of the government, would make
our confederacy intolerabe to the South,
take great i"tsraAt " IL dato". aud ava ANN
ious for the success Of Buchanan and Breck-
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 he 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 nm 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 fol
the South and the Union. They have by
their platform at Cincinnati staked the sue
cess OF their candidates in this cause on this
issue, and as a 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
do not desire or expect, gentlemen, To min
gle very actively in this canvass. the cause d
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, shall not decline in thi,
dangerous crisis Of our government to give
my reasons more at large IN support of thes,
positions than | can do by letter.
Very respectfully, your ob't servant.
JNo. Ii. CRozIER.
In giving place to the above correspon
dence we wish to say it was unnecessary
the committee should accompany their re
quest tn publish (Which reached us on Tues
day morning of the present week0 with thu
reminder that they were subscrbers-w,
would have complied just ms cheerfulIy ifthei
names had never been upon our books--ir
conducting our paper we do not recognize
any of those sort Of obligations, whether tc
political friends In such cases w
make no distInctf9 tween subscribers ant
the unfortunate pd Is who don't enjoy thu
precious privilege Of paying for the Post.
There is another palter, however, connect
cd with the letter tJMr. Crozier to which ",
desire more particularly to invite attention.
In paragraph, when this correspondence iirs'
appeared in the Knoxville Standard, We sale
the committee in trying to make the impress
sion that there were sunny old line wings
in Mcslinn county who intended to vote fo
Buchanan had committed wrong. Tn,
committee now ask us ~ publish their lette
to Mr.. Crozier, inviting hun on "behalf 0
the democratic party and many old lint
whigs," thereby making an issue with VIII"
we said on the subject. "Many," according
to Webster and other competent and recog
nized authorities, means "a crest number.
Now the committee know very we'll there i
not "great number Of old line wings" il
this county opposed 10 Fillmore, or for Blu
chanan-they know very well that no "grea
number Of old line wings" asked them Il
invite Col. Crozier to make Buchanan
speech here-they ought to know that a
well us we do, and TINT that part Of thei
letter is boncombe and bogus. Not only 50
but moreover one hundred Of our subscrl
bers in this county call ut the printing offic
for their papers, and we thus have an oppor
tunity Of seeing men weekly from every dir
trict and nsighborhood in thevCOunty-w
have been constant in our enquiries and hay