The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-04-18
A Conquered South-Designs OF our
Enpmias


clergyman. the captain Of a compa.
ny at the battle Of Manassas, who fought
most calamity and whose son fell by his
side, in a letter dated at Jackson, Miss,
March 9th, to the Raleigh Church Intel
tgeneer, gives the following picture of the
design of the enemy in the event of the
subiugation of the South:
| have clearly foreseen from the begin.
ming Of this strife the design of our enc
mics, l fear too many of our citizens do
not understand the ultimate aim of their
! policy. They are determined 10 mako
! these States, Territories of the Union.--
The lands of our citizens win be confsoa-
ted, and made the property OF the Cow
eminent Union men will, perhaps, be
permitted to occupy a portion of their
own lands as pre-emptioners. The slaves
viii be declared free, but they will not
be liberated for many years but be
worked 10y government agents upon gov
ernment lands and the proceeds OF their
labor will belong to the government
All shops and manuiactores- whatever
can make an axe, shoe or thread
whatever crwill compete with Northern man
uiactores will be utterly destroyed. The
good union men of the South will be made
as absolutely dependent upon the North
as the lsraelites were upon .heir Phlis-
tine masters when they were compelled
to go to GAIA and Ashdod to have their
hoes and axes sharpened. Like the poor
lsraelites they will not be permitted to
make nor to own any weapon of war for
self defence. Northern soldiers will be
garrisoned in every town and neighbor-
hood to keep the slaves and their loyal
masters quiet. The whole South will be
worked as a sugar and cotton mine to en-
rich the North-and only SO much will
be produced as the North can monopo-
lie.
Ultimately the superAuous slaves will
be shipped to Africa, the Isthmus, or
elsewhere; and their places supplied
with white slaves of Dutch or Irish de-
scent; whose cultivation of cotton will
be called free labor" and thus the
"new South will be established. But
before this can be effected, first step
must be taken, after every Southern city
shall have followed the humiliating ex-
ample of Nashville, in which no jackson
was martyred in defending his country's
flag. Until the subjugation is complete,
this Abaddon will conceal his policy
Property will be respected as it was at
Edenton, and Florence. The cat will
purr to lull the mouse. The serpent will
conceal his fangs, and display his glitter
ing spots to charm his prey. Cowardly
and selfish fools, will be deceived and
bought with "cofiee at ten cents per
Ill Ill,
gold. Then the first bold step will be
taken to establish the "new South -
and that will be--to give to every man
who has voted, or spoken, or fought for
the Confederaeg, or held any office under
it's authority. the choice Of death or ex-
lie. The few who are pardoned, with all
the wives, daughters, and children Of
"rebels," will be turned out of doors
to live as gipseying beggars, or to starve.
Such is the satanic design Of Seward
and Lincoln, his "cat's paw" and their
aovernment-as it is clearly indicated
by all their acts, and openly avowed
Let your readers understand it, and il
one drop of patriot blood flows in tho
veins of the weakest and most timid of
them ali, he surely will excuse me,
minister of the Gospel, for unsheathing
my sword and declaring solemnly before
the throne of God, whose am and whom
serve that will never return it to the
scabbard until my country is saved from
its threatened doom.
fervently pray that may live to gath
er the congregations of my bereaved par
ishes together in peace once more to wor-
ship the God of our fathers undisturbed
oy the din of war. TO secure this peace,
and for permanent peace alone, am
now, as my Huguenot ancestry have of
ten been, before me, a soldier Of my coun-
try, and a soldier Of the cross.
Aflectionately and fraternally,
EDWARD FONTAINE.