The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-18
AMERICAN AND SOUTHERN RIcHTs

AMERICAN AND SOUTHERN RIGHTS
The following truthful and pointed Ian
guage 10 reference TO american and South.
ern Rights," is copied from the New Orleans
Crescent:
SournKRs Ricurs--The editors Of this pa.
per belong TO the American party From the
first they have chung TO IL with devotion
founded on principle, and have been inspired
by an unhesitating conviction that they were
on the track that would eventually lead them
to the haven where justice, truth, patriotism
and safety have taken up their residence.
But, we have believed all along, and our
belief is now stronger than ever, that the
American party was a better Southern Rights
party than the dominant party; and recent
events have reduced the opinion to certainty
that unless the Democratic party, as at pres
ent controlled, is either reformed or over
thrown, but few years will elapse before
the slaveholding States will be utterly at the
mercy of the North-mere appendages to
minister to the wealth, whims, caprices, and
Injuries of the fanatics that abound above
Mason and Dixon's line. And we now hold,
as we ever have held, that the cause of the
South is sacred above all other causes, and
that he who proves recreant is false son il
not q positive traitor.
| AhS Dc"'oS'"t'o OuCt 81 D1En-IOUeO
and honorable, once the depository of lofty
principles and once led on by glorious chief
tains, has degenerated into n mere ofiice.hold
ing oligarchy; and men, entirely REGARDLESS:
Of their section and principle, whose che
care is and has been to keep the rank and
file in order, go that they may continue 70
enjoy the honors and emoluments of office
now constitute it's leaders These office hold
ers have succeeded wonderfully WELL al
though their influence is departing, it is to
be hoped forever. Cloakng themselves with
a noole name they have deceived and hood
wlnked the masses for years, and with shout,
of devotion to the South they have won vic
tory after victory-the South steadily losing
in power and prestige just in proportion t.
their triumphs.
1t is these very men--it is this office hold
ing Democratic oligarchy-who wink al
Walkers stupendous treason in Kansas-wht
dare to Justify the Presidents endorsement o
that treason-and who are trying to hold tn,
Southern people back from pursuing the worl
of indignant denunciation of shameless
treachery so auspiciously commenced, from
which all the danger arises. With an assn
rance that battles the power Of language t,
describe, they tell the people that the onl,
hope of the South rests with the So callet
"Ndtional Democracy" of the North-n De
mocracy that has traded off Kansas TO tn
Freesoilers-a Democracy that has been il
authority for quarter Of century, durin,
which time the South has continuously los
in Congress until both branches of the FEEDER
al Legislature are arrayed against her,
Democracy that will, before the expiration
OF Mr.. Buehanan's term, bring four Freesoi
States into the onfederacy--Kansas,N ebras
ka, Minnesota and Oregon-which bringing
in will render us utterly and completed
powerless in all the branches of the genera
government
Let the Southern people, if they woul
provide against the perils of the future, Loo
to the facts of the past, the dctualifiss of tn
present, and shape their course accordingly