The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-10-11
Not all Muzzled Yet.

the NORM, by the strong hand of arbitrar,
power, goes on without pause or hesita
ton, day by day, we occasionally NEE
with bold and even defiant utterapces in
the columns Of some OF them, whose time
has not yet come.
Faithful found among the iaithless, .
the Eastern Argus Of Portland, Maine
has not yet succumbed to the mandate, oi
the despot and his minions, but spealxs
out, without fear and without compromise.
against Lincoln and his policy. Address.
ing the Democracy Of Maine few DAYS
ago, the Argus tells them that they have
now an Abolition President, elected upon
an Abolition platform, appointed for an
abolition Congress. whose leading doctrine
is. Don't yield an inch" whose creed Is
taken from that intensified Abolition bible
called the Helper book. which makes eve
ry man who is, or ever has been, an owner
OF slaves, fiend in human shape, from
Washington down to the present day.
The writer reminds his Democratic breth
rem that they are ruled by an Abolition
party, which the Father of his Country
warned us against, by saying that when
that time came, there was an end to the
Union. That party is now in power, and
oil can see how prophetic were his words
the Union with its harmony is gone, and
war with its fearful consequences has
come. That party was but few days in
power before it cunningly devised means
to innugurate war with the South, who
have been for thirty years pleading with
the abolitionism of the North to be le,
alone in their domestic and constitutional
rights. The Administration were but too
successful. and plunged the country into
a civil war, which is to be carried on for
Abolition purposes. Cunningly, says the
Argus, the cry was raised, "The capital is
in danger!" and, Democrats, your patri.
otism was appealed to for its defence.
The editors then make the following
stirring appeal to their old friends:
Promptly did you respond to that call,
and your bayonets glittered in the rays OF
the morning and evening sun, around the
hearth stone of the nation, tits capital. J
But whilst you stood up manfully in its
defence, where was the Abolition party ?
Cowards at home, religiously regarding
the trophies Of their November victory,
their torchlights and mourning capes.E
Oh shame shame upon such o party.
But their arrogance exceeds their cowar.
dice. Brother Democrats, while you COM
pose the rank and file oc the army, thev
must be the officers who are to command
you. Whilst you are willing to defend
your country with your blood, they, like
pack of hungry wolves, are beseigins
every department Of the capital, where
officers are to be obtained or treasury pap
supplied to hungry and greedy torch
bearers.
Like the frogs of Egypt. they cover The
land, and the desolation they will leave
behind them, will be like the destruction
Of the locusts in their four years devasta-
ton, every green thing will be destroyed
in the land. In six months reign what
have they done? Just what you told
them they would do, plunged the country
into sectional war, with all its horrors.
They have refused compromises and turn
ed deaf ear to all the warnings of the
patriot statesmen of the revolution. They
cheated and deceived our Democratic SOL
diers into an abolition war with the cry of
defend the capital, but really war against
the constitutional guarantees of the South.
We do not see how the usurpation and
enormities of the Lincoln Administration
could be more succinctly and forcibly
stated than we find them condensed by
our out-spoken cotemporary. He says
truly that they have attacked the rights
of free press, and all over the land they
are using mob violence to muzzle and de.
stroy its freedom of discussion, which no
despot in Europe dare do. They have in
vaded the sacredness Of private correspon.
dence in the post Office and telegraph de-
partments, which are sworn to secrecy
They have incarcerated in their dungeons,
bastiles and fortresses, men eminent pa
triots-without cause. without process
of civil law, without being confronted by
their accusers, without the means of de-
fence, and without trial by jury, deprived
of liberty. The writ of habeas corpus is not
respected, but denied to the freemen OF
America; it has been set aside by the
President with impunity; an act which
cost q king of England not only his crown,
but his head.
The President has declared war, raised
a standing army, greatly increased the
navy, bankrupted the treasury. called for
loans to supply its empty vaults, uncon-
stitutionally and without pretext of a
legal right but the despots plea-necessi-
ty--acts which venal Senate dare not
sanction. The chapter does not end here.
Encroachments upon your constitutional
liberties increasing fearfully every day,
threats are made from persons high in
authority that the citizens are to be dis
armed. r ..-a
This last usurpation our brave cotem-
porary treats as the climax of the despot's
atrocities. And justly; for the sacred
right to hold arms denied the citizen, the
rallying cry, so dear to Americans and to
all lovers of freedom-"'ro arms, in de-
fence of Liberty no more be heard
echoing over free land. In America it
has always been held that every citizen is
a soldier, and every soldier citizen, and
it may well be demanded OF men profess
ing to be free. and to love liberty. Are
you ready to bear the yoke of such des-
potism as that now inaugurated at Wash
ington, without an effort to free your
selves from the degrading burthen?
hoy Thurlow Weed is, we believe, the
head of the Yankee company of specu-
lators who undertook to establish Yam
kee Colony at Brunswick, and by means
of canal and railroad. TO ,overrun and