The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-03-26
SEcrInNAIISM


North, that sterling paper. the New Orleans
Bulletin, administers The following deserved
rebuke to those designating spirits whose
study, and all whose efforts seem to be d.
rected to Dissolution of the Union. The
Bulletin says: -ssss-'i Fs--s-- -.-'.-
"Practical acquaintance with the subject in
the Southern States, 10 great many in
stances would effeetually cure this form Of
political monomaaia, and il is the only RENE
dy there is for il. Hence, railroads in afford
ing facilities for practical Intercourse between
those who are now utter strangers TO each
other, and each others habits, opinions and
in stitutions, will hereafter do much to correct
erroneous Vows in different portions of the
sonfederacy In regard to matters existing in
other portions OF il. Political monomania
with some mauifests itself in the idea that
they are asfully oppressed, and hence they
labor with all the ardor of the class TO whish
they belong to hold up the American Union
as a monstrous engine of oppression! Per-
sons really afflicted with this dreadful disease
are entitled to our profound commiseration
for their unhappy condition. IL is indeed
difficult to read with a sober countenance
what these people sometimes actually print,
but their peculiar psychological conditions
should excite sympathy rather than mirth.-
One great source Of affection TO them is that
they cannot make others agree with them
Thew see and feel AZ clearly as the man in the
insane asylum that he is sane and everybody
else crazy, that they, and they only are right,
while the great mass Of the people are blind
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pressed condition in which they live, and will
live so long as they refuse 10 knock the gen.
erai government into political pi. The follow.
ing paragraph, from an exchange, affords a
good illustration of the melancholy feelings
Of those unhappy monomnniacs, because the
Southern people will not be equally unhappy
with themselves, and because the said South
ern people, being terribly oppressed and mis-
used, don't know il! Read:
awe confess that we have very little faith
in the spirit of resistance among the people
of the South; and about the only prospect
that We see of getting out of this glorious
Union is that one of these days the North
may take notion from mere wantonness,
and by Offering US some new indignity, to
kick us out, and then kick US for being out
III W WHiCu We viii uO uOuUt Suuuilb W US
kindly as we have continued to remain in the
Union under every indignity they have been
able hereafter to offer US. af, 81
Only think of the small chance of consola-
ton which remains 70 him! If the North
would only take il into its head to offer
some dreadful 'indiguity' to the South how
happy would he be He would then, in the
fullness of his sonl, axc!aim:
'Now is the winter Of our discomfort
Made glorious by the summer sum
of disunion; and to
'Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war; .
and let chaos come again. Oh, how it would
fill him with 'incommunicable 6lissp
ave say that the real monomaniac should
excite our pity rather than any other emo.
tons; and though il my be found absolutely
necessary 10 restrain excuses growing out of
monomsnia, it is generally best, whenever il
can be done with safety, to let it alone to die
Of sheer exhaustion. But there is a vast
difference between monomania and downright
hypocrisy. The former we may pity; the lat.
ter we always despise. The distinction be-
tween these two is palpable, upon the politi-
cal chess board of the country just now, to
the commonest observer. W Q cannot stop
to point out all The circumstances of il, u is
plainly discernible; and shall allude only TO
one. Some Of the sectional presses in this
par: of the country, aware that undisguised
disunion sentiments would be execrated by
the people, artfully seek to instil the poison
into public mind BY earnestly protesting the
greatest attachment to the Union, and at the
same time doing everything that they posi-
bly, can secretly, TO undermine and destroy
that for which their affection is SO strong -
They manifestly think, too, that the people
will not see through the disguise, will be de.
ceived through specious and deceitful appear.
ances, and will therefore not really under
stand what they are driving at. They will
lind themselves, We think, greatly mistaken
in the estimate they thus set upon tho intsli-
gence and patriotism Of the people. and the
compliment thus paid the latter, will We pre-
sumo, be duly appreciated.
"These sectional disunionists in disguise,
take especial pains TO give publicity to the
sentiments and fragments of speeches of
Northern AbolitionisIs, giving them ludicrous
prominence and importance which must be as
highly gratifying to the vanity of the said
abo:itionists as il will be surprising 10 them.
This indeed is an old device of the sectional.
lists of different parts of the country, in the
despisable work Of alternating brethren. They
have long been quoting and elevating each
other into importance, but the trick is now 50
thoroughly understood by the great conser-
vative masses Of the country, that il is impo-
tent to do harm, as it can deceive nobody but
the most Ignorant, many of whom are not
much in the habit of reading, while Others
cannot"
WASHINGTON, March 2O.-The Kansas de.
bate continued all day in the Senate, Messrs.
Foot of Vermont, Simmons, of Rhode Is
land, and Bright, of Indiana, made speeches
to-day; and Messrs. Stuart, of Michigan, and
WILSON, of Massachusetts, will speak to-
night, on the same subject.
In the House, the Deficiency bill was dis
cussed, and running debate on Kansas.
Phelps introduced Pacific Railroad bill
for the route through Albuquerque, Terulo