The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-11-30
Now York Herald on tho Crisis.

We copy the following article ON the
revolutionary tendency of the times, and
the revulson in monetary affairs, from
the Herald of the 23d;
.PRoenrss OF TINE REyoTTioNAny Now
uryT-Eycnts crowd thick and fast upon
us The revolutionary movement IL ga in
ing volume ns il rushcs ON, and every day
| ndds 10 the complications. The news
from Kansas il calculated to cNnspcratc
still more the feelings of tho Southern
people. We find that l,-lr or five hun
| drcd armed outlaws there have organized
themselves into band of brignnds to
rob and murder pcaccablc citizens, 20
carry ON n war of determination upon
/ slnvcholding communities, and to repeat
ON grand scale what John Brown tried
ON small one. 1t is cvidcn, that the
same spirit of mischief which set ON foot
/ tho raid upon Virginia in the fall of 1853
I is still active and ut work, and that the
projected raids of thcac Kansas outlaws
/ upon Texas aud Arkansas arc pnrt ol the
same general plan. II these brigands
bc not promptly suppressed 10y the lcdci.
al troops they viii arouse spirit of re-.
! ,aliatiou In Southern communities which,
will sweep like n devastating plague oven
the whole land, and will not he stayed
until the country shall have been dclugcd
with blood
/ With equal steps the financial rcvolu
/ ton is progressing, Already many of ON
Southern and Western cities arc feeling
the severity oC the commercial crisis
/ Banks in Washington, Wchmord, phila
dvlrhia and baltimore are seeing them
. IL. g..
/ payments, \ financial rcvulsinn NOR,
. dreadful than ANY We have over yet CN
+ pcricuccd mcuAvcs all the great interest,
/ of the county, Where it viii end II,
| one has the hH'dihuud To- predict or {,
| contemplate, We are cmphatically IN
/ king a leap in the dark,
This double revolution, political an,
! financial, involves not alone the pcopl,
! OF the United States. lis effects will h,
/ felt all over the civilized world. TN,
/ American Revolution of 1910 led to tn,
French Revolution of lISS. and to Tia,
sanguinary wars which. following tina
event, dcluged all Europe in blood
| Events ut the present moment are shapin!
! themselves into similar course. Th,
hostility existing on the part of one sec
ton of the Union towards the other i
certainly no less bitter or intense thai
that which existed between the colonie!
and the mother country; and that feel
ing is hourly increasing in volume. \
any moment the fatal step may be tGkei
which will precipitate an intcrnecine war
the very contemplation of which j
enough to make one shudder.
And Europe cannot help feeling The
shock, and becoming herself involved il
the consequences. The American revo
luton Of 1860 may have as terrible al
echo on that continent as that of lI1t
had. The very interruption to trade ant
commerce which would be the inevitabl,
accompaniment of civil war could no
| fail to prove disastrous to England an,
France, and might precipitatc revolution
in those countries. Thus it is apparent
that the times through which we are pass
ing are pregnant with the most momen
tous issues, not only to ourselves, but t.
the world.
The action of the banks Of This city il,
meeting so nobly the emergencies of tn,
hour is calculated to work an immense
advantage. 1t insures the stability of The
banks themselves, and facilitates ant
hastens that change which will transfe
the financial centre of the world iron
London to New York. The progress 0
the revolution will derange the finance
Of every country and produce n CONNER
cial revulsion against which no firms vii
be able to stand, and which may cvei
cause the banks of England and France
to suspend. Thus we are being borne
along irresistibly in movement which
threatens to 90 on increasing in force ant
volume till finally it sweeps like a TEN
pest over both hemispheres. If there bt
yet means of avoiding these perils, tina
means should not be left untrcd.