The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-11-01
The Prssidential Election.


On the 9th osy Of last November the
people Of the United States Of America
cast their suffrAses for President and Vice
President. There were four tickets in the
field, and the election resulted in the
choice ofathe candidates of sectional
and fanxsical organization, founded on
hostility to the institution Of slavery, and
which had for years been engaged in war
ring upon the institutions and interests of
The Southern half Of the Union. What
WASHINGTON and the Fathers of the First
Revolution foresaw and warned the coun-
try would be the result OF such q triumph,
Immediately followed. Eleven States at
once Withdrew from the Federal com.
pact, resumed their original sovereignty,
and are now in the field, with three hun.
bred thousand men, struggling for indie
pendence and nationality. A new Union
has been formed, government has been
organized, Constitution adopted, vast
armies raised and equipped. and battles
fought and victories won uneclipsed in
the pages of history. What changed
and what spectacle of moral grandeur!
Ten millions Of people, outraged and mem
aced beyond endurance in their dearest
rights and interests, rising as one man,
and, casting under foot the prejudices and
attachments Of years, going forward with
one heart and one purpose--lndepen.
dence, or Annihilation!
On next Wednesday, the 9th day of No
vember, the people Of the Confederate
States of America-comprising the Com
monwealths of Virginia, North Carolina,
South Carolins, Georgia, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas,
Texas, and Florida-will he called upon
to vote for President and Vice President.
There is but one ticket in the field, yet it
is all important there should be full
vote polled, and it should be u matter of
pride, as it is the duty, of every loyal citi-
zen to repair to the ballot-box and deposit
his suffrage for the first President and
Vice President of the New Republic, now
the last hope for liberty and freedom on
the continent. The belief is prevalent in
Linoolndom that there is large party in
the South signing for the old Federal
remnant on the eastern bank of the Po-
toinac, as the children Of Israel sighed for
the flesh pots of Egypt. While there is
no foundation for such belief, for there
never was people more determined and
united, still, if through neglect growing
out of the fact that there is but the one
ticket in the field, light vote is polled,
is will be misinterpreted and heralded all
over the North as evidence that the PEG.
pie of the South are divided and distract.
ed, and that the non-voters are only wait
ing an opportunity to manifest allegiance
to the miserable despotism at Washing
ton If all the loyal citizens of the Con-
I federacy were to vote next Wednesday, il
would do more to undeceive the masses
North, and facilitate the approach Of
peace, IMAM u uOZeH NlCtOTleo WOH uilu
blood and carnage. And surely, while oui
brave soldiers are in the field, encounter
) ing the hardships and dangers of camp
life. we, who are counting inglorious ease
at home, can afford to devote the time
y necessary to 90 to the polls and vote.
i, We, therefore, urge upon all to TURF
t out-see your neighbors and urge upor
e them the importance of voting. We re
1 peat, let every loyal citizen deposit hi
v suffrage in the ballot-box, as the sures
means of convincing the enemy of thu
mistake he has made in supposing til,
people Of the South are not one anc
| united in support of the government the!
have established and in resistance to tn,
Federal usurpation. Depend upon it, ev
cry vote cast next Wednesday will b,
equal to a Minnie ball planted full in the
breadbasket of q live Lincolnite.
Tho FIGHT at Rook oa sfle wv