The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-06
The Caudidstes at Nashvillo.

having reached home only few hours
before our paper goes 70 press, we can
barely Allude to tho flair this week
The speaking was in the Capitol, and was
heard by . larger crowd than we have seen
in ! long time. Gov. Harris led
in speech evidently the work Of q good
deal Of. labor and care, and designed to
make illeeilimate issues. He occupied a
portion Of his time with the everlasting
Niger question, and in trying to illustrate
what the prints Of his party have been
chareing-that the Opposition South SYM
pathised with and were sffiliating with the
Abolition element North. Col. Neither
land meets this charge just as it deserves
to be met. and As we hope to see it met
upon all'occasions, denouncing il as de
ibcrate calumny and unworthy of any
one above the position of a partisan scrib.
bier. Upon the currency question. Gov.
Harris was little MISUNDERSTANDING
over that plank OF the Democratic plat
form. as Col. Netherland remarked, as
though there were few splinters in it
The Governor is what may be termed a
hard money man, although he lodged a
little on Monday. but we think his COM
petitor will cure him of that weakness in
the course Of couple Of weeks. We I'M
dersfand Cow. Harr;s 70 be against the re.
charter of all existing Banks, and that
he will oppose chartering any new ones
except upon such terms as capital will not
seek. That's his position = and that
brings him up pretty near TO Andy John
sons triune standard of lard, hard<r, and
hardest. In regard to the extravagant
expenditures of the Government, His
Excellency pretends to hold his party
blameless, charging the Opposition as
mainly responsible for them, and IL
made an effort to show that, notwith-
standing Democracy has been all the
while at the head of affairs, with its guards
around the treasury vaults, the doors
locked and the keys in their pockets,
somebody else is responsible for the miss
ing money, and the manner in which it
has been spent. We have no disposition
to depfeciate Gov. Harrison the contra
ry, he is an able man, good declaimer,
and displays some adroitness in the man.
agement of bad-cause, buff he possess
ed ten fold the power and weight he does,
he could not convince the people of Ten
nessee that the leaders of Democracy are
not the guilty parties, or shield them from
condemnation.
Col. Netherlands appearance on the
stand was greeted with long and enthusi-
astic cheers; and he proceeded at once to
show the Governor that he could not be
diverted from the true and proper issues
by the introduction Of foreign questions
and abolition distractions. He told him
that he was wrong in his tactics, and
demonstrated it in few words. He was
there to prosecute, and not to defend, and
his competitor could not and should not
lead him of. We have not the time nor
the room this morning to follow Col. Meth.
erland's remarks. criticised the incon-
sistcncy and want of sincerity of the lead
ers of his opponents party upon the cur
rency question in the severest terms, and
turned into ridicule every effort of Gov.
Harris to draw him off from the real is
sues by the introduction of matters hay
ing no bearing upon the canvass. He
showed by figures and documents that
the Democratic party, from treasury
overlooking few years ago, had succeed
ed, by its wasteful extravaganza, in bring
ing the government to condition of ina
bility to pay its debts for sums as low as
forty dollars; and touched and turned the
points his competitor made in the readiest
and happiest manner. When we reached
Nashville we found our friends there in
dulging high expectations of Col. Neither
lands ability for the work assigned him,
and it is enough for us to know and to say
that he met that expectation and con.
WINGED allwho heard him that the right
man had been selected. We say this, not
80 much from the repeated bursts of APP
plause while he was speaking, but from
the expression and feeling manifested on
the following day, when the immediate
excitement Of the occasion had subsidized
Our friends in Middle Tennessee are in
high hopes of success-the current start.
ed on Monday in the right direction, and
we are satisfied from what we saw and
heard, that the efforts of the Opposition
candidate viii there at least be zealously
and untiringly seconded. What shall we
say for our section? We would inspire nc
i'll grounded confidence, or deceive by de-
preciating one candidate and extollinp
the other beyond the truth. We know
our man will do all of his duty, and that
if the same spirit that is animating on,
friends in Middle Tennessee peryades the
western ana Eastern Divisions, success is
not only possible. but certain. Let us
commence then-beat the reveille, rally
our forces, rekindle the old fires, and per.
feet the work of organization.
MONEY IN New YoRK.-Decrease in loans
s4S6,OOO; increase in specie. S26l 900; in
crease in circulation 1000; increase in
nett deposits S606, 900.
p6r The National Division of the Sons
OF Temperance, representing all the Divis.
ions of North America, will assemble in
Philadelphia on the first Of June.