The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-04-20
Presidential Items.

Hon. VIM. A. Richardson, of Illinois,
is in the city, en- ro,te for Charleston. ale
was accompanied by several of the Hi
nois delegation. Col. Richardson is the
leading Doublas delegate of the north
west, and is full of hope.
The contest between Breckenridge and
Guthrie ut Charleston will be extremely
animated. Ebs
Leading Democrats from Ohio, Indiana,
Michigan, Wisconsin, and other of the
northwestern States, declare that Doug
las is the only Democrat who can carry
that section in November.
The opponents of Gov. Seward in the
Republican party insist that the result OF
the elections in Connecticut and Rhode
Island may be regarded as,evidence that
he is not an available candidate for Presi-
dent, while his friends are equally conf
dent that should the nomination of Doug
las be defeated, Mr.. Seward can easily be
elected.
Gen. Thomas Ford, lately elected prin-
ter of the House by the Republicans, has
announced himself in favor of Douglas.
The young America" of the Republ-
can party. Gov Banks of Massachusetts,,
is rapidly looming up; and has more at
tached personal friends in his own organi-
zation than any other man, after Cover
nor Seward and Gen. Cameron.
Mr.. Buchanan is PROFESSIONALLY for
Gen. Joe Lane, of Oregon.-Philad. Press.
neS" The Memphis Avalanche is down
upon the political hucksters" of its own
party, who, IL sly talk and act as
though the Democratic party should be
held together for the purpose of securing
the spoils instead of perpetuating great
and eternal principles. These Demo
cratic "hucksters" the Avalanche con-
tinues, "kick principles to the dogs and
parley as to tho best means" Fired at
the insulting idea upon which these
"hucksters" act--that the Democratic
party lives and moves and has its being
in and for the "spoils" principle--the
Avalanche thus overwhelms all of its own
party-and goodly number they are
who are disposed to tolerate Douglas or
Douglasism for the sake of securing a
Democratic victory and enjoying the
"spoils" thereunto appertaining:
when heresy is exposed and made
to stink in the nostrils of the Southern
people, these demagogues, who love Of
fee more than principle, tell us we must
tolerate the monstrous absurdity because,
forsooth, it is popular in the North! The
South must swallow repugnant and I'M
constitutional vagary because it is savory
food in the Abolition regions! The
North is tainted with the leprosy OF
"Squatter Sovereignty" ergo, the South
must inoculate herself with the same
disease, or else defeat is certain. To pre-.
vent defeat, the South is called upon to
join her enemies. To prevent dcstruc.
ton by arsenic, she is requested to take
strychnine. The South is asked to give
up the whole matter at issue for the sake
of harmony. Thus it has ever been, that
when the South is deeply interested in
any question in which her rights are in
volved insists upon being heard in their
advocacy, and by so doing endangcrs the
harmony Of the party, she is called upon
by party leaders and party organs to de-
sist for fear of presenting distracting is.
sues. The South must give up everything
must sacrifice every principle-must
submit to every demand made upon her
~ dominant party at the North, how
ever e%orbitant it may be, and that only
for the sake Of party success. The argu-
mcnt is, that we will shortly be called
upon to elect n President, and if the
South insists upon having this matter
definitely settled, SO MS to know what
she is to expect from her Northern al
lies, she must drive them from her sup
port, and thus ensure defeat to the party.
Let us elect our President. no matter how
it is done, and then there will be time
to discuss this question-but until then it
is dead issue-of no practical impor-
lance whatever. The tricksters may call
upon us to drop this matter, but we are
very much mistaken in the spirit of the
southern men if they will submit to ig-
more this question, which is of such vital
importance to us all, for the sake, merely,
Of aiding the oitlcc-seekers in electing a
Il President, who will give them nice and
comfortable quarters.
GSAp The Hartford Times lets out the
following pent-up genius of y scholar of
that city, who astonished his school
mates by the following composition:
"CoMrosrTIoY-Once upon time there
was profit named Elisha, was walking
out one day, when some small boys made
profane and faceshus remarks onto his
bawld head; whereupon he caused 2 she
bears to devour the small boys. This
was the first time that man was ever
known to bear children"
CAUSE OF INsANiTy.-Dr. Penney, for
many years the Resident Physician of the
N. Y. City Lunatic Asylum, in speaking
of the pre-disposing or existing causes of
insanity, remarks as follows:
Misdirected education, by cultvating a
particular faculty or faculties at the ex-
pense of the others, and thus destroying
the balance between them, lays the foun-
dation for arrangement for any slight ex-
citing cause. The high culture of the rea-
soning powers, with an entire neglect of
the moral, produces an intellectual but u
bad man, while the cultivation Of the
"heart" at the eXpence of the "head" pro-
duces man OF leeliss--the fanatic. The
emotions hold an important place in the
production of our happiness, and il they
become morbidly sensitive and particular
ly separated from the intellectual control,
the harmonious action of well-balanced
mind no longer exists. For the perfec-
ton of the mental faculties, the physical
organs must also be developed.
SINGULAR CoIScIDENCE.--Judge WATSON
lately fell dead in England just as he had
finished charging the jury. 1t is very re-
markable that this sad event took place
on the anniversary Of the sudden death
of Judge TALFoURD, whose fate was SINH
liar. He, too, died after he had complet-
ed his charge to the jury.
eS5@A boy was asked one day what