The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-07
POLITICS In GEORGIA


The editor Of the Augusta Dispatch, wht
is travelling in upper Georgia, writes his pa
per as follows from Rome, under date of thi
29th ult:
But must give you taste of politics
the great absorbing topic of the times.
notice in the Advertiser here of this morning
one OF the nblest papers in the Siate-ar
article condemning the letter of Judge Thorn
rs IN very severe terms, in which the word
malignant" "spteful," and other significant
adlrc1ivrs, are freely used, and the Admins.
tration sustained in the WalkerKansas ques.
lion. | have not room to give the pintS-as
Col. l'athrum would say-but il is clear that
the Lumpkin and Cobb influence will sustain
Buchanan. 1t is also claimed here that Mr.
Brown is pledged to that course. If so there
will be split in the party of very serious
eharacter-for Walker is clearly sustained by
the administration, and the Nlilledgevlle reso
lutions, "harsh and ungracious" as they are
termed, call justly for the reputation of the
administration by those who have stood BY il.
There is n dark damning record of duplicI
ty and fraud in the management of this Kan
sas matter from the beginning. In the face
OF the manifest adaptation of Kansas to slave
labor, and the interest of Missouri that it
should become a slave State, free soil cover
no-s have been sent there one after another
-border brols have been winked at, lin order
To stimulate the emigrnni and agents of the
North 10 pour in their tide of spawn from
their own cities, ard from the emigrant ships
from Europe, and notwithstanding the South
has met this foul tide of abolitionism, and
overcome it at the ballot box, secured the
sanction of Congress TO the validity of the
tiumph-Walker now comes with words Of
friendship on his lips, and an air of fairness
in his mrin, but treason rank ling in his heart
to tell US that we must give up the advan-
tages we have gained-resign the Seal Of
Congressional appreciation. and refer back our
constitutional rights to the fresh clans Of
alien and abolition "reSidem Inhabitants"
which his freesoil allies are rushing into the
territory And he tells the South, that if the
constitution is not submitted back to these
creatnres-he 'oiH Join the Black Republicans
tn prevent its admission into the Union. And
vet we are told that the South must submit
to this dictation-that we have n President
who is friend to the Soulh--a majority of
Southerner. in the Cabinet-and n Governor
who was tie choice of the South. To be
BETRAYED b. ones enemies is bad enough, but
it aggrava.es the treason when n confidential
agent proves fathless. There is maj ifesty
strong glme to play in this Kansas mntter.-
The Soith has been told TINT it would be
slave Safe, the people of the South feel that
we are fairly entitled to it-but its admission
as sucl would destroy a great national party,
and bhst the aspirations of some of those
who seek to rise upon its swelling tide, even
at the risk of making shipwreck of our rights,
on tie lurking breakers of its pacific surface.
LIT no man say, that in taking this position
the Dispatch identifies itself with or against
any party 1t matters not where parties GO
the Dispatch will repudiate those who plot
tre,son to the country from personal or party
considerations We have the co operation of
the nblrst Journals, and best minds of the
South of all parties, and while we sustain the
Administration in all that we conceive to be
right, we shall never lend our feeble pen to
the defence or promotion of those who allow
ambition to siifr the impulses of patriotism
who prove recreant to constitutional prin-
ciples, to dffuse and strengthen the trensona-
bic schemes of our enemies.
|: asked where this course will lead us
call il factions if YOU will should fall back
on first principles-siand aloof is need he,
from all parties-for all seem now faithiess to
true nationalty-nnd wait for developments.
AS things 60 on, we eannd long escape reg
nlarIv organized sectional parties-a North
arn and Southern party-nnd if that does
not stop this .ternal cIamor about slavery, an
nnnpol IN nrms will he tho final arbitpr If |
the South will stop clustering and unite,
here is some hope Of n bloodless termination
10 the struggle.