The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1861-04-19
Another Plot-Construction of a
Middle Confederacy-Douglas to
be President.

Without comment or the expression
of opinion, we give an extract from
letter from citizen of Tennessee adj
dressed TO the Governors of Illinois, lndi-
ana, Missouri, Kentcky and Tennessee
We have heard of plan Of reconstruct
ing the Government, by the creation Of a
Middle Confederacy, to be adopted when
the reign of Northern and Southern poll
ticians become ntolerable:
"With secession comes civil war; ;ntes-
tine commotions, rebellons, treasons,
plumber, rapine, the sacking Of cities !;
murder and blood-shed will stalk abroad
at MONDAY virtue will be dcthroned ;
peace and plenty will find their graves :
religion will flee from ea tn, and hell will
not surpass in all its horrors and delormi.
ties the theater Of conflict between the
North and South. As a matter CT neces-
sity the Middle States are expected to
furnish the battle-tields of the county,
1t is already sated that Jefferson Davis
contemplates marching armies upon
Washington across Tennessee, North Caro-
lima and Virginia. 1t seems that war is
imminent, and those States which have
had no agency whatever in bringing it
about are to be the chief sufferers. 1t is
intimated that Memphis will be captured
by Mississippi " "iil!busters" in case Ten
nessee remains in the Union, and should
Tennessee secede, Memphis will be the
first city assaulted by Northwestern ar
mics, if the restrictions imposed upon the
free navigation of the Mississippi are en-
forced and perpctuated. There is no es.
cape for this city. The State of Tennes-
see is II long, narrow belt, extending half
way from the Mississippi to the Atlantic.
The proposed war cannot long continue
| till Northern and Southern armies must
needs cross the State. 1t will be alike TO
the interest OF the black republicans and
of the Oiigarchical Government of the
South to make Tennessee the scene OF
conflict. Neither o. the politicians gov
ernments will hesitate to transfer to neu-
trail ground the evils attendant upon the
presence of hostile armies. Shall Tennes-
src, Kentucky Missouri, Illinois and In
diana consent to be placed in this posi-
ton?
by majority of nearly seventy thou
sand this State has declared that there was
no sufficient cause for the revolution which
has occurred still less is there cause for
impending hostilities. Lincoln needs q
war to consolidate his strength and party
in the North. Davis chronic oiiice-hold-
| ers must have war to excite in their be-
half the sympathes of the Southern peo.
pie, and to consolidate his power and
government. By the greatest calamity
which can befall the Middle States, South
| ern politicians hope TO make them par
ties to the suicidal struggle.
1t has occurred to me that Tennessee
has no interest in the contemplated con-
test. She does not care to have her fields
desolated, her villages and cities pillaged,
her daughters violated, and her slaves
liberated. II Massachusetts and South
Carolina must fight, and each has found
allies, since we can see no cause for it,
why should we become participants in it?
or why should we be injured Ivy it? Let
them cut one another's throat's at iefni-
tun,, and let Tennessee and the Middle
States simply protect their own territories
from invasion by either OF these mobs oil
politicians. She may feed them while
they fight, as u matter OF humanity, and
OF dollars and cents. The sane people
from both extremlties OF the country will
flock to the land Of peace, and we will
grow rich while the other States are en-
gagged in the wise and pious business of
destroying life and property.
AT the very moment the war begins,
Tennessee should not pay another dollar
into the Federal Treasury at Washington,
nor should any of the Middle States. Ten
nesseeans have no disposition to furnish
men and money to weak and corrupt
Government which may attempt to en-
force the provisions of the infamous Nor
rill Tariff, nor are they inclined to be
made by force the supple tools OF the
Southern politicians, whose whole course
OF action our people, with almost one
voice, condemn. The secessonists in
Memphis rejoice in the prospect of war
so do the atoltionists in Boston. Wen
dell Phillips pulls at one end Of a string,
and Yancy at the other, which they pro-
pose to break.
$50 let it be, and let their followers
and the States which have unwisely yield
ed to their domination. reap the conse-
quences OF their folly, and not the people
OF the Middle States.
"The Governors of the Middle States
should be prepared for the emergency ol
war. The first gun that is fired, whether
by Lincoln or Davis, each only awaiting q
decent pretert for violence and bloodshed
should be the signal for the formation o.
Middle Confederacy, whose declared
policy shall be peace. The man who ad
vises any other course is no statesman
: but is guided by his passions and prejudic
cs rather than by any consideration o
public good.
1T is very apparent that Northern ane
Southern States will soon grow weary o
3 useless war. They will desert the North
: ern and Southern Contederacies to unite
, their destinies with one of which Stepher
A. Douglas should be the first President
THUS the Union will be reconstructed
quiet and peace will return to bless the
land; the people will return to their hab
: its OF industry the accursed power o
g politicians will be destroyed, and Ameri
= ca will resume her march to glory ant
. greatness" Yours, J. ID. l..
/, RGy" We find the following item o
news in the New York journal Of Com
e merce, OF March Goth:
: Westchester Co.-The town elections il
Westchester take place to day.
The Democracy Of New Rocnelle hav
J. put forth declaration OF principles IL
o the following form:
e "Resoived. That the Democracy OF New
! Rochelle adopted as their party platform
the Constitution of the seven Southern
g Confederate States.
3 JAMES BUCHANAN AT HoME.-The ES
4 President. appears to enjoy the quiet re
pose Of Wheatland. Since resuming tn