The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-12-09
tIoroo,,a Ferry Resolutions.
The following are the resolutions offer
ed by Mr.. Bayless and adopted by the
majority of the Tennessee Legislature:

WHEREAS. N most UangCrOuS epoch nNS
arisen in the history OF our country, based
upon the fanatical aggrcssions Of North
ern Black Republicans on the reserved
rights of the States and the institutions
OF the South, seeking to abolish slavery
by preventing the extension into common
territory and rendering it insecure and
hnzadous in our midst: and whereas, in
the recent instructions at Ilarpcr's Fer
~ as well us in the revolutionary scenes
in Kansas, we recognize the legitimate
fruits of that reasonable policy avowed
by the acknowledged head of the Black
Republican party, VIM. u. Seward, in his
famous Rochester Speech, III which he
said:
"Thesc antagonistic systems free and
slave labor) are continually coming into
closer contact and collision results. Shall
| tell YOU what the collision mcans?-
They who think that it is accidental, I'M
necessary, the work Of interested or iunat-
ical ngitators, and therefore ephemcral,
mistake the case altogether. 1t is an
irycpiessiblc conflict between opposing
and enduring forces and it means that
the United States must and will, sooner
or later. become either entirely slave
holding nation, or entirely free labor
nation. Either the cotton and rice fields
of South Carolina and the sugar planta-
tons of Louisiana will ultimately be til
led bv free labor, and Charleston and
New Orleans become marts for legitimate
merchandise alone, or else the rye fields
and wheat fields Of Massachusetts, and
New York must again be surrendered by
their farmers to slave culture and to the
production of slaves, and Boston and New
York become once more markets for
trade in the bodies and souls of men,
1t is the failure to apprehend this great
truth that induces so many unsuccessful
attempts at final compromise between the
slave and the free States, and it is the
existence of this great fact that renders
all such pretended compromises, when
made, vain and ephemeral."
AND WHEREAS, Henry Wilson, another
Black Republican Senator from Massa-
chusetts, has declared:
"Iet us remember that more than three
millions Of bondsmcn, groaning under
nameless woes, demand that we shall re.
prove each other, and that we labor lol
their deliverancc. | tell You here to-
night that the agitation of this question
of human slavery will continue while the
foot of slave presses the soil Of the
American Republic"
And Mr.. Wade, another Black Repub.
lican Senator from Ohio, has said:
There is really no union now between
| the North and South, and he believed nc
two nations upon the earth entertained
feelings of more bitter rancor towards
each other than these two nations of the
p,,,l,l;, Fkn A,1,y s.1yot,,N, -
| Union, therefore, was to be found in di
vesting it entirely from all faint Of slave
ry."
AND WHEREAS, Senator Seward, address
! ing Southern Senators from his place in
that body, has boldly proclaimed to the
world that
"At last new voice issues from youi
own region, from the South, from tho
| slave States, and protests against YOU
farther persistence in this mad enterprise
| (of extending slavery and admoniShc.
you that it must and will fail. The co
horts are gathering from the South the
men of moderation and conservatism
who, as they have heretofore moderated
| in favor of slavery and-against freedom
will now be obliged iE consistency will
| their just and well established character
| opd thair bol,;tuoI ,otr;ot;,n, 70 ,,,oloro,
against you in favor Of freedom, ant
rise up unanimously against slavery"
And again, at Rome in New York, al
WI w .i'o sno" Vi .ilo iltNt TWO years l'
"iti,es' 'no ~ ,.iI'.loi, W 'iis same he
ill., Io"I IF ih,S ,r "'.,u h ta,no "au''S u'''e,
Eroii, u u M" 81 w; Wv" mi S"Ei u
M TIar of Ko,t;,oIln WI tn' $50. "
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cattnh ;sa -" I 10 NC "a
alrooI,, ooo,nrod ,d i ','l, 90 SiI@v i.
saa ,S 'No"'ie"' "'''' 10 i'0" 'o "'''ii'c'i'
~,
LheTtJoFf' iicsolec'. Cy ne General rs
Se"'oEy@ nc ot"e q Tennessee, That we re
coshize IN the recent outbreak at Hapert
ferry, the natural fruits OF TINS treason
ap'o hrepreSsioie coiiiict doctrine, pu
ioftn by inc great mead OF the Black he
puDiicah party, ana echocd by his sub
ordinates; and that 1t becomes the i'm
peratiVe duty oil national men OF all par
ties throughout the Union to announce
to the world Their sense OF its iniamy
ana 10 unite IN crushing out its author
us traitors TO Their country and as deadil,
enemies 10 the puoiic peace, TO the right
OF the STATES ana the preservation OF GU
republican institutions
heso'tc"' mat we record 1t as the sens
OF the tennessee Legislature, that tn
declafailohs OF MI. seward, That re
spectacle portion oil the southern people
under me lead OF such men as Casslus NJ
Gay ana FRANCES +. blair' VIII unite VIII
the extension of slavery and will eventu
ally rise up against slavery" is libe
upon .ie lionoL anu .;I, iPyai'y oi 'ne 'oui I
them more wotchfnl and exoctine ofthei
public servants in tbe national Council.
Rrsol.M That it is the dutv of orr rer
resentotivcs in cong,ess to recognize q
enemies to the Union and esnccioIIy +,