The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-07-26


world is MAN's--that in reserve for them
in eternity will be GODS! What that
judgment will be is no concern of ours.
II is enough for us to know that it will
be righteous one, and that retributive
justice will be meted out in full measure.
In this awful view of the subject, these
wholesale murderers stepped in guilt sur
passing any that has ever stained the
human soul, may well tremble.
We have no time to say more at pres
ent, as our paper is about going to press.
[From the Southern Confcderacy.l
TIE GALLANT DEAD.
All hearts are overlooking with rejoic
ing, and gratitude to God for the brilliant
and effective victory of our army at Ma
nassas. God has most signally favored
us, and indicated our cause in the eyes
of the world.
But Our joy is not unmixed. Many
brave spirits have fallen in securing this
triumph. Their noble heroism-their
willing sacrifice of their lives upon their
country's altar, in defence of our liberty,
is worthy of being sung by angels, and
commemorated eternally in Heavenly
strains upon golden harps, touched by q
Scraph's hand. They loved their coun-
try, their firesides, and our national hon.
or far better than life, and in defence Of
them have freemen poured out Their
hearts blood. The object was worthy oil
the sacrifce-though itwere ten thousand
times greater: and it is one from which
no patriot, from love of life, will even
shrink.
But they are gone from us to return nc
more. They have left blank which
earth can never fill. Thousands OF heart.
are bereaved and desolate, and to which
comfort can only come, when death kind
" relieves them of the sorrows of life
and transplants them to cline where
troubles will come no more, and where
all sorrows are healed.
TO those who are bereaved and heart
stricken, we tender our coincidence and
sympathy-'tis all we have to give
These bereavements must come auc
blood must flow. Blood is the price o
every great benefit that mankind ever re
ceived: even the salvation of our souls il
the price Of the precious blood of the Sor
of God.
Then those whose dear ones have faller
in battle, do not mourn as others mourn
for though bereaved, their loved one!
have died in the noblest and most sacred
cause that mortals ever were engaged in
From the Memphis Appeal
GREAT VICTORY AT MANASSAS.
Oar dispatches this morning both from
Northern and Southern sources-Wash
deem to be reliable account of the grea
battle of the present campaign, Tough
with terrible slaughter and destruction n
Manassas on the day of the Dist instant
and resulting in the disastrous defeat O
the enemy. The details, so far as receiv
ed, show it to 6e the greatest conflict tina
ever transpired upon the American cont
nent and besides Solferino, in which no
less than 100000 men were engaged, un
equaled, perhaps, in its importance, it
splendor, the desperate ferocity will
which it was waged, and the probabl
number of killed and wounded, by an
battle Of the present century. ThougI
no mention is made of the exact humble
Of forces on each side, there could scarce
ly have been less, we think, than fror
eighty to ninety thousand Fcderalists, an
from sixty to eighty thousand Southrons
who participated imediutely and remote
ly in the contest. The presence of Scot
and Davis upon the occasion, the throw
ing Of Johnson's forces down to the seen
of the engagement from Winchester 70
the purpose of reinforcement, and ais
of the withdrawal of Patterson's con
mand from Martinsburg on the part {
the enemy, together with the daring pei
sonal exposure of officers on both sides
furnish us the most unmistakable evi
dence of the vast importance that was al
tached to the result by the combatants.-
The victory on the part of the South
evidently complete, and the rout of tn
enemy scarcely less overwhelming tina,
that which lost Bonaparte the day n
Waterloo. We can scarcely estimate tn
probable moral effect of this success G
our arms upon the North, but have ever
reason to believe that it will cast damn
err upon their energy, which will detrac
somewhat from the gusto they have so ia
exhibited for volunteering 1t would not
perhaps, be going too far to surmise that
will be tie battle of the present war, an,
will virtually break the backbone of tn
Washington government. OF such feal
full contests it was that Mr.. Webste
spoke, when he, many years ago, truth
fully asserted that "battles have bee,
fought that .f,red the fate of ,ations."