The Athens Post

Dispatches from Washington represent this gentleman as having arrived at that beleaguered and doomed City. If allowed to take a seat in the next Federal Congress, which we doubt, what will be his course? Will he support the Black Republican administration in its war against the people among whom he has lived for twenty years and whose hands have lavished upon him honors and substantial favors? Or, will he avail himself of the earliest opportunity to introduce and advocate measures looking to the restoration of peace and the recognition of the Southern Government? There is plenty of time between this and the assembling of the Federal Congress for sober, serious reflection, and we think he will take the latter course. He will—by that time have learned some things which he did not understand when he left here—and among others, the fact which sagacious minds have foreseen from the first, that the success of the Administration policy would be the death knell of liberal principles and end in the subjugation of the people North as well as South. This tendency is now painfully evident to many North who at the first flush entered heartily into the support of the war, and is causing that reaction in public sentiment there every day becoming more manifest. They not only see that the war on the South must fail, but if protracted, it will result in the destruction of every republican and popular feature of the government for which they profess so much loyalty and adoration, and annihilate nearly every material and social interest of their section.
To our view, Mr. Maynard's course has been more unnatural than that of any man in East Tennessee, and we believe if he had followed the dictates of his own superior judgment, it would have been different. But he made a fatal mistake in trimming for the popular breeze in East Tennessee; and we look to see him, at the first opportunity, taking the only step left in palliation of what will turn out to have been the great error of his public life.