The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-07-05
Good Feeling.

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-1ln ,5 Good Feeling.
Last Monday being County Court day,
We bad the opportunity Of talking with
persons from different portions of the
county. From every direction we learn
. good state Of feeling prevails, and
that there is general disposition among
Union men to acquiesce in the Ordinance
Of Independence 30 largely ratified by
the people on the 9Th of June. Indeed,
10 far Is McMinn county is concerned,
we believe the sentiment is almost uni
versai at this time. We frankly admit
there are few men-a short half do
zen, more or less-still "holding out"
waiting for the covert act" and who cam
not be made TO believe that any Southern
State has yet been invaded, or will be-
But their number is growing smaller by
degrees and beautifully less" every day,
and a. the delusion under which they
have been laboring is dispelled, we have
no doubt they will all promptly abandon
the position they unfortunately took at
the early stage Of the revolution. Lin
coins war, If protracted, will destroy the
government at Washington. eradicate
every feature Of republican liberty, and
build upon their ruins an odious and
bloody despotism. Its tendencies are all
that way today. In tact, the leaders of
the Black Republican party themselves
say the old government is passing away,
that its days are numbered, and that they
will erect another, great central power,
with strong military arm, and an essen
tial feature of which shall be hostility to
Bouthern institutions. Why, then, should
any one here be found clinging to the old
concern, and by divisions and distractions
add to present evils and call down new
dangers upon the homes and firesides Of
friends and neighbors! You cannot stay
the wave of revolution or arrest the in.
evitable march of events, any more than
you can measure the design or check the
progress of the flaming meteor now cours-
ing the Northern heavens. But by cul-
tivating a spirit of union, harmony and
good feeling among ourselves, we can do
much to shorten the war and to keep its
more terrible evils from our own imme-
date borders. This is the duty, and should
be the effort, of all, whether their inhu-
ence be much or little. And the men who
now persist in agitation, who insist upon
keeping . people distracted that ought
to be united for defence and common
safety, must be possessed of devils by the
side of which the seven cast out of Mary
Magdalene would compare as mere in
fants. We can account for their madness
in no other way.
> We have said that the people of this
county were now nearly unit for acqui-
escence TO the will of the majority; and
We believe such is the feeling generally
throughout lower East Tennessee, with
che exception perhaps of Bradley county,
where it is reported there is yet q good
deal of division, kept up mainly by the
efforts Of few unwise and infatuated
men, who will be abandoned by the
people TO merited scorn and obloquy as
soon - their motives are penetrated and
generally understood. Mark that. From
the signs, we have but little doubt that by
the first of August our people will be one
in sentiment and action; and TO that end
let us all labor. as the surest and best way
to tighten the evils which are already
upon us, and avert the heavier ones which
= contrary and factious course will DO sure
10 bring.