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

of the North.
Nothing but one of those hallucinations
which God sometimes permits to take
possession of the minds of nations as well
as individuals can account for the specta-
ole the world now bebolds in the North
waging this cruel and bloody war on the
South in the name Of the Constitution',
and the"Union" The North max es war
TO save the compact" they had FIRST bro
ken The fugitive slave clause is solemn
and plainly written provision Of the Com
stitutiou, and put there for the benefit
and safety Of Southern property. II is as
binding provision as that under which
Lincoln was elected President, or The
Black Republican Senators hold their
seats in Congress. Yet this clause is
trampled upon by the men who are shed.
ding our peoples blood to uphold the
Constitution. To hold the institution Of
elavery intact in the District Of Columbia
is az obligation as binding as any that
can be imposed upon the honor Of states
men; yet the Black Republicans have
swept it away by a vote in Congress. The
freedom Of the press. the habeos corpus the
personal libertyhf the citizen, the free,
dom from arrest, except by due form Of
law, and the trial by jury, are all corner.
stones of the Constitution Of the United
States; and yet they have been set at
naught and traated with contempt by
these champions of the "Constitution."-
The Mobile Register brings to the minds
of these brawlers for "the Constitution
and the, Union" the following chapter OIL
their Union" record; ,s
We have. before us "a slip from the St
Louis Republican of the Presidential can
vass We find in it some of the utter.
ancee of Black Republican sentiment at
that time. Nothing but was upon the
Union was then breathed 1t was de.
nouneed as = league with the devil, and
"a covenant with hell" The old flag oil
stars and stripes was mutilated, and Black
Republicans held Their meetings and
marched in professions under banners
with oil but sixteen stars erased. When
Hamlin was nominated as a candidate for
Vice President salute of sirteen guns
was fred at Portland, Maine. These men
thus blackballed the Southern States,
and excluded them from the Union years
before the act of secession. Hear how
they talked and see how they acted:
War between the Northern and
Southern States--LET 1T CONE i"- Black
Republican party of Dubuque
81 have no doubt that the free and
slave States ought to separate."-J s.
| Pike, of The Neio York Tribune.
"Itis the duty Of the North, in case
they fail of electing President and n
Congress that will restore freedom 10 Kan
sas, to revolutionise the goyernment."-
Resolution Of a Black Republican meeting IN
| Wisconsin.
~ pray daily that this accursed Union
may be dissolved, even if blood has to be
split. p Black Republican Clergyman o,
Poughkeep'ie.
1--WE earnestly request Congress, at it,
present session, to take such initiatory
measures for the speedy peaceful anc
equitable dissolution of the existing
Union as the exigencies of the case may
require" Black Republican petition 10 Con
gress.
"The Union is not worth supporting ir
connection with the Sou.h."-H. Greeley
THE Constitution is n reproach and /;
league with Tophet." Wiuiam L. CARR
son.
Let the Union slide"-N p. Banks.
plssgEI9EIs aaa EaapiAal wHnqgsll5dsdd ara
Esq, of Danville, addressed Fremon
meeting at Norway on Monday, standing
under an American flag, on which wer
only sixteen stars Democratic AdUerGiser.
The disunion flag, with only sixteel
stars, still continues to float across tn
public highway in this village-an EN-
blem of sectionalism, and disgrace I
the party who placed it there.-Norpa
! AdUertissr.