The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1869-09-03
The Suckers I'm Council.

luded 10 the gathering together in that
city Of number of the more proini-
ncnt friends Of VIM. b. Stokes. There
was much speculation and conjecture as
to the object these distinguished follow.
ers Of the great headlight of the Radi.
cal party of Tennessee had in view.
City editors are proverbially smart at
finding out things, but on the occasion
mentioned they seem to have been
much at fault. The gentlemen had an
undoubted right to meet there or any
where else, and remain as long as they
had money to pay their hotel and grog
bills. No one could or would question
that, as they were quite respectable in
numbers and capacity. But what did
they meet for? what did they intend to
do? Was it to plot treason against the
State, call out the militia, and take pos
session of the Capitol and prepare for
vigorous resistance to the will of the
people rs recently expressed through
the ballot-box? These were some of the
questions which agonized Nashville for
the space of whole day after the head
men of the new revolution had met in
solemn conclave in that entcrprising and
prosperous city. One thing everybody
knew-that the Returned Californian,
the Hon. Horace Maynard, was in the
crowd. Nobody knew during the can
vass upon which candidate the affec-
tons of Mr.. Maynard were set, but ev.
erybody knew he was now present i'm
the city in secret caucus with the friends
of Col. Stokes, who had sworn in the
last speech he ever made that if the peo-
pie had the temcrity to elect Senter, he
would call to his aid the soldiers Of the
general government, fill the Capitol
with armed men, and if necessary write
up his claim to the Executive Chair in
usurping blood. Was it any wonder,
then. that Nashville should have been
frightened out Of its propriety and that
serious thoughts were entertained of re-
moving the women and children to the
north bank of the Cumberland?
But like everything else, the suspense
and anxiety at length had an end. The
vail was lifted, the doors thrown open
and the "curtain histed." When, 10 and
behold! What! A plot to blow some
body to the moon? A plan to carry out
the threat of Stokes, overturn things
and kick up muss generally? Oh no.
Not bit of it. But just little joke,
a nice little farce, an innocent little by
play gotten up by some facctious gen.
tlemen who had met in the city by ap-
pointmcnt to have jolly good time
of it. Seriously, a simple proposition
addressed to Governor Sentcr, asking
him to please convene the Legislature
Immediately in extra session, and give
them, we suppose, one more chance at
the State Treasury. The proposition is
so palpably absurd, so intensely prepos-
ferrous. that it is hard to regard it with
any degree Of seriousness or to believe
that the parties are in earnest. 1t is
unworthy of the genius of our friend.
Mr., Maynard, and he and his compat-
riots must have eaten of the insane root
that taketh away the reason.
The reader will find the proposition
in another part of the paper,
with some comments from a Nashville
contemporary. OF course, the acting
Governor will treat it as it deserves.
If the members to the incoming Legis-
lature were not legally elected, as the
proposition intimatcs, neither was the
Governor. A blind man wouldn't walk
into such q trap as that. 1t is now bare
ly a month till the General Assembly,
fresh from the people and numbering
among its members some of the best
minds in the State, will meet, and what
ever business there may be necessary
10 transact for the interest, welfare,
peace and quiet Of the commonwe alth
will be much better performed by the
first than by the body of men who have
been sitting at Nashville for the past
year or two in the capacity of legisla-
tors. There were no doubt some good
men in tho last-named body, but not
enough to leaven the whole lump. The
work of the majority was chiefly de-
voted to devising ways and means to
their power, and the people
have just announced by an unprecedent-
ed majority that they don't care about
.aking any more of that sort in their'n.
Texas.
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