The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-12-06
The Port ROYAL Affair.

WORKS oil notion are apt TO grow Staie
upon mans taste, as he advances In
years; they lose their interest and power
of entertainment; but the Northern ac-
counts of the effect Of the Port Royal VIC
tory are sufficiently ridiculous to move
the risibles of patriarch. We are told
that the utmost CONSERVATION prevails
here; that troops are moving down from
Virginia to guard the coast; that Beaure-
gard, speeding on the wings Of steam, is
coming TO the rescue of South Carolina
By another inventive Northern editor, we
are informed that Charleston and Savan-
nah have already been taken, and are
now in the possession of the Federal
troops. .H.r
We, who live close to the scene Of nc
ton, know all these assertions to be the
purest falsehoods. That slight and very
groundless panic took place in the sea
board cities on'the first landing~of the
invaders, is true; but the alarm subsidized
as quickly as it had arisen, and now no.
body thinks of the Yankees ut Port Royal,
or cares for them, knowing that such pre-
parations have been made that their far
ther advance is impracticable. They may
make another Hatteras or Fort Monroe,
or Pickens, of theii prize, if they are not
suddenly ousted, but it will be of as little
benefit to its possessors as are those places.
Their expectations of great results from
their conquests, are just as ridiculous
They say they will open cotton port
whence Southern planters may ship their
cotton. Not planter will send bale to
any such port-should any one be SO base
as to do so, he had better go with it and
not return. They are to raise Sea Island
Cotton with free labor, were it possible to
cultivate any variety Of cotton with such
labor, the Sea Island is of all others, the
most difficult. 1t requires an amount OF
manual labor both in the cultivation and
the preparing for market, beyond any
other crop-work for which no machine
or "patent invention" can be substituted.
A white laborer would find it very un-
comfortable hoelng cotton under our hot
sun-especially when he had reason to ex-
pect every moment bullet through his
thorax. s-...i
These empty speculations Of the north
ern papers are another indication Of their
profound ignorance in regard to the
South. Their travellers have penetrated
almost every country on the globe, written
descriptive books and made money by
their publications, but the South has been
to them an unknown land. They have
taken their impressions of us from few
transient loafers about towns and cities.
Hence at the commencementof their un-
holy war upon us, they underrated our
strength IN men and means, and looked
for an easy victory. They have been ap-
palled at their own mistake--they find
themselves beaten in every 6eld-they
see new armies spring up at every new
point OF attack-their threat of starving
us into submission has not yet been exc
cuted, nor will it be, they see our govern
ment securities selling at a price not in
ferior to their own, and our credit i'll Eu-
rope equal to their own in the purchase
of supplies and munitions of war. With
all these facts staring them in the face,
how long will it be before the Northern
people will become aware that they have
been misled by designing rogues, and
gracefully yield to the inevitable necessity
of acknowledging our independence and
restoring the blessings of peace to both
nations?-Augusta Chron. and Sentinel.