The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-28
Finale Of the oreeneviils conven-
Iron The Nashville Pstriotl

from the Nashville Pstriot.1
The Greeneville Convention hos adj
journed, as we learn from private letters
received in this city. Its final act was
to appoint commissioners TO the Legisla-
ture Of Tennessee for the purpose of
memorializing it TO divide the State,
leaving the counties East Of the moun-
tains an independent sovereignty, and to
provide for taking the vote of the people
thereof on that question. We think
they have put the cart before the horse
in this instance. The vote should first
he taken, and the sense Of the people
being determined in favor of this novel
measure, tho memorial should after
wards follow. The truth is, the leaders
In this movement wish to furnish fresh
food for agitation. They wish to keep
the people on a sea of dissatisfaction
Although large majority Of the people
of East Tennessee voted against scpara-
ton from the Union, being misguided by
dishonest and unprincipled leaders, we
have no fear whatever that they are
wanting in patriotism and knowledge
of their own interests so far as to desire
a separation from their own State for the
purpose Of joining tho corrupt Abolition
Government of Lincoln. The leaders of
the Union movement have prated con-
tinually of the horrors of secession, and
now turn around and advocate the most
radical species of secession. which will
lead to the disruption of all those init
mate social, political, and geographical
ties to which they have been occustom-
ed, and oil for the purpose of joining
themselves to the government OF usurp-
er and tyrant, who abhors their institu-
tons and is making war upon their
brethren. This usurper has overturned
the constitution of the United States, by
blockading the ports of the South, by
marching armies into its States and slay
ing their citizens, by raising immense ar
mics to crush out their liberties, with
out warrant of the legislative power, by
suspending the writ of haJeas corpus and
making the military superior to the civil
authority and by a thousand other acts
of usurpation.
And vet these East Tennessee politi-
clans counsel their people to abandon
the State authority. which has never OPP
pressed them, and to adhere to the for
tunes of usurping Government, which
has proven itself unworthy the respect of
free people. 1t cannot be possible
that the honest and patriotic people of
East Tennessee can longer be deceived
by men who thus uncloak design to
bctray them into the hands Of a usurper
and to disrupt all the dear and sacred
ties which bind them to the State of
Tennessee. We do not and cannot be
leyc SO monstrous an absurdity.
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WoN'r FIcur.-Gentlemen who reached
Memphis from Jacksonport, Ark, Mon
day, report that rumor prevails in that
scntion, that the noted robber, Jim Lane,
has positively declined to enter the SER
vice of Mr.. Lincoln; declaring his inten-
tion to stay at home and tend his farm,
and let Mr.. Lincoln fight out his own
SOUTHERN MlssouRIANs.-The Audrain
country Banner, in publishing the procla-
nation of the Governor, thus addresses
its readers:
40 arms, Missourians, ard defend your
homes, your liresides, your honor and
your State. from the polluting feet of the
Addition hordes that the despot Lincoln,
through his minions Lyon, Blair and
bernstein, is endeavoring to march upon
you with the avowed purpose of reducing
you TO slaves and serfs.
HANGING IN ILLINoIs.-A dispatch from
Lane, Oglc county, H., June 10Th, says
Il. ID. Burk, rabid Secessionist, was
hung to-day by the citizens. from the
third story of the Courthouse building.
He was charged with causing the destruc-
tive fires here on the 1th of this month
and December last. His guilt was fully
established. 1t was also proven he had
planned the burning of all the business
part of the town.
B6- A battle appears to be closely ap.
proaching in Western Virginia. The
Confederates are in large force at Pied
mont, 20 miles East of Grafton, and are
looking Westward.
WHAT THE LINcoLNITEs ARE DOING With
THE CAPTURED SLAvEs.-The Richmond
Enquirer says:
"a gentlemen informs US, as from 6
.'perfect reliable source" that lettel
was found on the person OF Capt. Wal
drop, who was slain in the late battle o
Bethel Church, or County Bridge, direct
ed to his sister, in which he said that HI
had not made much Roadway as yet; tina
when he had made sale of them, III
would send her nice present"
The Black Republican leaders gone in
to the negro trading business! That i
decidedly refreshing.
sey~ The Knoxville Register says tina
Nathan Marcum, tho soldier who sho
Mr.. Arehart, in Knoxville, few day
ago, was indicted by the Grand Jury
placed on trial in the Court which wa
then in session, and was convicted ant
sentenced to eight years in the Peniter
tiary.
A SHORT WAR.-The New Orleans Be
dwells on the great anxiety of the Mort
for a short war-referring TO the dole
rous plants Of the Herald over its ea
pensiveness and losses, and adds, trul
enough, that the only way TO make it