The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
Subjugation--Wherep

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AZ Lincoln and his supporters really
suppose that thu Southern people will
over pass Under the yoke Of his despotism,
they IRE criminally blind, not only to the
dictates Of reason and the teachings Of
history. but 10 current events and facis,
as obvious as the sun in the heavens. But
we believe they now expect no such thing,
The purpose and temper of the Southern
people, their spirit, their strength and
their prowess, have been evidenced on
the battle field, and displaye ed before tho
world, until Europe has learned the lesson
to which Lincoln labors.to DO hind, but
which he is constrained to understand.
The Southern people have, indeed, nev.
er tolerated the bare idea Of being con
quered and bound as the prey os Northern
avarice and tyranny Men, women and
children have vowed The irfeevocable vow,
and would die before they would yield.
When Kossuth sought refuge in the
Turkish dominions from the biood.hounds
of ,yrannical power, the Turks proposed
TO him protection on condition, that he
would embrace the Mahommedan religion.
The noble Magyar rising to the full diyni-
ty OF his proportions at once answered (;
IL decline: between death and dishonor
the choice is neither dubious nor difh-
| cult" So answer now the united South
ern people to the profiers and the threats
of the boosted eighteen millions OF John
/ Hickman.
Lincoln and Seward cannot now fail to
see that reunion is impossible. The idea
on which they commenced tie war is for
ever dissipated. They press on in their
mad work because they do not know how
to stop. We do not believe that they
have now very definite understanding
of their own movements. They are drift.
ing or driving. they know not whittier
They have missed the port for which they
set sail, and are now on the unknown
ocean. By what policy will they steer?-
Their despotic courses conclusively show
that our old Government was incompati'
BILE with their notions Of power. Consti
tutions and laws, judges and Lawmakers
are Knocked and set at naught by theil
men of war.
In one thing only are they consistent
They set out to subjugate free people
and deprive them of their liberties. The,
are likely to succeed, with one qualifca
ton. The yoke was prepared for tn,
necks of one people-it is falling on tn,
necks of another. The South escapes; bu
the people who lent themselves as tn,
agents of the scheme, and became partie
to the effort to enslave us, are themselve
the victims. The pit which they d:ggeS
for us, they themselves have fallen into
Hannah is hanged on his own gallows.-
The South has not been subjugated, an,
will not be. But the North has been.-
They have passed there under the yoke Q
!, despotism such as men have never befor
: groaned under on Americas shores.
They dare not do as the laws allo,
them. There is no law-everything
what Lincoln wills. Men dare not speal
as they please. They dare not think a
they please. They dare not have a cor
science of their own. They dare not b
silent. They must affirm what, perhap:
they do not believe; mast swear to tina
against which their souls revolt; must ar
plaud the tyranny which their souls exc
crate; must join in the clamor for irno
cent blood. All this they must do, or &C
cept as their portion, prisons and dun
geons in distant States or on gloomy isles
where friends may not see them, wher
wives may not hear from them, wher
trials are not to be had, and where the,
dwell in such cells as Lincoln may b
pleased to assign, and until he shall b
pleased to discharge them. Thus ha
ended the free. government, the fire.
speech, the free press, and the free con
science OF the North Ended in utter
AFFECT suIjugation! The pail of politica
night has settled over their land, and tn
silence is unbroken save by the insensat
laugh of such Il. love to rattle their Gains
But the South. thank Heaven, is still
free. Unsubjugated, unawed, unbent. I'm
terrified A people have been subjugai
ed, but, thousand times, thank Heaven
it was not by us, nor is it we! a.. ~.