The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-06-14
VOL. XIII---NO. eG4.
The Future Of the Northern Gov
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ernment,
The host conservative portion Of the
Northern Government, Of which Lincoln
Is the head, are beginning to appreciate
tho terrible future that awaits them. "a
valued friend and sound thinker so dies.
ignated in the Albany IN. ~ Ada, and
Argus, writes TO that paper, in renewing
his subscription. as follows,
] know the Republic il at an ends
the military power proclaimed by General
Butler IN Baltimore but the expression of
the despotism undef which the country
will hereafter be governed ! was born
/ III : free Republic, and though deprived
of living and dying in one, yet | shall
hold to the opinion that it was tho
happiest form of government ever insti-
tuted, and.well meritede longer life.
The Northern people have "sown tho
wind and are about to reap tho wliri-
wind" The way is as surely preparing
FOR form of government approaching
more nearly than that under which they
have grown up, to the most despotic mo-
marches of'the Old World, as that timo
moves space. Every thing betokens q
centralization of power in the Lincoln or
Northern Government, 10 be supported
by prodigious armaments, and entailing
upon the Treasury an expenditure of cor
responding magnitude. Take as indices
Of what is before them, The following ex-
tracts f.om two leading Republican journ-
ais New York Tho New York Times, in
arguing "The Need ofa Permanent Stand
ing Army" says:
D, Our frst task is TO subdue; next to
preserve order. This for time must be
an enforced one. The great element OF
discord still remains, and must be watch
ed by powerful force"
Nothing can be more obvious than that
government which cannot be maintain
cd by the cheerful acquiescence and CO.
operation of The people, must be maintain
ed by brute force, represented oy bayo-
nets; and to this deplorable necessity tho
people of the North are fast drifting
Therefore, as contended in another place
by the same writer, TO meet such ne
cessity, we (the Northl must Immediately
commence The organization of standing
army" In like.manner and for similar
reasons, the New York World, which
sometime processes to speak semi-ollicially,
contends that the Lincoln Government
must eventually have large permanent
naval establishment. That paper says:
Mr.. Seward foresees that the exgencies
of the government will require us to make
large additions to our psip,dncnt ndral cs-
ta5fShmcm; and as the reasons for not
uniting with the powers represented at
Paris have, in great part, ceased to exist,
he thinks the government at liberty TO
obey the moral convictions which il has
always held on the subject Of priyateering.
No matter how this war may terminate,
wo must maintain large increase Of our
naval establishment.
Provision was made by the last Congress
Of the United States for building six war
steamers, and proposals are now invited
by the Lincoln Government for an indef-
mite numbered steam screw gun-boets, TO
be launched and completed at short nc
tice. This is only the beginning--tho
end, none can see. 1t is thus clear that
the way is being marked out for despo-
tism as absolute as that of Austria. These
preparations, together with the expenses
OF the war, will result in an enormous debt,
which will have to be met by taxation,
and then, mot sooner, will the mad fo-
natics cf the North zee their folly. Wo
rejoice that we shall have no part or los
in The terribly dark future that oyeFhangs
them. - Nash. Union.