The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-05-07
PRESERVATION OF THE UNION.
[rrom the Memphis Bulletin.]

tFrom the Memphis Bulletin.l
Our disunion frieuds--by which we mean
those who look 10 dissolution Of the Union
and the formation of q seperate Southern
Confederacy, as q remedy for the aggressiops
of northern majority-tell us that they, too
set upon IL al inessimable value and that they
present the contingency Of It's abandonment
only as an alternative, to deter that northern
majority from aggressions upon us. They
deride as "Union-savsrs" all who preach the
doctrine Of its indissolubility; and would seem
to assert, that, If they are only permitted to
60 on unchecked in thus frightening the
North into good behavior, that all will be
well. In short, by their own showing, the
talk about dissolution is, substantially and in
principle. merely the bullys dangerous game
of bluff!
We decline TO participate in or sanction any
such game. If they are in good earnest, we
are opposed to the policy. If not, we should
shame to indulge in threats there was no
purpose to put in execution.
There is no remedy in dsunion and sep
arate Southern Confederacy, for any of the
evils the South endures, or NAV have to en-
counter from the North. The drawing Of an
imaginary line o: political separation, will
neither obliterate nor fence out the incIinines
Of Northern fanaticism to intermeddIe with
what does not concern 1t. Il cannot protect
US so that thieves will not break through and
steal from us-that fools will not babble and
irritate us. Were it established to-day, in
peace and smity, five years would not 90 BY
before the jealousies, heartburnings, and ag-
gressions across the border, would plunge Us
into war-s war the more bitter because Of
the previous futile attempt to avoid Il. In
such war, the subject and aim Of Il would
be--not the maintenance or restoration Of an
unrepealed Constitution in its integrity, but
the inAiction of chastisemeni, and the at
tainment of conquest II would be a war, moi
for the preservation of Rights, but for the
indulgence Of passions. They are the veriest
of dreamers who think such an eventually
either improbable or remote.
Better, u thousand times better, if the Sec
tional jealousies which afilict US must work
out so dire result, that II should come in
the Union, where we Of the South may wage
the war with the moral support, Of fighting it
tor the Constitution and our rights under it.
In such war, We should have the sympathy,
moral support and material aid, Of every
good and patriotic man not infected with Sec
tional fanaticsm, both North and South. II
would be war of Right, not merely of Might;
and 10 such contest the cause Of the South
would be sure to quickly triumph, because
her cause would be that Of the integrity Of
the Republic.
Teach the northern mind that northern ag.
gressions will be so met, instead Of endeavor-
ing to frighten il with the horrid phantom Of
Disunion, and such war will never come
Infuse into the hearts of the southern people,
that truest guaranty Of peoples rights-the
prompt readiness to 6ght for them whenever
they are trampled upon--and let Il be so un-
derstood that they will so maintain them rath.
er than sneak away from their inheritance to
find protection in Southern Confederacy--
and it will matter little whether there 10 an
equal or an unequal number of Slave States
10 the Union. Our institution Of domestic
servitude, restored to its true basis--the sim
pie question of whether it pays, instead Of
being made to hinge on the varying fortunes
of party politicians-wil be put upon firm
and stable foundation, and work out with
time its own legitimate solution. Resistance,
armed and bloody resistance, If need be, to
unconstitutional enaetments, aud not Disun-
ion, in any contingency. is the true and i'm
pregnable position Of the South. Known to
be the position she rests upon, il is the surest
preservation Of the Union.
RAILROADS OF OHIo.-The cost Of all the