The Athens Post

The Extremes.

Fanaticism has no locality. It is of no one latitude, but of all. It is as violent in the cold North as it is fiery in the fiery South. By a curious coincidence, both ends of the candle of agitation have just been burning at the same time—one lighting the meeting of the pro-slavery extremes at Montgomery, Alabama, the other illuminating the anti-slavery extremes at New York. The one conclave wanted the slave traffic re-opened, the other wanted the slaves set free. One side wants free trade, or taxation of all the products of the North; the other would tax only the slaveholders. Each seems to have been animated by a desire to surpass the folly of the other; and both have succeeded in receiving the rebuke of all reasonable and reflecting men. In the South the vagaries of the Montgomery leaders will set the people to thinking, and will admonish them against trusting such hair-brained innovators. In the North the violence of the Abolitionists will operate even more healthfully and speedily. The conservative sentiment is the only real nationality; and this sentiment, whenever organized, and united on honest principles, and marshaled by honest men, must prevail, or republican government must fail.—The Press.