The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-02-18
STATE CONVENTION.

STATE CONVENTION.
In almost every portion of the State meet
ings have been held and delegates appointed
to Convention Of the Opposition to meet
at Nashville on the Goth day of March, to
nominate a candidate for Governor. Beiev.
ing that every county in the State should be
represented in that Convention, we must
urge upon our friends in this aud adjacent
Iesanties where no action has been had, to
hold meetings on the LIST Monday of the en-
suing month and appoint delegates. There
never was time In the history OF our State
or Of the General Government, when the de.
mand upon the conservative and patriotic ele-
inent was more urgent than at present. and
II they ever again intend TO put forth their
energies and might TO redeem aud disenthrall
the country, TO relieve il from the runous
policy which is hurrying ii to destruction,
il is now. Looking to the approaching cleo
ton in Tennessee as the starting point for
the Presidential contest of 1860, it will pos
sess an interest beyond the local questions
involved, important and vital (and not to be
ignored) as some of the latter are. The de.
mocra,ic lenders take this ground, that ques-
tons of State policy even in a purely State
election shall be made subservient to general
politics. They force this issue, and it will
enter into the canvass, although they -
not be allowed TO dodge those ques
in which the people of the State ars1
Immediately interested.
No matter how honest aud patroli
democratic masses may be--and we con
to them all that we claim for ourselves.
is every day becoming more evident that the
leaders of that party ought no longer to be
trusted with power. The honor of the M
ton and the prosperity and happiness of the
people demand their expulsion from the off.
ces they have desecrated and the trusts they
have betrayed. Foul, fostering corruption
breeds in high places, and reckless extrava-
gance looks out from every department. The
seat of general government has become, I'M
der the auspices Of the party so long holding
power, the abode of harpies who continually
prey upon the body polite. The Treasury is
empty-the expenditures are double the rev.
enues-thc government is weekly peddlng
in the market for loans, and an enormous
public debt, TO be met by future taxation, is
towering up. And with these, and national
bankruptcy staring him in the face, the head
OF the democratic party sits in his Chair of
Stale and cooly recommends the adoption of
measures contemplating the expenditure of
hundreds of millions of dollnrs:-"Nero iid-
dies while Rome is burning" Now must
these things endure! Shall the people, under
n misplaced confidence in their leaders and
beneath the broad mantle of parfy continue
to hug TO their bosoms the vulpiue monster
that's gnawing at their ytals!
In this State, the issues of the canvass
will be of more than ordinary importance,
inside from the bearing !he result must have
upon the Presidential contest of 1860 Let
each county, then, send delegates to the Con-
vention-let us meet and take counsel to-
gether--nomirate some good and true man
MS our standard. bearer, and make one more
gallant and generous effort to redeem the
State out of the hands of the enemy; and
from our mountains and hill-tops start back
the surging tide of msrule and CORRUPTION,
which, if not checked, will desolate the land
with flood of evils from which it will take
long years to recover, and from the contem.
platon of which the mind Of the patriot
shrinks with dread.