The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-12-14
The gost.
Athens, Friday, December ii, 1860
The South and the Union.


pires from their deep foundations to be
distinguished? Will no sources of discord
remain?-no clouds float in the clear
vaults over their heads? lie has read the
annals of our race, and studied the hui
man character to little purpose. who in.
slulges in reveres like these. How is it,
even now? Is there entire unanimity of
principle or purpose at the South? Do
contiguous States separated only by a
marrow stream, entirely harmonize? In
view of these things, what assurance can
the gentlemen have that, whatever befall
the Union, liberty will still fix her chosen
abode at the South? is there any thing
so peculiar in its institutions, its prnci-
pies, its policy, Us to induce the loud be-
lief that her footsteps on earth will be
found there alone? In after ages, If some
jealous votary, groping among the fall
Ion ruins and scattered fragments of her
temples, to rescue some monument Of
her existence from the remorseless hand
OF time, shall explore the vestiges she
has left, will he eXclam of the South,
exclusively, in the language of the Ro-
inan poet, ''UicaluS arma-hic cUruS, fuit?'
Sir, it is ''better to bear the ills we have"
than to seek a remedy in the dark chaos
of disunon.
All history admonishes us of its deplor-
able results. Faction, commotion, dis
cord, civil war,-how have they not writ
ten awful lessons as inscriptions upon the
tombstones of nations? Does it not be-
come us, then, the South as well as the
North, the East no less than the West, to
start back from this yawning, this faith
omless abyss of disunion, whose depths
no human eye can reach, and from which
the groans of buried empires send back
fearful warning? God grant that we may
not blindly, madly, rashly, plunge in, to
explore for ourselves the dark roccsses Of
its dreary caverns?--GEoRGE EVANS.
WHAT CLAIM HAS SouTu CAROLINA on THE
COopERA1IOS OF NoRTu CARoLINA2-This
is Il question which it well becomes every
North Carolinian to ask himself. 1t is
manifest that in her secession move
South Carolina has taken counsel only of
what she deemed her interests, and has
not paid any, the slightest attention to
the interests of other States. She wants
free trade and cheap negroes, and she secedes
that she may get them. AS far as North
Carolina is concerned, we do not remem-
Der to have seen her name mentioned in
any of the speeches and proceedings in
South Carolina. 1t is "Carohaa" and the
Cotton States all the time, and the eXs-
tcnce of North Carolina as q member of
this confederacy has been ignored by her
arrogant and pretentious neighbor.-
Why, then, should North Carolina tuck
herself to the tail of the y nation of South
Carolina, and share the fate which her
enormous follies will bring on her.
North Carolina, we apprehend, is not so
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negroes as to leave the Union to get
them. Her interests are exactly the
other way in every particular, and if .he
great nation of Carolina consults her
interests, why may not her more modest
and unpretending neighbor consult her
interests -Raleigh ". C.,) Register, Nov 81
MONEY BADLY SpENr.-ln an English
paper, says the Philadelphia Press, we
find statement that the people of Great
Britain have expended upon war and its
establishments, during the last sixty
years, no less than three thousand mil
lions of money, or upwards Of ffty-two
millions annually. In the same time,
the national expenditure of Great Brit
ain, for education, has not averaged one
hundred thousand pounds per annum,
or six millions sterling. Here, then, the
soldier has cost Sl5, 100000, 900, while the
iSchoolmaster has been paid with only
S30,000,000 during the same sixty years.
9d- A lady in Philadelphia, last week
had silk dress torn, by its hitching
against box on the sidewalk in front OF
store. She sued the store keeper for
damages, and though he proved that he
was only occupying so much of the side
walk as the law allowed him, and that
the box had been there only an hour and
a quarter, the Court gave judgment in
favor Of the plaintiff for five. dollars and
costs, thus legally deciding that every
thing out of doors must stand clear Of
hoop-skirts.
CURING HAMs.-At length the famous
"lIembold Recipe" for curing hams has
been discovered. The old gentleman was
very choice of his secret, and preserved
it to the day of his death. After that
event the recipe was found hid away in
n hole, in the cellcr wall. Here it isl
Sayan nounds roorsa snlt five ,,nnnIS