The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-10-19
The Late Injections.

pers connecting tue proDapility OF LincOln's
success in November, because Of the adj
verso result Of the recent State elections
in Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. IL
is true, those States have gone over
whelminely for the Black Republicans,
and that the result indicates their triumph
in November. Yet zoe are not willing to
concede Mr.. Lincoln's election as q dead
sure thing by any means. Not at all. On
the contrary, there is reason TO hope and
believe that he will be defeated. Doug
las will certainly carry Illinois and several
Of the Northwestern States. In New
York there is complete union, or fusion,
the Bell, Douglas and Breckenridge
men oil being in it. The same is true,
we believe, in regard to New Jersey
and Rhode Island, and there is no reason
why all three may not be carried against
him. New York itself would secure his
defeat, and we believe the adverse result
In Pennsylvania, instead of disheartening
and discouraging the conservatives Of that
great State, will nerve them to redoubled
efforts, and lead to the achievement of
certain victory. But admit, for the mo-
ment, that Lincoln's election is probable:
what is the manifest duty Of every I'm
ion-loving man of the middle tier of States,
or the border slave States, as they are call
ed? Every man, whose eyes are not COW
cred an inch deep with the film of pref
udice, must know pat there is afaction, or
perhaps party, South Of us, strong and
formidable, loudly clamoring for disunion
yea, openly advocating it, and avowine
and solemnly pledging their intention to
60 out of the Union, to break itup, in the
event of Lincoln's election, an event which
many of them not only expect, but hope
and pray for. Now no one accuses Mr.
Breckenridge and Gen. Joe Lane with be-
ing disunionists-at least we don't. But We
do know that they are the candidates Of
the party or faction we have alluded to
above. We all know, or by this time ought
to know, that those gentlemen were nom.
mated by and through the instrumental.
ty of the advocates of disunion,-that the
disunionists to man support and advo.
cate .hcir election. Let us suppose that
Mr.. Bell and Mr.. Everett, after they re-
ceived the nomination Of the Constitri.
tional Union Convention at Baltimore,
had been nominated by the Chicago Con-
vention, and had accepted that nomina.
ton, as Breckenridge and Lane was NOM
mated by and accepted the nomination Of
the Convention of disunionists at Rich
mond, and that all the Black Republi-
cans were supporting and advocating
Messrs Bell and Everett, as all the disun-
ionists advocate and support Breckenridge
and Lane-what would have been the cry
from every Southern speaker? What
would have been the line of argument by
every Southern editor? Why, that Bell
and Everett had affiliated with and were
the candidates of the Black Republican
party. And any Southern man who might
have attempted to defend them would
have been overwhelmed by storm that
no power could withstand. The real and
supposed case are analogous. So twist
and dodge as we may. there is no other
conclusion than that BIZ eckinridge and
Lane are the candidates and favorites OF
the disunionists, though it is not true that
all who support them are in favor of break
ing up the government if Lincoln should
unfortunately be elected.
What position does South Carolina, AL
ALBANIA and Mississippi occupy in the event
of Lincoln's election? Pledged to secede,
rebel, or dissolve, whichever You may
please to call it. Will they attempt to re-
deem the pledge? Possibly, in any event
But unquestionably if they get aid and
encouragement from the middle tier,
or border slave States. Let Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ken
lucky and Missouri cast their votes for
the candidates of the Secessionists, of
course it will be regarded by them as an
endorsement of their previously avowed in
tentions, and Alabama, Mississippi and
South Carolina will at once move to re-
deem their pledge. That movement will
necessarily bring on a conflict with the
Federal authorities, and with the social
and sectional sympathies which we all
feel and know to exist, the WORK of revo-
luton, dreadful and fearful in its results,
will have commenced. But if Virginia,
Kentucky, Maryland, Tennessee, North
Carolina and Missouri, or a majority of
them, vote for the Union candidates thus
emphatically evincing their opposition to
the projected scheme of dissolution, it
would check the madmen in their policy
all future aggression, and by fighting the
battle in the Union, save the South and
nation from the horrors ofanarchy and civ
il war. Viewing the subject in this, its true
light, we believe it TO be the duty of every
man, who desires to see the government
sustained and preserved and peace and
harmony restored among the States, to
vote for the Union candidates and more,
we believe that every vote cast for Brock
inridge and Lane in Maryland, Virginia,
Tennessee, Kentucky and other slave
holding States of the middle ground, will
be vote, in effect, for disunion, and will
be regarded by the disunionists as an en-
dorsement of their designs-thus giving
them aid, encouragement and strength.
We hope our democratic friends here
who propose to vote for Breckenridge and