The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-04-26
VOL. XIII---NO. 657.
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Views of an Abolitionist.

views OF an Abol1tionlst.
The notorious Abolitionist, Wendell
! Phillips, made a speech in Boston on the
receipt of the intelligence that hostilities
had commenced. We make an extract.
1t will be seen he fears the result. Ho
said;
We stand to night at the beginning of
an epoch which may have the peace or
the ruin of generation in its BOSOM
lnaugurate war, we know not where it
will end. We are in no condition to
| fight. The South is poor and we are
rich. The poor man can do twice the in
jury to the rich man that the rich can do
to the poor. Your wealth rides safely on
| the bosome of the ocean. All New
England has its millions ahoat. The
North whitens every sea with its wealth.
The South has no commerce, but she
can buy the privateer, of every race to
prey on yours. It is dangerous strife
when wealth quarrels with poverty.
Driven to despair, the Southern States
may be poor and bankrupt; bat the poor
est man can be n pirate, and as long No
New England's tonnage is third Of that 70
the civilized world the South can punish
New England more than New England
can punish her. We provoke strife in
which we are defenceless. If, on the
contrary, we hold ourselves TO the strife
of ideas-if we manifest that strength
which despises insult and bides its hour,
we are sure to conquer in the end.
| distrust those guns at Fort Sumter.
| do not believe that Abraham Lincoln
means war. do not believe in the mad
ness Of the Cabinet. Nothing but mad
ness can provoke war with the Gulf
States. My suspicion is :his that the
Administration dares not compromise.-
1t trembles before the five hundred thou
sand readers of the New York Tribune.
But there is safe way to compromise.
1t is this; seem to provoke war, cannon
ade the forts. What will be the resultf
New York commerce is pale with bank
ruptcy. The atfrighted seaboard sees
grass growing in its streets. 1t will start
up every man whose livelihood hangs up
on trade. intensifying him into CONF
promiser. Those guns fred at Fort Sum-
ter are only to freighten the North into
compromise.
If the Administration provokes blood
shed, is trick, nothing else. 1t is tho
masterly cunning of that devil of COM
promise, the Secretary of State. He ia
NV hidu tIOuSu " lcJ THESE states ruen
into battle. He knows that the age of
bullets is over. II gun is fred in South
crn waters, it is fired at the wharves of
New York, at the bank vaults Of Boston,
at the mouy of the North. 1t is meant
to alarm. 1t is policy, not sincerity. It
means concession, and in twelve months
you will see this Union reconstructed
with n Constitution like that of Mont
gomcry.
New England may indeed never be
coerced into slave Confederacy. But
when the battles of Abe Lincoln are end
ed, and Compromises worse than Critten-
den's are adopted. New England may
| claim the right 10 seceda, and as sure as a
gun is fred tonight at Fort Sumter with
, in three years from to-day you will see
these thirty States gathered under O
| Constitution twice as damnable as that
OF l7S7. The only hope OF liberty is f.
deity to principle, fidelity to peace, f.
deity to the slave. Out of that God
gives us nothing but hope and bright.
ness. In blood there is sure to be ruin.
GEN. WEBB PRoPHET.-The Courier and
Enquirer, which breathes at present only
blood and thunder against the South.
said, twenty-five years ago, that, if the
Union were broken up by the spread OF
Abolitionism
"Our exports and our imports would
be reduced nine-tenths nine-tenths of
our shipping would be rotting at our
wharyes; nine-tenths of our population.
now supported by commerce and the
wealth il produces ard the industry il
, Il ,rA,lI lao 1riyan tn opp,o,,lt nrut
pursuits the staple articles OF Northern
agriculture command but small prices
abroad, and they would find but few GUS
toners at home; grass would grow in the
| streets of our cities and villages, and a gem
eral scence of poverty and desolation
would follow our present urexampled
prosperity and generally difiused wealth"
EIy- A bride has been invented in
France, with which runaway horses
nostrils are suddenly closed. an effectual
method, it is said, to stop the animal.
That will do very well if something
could be invented to act in conjunction
with the oridle, and keep him from rear
ing up behind.
Mr.. LINCOLN DoN'r LIKE TO Talk OF HIS
FLIGHT FROM HARRlsBURc.-The WASH
ing Star says:
On Saturday afternoon the Oregon del
egation waited upon President Lincoln,
for the purpose of paying him their res
poets. .
A gentleman of the party remarked
"that Oregon was large State, and
would soon WELD powerful influence
upon the affairs of the government"
"Oh, yes" said Mr.. Lincoln Its rath-
er larger than Maryland and Rhode
Island, which person can hurry across
in few hours"
Some one remarked "that they had
heard of n man who was not long getting
across one of those States"
Mr. Lincoln, with comical twist oi
his face. responded: Gentlemen. il you
please, we won't say anything more on
that subject" and it was dropped.
sG- The Boston Herald says one hun
dred young men, have left that city fol
the South within few days as recruits
for the army of the Confederate States.
INrALInLE CURE FOR ToorHAcHE-Taks
equal quantities Of alum and common salt
pulv erie and mix them, and apply them
to the hollow tooth on wet piece Of cot
ton. The remedy is very simple. very
cheap and within the reach of all. II
any one will try it he will find it infsli-
BILE.
~ The pulpit is constantly telling Us
how bad we are-seeking thereby to exslt
the Deity by disparaging the noblest Of
his creatures. and to inspire us with faith