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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-04-17
From Charleston,

Charleston, April l3.-All quiet. A few
blockaders, frigates and ironclads, off the
bar, are the only vessels in sight to-day.
A steamship arrived this morning from
Bermuda, with a cargo Of army equip
ments for the Government,
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-04-17
The Future.

The jackson Crisis has a cheerful edito-
rial, headed What of the night" the
conclusion Of which we copy;
For prudential reasons we omit special
references to the influence OH future mil
itary operations which may be exerted
by Q Confederate navy. We know great
deal more in the premises than we are
permitted to tell. We can only say we
"thank God, and take courage!" That
the present war will close with, or during
the warm season now approaching, so far
as the South is concerned; that it will re-
suit in our final independence, we do not
allow ourself to doubt If the South, as a
people, will only recognize the rightful
supremacy Of God-if our people exhibit
the sublime spectacle of PATRIOTS, shed
ding blood on the field in defence OF lib
erty, and Christianity appealing to the
God Of justice and mercy, in the sacred
temples of worship; then truly may it be
said we deserve TO be free, We arc prepar-
ed for peace, and for prosperity.
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We have received couple Of Cincin'
natl papers of recent dato. Opposition to
Lincolns oonscript seems to be extend
ing and intensifying and in tho larger
cities there is manifest tendency 10
mobooraoy. Gold advancing. The Con-
necticut elections resulted adversely to
the denioc' ats. ...
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There are reports Of important military
movements on tho Rappahannock, but
nothing dsinitsr -.
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The Slave and Free States as Test
ed by the Census.

We find in late number of the Louis
vile Democrat, for which we are indebted
to the kindness of friend, very able
and interesting article comparing the
slave and free States, in point Of wealth,
education, morals and general prosperity.
The writer produces facts and figures of
the census, and is unanswerabe in his re-
futation of the charge so hippantiy made
by the North that the South, IN point of
wealth and education, is far behind the
North as a people, and that slavery is a
clog to her general prosperity and social
progress As this is a subject much mis-
understood, even ia the South, we give
place to the article, not only as matter
worth reading, but valuable and worthy
to be preserved for its interesting statis-
tics. The writer so far from asserting to
the popular cant that the South is behind
the North in general prosperity, takes the
following bold position
/. Wherever, in the United States, the
people have enjoyed the advantage of
slave labor, they have been distinguished
bv their general industrial prosperity and
superiority iu wealth tnd social happiness
over similar communities. which nave not
enioyed the use Of slave labor.
.. Throughout all the slaveholding
States those counties which have had tht
greatest amount of slave labor have at
tained higher degree Of prosperity than
any other counties in the United States
either North or South.
3. Throughout the slave labor, or more
properly mixed labor States, those coun-
ties which approximate nearest to the
condition of the white labor States, by
having the smallestnumber Of negro slave
laborers, are in the most backward condi-
ton as to general prosperity and social
progress, and contribute east to the sup
port of government, education and reli-
gion.
Having assumed these general PROPOSE
tions, the writer proceeds
As a matter of common observation by
travellers and business men, it may be
stated that of all social institutions which
have ever been devised for improving the
condition of society, and especially of the
laboring populations for checking the
progress of pauperism, crime and disease
for strengthening the spirit of constitu-
tional liberty, and promoting the growth
and diffusion of sincere religion, and of
the spirit of friendship and brotherhood
among men. negro slave labor has been
the most efficient In examining the cen
sus of 1860, we discover that the entire
real and personal estate of the inhabitants
of each State, which divided equally a
mong the free inhabitants (inoluding the
free colored, J gives the following amount
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-01-30
Effects of Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation.

The effects of Lincoln's Emancipation
Proclamation are thus referred to by the
Chicago Times on the Sd Instant
"The deed is done-the deed which
unites the people of the South forever in
their rebellion, and divides the people of
the North as TO the further prosecution
of the war-the deed which converts the
war from a constitutional contest for the
integrity of the Union for an unconstitu-
tional crusade for the liberation of three
millions of negro barbarians and their
enfranchisement as cit.zens-the deed
which destroys the last hope OF the pres
ervation of the old government, and in
augurates future, dark, uncertain and
dreary deed which is as unwarrant-
ed in military as it is in civil law, against
the purposes of which the humanity of
Christendom will protest, and to avert
the s0nsaquenccs. of which European
powers will interfere. The deed is done.
The craziest abolitionism has achieved
the very acme OF its desires. The end
for which the war was commenced by
the dominant party-the separation OF
the Union and an armed ant-slavery
crusade-has been reached. 1t is not a
deed without name. II will be known
in all history as the most wicked, atrocinus
and revolving deed recorded in the an
mails of civilization"
A Republican View Of Lincoln.
Brownson, editor of Brownson's Quar-
terly Review, prominent Republican, a
candidate for the last Congress, has been
on late visit to Washington, and is not
exactly pleased with the way things are
going on. We will bring together some
of his various and scattered allusions to
President Lincoln, "the statesman at the
head Of the Government"
at is not necessary to conceal the fact
that the administration is weak in ad.
ministrative ability, and that its chief has
little faculty Of magnetizing the men who
come in contact with him."
go to Washington now, and you re-
turn with almost perfect desponden-
cy." The President is not q
man who inspires you with confidence in
his ability 20 succeed" 4 + "The
public will not be satisfied with blum
ders, and think them no blunders be.
cause the President says he is responsible
for them" "He is not the
right man in the right place" \
"He is not equal to his position, and he
should resign and return to private
life" "It had been better for
the nation if better man had been
elected President" &C., &c.
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Stolen and Deported Slaves.

The New York Herald, in late article
on Lincon's Emancipation Proo oemation,
which it declares can have no effect ex-
cept where there are armies in a position
to carry 1t out, haa. the following para
graph
The Constitution defines treason and
prescribes the mode of furnishing it,
Whole communities cannot be legally
made traitors by proclamations, nor their
property seized ana confscated, and if
Congress passed fifty laws on the subject
they would have no legal efficacy. Con-
sequently, if slave property should be
taken away from the citizens of the Uni
ted States by Generals of the army in vir
tue of the proclamation of the President,
hepropsrty must be restored or pqyed TOR By
The United States Government, unless the
persons from whom it had been taken
should be convicted of treason in a court
of law, and after full and fair trial.
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Sewing Seed in Rocky Soil.

A few days ago missionary visited the
camp of the 10th regiment in Hartford,
for the purpose of giving the soldiers
some spiritual advice. He went up to
one tent, where stood private, and said
10 him: my friend, do you love the
Lord?" "No." Don't love the Lord?'-
NO" Whereupon the missionary gave
the young man some excellent and ap'
propriate advise, and left him tract
Passing on to another tent, he came across
another member of the same regiment
"Do you love the Lord?" "Yess." 81
have some tracts; would you like some to
distributed" "Yes, | should be very glad
to receive them and pass them around
among my companions" 81 am happy,
said the missionary, "to find so true a
Christian gentleman as yourself. Al a
tent Just below here | met II young man,
and asked HIM if he loved the Lord, and
he said no." "fIe did. did he? why,
thought the id fool knew "etter?"-
Exit missionary .-Neio HIUea Journal
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A Seasonable Fall.

Salt has declined wonderfully in Charles
ton to the great disappointment OF the
spectators in the necessity. A letter
dated the 9th, published in the Mobile
NewS, says:
A month ago Liverpool salt brought in
this market S2l0 per sack, three days ago,
at one of the large cargo sales, which had
assembled bidders from every portion of
the Confederacy, large lot of Liverpool
salt was put up. With some difficulty,
the auctioneer obtained single bid OF
S75 per sack. The bidder finding him
self the only bidder, contented himself
with taking five sacks, the minimum
quantity allowed by the terms of sale
The remainder of the salt then went Off
in small quantities, at the successive and
constantly decreasing bids of sos, $50
$50, and finally less than $40 per sack
lneed not add that this amazing fall woke
up good many who have been dabbling
shrewdly, as they supposed, in the treach-
erous and uncertain merchandise. The
true cause of the decline is of course to
be found in the extensive and successful
operations Of the salt makers on this coast
whose name is legion, and who, by active
competition, have brought down the
price Of salt little more rapidly than 1t
was inflated, in the first instance, by
speculation.
The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1863-01-30
From fredericksburg.

FREDERlcKsBURG, Jan. GA flag Of
truce came over this morning, but nc
Northern papers was received.
The officers in charge Of the flag oi
truce said that the capture of Arkansas
Post was confirmed by official dispatches
from Gen. McClernand to Gen. Halleck.
II raned all day yesterday and the
night previous. The Rappahannock is
swollen several feet this morning,
An attack is still believed to be immi-
nent here.
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A Tost for Extortioners

Who .re extolionero hl been 1ues.
ton difficult 10 answer The pr1rcr test
has been nt last discovered One OF
Georga's brightest jewels, who ha' sealed
HI. devotion to bis country by hl. blood,
said ia n private conversations "Ihe man
who Is richer at the end Of this war than
Mt the beginning. is an eXtortlonef' -
This Is che true tcst.s Every true patriot
viii dive his talents, aud money w The
cause Of Southern ndepcudence. This
Is no time frr mnking)moncy especially
when It /. made by ~ cuIaunl uppn the
ueoe.stics Of the people and thlt s the
only maunoriu hicl % otu boz done now
-Ahfds lGal Wohbph
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Burnside Urged to Make an Ad-
Nnnna

The Northern papers rather confirm
the rumors we have of an advance by the
Yankee army about Fredericksburg. The
North is growing sick of the long inOction
of Burnside's army. and IS beginning to
push him TO a forward movement The
New York Herald, in long editorial cla-
moring for speedy movement, says;
1t is more than four weeks since the
battle OF Fredericksburg was fought, and
yet the army of the Potomac has remain
ed inactive ever since, on the Northern
bank ofthe Rappahannock, lookinga at the
rebel army on the other side of the river.
We have recently taken occasion to COM
plain or this inactlon, and to urge a vig-
oIous prosecution OF the campaign. The
expenses of the army are going on equal
ly when il is fighting and when it is not
fighting, and the question is, can sife
country afford to keep so large military
force idle, while the emergency calls for
the greatest energy and promptitude, and
the rebel stronghold at Richmond is still
unscathed!
If the army be discouraged, demoral-
lied and disaffected, as the Tribune re-
presents it TO be, the cause is partly to be
found in the late proclamation, which we
were told would squelch the rebellion
like magic, and partly in the mismanage-
ment at Washington. General Sumner in
his testimony, said his corps was demor-
allied in consequence of the disastrous re-
suit of the battle. He added that there
was IA great deal of croaking-in other
words, the troops believed that their com
rades had been sacrificed through the
mismanagement of the War Department
and General Halleck.
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The 2nst.
a,.e.., .rid.y, Jaamsry 80, 1868.
Official Dispatch From Gen. Bragg

Official Dispatch From Gen. Bragg
TuLLAnoMA, Jan. 2l.-Gen. S. Cooper
After the capture of transports and gun
boat, our cavalry made dash for large
fleet of transports just below Harpeth
Shoals; they threw overheard their car
60, consisting OF subsistence, ordnance
and quartermasters stores in immense
quantities, and escaped by hasty retreat.
Our troops, in the midst of snow and ice,
crossed to the north side of the Cumber-
land by swimming their horses through
the angry torrent, much swollen by the
recent rains, routed the guard and cap
tured and destroyed an immense collec-
ton of subsistence stores just loaded Tor
transportation to Nashville by wagons.
(Signed) BRAxToN BRAGG
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TNE Fl0TERS coLlFCrcg

ism Is constantly increasing upon their
laborers population, Notwithstanding
their laborious industry and pinching econ
omy.
We see also that the emahoipated ne
groes are bIighted race. They perish
from -poyerty, vice and ignorance, and
the loss of the friendly care Of white fam.
ilies. From 1890 "a, 1850 they have in
creased with al the additions 10y fueitiyes
and by emancipation Probably 10000 or
40OOOl only from 67, 40 to l96.025, while
slave negro population in the same time
has increased from 65l 25, to 3,2QlSlS.
Had dthcenanCipationf been embraced
bv ~ the States the commenceeent OF
our national existenee. and produced
similar results in all the number of the
negro population would have beenln 1890,
not 3.a0I,4l3, but ljj7 ,3j2. The. eman-
cpation law would have struck from eN-
istenee .246.96l victims III the name OF
phlautbropy. aud lbe Survivors would
hiR aean. nat lhe psclnk orderly ana
largely ~ Christianized abourers that we
now have. but wotN have bctn 81 free
negroes are every vhere--an incumbranee
upon society. The wealth OF the nation
would have been blighted to an extent
which Jamaica give an example and IN
stead of 4G5 900 protesting Christians, re-
hgion would have declined among them,
as it has among the blacks of the West
Indies and New England, while from the
ranks of these two millions of free ne
groes would have been supplied to our
penitentiaries according to the statistics
of negro criminalityin New York in lSoo,
an army of 0,223 convicts or, according
to the statistics o. Boston, the headquar-
tiers of ferocious philanthropy,) they
would have furnished for our 'jails, hous-
es of correction and refuge and alnishous-
es," one to every l6-l7, orln TWO millions
an army of l23,6s5.
There need be no sympathy in this
country for the slaves as a downtrodden
races, for they are not such here. They
are an uplifted people. The weight which
Mr. Seward supposed to rest upon their
shoulders is in reality the golden chain
bv which they have been lifted up from
the pit of destruction and are now upheld
and lifted higher and higher. Slavery
has saved, elevated, civilized, and Chris
tianized the most degraded and brutal OF
the great races of men, and may, IN time.
lift them up to the American standard OF
intelligence, virtue and liberty; while
emancipation would utterly blight their
prospects, and render their future one oil
barbarism and ultimate eXtermination.-
1t is well known that emancipationon or
abolition of negro slavery has been trled
on large scale in the United States ana
in the West Indies, under every variety
of climate and local circumstances, ana
has uniformly resulted in the degreda,
ton oftho negro race, and the RUIN OF
the conmun.tic, in which il has been
tried. Amemca i the House of Refuge
for lie miserable children of Africa, in
WHICH they escape nom he restitution;
haltlen.,m naEeduess oeasii"i!y ana
cannillI slaughter oi Their native Iana'-1
4 he, hre now being trained for temporal
md eternal salvation as no barbarian
race was over before 4choolcd and re-
floolDal
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The following letter from General
James NJ. Withers to the Mobile Register,
is an act Of justice to the character oil
Gen. Bragg. We agree with the Regis
ter, that Gen. Withers does himself hon
or in testifying in behalf OF brother
soldier, and in throwing the weight OF
his character as man and as an officer
between his noble commander and the
heard of his slanderers
CHUAcHULA, Jan. II, 1865.
Editors Advertiser q Register;
The report being circulated that the
retrograde movement OF our army at
Murfreesboro' was ordered by the General
commanding in opposition to the advice
of corps and division commanders, IL not
sustained by the truth. The movement
was suggested by two divisions and sus-
tanned by a commander, after IL o'clock
or the night Of the 24th instant, and was
then rejected by the General command
ing. On the morning OF the 81 inst the
General ascertained that all the corps
and division commanders concurred IN
the opinion that the army should be with
drawn, and not in its then worn condl-
ton be put to the hazard of another gen
eral engagement. He about the same
time learned the fact Of reinforcements
having been received by the enemy: 1t
was then that he yielded his opposition
and ordered the movement. suppose
the General had adhered to his first de-
termination, and disaster had been the
result, what would havebeen his position
then. ii tins movement did not com
mand the appreciation OF every brigade,
division and corps Commander, Hen prfs'
eat NTH tie army, | have to hear OF the
exception. ! cannot believe mat the az
INV number- among IT, Generals ono OF
Hose creatures VINO Is always wise after
the fact, anu bold when there 10 no dam
ger. A man who has given his al. TO his
country, should at least have justice,
j. w. WfrHLRs.
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Provost Marshals,

The Provost Marshals appointed in
Mississippi by Gen. Van Dorm having
failed to get pay for their services, appeal
cd to the Secretary of War, who replies
that the appointment Of Provost Mar
shals from civil life was contrary to Law,
aud Congress must legslate upon the
,uMcc' tclcre Tl''aert cm ts alIr
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Wealth per capita of the free inhabitants OF
fifteen mixed labor States and District Of
Columbia, Sij7
Wealth per capita of the free inhabitants Of
sixteen free labor States, 1905
In this table we observe that the six
poorest States were those which have nev
er had any slave labor, but have had the
full benefit Of the alleged superiority OF
the exclusive free labor system. The Sc
ven wealthiest States are all but one in
debted to the assistance OF slave labor for
their prosperity and that one laid the
foundation of its wealth by the African
slave trade. OF the remaining nineteen,
the mixed labour States greatly surpass in
wealth the purely free labor States. In the
grand summary Of the Union, we find that
the mixed labour States, instead Of falling
behind, have actually accumulated fifty
per cent. more wealth in propotion TO their
population than the free labor States; thus:
FREQ Total Wealth
population. wealth. per capita
Fifteen mixed la
Dor States and
D. Columbia o,l6O,6O5 s2,952 2sO9,S56 sl57
Sixteen FREQ Ia
Dor states, 13,4S4, $50 4,lO2, 162,O2s 3O5
1t is certainly remarkable that States
which are pronounced by many Of our
politicians and editors 10 be blighted,
paralyzed, barbarized, and cursed by the
presence of negro slavery, should surpass
by fifty per cent. the other States which
they pronounce the most perfect exam.
pies of industrial and moral progress and
general civilization that the world has ev-
or seen.
Is,vs nszt compute the rreperty cop
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sensation.

A Dispatch from Richmond, Of the Jth, says;
Both Houses Of Congress bayins gone into so.
cret session about ! o'clock to-day, it WIS imme-
distely rumored on the streets that France and
England bad recogpi1el tho Confedoracy. and
that the announcement would he mado Wy com.
munication 10 that body. but tho day bas passed
without anything oecurrng to give color to tue
aGoyay
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Foreign.

Latest Foreign adyices state that Gladstone, in
4, sre,ch on the Lancashire Distress expressed the
hone that the crisis would be passed by March,
IT is rumorcd that Prussia has sent n dispatch to
Austria. threatening to withdraw from the Con-
federation. A plot for rising in Poland hos hccu
al
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Some Facts.

Under the head of Facts" the Providence
Post says:
If the President can legally abolish slavery In
Georgia, hecan legally establish tn Rhode Island.
If Congress can divide Virginia without the con-
sent of the Virginiu Legislature, as provided in
the Constitution, SO It can consolidate the New
England States, and make only one Of the pres
ent six. If the President cun 60 outside of the
Constitution so far as to change the institutions
Of the several States, under the war, so he can
authorize loans or the issue Of demand notes, or
do anything elso which the Constitution does not
prohibit, but leaves in the hands Of Congress.
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conscripts in Alabama.

The Mobile Register says the number
of men enrolled and sent to the field in
that county, by the conscrpt officers u
! sos, and the number claiming eXemp-
ton on various grounds Is 1919.
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la. INC lolIowing is an extrnct IRON

va Tue IOllOWlnS IL uu tAITHCl from u
Glasgow letter, dated 9th November,
1869:
am sorry, truly sorry, to see that
bloody war still raging, but hope and
trust that it will soon close. We receiv-
ed news yesterday from Now York, but
of course it is all parcel of falsehoods.
However they give in and admit Of a
great defeat few miles from Charleston,
giving no account Of their loss.
The people on this side are suffering
very much for want of cotton, serve them
right for not interfering long ere this
The mills are either stopped, or on half
or quarter time. Beggars are very plen.
tiful. and housekreakers have conmeno
ed their operations for the wiuter-any-
thing to obtain food for their starving
families. If England don't interfere soon,
there will be severe riots this winter.
nay An arrival from New Orleans says
il,s Iryv-.ot ! ara has rg' - yea o.,