The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-17

NOW, DOD, Wnen you talk about medicine,
we are in. We are no politician, but in
medicine we profess TO know something.
We have supply on hand for the fall
business, and we intend to dose it out to
you and your party MS occasion re-
quires. We have made our diagnosis and
prognosis. We pity you, Bob if you do
not us ; and we warn you for old acquain-
ance sake, and for every other sake, to
flee the wrath to come. Ponder well be-
fore you take another step in that drec-
ton. Come back to your Alma Mater
again. She will cherish and love you as
of yore. She is the same now as she has
ever been. Come out from among those
disorganzers and seceders-those "sore-
headed fellows-acknowledge your faults
and return to thy Fathers house again.
Sir. if you remain much longer with them,
they VIII take you over TO the Opposition.
.Aro'they not industriously engaged in
, circulating Opposition mems speeches as
electioneeiing documents in this county?
! refer to Malsital!'a,of Eentucky,a a ceie-
brated Know-Nothing leader. Is not
that OmiHouS! Is there any sane man who
for one moment entertains the idea that
Mr.. Breckenridge can be elected? Why
Mr.. Buchanan says he cannot run in the
North. Is not the North the place where
we want help? What are we, if we get
the whole South? Powerless to elect or
do anything without the assistance of our
Northern friends Has it not been known
and conceded by the party South and
North that Mr.. Douglas was the man to
beat the Black Republicans? Then why
run Mr.. Breckenridge? Then why did
our delegates at Baltimore assume the
awful responsibility of assisting to break
down the great Democratic party of this
Union? Why did they go into the
bogus Convention and assist in bringing
forth n second candidate? Why did
they not come home after leaving the
.rcgular C0nccntioH, call Convention in
their own State, Tennessee, and let them
ratity one or the other OF those nominal
tons! Perhaps if they had not gone into
that Convention, Mr.. Breckenridge would
not now have been in the field. ilar-
mony and concord would have still re-
NAMED in the party. Bob, your party
are to be held responsible for all this dis
traction Of party. The evils will be greater
than you will be able to bear. The ten
dency Of such a course is to elect Lincoln,
and thereby bring about that much de-
sired step of our Southern neighbors a
Southern Copttdracy. 1t is the duty of
those men who, without authority, put
Breckenridge in the field, to take him out
again, and let harmony prevail again in
our great National party Listen, reader,
what the Montgomery Mail, a disunion
! paper advocating Breckinridgc and Lane,
says: Run three Presidential tickets
against Lincoln, thereby giving Lincoln
the best chance for election. After Lia-
coin is elected some Southern communities
will refuse to let Postmaster, appointed
under his administration, take possession
of the Office. Then the United States
authorities will interfere to enforce the
law. Then the United States authorities
will be ahot do,ca or they will shoot some
body down. Thea the people of the
, cOmlNnl.ly Nm ri-r up aga n5t the Nnitc.!
States Government, and will be sustained
by ncighborlng communities until ctCH
acar, with all its horrible butchCries, en-
velopc the land in n shroud of blood and
carnage" My countrymen, are you pre-
pared for this? viii you belong to Il
party whose organs utter such sentiments?
know you will not. Then come to the
reacuc--stay this dire calamity. You
have it yet within you power; act prompt
ly and with a will. If there was ever II
time that tried mems souls since our revo-
luton, it is now So come, like your noble
SlreS-SaNe thc country from lanatlclSm
and sectional strife. Come one, come all,
and rally to the standard Of Douglas and
johnson, Democracy and the Union, the
the only ticket that has the least chance
Of success against Black Republicanism.
Let us stand to our friends in the North
and give them all the aid and comfort
we can whilst they are fighting our bat
ties for us. Turn in, Bob, and help us to
accomplish this good work. Leave those
"sore-headed" politicians whose object
is first themselves, and the dear people
afterwards. Come back among your
friends, and quit going it blind any longer.
Drop this sectional party and its leaders,
whose death knell has already been
sounded through the land; who are fast
, fastening to that bourne from whence no
politician ever returns. More anon.
: Your friend,
j. G. Brown.
kr,rgt T. 1870