The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-11-19
FEDER AL POLITICS AsD THE SLAVE
RY QUESTION.
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Prom the New York Herald
One Of the most refreshing, compreher
siye, conservative, suggestive and instructiy
speeches on federal politics, in connection
with the slavery question, that we have eve
published or ever read, we spread before ou
readers this morning. We refer to the speeeI
Of Senator Hammond, delivered to his con
stituents at BarnSell Court House, Sou;l
Carolina, the other day. COnirssted with III,
late abolition harnngues Of w. II. Seward al
Rochester and Rome, il presents us, in the
boIdest relief, the difference between the
views Of calm and inqufing statesman and
the desperate electiOnesrias tricks of an am.
bilious and unscrupulous de,nsgogps. 10 the
900 ---~ .l.. -s.----i----l-fxz< af ,le,a -..a
experience have changed lss56Yt tsroIins
nuli6er into the most poSeffsl advocate of
union, peace and harmony; IA Abe other case,
the Kansas agitation appesfs 70 have trans
formed the coolest and shrtwsest Of our anti.
slavery leaders into the musi lbolish excesses
of fanaticism. 4
Leaving the views Of Senilor Hammond
upon Kansas to speak fet themselves, we
turn to the broader politiesf issues of the
future which he so ably dEsussess He be.
Ieves that the South can stil5 maintain herself
within the Union, and undst the constitution
"control its action iB s4,}s }skeat affairs" and
yet he comedies, subs.nsksty, that the ex.
tension Of slavery within odf present terrific.
rial limits has reached is terminus; that
Mexico and Central Amerieaare wholly una,
vailnble for slave States, api "cannot be
touched without contamination" and tha,
Cuba itself is forbidden fruit" Nor is this
all; for while he fully recognises The con-
,inually increasing pressureiof Northern free
labor from our constant laccesslons from
Europe, he utterly opposes the retaliatory
scheme Of the revival Of the African slave
trade, as impracticable and visionary. He is
satisfied with the seli-sustsining resources of
the South rs she stands, aId looks with dis.
trus, upon Cuba as graveyard of negroes,
the demand for which upen the Southern
States would be more prejudicial than profit
able
But the most conspicuous view in which
Mr.. Hammond presents the success and Sc
curity of slavery in the South is in connec-
tion with the practical results which have
followed the abolition excitements and OK.
periments Of England and France, and the
thirty years of our Northern abolition ngi,a-
!. .,"n: These results are England and
ders, and that while the firmer has been
driven to the coolie system of slavery, the
latter has openly returned to the African sys-
TEN and traffic. Within the same interval
our political Northern agitation has not only
resulted in doubling the yalue of Southern
slaves, but has brought about union Of the
South in defence Of tho institution, which
renders il, in connection wth@the necessities
of commerce, perfectly safe and impregnable
for the future, and entirely competent to
protect itself within or without our existing
confederOcy.
Best Of all, no doubt, to the mind of Mr.
is the conviction which he enter.
tains that there can be no anti-slavery issue
In the future upon which "lhe abolitionists
Of this country can ever muster their legons
rs they did in 1856" We Incline to con.
cnrrence in this opinion, and to believe that
to 1860, the prac,ica! issues of
tho government and the practical exigencies
Of the country will come more and more
pi ominenty into the foreground, until mig
gers and the niger agitation are entirely su-
perseded in the reconstruction of parties and
party questions for the Presidency. That
Kansas Nebraska box Of Pandora has done its
work of mischief. North and South, and the
people of both sections, with
'lhe sober second thought" will repent and
atone for their late debasing carousals of
sectional excitement and folly over this mis-
erable experiment of Presidential intriguers.
The only remaining obstruetions of any
moment to pacitication upon the slavery
question are w. II, Seward, his new aboli-
ton platform, andahe sectional Presidential
clique whose object is to thrust him forward
as the anti slavery candidate of the North
-s~'.s. --ia.arp aAadixate in the South.
Upon such an organization of parties in 1860,
all the pleasing anticpatioBs Of rueh conser-
va,ve men us Mr.. Hammond may be borne
down in the fierce war between sec!ions aud
North md South, upon slavery.
We believe, hoysser, that unless this arch
agitator, Seward, shall be east out by his
party, he and his party will in the end be
with something of those divis-
ions and disasters which they would bring
upon the Union. The curtain is lifting upon
the great drama of the future. For good or
for evil, we arc upor the Threshold of
mighty reyolution.s
icy At Detroit, young man named Hen
~ Lewes, has commenced suit against
Young lady named Mary Ann West, to re-
cover some seventy dollars worth of wedding
az x;nrau 4, hich In bonuht for Ler rereftt ly -