The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1854-01-27
A NATIONAL UNION PARTY.

ganlZntlOn tnaL we nave neafu great ue'i
about lately:
"It is IN everyday saying that the distinc-
ton of Wing and Democrat will be perpetual
and, therefore, that all efforts to organize
New Party from the dismembered fragments
of the old party organizations are visionary,
and must end in mOrtiiying failure. With
most OF those who give utterance to this
opinion the swish is clearly father to the
thought" ye: it cannot be disguised that the
belief in question has operated to the prelu'
dice of the Union organization. This mo-
ton itself, however, is flatly contradictory to
the teachings Of experience throughout the
world, and especially is it opposed by mul.
ttude OF stubborn facts in the history OF
American parties. If we had leisure for such
an inquiry, we might adduee numerous in
stances Of the INSTABILITY Of party ersaniza-,
tons.
The names of Wing and Democrat were
utterly unknown in the party nomenclature
of this country, until Il few years ago. Even
Mr.. Jefferson, from whom the State Rights
Democracy claim to derive their political
creed, pointedIy disclaimed the appellatiOn Of
Democrat and it is matter within the re-
collection of four-f(ths of our readers that
w lllnS ana DCiUOCTalS IllNC NV uSCu hhOhh
! in Georgia over dozen years.
Pmtes, like everything else of human orl-
gin must decay and perish. Party organiza-
tions themselves, tchange with the wants,
necessities and habits of the people, and as
new issues engage and agitate the public
mind These things sound like trulsms, and
still we are pcrseverngly told that the Wing
and Democratic parties are political hXtures
that can never be subverted. We cheerfully al.
! low that both of these old parties have in their
day and generation done vast deal of good
| for the American people. No man who is n
! grade above idiocy will sneer at the Whig
! party, when he remembers that such gifted
patriots as Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and
Edward Everett, have gallantly borne its BAN
ncr in many stormy conflict; nor can he
lightly esteem the Democratic party so long
as he rcveres the memory OF Jackson and
Calhoun.
These parties have nobly performed their
mission but they are now essentially Gillette.
a glance at the actual composition OF the So
called Democratic party, ought to satisfy the
most sceptcal that its course is finished, and
that all that remains to be done is to have 1t
deccntly inferred in the "tomb Of the Capu-
let's" What honest fellowship can there be
between its professed members! The con-
tents of the witches cauldron in Macbeth,
were less heterogeneous than the piebald
crew that have smuggled themselves, by one
device or another, into the Democratic fold.
Or the other hand, can mere name de-
stroy the spontaneous aihnities that spring
from harmony of faith and sentiment! Can
it forever put asunder Fillmore and Dlckln-
aud ,nt ('hnSn
and Hunter, Cobb and Mcdonald, to dwell
together in unbroken unity!
What question of Government policy Is
therein regard - mhics Stephens and EoOte
do not perfectly agree Are they to nurse
the fame of IN undying malignity, because
at some bye-gone period, they may have dill
fercd widely on questions now obsolete and
forgotten! Stupidity itself could not credit
such an mprobabity.
We see, then, that new National party is
practicable, and we may justly say that 1t is
the highest political necessity of the times.
The old organizations are too much con-
trollcd by sectionasm and the love OF public
plunder. We greatly need party that VIII
present n bold front to- the mischief makers
of both sections-that shall bravely take po-
sition in behalf of Constitutional liberty, and
against the vampire brood that have so long
INened on Treasury spoils and CongTession-
: al appropriations. 1t is quite immaterial by
what name such party may be designated,
provided it discards the names of Wing and
! Democrat. Events of recent date forcshad-
| ow the formation of such party, and 1t Will
| inevitably comprise m overwhelming maJorl-
! ty of the sober minded and industrious citi-
| zcns of the country. Let this party put It's
best man forward in 1856, and it will then be
seen whether or not the people endorse
Pierce and his "spoils Cabinet"
INTERESTING PoINTs IN LAWN the trial
of Rossi, the Post-oflicc clerk in New York,
charged with stealing letters containing mo-
ney from the Post-oflce, his counsel contends
that he is not amenable to the penalties under
the statute, for the reason that the letters
which he is charged with opening were not
genuine epistles, but decoys; never intended
to be forwarded, and hence without the pale
of the law. 1t is further argued that the
rings and coins placed in those letters for the
purpose of detecting the malpractices OF
which the prisoner is suspected are not to be
considered as legitimatcIy enclosed, for the
reason that they were placed Immediately be-
meath the SEAL and upon the outside of the
letter. Had the coin been placed halfway
beneath the envelope, the ease, it is claimed
would be different The questions involved
are OF some interest.
FEMALE SHoEMAKERs.-ltis is stated that II
Washington some of the most respectable
and independent women, married and single
engage in the shoe-making business as NJ
agreeable pastimc, as well as from motives
economy. The CATERS which cost us SO n
the stores, writes u female, cost us one day
labor and 90 cents for the best matcria
bought at retail. One of us has made tiy,
shoes for ourselves and children, withou
neglecting other household duties. On Capi
tol Hill alone there are thirty ladies thus EN-
ployed, and about two hundred in the city
We find it very easy to make two pair o
childrens shoes in day, and they cost u'
here Sl25 pair
tag The more man accomplishes, tn,
more he may. An active tool never grow
rusty. You always find the most enterprs
ing the most busy Men Of industry star
our railroads, our steamships, our machine
shops, and factories. We 20 for actiyity--ir
I'D, I, mind in eyerythiup Keen al