The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-05-24
Hear. and Strike.

ton of the people of Tennessee, to the fol-
lowing evidences ofthe desire and purPos-
es of the people and government OF the
North towards us and the rest Of the
South:-
The following was recently posted on a
great many corners, in the city of Boston,
in the form off handful:
&" Conditions Of Peace Required Of The sO-oal4ed
Seeded SAFES.
Art. |. Unconditional submission to the
Government of the United States.
Art. 2. To deliver up one hundred OF the
arch traitors, to be hung. .
Art. 3. To put on record the names OF
all Others who have been traitorous to the
Government, who shall be held inta-
nous and disfranchised forever, W
Art. 4. The property ofall traitors to be
coniscated, to pay the damage.
Art. s. The Seeded States to pay all
the balance of the expense. and restore
all stolen property.
Art. G. The payment of all debts due
| to Northerners, and indemnity Tor all IN
dignities to persons, loss OF time, life and
property.
Art. I. The removal of the cause of all
our difficulties, which can only be done
by the immediate and unconditional Alb
clifton of Slavery. .. .... ......
Art. 8. Until full compliance with nj
the above terms, the socalled seeded States
TO be held and governed as United States
Territory" ....
The following is from the New York
Tribune:
"We mean to conquer them the South
not merely to defeat, but to conquer,
to sbjugate them-and we shall do this
the most mercifully, the more speedily
we do it. But when the rebellious trait
ors arc overwhelmed in the field, and
scattered like leaves before an angry
wind, it must not be 10 return 10 peaceful ana
conteated homes. They must find poverty at
their .freSitleS, and sec prirGtion u, the anxious
cyeS ofmothcrS and The rags Of children. 1t is
little enough the slaves will do when mas
tiers are at the wars, and to be idle and
wasteful is the least harmful thing in
which they are likely to engage them
selves"
The following is from the Cincinnati
Press, paper which has steadlastly OPP
posed Northern fanaticisnl, and is now
only stating fact as fact.
"The South is little aware of the fire
which it has kindled in the North. II
the South has undergone revolution,
time will show that the North has under
gone one also-equally radical and equal.
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ty. They who mix much with the people
can not but have remarked that, so far as
the North al least is concerned the North
and the South are drifting away from
each other with fearful rapidity. The old
Technology and modes of expression re-
main but they are borrowing new and
less pacific meanings Men who, few
weeks ago, were clamorous for concession
and compromise, who raised their voices
in favor Of peace, at any sacrifice, and
whose solicitude for the permanency OF
Southern institutions" would have re-
freshed the heart of the most ultra slave
ry propagandist, now pledge themselves
to 1.-the support of the Union " at all baz
ards and in all misunderstanding by
this the approval Of any measures to pun
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disturbance Of its domestic relations
which shall be necessary to force it tc
keep the peace in the future.
The North is becoming abolitionized
not the rightthinking men, but the half.
thinking ones who constitute the MAORI
ty, and represent that degree of political
wisdom which Governments carry into
effect. The reasoning which leads these
men to that copdition of mind is short
and, to them, conclusive. Slavery, say
they, has been the cause of all the politi
cal agtations which we have experience
ed. 1t mas perpetually threatened to di-
vide the nation and kindle the torch oil
civil war between the discovered sections
and kept us in continual fear that its
threats would be accomplished. 1t has
alienated one body of the people Of the
nation from another, been the means OF
creating proud and exacting aristocracy
who, al our expense, have lorded it ovel
us and who have, at length, to so high q
pitch has their arrogance arisen, attempt
ed by violent means to reduce us to sub
lection. IF slavery had not existed these
things would not have happened; there,
fore slavery must cease to exist and it is
the mission of the North to bring it to
an end"
few days ago significant convoca
ton was held at Cleveland, Ohio. 1t con
sisted of the following persons: Governor
Dennison of Ohio Governor Curtin oil
Pennsylvania, Governor Randall of Wis.
consn, Governor Blair of Michigan, and
Governor Morton of Indiana. Governor
Morgan of New York represented by
Hon. John Bigelow, and Governor Yates
Of Illinois by Ex-Governor Augustus Koer.
ner. These functionaries were assembled
to consider of the best mode Of asserting
tho supremacy of the abolition power, un-
der the guse Of sustaining the American
flag whose stars have been appropriated
by the North, and the "stripes" attempt
ed to be imposed upon the South. Dur
ing their nefarous sitting, they were sere-
naded, and several Of them made speech
es.
Gov. Denison said: Gle was thankful
for this expression of interest and assur-
ed them that his heart was with them in
these troublous times. The time for
speaking had passed, lad the time for ac-
ton had come, and he would use all the
power in his hands to maintain the honor
of the American flag. He said to them in
the name Of Ohio that rebellion shall be
put down, treason shall be crushed out,
let come what will" Immense applause. |
Governor Randall, said;
Fellow Citizens of Ohio: 81 thank
you for the honor you have conferred up.
on me, and upon the State which repre-
sent, by thus calling me out. We have
been in the habit Of saying that tho
strength Of tho Government was in the
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