The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-12-12
T,incoln's Message.

from reading it, that the world has never
! seen in so high position, man so
! weak headed and weuk-hearted. Poster
;tv will REQUIRE no stronger evidence OF
Sthe imbecility that could dictate and
the corruption that could sanction such at
/ rocious. and, at the same time, such redlcu-
Ions sentiments as are embodied in this
message. 1t is even more ludicrous in
some of its parts, than the celebrated
speeches which the Ape delivered on his
route to Washington in February, 1861
!. It is difficult to conceive how any people
could select as their Chief Magistrate,
man so devoid of principle and whose
reason is so masked, to adopt a military
phraze. There are certainly no other peo-
pie pretending e be civilized on the
globe, Nwlo would choose such ruler,
save the abolition Yankee nation. The
fact that such man was so chosen I'M
der the forms of a Republican Govern
ment, is the strongest and most unan-
swerable argument that has ever been
furnished the monarchist from the histo-
| ry OF once Tree people.
There is also pervading this last Amana-
ton from the weak usurEsS at Washing
ton most clear testin ssssi llatien,
confusion and agony. amy Of these
for one moment be entertained. They
are the result evidently of dawning con-
viction upon the mind of Lincoln, weak
and abuse as is his intellect. that he him
self is sinking into contempt at home,
while he has long since challenged the
scorn of the civilized world. salutary
fear is quite probably beginning to be
felt by him that, after all the torrents of
blood that he has caused, the woe, suffer
ing and pain that he has melted, he will
Sink into contempt, weak, despised old
man, with "the slow, unmoving finger of
scorn" pointed at him forever, and with
which sometimes hallows villainy and
crime and saves the perpetrator from the
just retribution of disgrace which man.
kind hiss into his ears.
inal, ''we cannot escape history. We of
this Congress and this administration,
will be remembered in spite of ourselves.
No personal significance or insignifcance
can spare one or another of us. The fire,
ry trial through which we pass will light
us down in honor or dIshonor to the,
latest generation" Yes, you will be-
lighted down to the latest genera
tons of men by the lurid light of
and it is this conviction that
disturbs your dreams and draws from
you those dogmatical expressions of
confidence in your success which would
be unnecessary, were you assured and
easy in your judgment. Here is an ex-
ample of the vacillation which abounds
in this message:
We say we are for the Union. The |.
world will not forget that we say this
We know how to save the Union. The |
world knows we do know how to save it,
bear the responsibility. In giving free-
dom to the slave we assure freedom to
the free-honorable alike in what We
give and in what we preserve. We shall
nobly save or meanly lose the last best
hope of earth. Other means may sue
coed, this could not fail. The way is |
plain, peaceful, generous, just-a way |
which, if followed, the world will forever
applaud, and God must forever bless.
You ''know how to save the Union"
and the world knows you "know how to
save it." And yet you shall nobly save
or meany lose the last, best hope of
EARTH" (the Union.) You are surely
very scurvy set. if you know how to save
the ''last best hope of EARTH" and yet
may permit it to be meaaly lost.
And the world knows you know how
to save it. Pray how have you satisfied
the world of this, when you have after
two years of mighty labor extorted from
an English Minister the significant re-
mark that President Davis has created a
Nation, and when your most powerful
army has again and again been driven
covering back to its strongholds? Hav-
ing failed, by the proves of arms to
save the Union" Lincoln now proposes
a scheme compensated emancipation"
~ |
ard the Conservatives will never adopt.
His arguments to recommend this plan
to tavo" are the most superficial that ever {
a man, with beard on his face, adopted /
We have not space or inclination to at
tempt review of them. But mankind
will jeer at his folly and consign to
deeper disgrace the pretender, who as
'umes wisdom that he never possessed,
md attempts to change the institutions
If country and the rights of property, ;
IS old as the law of Moses, by simple
amendment. Verify, Mr.. ,
abraham Lincoln, you have not only
hown yourself cold-blooded, heartless,
and sanguinary tyrant
nd usurper, but you have proven your
elf to be the real Dogberry that the
Drama has lmmortalized. You have
,ritten yourself down an Ass!
Jackson's Army.
The Richmond correspondent of the
charleston Mercury says: A letter from
ackson's army, received yesterday. is
ouched in glowing terms. The com.