The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-06-27

~" right anu proper that the re-
spohsibhity should be Fixed now. as the
voice Of Impartial history will FIX Il 'upon
the maa 70 whom it Justly belongs. We |
are well aware that from the beginning,
there had been differences Of character.
habits and institutions between the two
sections which forbade the idea of their
ever remaining one people, except nom
inaiiy; that bitterness and jealousies
arising out of these differences, had man.
ifasted themselves from the very founda-
lion Of the Government that the whole
sourse Of Federal legislation had been
lliaped with no other end than to make
lhe South a vassala and tributary to North
frn commerce and manufactures. But
Al This the South would have continued
D beer, as she had been bearing it. so
ltng . her domestic institutions were
utitzs.-shed. i. To VIM. II. saward -helhnea.
the 6sganiEation of that political aboli-
ton which added the last feather to the
camefs back; to him the concentration
of all he old elements Of sectional aver
sion, JEALOUSY, and hatred, which had ex-
isted In dormant state since the Revo-
lntio1; to him, the vampire policy by
which the South was lulled to repose
whilst the poison was maturing for her
destruction. There is not base ingre.
dent in human society, nor vile pas
sion II the human heart which he has
not enlisted in this crusade against the
] South Abolitionism, Agrarianism, So
cialisn, have all been summoned to this
BANQUET of the vultures and buzsards.-
The envy which the superior ease and
comfort OF the Southern condition had
excited among those who were discon-
tented with the hsrdships of their own
lot; the greed of the rapacious for other
peoples property; even the basest lusts
for rapine and defilement, were enlisted
in this horrible war upon an unoffending
people. Not only America, but Europe,
was ranshcked for hordes of mercenariAs
to butcher our people, desolate our fields,
if we would not submit, exterminate us
from the face of the earth. All this is
the work Of Seward, who has not only
| gotten up the war, but contrived all the
enginery and circumstances Of peculiar
horror by which IL is surrounded. Heiti'
who insugurates the universal system o
confiscation, by which not one Southern
man is to be left home or a dollar; b
it is who Holds up the halter as the pur
ishment of the patriot who survives tn
, bullet; he It is who crowds dungeon
q with political prisoners, and who has
i ganized a system of deliberate lying ar
r deception in euAsy-Ssopasssssesst OF VI
!. United States Government such as u
) world has never seen. Such is the ma
. who, more than any and all othera
America, is responsible for this war, an
for. all its gigantic miseries and crimes
Upon his skirts rests every crimson dro
of the ocean of blood that has been shec
Upon his head must descend the dar
thunder-cloud of curses and vengeanc
which all the wickejness and all the wo
of this war demand. If one murdere
deserves death, what should be the pun
ishment OF man who has robbed
whole nation and clothed every house
hold in mourningf What an unutterabl
monster must no be who can smile an
snirk under such a mountain weight {
crimel What mailman not to stal
back appalled, from the bottomless he
: which is yawning to receive him.-RicI
!, r,oud DiSnafch sr-, 80