The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-11-09
A BLAST FROM THE CABINET ORGAN.

which the whole issue is narrowed down to
contest upon the slavery question, and in
which it is finally declared that the only
party of safety TO the constitution and the
Union is, aud will be, the national democratic
party.
| Now, as we understand il, the Washington
Union is the aunointcd organ of the Pierce
administration; and when it speaks of the
national democratic party it means that dem
cratic party Of Northern free soilers and
Southern secessionists set up by MIR. Presi-
dent Pierce in the appointment of his Cabi'
net, his Ministers abroad, his Custom House
officers, and other srbordinates. 1t is this
mixed commission of sposmen, of which the
Cabinet is the basis, that the Washington
organ is speaking about when it tells US that
our only reliance is the democratic party
This being the case, the question is next
suggested, what prospect is there for the
democratic party entering into the Presiden-
tial contest, upon the acts and the merits of
our present deectable democratic admnistra.
ton! Upon this precise point we propose
briefly to fill up the principal hiatus in
the twaddling harangue of the Cabinet Or
gan.
First, then, we undertake to say that there
is general impression, scarcely less than
universal resolution, as by common consent,
among the masses of the democracy, North
and the South, that Mr.. Pierce, his Cabinet
and his administration, are done for-that
they are to be ignored and superseded in the
campaign of '56 by new democratic shuttle
aud cut--a new ticket from the national con-
vention Mt Cincinnati. This we verify believe
is the general understanding among the
masses of the democratic party. Rebellion
has broken up the party, and it continues
broken up to this day, upon this absurd test
OF fidelity to Mr.. Pierce and his Cabinet
This detection has gone so far that even Col.
Forney must be aware that the Tylerizing Of
Mr.. Pierce is the first essential to the reunion
of the great but scattered democratic family
We dare say that Mr.. John Cochrane, who,
in grateful consideration of his fat office,
carries the President 10 his arms" has no
more idea of denomination of Mr.. Pierce,
or Of the nomination of any member of his
cabinet for the succession, than has Benjamin
F. Butler or Preston King, who have aban-
doned both the Cabinet and Kitchen Cabinet,
and enlisted in the Seward Holy Abolition
Alliance.
IL is manifest on every hand that the cam.
paign of '56 will hinge upon the slavery ques-
tion; it is altogether probable that the demo-
cratic party will be recognized upon con-
servative platform against the sectional cru.
sade of Seward and the black republicans
But slavery will not be the sole issue of the
contest. There will be some practical admin
questions involved in it, such ms the
of ret:enchment and reform in the
disbursement Of the spois Of the Treasury
reform in our diplomatic appointments, and
in our foreign poicy;and reform embracing |
uoiC VI uiOihi SuuihHt, CoHolotCH-
cy and honesty in our domestic affairs than
anything which has signaized the Presden-
.ial career of the chieftnin Of New Hampshire.
And as the democratic party can realize
nothing but n dead loss in endorsing the
Koszta letter, the Cuban diplomacy of Mr..
Pierce, or the bombardment of Greytown;
md as the dspensation Of the spoils since
he 4th of March, 1853, from the appoint
nent of Marcy and jeff. Davis to the disms.
,al of Reeder, is sore subject, none of these
hngs will be available democratic capital for
he succession. They must all, therefore,
,e publicly repudiated or quietly ignored
It the Cincinnati reunion of the scattered
attachments of the democratic church.
We close, accordingly, with an amendment
O the Presidential manifesto of the Cabinet
'rgan. 1t says there is but one party that
oes or can defend the constitution and the
Jnion against the anti slavery disunionists,
nd that is the national democratic party.
Dur amendment is, that the first essential 20
he reunion and success of this party is some
einite reputation of Mr.. Pierce, his Cabinet
nd his administration. The party expect il:
ne Cincinnati Convention must fulfil this
Expectation or be certainly defeated. Thisis
he great democratic issue. What says the
Washington Union!
ryy- The editor of the "Dolar Newspaper"