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

The seeding brethren in the Palmetto
State seem determined to go out of the
Union. The result of the recent cleo
tions in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana
has frightened them out of their pro
priety entirely, and they declare the
Union dissolved already.
The following extracts, from the Char.
lesion Courier, will illuminate the condi.
ton and prospects in thatdirection
Remarks Of n. BarawcN Rhcy, Jr.--The
following is the substance of the reply
made by X. Barnwcll Rhett, j., Editor
pr the Mercury, to the complimentary
call and serenade of citizens and electors
on Thursday evening:
Friends and Fsllow- Citizens Accent nv
acknowledgements for the greeting lust
given me as successful candidate for the
Legislature. 1t is source of pride and
pleasure TO know that so much interest
is felt in my election. receive il rs n
good omen for the cause which is adyo-
Gated in the columns of the Mercury. |
trust that cause is on the rise. 1t is the
cause OF the South. No man of intelli-
gence can now conceal from himself the
luCJ bfibb the luStltutlOOS OF the South
are in danger of subversior.
We are in the midst of revolution
not of our making. 1t sweeps down up
on us from the North, and self-preserva-
ton requires action. If we do not put
ourselves in position to meet and ride
the storm. ourliberty, our domestic safety
and our pecuniary interests will be over
whelmed beneath the surges of section
Itcf ar,flo nj. l.. Al =
we cannot. My advice, you well know,
is to breast it like men, and like freemen.
III there be any policy in suffering our
selves to be paralyzed by romantic at
tachment to the Union, which, however,
admirable once, is at this time source of
apprehension and peril, cannot see it.
If there is any wisdom in allowing inn
aginative evils of Disunion to sap your
spirit or stultify your common sense,
am unable to recognize it. And, my
friends, | am cold-blooded conserva-
fist. My patriotism, like my charity, be-
gins at home. The preservation of South
Carolina and the South it seems to me,
should be the first care of Carolinian-
Were this object accomplished, we could
then afford to crafty the American Re-
public and rejoice at its good influences
upon mankind and the world at large
But at present these are matters of insig-
nihcance to us, when all is wrongfully
endangered. Nationalism and Union
sentimentalty are very much out of
place. The question is one of our exs-
tence. The requirement of the times is
hard common sense and frmness. But,
my friends. will not detain you with a
speech. You know enough of my opin-
ions through the papers. I thank you
again for this compliment and accept it
for the cause of State-Rights and resis-
lance with which am identified.
Senator Moses.-The South Carolinian"
reports:
''On Wednesday evening, a large con-
course serenaded the successful candi-
dates, who responded in appropriate re-
marks. After this, led by the band, it
returned to Hunts Hotel and compli-
mented the Hon. +. J. Moses, of Sumter,
who came out on the piazza and returned
thanks in remarks appropriate to the
occasion. His reply was in spirit of
good humor. lie alluded very briefly to
the political complexion of the country.
He said that the Union was already dis
solved, and saw now no hope for the South
in the Union,