The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-09-17
From New YOrk---Eccentric View
of the Situation,

From New York---Eccentric View
of the situation.
The Louisville Courier-JourRoI has
New York correspondent who says
odd things in an odd way. The follow.
ing is from one of his moro recent let.
ters. 1t will at least amuse the reader
and contains about as much probaJHHl
as nine-tenths of what we find in the
papers about this time, besides having
a relish of originality very rare to NEE,
with in these days of journalistic mo.
notony. The writer proceeds thusly
dating of course from New York:
am going to tell you secret. New
England is upon the verge of general
but perfectly silent, political revolutions
The six Yankee States, including Bos-
ton, arc preparing to join the Democra-
cy.
The negro no longer inspires the ar.
dor of the puritan. There is danger of
Free Trade; there is danger of Repu-
diation. Sambo is the friend of both
and the Fifteenth Amendment is to be
employed by the lmperialists. the Re-
pudiators and the Carpet aggers-pro-
claiming free trade and universal suf-
fragc-as a precedent for reducing New
England to single State. New Eng
land sees in the negro wild cat upon
its hearth-rug. 1t looks to State sovcr.
eighty as its sole salvation. 1t will in
consequence swap places and issues
with Dixie.
The South. on the other hand, will be-
come the great centrali2er. 1t will re-
turn to power to find II lot of ras-
cally legislation which it can only
brush away by u free use of the ma
chinery the Radicals have fabricated.
The Radicals to save themselves will re-
sist with the doctrine of States rights.
a strong Government will be the con-
sequence: Capitalization reputation
free trade: universal suffrage; and a
big ex-Rebel oligarchy. There is hope
for Greece yet.
Why don't you quit your timorous,
time-scrving philosophizing, and come
out strong on the new Democratic issue.
the party? You can't theorize Ken
lucky out of her preiudices. She got
them honestly. She will stick to them
courageously. Let her alone. Let the
Fifteenth Amendment alone. Let the
Niger alone. Free trade is the idea
and universal sufi'rage-not negro suf-
frage--is the slave alike of free trade
and reputation. These accomplished.
we will dismiss Sambo. He will have
served his purpose, and we will colo
nizc him upon Cuba or the Dry Tortu-
gas.
This is the new party.
This the future.
This, victory.
THE COMING MAN.
suppose YOU have been told there is
no such thing as political honesty in
New York. That's a mistake. Dix is
honest because he is an old fool and
you arc all wrong in wishing that
Mitchell's suit may go against him.
Mitchell is bigger fool than Dix,
though he shows his folly differently
and is not half so honest. But Hoffman
is both honest and able; and he is the
coming man of the party, the outlines
of which | have Just skctched. lie
has more force of character than Sey-
mour; more discretion than Frank
Blair and just as much pluck more in
tegrity than Seward or Ben Butler, and
he speaks well, talks well, writes well,
walks well, dances well, and is for wo-
man suffrage, which makes him popular
with the ladies. | here pronounce for
Hoffman. You see things are mixed ;
and am writing you facts without re-
ference to policy. which means lying.
There are all sorts of incongruities in
what ] tell you; but they are superb
cia. The foundation is solid. You
will begin to see it, coming up as Il
flower, bloom and open, and out from
the heart of the rose, the prince and the
fairies, dressed in new suits of very
gay and attractive nudity, like Lydia
Thompson's angels. will leap upon the
stage. Hoffman is but another Oberon A.;
and "hags and witches will stay him
not"
MORE ABOUT BELMONT.
a stick to beat q friendless dog is
never hard to find. No one, therefore,
need he surprised to hear that it is fash
ionable now to fall upon Belmont; for,
excepting Manton Marble, Belmont has
no friends. He is, in truth, like the
maiden in the ballad, of whom it stands
in Wordaworth's rhyme that
-" There were none to praise,
Andvery few to love-"
if any at all, which is very doubtful.
Belmont is dealer in plethoric bonds
and flabby platitudes; man of specu-
lative turn; one who has winning
way of making folks dislike him. Now
l like Belmont; but he will not do to
run the party machine, so, l say, "throw
him over" Mind, / call no names; l
scorn to bear malice or to hate man
merely because he is rich: l admire
Belmont because he is rich; there is
nothing else admirable about him.
Marble has made good thing out of
him. 1t is all fol-de-rol that he uses
Marble. Marble uses him. Can duck
swim? So can Marble. My lips are
sealed by an ancient, waXy friendship,
but my ears are not stuffed with cotton,
bless your soul! NUNS the word; but
one of these days l may tell you a tale.
an the Democracy shall say "tell it
again."
The Commercial Convention.
The Commercial Convention at Keo-
kuk adjourned on the 10th. Among
the resolutions adopted they demand
full share of diplomatic appointments;
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