The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-08-22
A Northern Journal on Lincoln and
his Congress.
From the New York Express, Of July 2e.l
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BE IT fsAcTfD.".
The Abolitionists in Congress,-haying
succeeded in "enacting," On paper, in
Washington. the Lloyd Garrison platform
Of Is or 80 years gone by.-snd, in car
ryins out the full programme Of Gerritt
Smith and Wendell Pbillips,-Ms., "Eman.
cipation in the States, by act of Congress
in Washington" General Confiscation. /"
with consequent increased civil war and
observation-disclosures denounce the Presi.
dert, because he moves "slcw,". and be.
cause in his Paper Proclsmations, he
does not keep step to these Paper Enact.
ments of Congress. The famous Chica.
90 Platform has been utterly knocked
over by those whs elected President Lin.
coin upon it,-and the new programme
now seems TO be-
LIST. Emancipation of all slaves every.
where, by Paper Enactmens.
I'd. Confiscation OF all property every.
where. by Paper Proclamations.
I'd. Aiming Of the slaves generally
and universally.
4th. Imprisonment and Hanging Of all
Northern men, who do not think this
programme OF war, the wise OF effective
way tocarry it on.
The President, it is very certain, halls
and hesitates in the execution of the
new platform. He clearly acts, 40 if he
did, in heart, agree with these men, thus
denounced as traitors, on a'rnere matter
OF war policy,--but, in all probability,
the President, in the end, WILDE dragged
along. IS he has been, &the 65 of CARR
son, Gerrit Smith, Greeley, Giddings, and
the other G's,-of the new Girondist
school of our American Revolution
himself in the end, to be dragged down
by them, as were the moderate men of
the French Revolution, whom Madame
Roland raised and trained in her salon.
Nor do we think now. that any more
harm can be done, by doing anything,
on paper, be it what it may,-in the form
of BE ii enacted" or Proclamation" The
whole harm has been done. The Union
party in the Rebel States has now been
utterly extingWshed, and there is scarce.
ly Union man lett, from the Potomac
to the Rio Grande The BE it enacted'
of the North has consolidated the South
in arms, and popularised even tho con.
scription of jeff Davis, at first 30 hate
full to the Southern people. We may ex.
pect, therefore, by November next, TO
meet million of white rebels in arms,
and, if the negroes are armed by the
North, some two hundred and fifty thou.
sand negro rebels in arms, under the
command of their masters.
Thus, the "Be il enacted" of Congress
having done all the harm that can be
done, by roofing out every vestige of
Unionism, South, and by popularizing
even the Southern CONSUMPTION. it is not
then matter of any practical import
ance what the President does, after what
he has assented to. A paper proclama-
ton from him, emancipating the slaves
of Texas, or Mississippi, or Georgia, would
only waste the paper, it was written on
Hence, if the, President should stand
upon the Lloyd Garrison platform of
l830-35, or execute the programme of
that era, he now could do no more harm.
The only additional harm he can do, is
in arming the negroes, "a harm not to
the South, but to the North, as the es-
Enlistment of the principle and OF the
precedent, would enable the Rebels to
bring into the field, hundred armed ne
groes TO our one. But, us we never shall
be permitted to have rest, North, AS the
Abolitionists will never give him rest, i'm.
til he executes this part of the program
me, we are not sure, that the completion
and full execution of the Garrison plat
form Of 1880 would not be better for the
future peace OF our society, in the North,
than to halt, after going fve-sixths of
the Garrisonian way. The agitating ele-
ment of the Abolition mind must be APP
peased, satiated. in full, by Blood. before
we can again ever have rest. Though
Congress enacted" the Garrison pro.
eramme of 1880, yet Congress utterly
failed to provide ways and means for the
execution of that programme. The 200,.
900 men now called out to execute this
programme, are just as inefficient, just as
short, as the three months $4,000 men
OF April. lS6l-because the war, BY act
of Congress, has been aggrandiSed and
popularized in ratio far greater than
SOC, 900 is to $4,000. No adequate posse,
now, has been raised by Congress to exc
cute its programme. No adequate taxes
have been laid. The measures of Con-
gress are now just as inefficient, for the
objects "enGetsd by Congress" as they were
in April, 1851. Indeed, we are but re.
making Chinese war,-just such war, as
the Chinese made against the British and
French. We throw fire crackers at Reb.
els, in Proclamations, and they laugh at
us. We shake wooden monsters" of
'pdpiey rdchs" before them, in "Acts OF
Congress" and they grin at our Papisr
MacAW Congress Mandatory. We cry
"rebel." rebel" traitor" "traitor,"--
and they sheer at us, just as the British
Artillery did, or the French Cavalry
when the Chinese turned summersauIts,
10000 of them, at a time, 10 scare off
this Artillery and Cavalry.
The pOsss of arnins only 100000 sddi-
tional men to execute the programme of
Congress, ia a ridiculous posse, land II
smounte to but little more than Chinese
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