The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-04-09
THr KAssA. BrLL.-In the House of Rep

resentatives, on the first day of April, the
Lecompton Constitution was virtually re-
jected-the Bill for the admission Of Kan
sas being passed with Crttenden's amend
ment-whch, if we understand il, is simply
diyestng the matter out of Congress and re-
ferring it back to the people. An account Of
The proceedings of the House win DO found
in another part Of our paper. The amend
ment was sent to the Senate for concurrence
but was defeated. The House must now
accept the bill which the Senate pass.
ed, and admit Kansas under the Lecompton
Constitution, or take the responsibility Of t'
rejection
We may be in error, but We can hardly
realize that there is as much danger in lhis
Kansas difficulty as has been pretended
There seems to be no excitement among the
people on the subject, and the most that We
hear about il comes from the direction Of
the Federal City. If there were no elections
to occur for few years, it is possible the
whole question involved would adjust itself
No doubt fanatics North would continue to
talk about slavery as "doomed institution
and learned asses South advocate the disso.
luton of Union they can neither appreciate
nor understand; but if there were no offices
power and pef underlying agitation, the
war of the sections would cease, and the
people Of each be loft to pursue their Iegiti.
mate avocationsin peace. We have the same
feeling for an Aboli,ionist that We would
have for n unatic bent on firing his neigh.
boris dwelling; and the Dsunionist should
be regarded in tho same light as the man
who would deliberately pull down his house
to preserve it from the torch Of the incendin-
ry. The only difference between them Is,
one ia a mailman and the other fool; and
the efforts of such characters, while they
may be mischisvous for season, will hardly
kindle conflagration that will consume the
world or produce convulsion sufficient 10
shake the Union TO pieces. The "peculiar
institution" will outlive all the assaults of
Aboltionism, just as the unity and integrity
OF the States will survive the e1ertions of n
few ambitious pace-hanlers and adventures,
whether Kansas ia finally admitted with or
without slavery. While the factionists in
both directions have employed themselves
in sowing the seeds of disaffection and alien
alton, there has been a very different order Of
men at work, whose labofs, guided by the
spirit Of enterprise and improvement, will
forever Illustrate the schemes Of the potters
in either section. In few months New
York and New Orleans, hitherto almost rs
far apart as the two continents, will be with.
in three days of each other-the great iron
bands which the real men have been forging
to bind and weld the country together, will
be completed, bringing points and interests
hitherto remote into constant intercourse, and
daily mingling, in business and social rela-
tons, communities that have always been as
strangers 10 each other. Under this new
and happy influence, both sections will spring
into full life and vigor, wrong impressions
be corrected, prejudices banished, sectional
asperities softenri, n spiri. of respect, fra
ternity and mutual good feeling spring up,
and in few years the extreisrs will for
get, or wonder, that they ever hated and con-
temned each other.
We should like to see the Kansns Difficult
ty settled at once, and trust Congress will
speedily dispose of it; but whether or no, or
how, the Union will survive the result, de-
spite the predictions Of excited Congressman,
Or the vaccinations of hysteriral editors, who
are favored, at every change of the moon,
with visions Of Great Southern Empire,
reaching from the waters of the Potomac
Town to Patagonia and tho Terra del Fuego,
md based on African wool.