The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-05-03
The Abolition Programme in Pro-
cess of Fulflllment.


Twenty years ago, this very month, we
think, the New York Tribune com.
menced Its publication in this city. 1t
was in one Of its earliest issues that we
read the fendish declaration that its OBJ
iect was "to educate a generation at the
North TO hate the slave power" Gree
ley has lived long enough he has fulfill
cd his mission. His party is triumphant;
the Union established by Washington
and Jefferson is rent asunder, and the de-
mon of civil war stalks through our land.
Twenty years of Northern Abolition ag-
itation and aggression have produced
their legitimate results. Patience has
ceased at the South, and resistance is be.
gun. War is upon us. SeveLty-fve thou.
sand men are about to be precipitated up
on the slaveholding States, an Abolition
Army. to bring slaughter upon the whites
and emancipation to the s4avesl iT
Nor is it alone the South that will suf
fer from this horrible, this causeless, this
infamous, fratricidal war. The North will
have more than its share of horrors In
this country and in this generation we
/ bave not known what war was. We have
read OF it in other lands and other times,
and thanked God that it was far, far away
from us. We have fondly trusted, that
for us and our children we had safeguards
of peace, order and constitutional liberty,
which could never be overturned. These
deluslons are past and gone. and we stand
face to face with the great fact, that this
| civilized, Christian, enlightened Ameri-
can people are about to imbrue their
hands in fraternal blood, and have alrea-
dy inaugurated contest which must sur
pass the butcheries and prescriptions of
! the civil wars of Sulla and Marius, or of
| Pompey and Cesar. And it must have
similar ending, for as surely as season
| follows season SO surely 'loes Military des-
potsm and u dark age Of oppression sue
ceed internal commotions and civil war.
Upon the heads of the Abolition Re-
| publican leaders be the fearful responsi-
bility. The Tribune and its editors no.
! tilted us in advance that they meant to
educate the people to 'hate" each other.
| What retribution is too severe to be visi-
ted by the impartial pen of history upon
those who have overturned so wise, just
and beneiicient Government as was
left us. by the Patriots of the Revolution
and have substituted for it Govern
ment of 'hate" and war?
| e Now that the mask is off, and Abra-
ham Lincoln is carrying out John
Hsown's programme, we begin to have
hope that that popular mind ofthe North
will recover from its delusion. The hor-
rors and the burdens Of war must appal
and calm down the most thoughtless and
eXcitable. The sober second thought of
People must soon make itself heard
When this first burst of homicidal pas
sion is over--when men shall have time
to reflect and ask "what is all this
worth?"-when the true purpose of the
Abolition leaders is studied and under
stood, then we shall have peace, and the
restoration of good feeling, and the war
policy of the Abolition President and his
party will be made to disappear before
the awakened intelligence Of the people.
Let every lover of his race, his country
and his religion declare on all occasions
that he has no sympathy with this war,
and no support or sanction to give to its
prosecution. The opponcnts of tratri
oidal strife will ere long DO numerou,
enough to enforce peace.