The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-03-20
(RrOm the Richmond Dispatch-)
Bold Expressions from a Northern
Clergyman

Bold Expressions from Northern
Clergyman.
Alta recent meeting of the Democratic
Club of Philadelphia, the Rev, Z. Z. Burr
tormerly editor OF the New York Daily
News. was one of the speakers, and de
nounced the Administration OF Lincoln
in the most bitter terms. lie said II was
a drunken Administration. besotted with
lis isolation of the Constitution, aud had
never had one honest pulsaiion for the
GOOD OF the country. Ii was a set Of ras-
Gals. lie had lately BEEN to Washington
and his soul was filed with shame when
he saw the streets of that city filled with
Inmates and persons looking ms If they
had come from Bedlam or some Free-Love
cancellation. The members OF the Admin
istration, the speaker said, were not tit TO
be boot blacks for his honorable auditors
Applause Abraham Lincoln isa great.
r. traitor than Jefferson Davis. what
has JEFF. Davis done? lie has merely in
lrinred upon our territorial jurisdiction I;
he has not struck at the Constitution.
On State rights, Burr discussed at
length. He believed that We would have
10 come back to the good old doctrine OF
State rights TO save the Republic, and said
that the United States have no rights,
md were merely rented on the solid basis
of State rights. Suppose that a State
should refuse to elect Senator or Rep
resentative, where would your United
States be Congress is nothing but the
representative of the States, and this Is
The only doctrine that can save us. What
we want is pluck.
mo we dor't," interrupted a voice.
ave want money"
Yes. sir" continued the speaker
I'VE want muscle. Garry the pluck which
you have displayed this evening with you
into the street. II you do so, the Provost
Marshal of lhis city will be more afraid
Of being ridden suddenly on rail than
you will be at any injury which he can dc
TO your constitutional liberties" APP,
plause, and IN loud tones, I'VE will, we
will."] After the applause had subsidized,
the speaker said: when the soul OF
this Government is dead for one care
not what becomes Of its bod y" APP.
plause.9l IF plot which is now pro-
| posed should succeed, that one of our
soldiers should 90 to Richmond and assas
sinate jefferson Davis and bring back his
head, he hoped it would be put on Abe
Lincon's shoulders" Loud and long
continued cheering
Mr.. Burr reiterated that Mr.. Lincoln
was greater traitor than jeff. Davis, and
if his Abolition policy was permitted tc
20 on, he Mr.. B. maintained that JET
lerson DAVIS was fighting for Liberties in
the North, as weltas those OF his iello"
citizens in the South. Why not stop this
war now? Why, my friends, you vii
| ask, How can we do so without dsgraceY'
Why, if you are dlsgraced now, what vii
your dishonoT amount to six months
hence, if you go on making dead mer
and public debt? If this Abolition pro
gramme was to be carried out, and ne
groes were to be put in our forts as garrl
son troops, he, as peace man, thought
| it would be his time to turn soldier. III
contemplated the new compromise lint
with pleasure Itwould run East of New
Jersey. and would therefore include tia
| State and Pennsylvania. As for New
England, he cared very little whether i
came in or not. These States might b,
tolerated in the new Union as a sort o
ulcer which could not be taken out unit
it was perfectly ripe.
The Baltimore American, in comment
| ing on Napo!eon's letter to Gen. ForeJ
says:
Must we. under The lead or junta o
visionary madmen, still initiate the doc
in the fable, and grasplng at the shadoN
lose the substance There is but one Of
two courses lett for the Government to
pursue, in order to avoid the very worst
future consequences of these designs o.
the French Emperor. 1t will either be
compelled to accept a war with France
whilst the South is still in arms, or by {
speedy recognition of the seeded States
at once defeat the schemes of Napoleon
and put an end to the civil war. We dc
do not know whether this will be consid
cred treason by the powers that be, but Is
our honest conviction that 1t Is our only
course by which, not only this country
but the continent will be saved from
complications with the diplomacy anc
powers of Europe"