The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1862-08-22
a Northern journal on Lincoln and
Z, his Congress.
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a Northsrh journal on Lincoln and
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9 <"n II rsAcrrD.''e'
: The Abolitionists in Congress hnving|
succeeded ii ''enacting." on pepiFs Ia 4
Washington, the Lloyd Garrison plat Ss1n
ofs25 Or 80 years. gone by, --snds u ear.
tyi1s out the full programme Of '9eftitt
Smith and W endcll Phillips, VIA. Z" Ensts. /
Oipation IN the STATES, by act Of Consfess
IN w ashington, 2 General Confscation,2
With consequent increased civil war and /;
NOW denounce tho Presi-;
dert, because he moves 'slow and be-
cause in his Paper Proclamaticns, he
does not keep step to these Paper Enact,
lmcnts Of Congress. The famous Chica.
90 Platform has been utterly knocked
over by those who elected President bin
coin upon it,,-and the new programme
now seems to be-
lat Emancipation Of all slaves every
where, by Paper Enactments.
I'd. Confscation OF all property every.
where, by Paper Proclamatons.
Sd. Aiming of the slaves, generally
and universally.
4th, Imprisonment and Hanging Of all
4 Northern men, who do not think this
4 programme Of war, the wise or effective
I, way to carry it on.
The President, II iSssey esa,aiiS, hsl,s
and hesitates i'm the execution of the
new platform. He clearly acts, as if he
did, in heart. agree with these men, thus
denounced as traitors, on mere matter
of war policy, but, in al probability,
the President, m the end, will be dragged
along. as he has been-the bob of CARR
son, Gerrit Smith, Greeley, Giddings. and
the other ds,-of the new Girondist
School of our American Revolution
himself. in the end, tobe 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 nov, that any more
harm can be done, b. doing anything,
on paper, be it what i nay,-in the form
of BE il enacted" or Proclamation" The
whole harm has been done. The Union
party in the RebelStates has now been
utterly extinguistnd, and there is scarce
ly Union man lift, from the Potomac
to the Rio Crane. The BE il enacted
Of the North has consolidated the South
in arms, and pouiarizsd even the con-
scription of JEFF. Davis, at first 80 hate
full to the Southern people. We may ex-
pect, therefore, by November next, to
meet million oi'white rebels in arms,
and, if the Negroes are armed by the
North, some two hundred and fifty thou
sand negro rebeliin arms, under the
command of their masters. y
Thus, the "Be it.esa.ted' Of Congress
having done all the harm that can b,
done, by roofing out every vestige o
Unionism, South, and by popularizinI
even the Southern consciiption. it is no
then matter of any practical impor,
ance what the President does, after wha
he has assentedto "A paper, proclams
ton from him. enancipa.ip8 the slave
! Of Texas or Mississippi, or Georgia. woul
!, only waste the paper, it was written OF
Hence, if the President should etan
upon the Lloyd Garrison platform {
l830-35, or execute the programme {
that era. he now could do no more harm
The only additional harm he can do,
in arming the negroes,--a harm not I
1.-The South, but to the North, as the Q
Enlistment Of the principle and OF tn
, precedent, would enable the Rebels ,
: bring into the field. a hundred armed n
groes to our ono. But, ~ wahever sha
be permitted to have rest. North, -as Ii
Abolitionists will never give him rest, vi
til he executes this part of the program
me, we are not sure, that the complete
: and full execution of the Garrison pla
\ form of 1880 would not be better for II
future peace Of our society, in the Mort
than to halt, after going five-sixths
the Garrisonian way. The agitatine 81
ment of the Abolition mind must be q
peased, satiated, in full, by Blood. befo
we can again ever, have rest. Thong
Congress enacted" the Garrison pr
eramme of 1880, yet Congress utter
failed 10 provide ways and means for Il
execution of that programme. The 800
600 men now called out to execute tn
programme. are just as inefficient, just
short, as the three months $4,000 me
OF April, lS6l-because the war, by q
of Congress. has been aggrandized ar
. popularised in a ratio far greater tha
300, 900 is to $4,000. No adequate pos,
! now, has been raised by Congress to ex
cute its programme. No adequate tax
/, have been laid. The measures of Co
gress are now just as inefficient. for II
t. objects "endetsd By Congress" as they wei
in April, 1851. Indeed. we are but r
making Chinpse war,-3ustSsnch war.
8. the Chinese made against the British an
q French. We throw fire crackers at Re
: els, in Proclamations, and they laugh
= us. Wa shake "wooden n,onstersr
'.papisr nsachsY before them. in .Acts
Congress lend they grin at our Papi
7 Aachs Congress Mandatory. We q
!, Yrebel," 1"rebel, "traitosa strsitor. :,
! aud they snsersat US, just as the Britt
Artillery did,. or the French Cavalry,
: when the Chinese turned sunnmetsaull
D 40, 900 of them. at Z time. N scare 4