The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-09-04
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| iuinouS elects OF ALTON ianallclsm upon
the watering pisces manufacturing inter-
ests of the North:
1t is now evident . the principal water
ing places OF the Nufhave rot met with
Their usual success dig the past season,
aud II may BE- wei! toluire little into the
causes. Heretofore Fatnga and Newport
have been the grand tires of attraction tor
The fashionable socirN every section of the
Union. Here tine richd idle would assem-
Die in crowds, filling vast Hotels to reple
ton, and fer many VS. scenes of revelry
and nirth would abdd while money was
being poured out wih most lavish hand
especially by our Soern neighbors. But
now all this is chang The houses at these
places are but half led and scarcely
Southern "iashionabl can be found at one
of them.
The cause for all Il is clear enough
The South has been years revilrd and
lnsulted by a certain PITY of the North and
its presses. No temDf reproach were low
enough TO apply to neutrality-suspicious.
slave-breeders, ant eyy epithrt that could
be coined was hepeeupOn the heads of
| Southern gentlemp 81 the Southern people
generally. Whilahilparty was in n minori-
ty at the North, iroud be passed by rs the
IDLE rawlings of mi mn and women, but at
the last election, e. small party so despised,
proved itself the 4i0itv party of the North,
and it was but I.ssing the feelings of the
majority of the Nhhern people in their Bill
lingsgate and slaIs rous illusions upon the
South.
The rawlings of Aew could be passed by
unnoticed, but nov}h case is different-the
whole North, f0lloing the lead of The
Times, Tribune, IL Observation-Disclosures
Phillips, and the likghave joined in the ch0-
rus, and the South an do nothing less than
withdraw rom the Entertainments prepared
for them by Northet fanatics.
Hence it is that tls wealthy and liberal
customer and patrO1of Northern watering
places remains at hope, goes to Europe, or
visits their own spa, which are numerous,
and this season have seen thronged to over
flowing with the verltlite of the South.
They now spend tn II money among them
selves instead of brin ing it North to fatten
their slanderers and fl the pockets of their
detraitors and reviieri And they do perfect
" right. 1t is not thl watering places alone
That Viii be- affected. 1Ths is but small
item-a million or so loose change spent
for few weeks pleabre. Tn So abolition
vag'ants, Kansas scrd ching, Union hating
hypocrites, are destroying the whole trade Of
the North.
The course Of this slass of politicians has
shown to the Southeri people the necessity
of uniting and acting pgether for their own
projection and benetig They will depend
hereafter more upon Themselves. They have
already an immense 1. of railroads in SUE
ce,sfnl operation. Tier inland water com
are unrqunlled and the produce
Of ~ Empire can BE- rddiy ceniered ut al
mos any given point They will build up
foreign trade-establsh ocean steamboat
lines, and convey their own produce to the
European markets, instead of sending it here
aud pay ing double commission for its trans
Inlss'n abroad.
The inhabitants Of manv of the Eastern
towns have already felt the effects of their
'euseltss and iI.temprred Zeal against our
Southern nrighbors. Many of the mrnufnc-
urng towns of Massachusetts have been
'adly crippled in their business, and Boston,
he very hot-hed Of sedition and Abolition
lang whanging, has done little more than
lalf her usual business this wear with the
south. This d crease will continue from
ear to yer, and we shall all awake to thu
'roud satisfaction in short time of having
eslroyed our whole Southern trade in our
efforts to steal Niger. We
Such are some of the effects Of Northern
upon Northern "Insltu-
ions" Our treasury will Be rapidly depleted,
while that oi the SouJh will swell out into
onderous proportions, all through our ex-
rssye love for the negro, who, when we ST.
ure one to "frcedom," will give him the dogs
lace, and for little provOcatiOn kick him out
f doors. Such is "RepubIcpn' philanthropy
nd iar.sighted sagaeily. How long must we
ubmit TO the rule of these men?