The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-09-28
DEMOCRATIC NAroNAL CONVEX

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVEN-
TlOS.
The Charleston Mercury is Indignantly
opposed to the Party at the South, and es-
Peeially South Carolina, going into the
next National Democratic Convention. 1t
says:
"'Nar, sectional war-war upon our insli-
tutinns and rights--is before us. And in all
the North, amid the marshaling hosts Of anti
slavery, the eye turns in vain to discover any
hope of an alliance which can avail us. With
the exception of little and powtrless hand
full, all is hostility and remorseless agrees
sion. The Democratic party itself is in a
wretched minority, and there remains true to
the South tho lesser portion only even OF
that-the minority Of minority. Yet this
is the party upon which the South is called
to rally, and this the security in her coming
trials.
"But there is to be another National Dem
oeratic Convention, and accordingly the Softs
adopted a resolution TO appoint delegates
| The Hards, rs though conscious Of their
weakness, refraincd from taking similar steps.
So that in the great National Democratic
Convention at Cincinnati IN 1856, the whole
representation from New York will be Free
soil. Is this an assembly into which the
South and above all, South Carolina, should
be found! Do Southern Democrats desire
the repetition of the scenes at Philadelphia!
In ls4S, when first abolition severed the
Democratic party in New York, divided del
egaton-the friends and foes Of the South
represented that State. In 1852, friends
and foes, Soits and IIards, united in the
nomination and election of President Pierce.
Now, how changed in the Convention of
1856, broken, dispirited, overwhelmed, the
friends of the SOulh will not be found; and
Southern delegates, if they enter its doors,
become the willing allies Of Abolitionists, the
partisans of their aggressors and revers-
Fit cumpanonship for the selfish and corrupt
worshppers of party--the betrayers of the
South? The next National Convention will
be, to great extent, nothing but an Adolf
ton Conventce
Z" Such is the condition of parties in New
York, and such the facts upon which we have
to decide, and shape our conduct. What then
can the South effect by taking part in the
next Convention? She cannot nonlinate,and
if she nominates, cannot elect any candidate
pidDit W TIE hDbIIllOUl5kS. lNOItHcTH
Democrats themselves will repudiate the
nomination. Is not this evident? The South
will be in the position of dependency upon
her enemies for the nomination, and depend
ency upon them for the success of the candi
date, who mist become the constant opposrr,
or the suppliant tool, Of an AbOlitionized IA.
natical Congress. Strange false, and tresch.
erons, the c"unsrls which would place her
in position so contemplate, and make
Southern men parties to the ignominious pro-
ceedngl There is but one way by which il
is possible to bring the North to respect our
rights. So long as Northern parties can patch
up associations with MS, on terms short Of
these rights, we may expect, and will certain
~ receive, nothing but disappointment
'fampering never yeteradicaed disease phys
zeal, moral or political. II the South desires
to re-assnre her friends and drive back her
foes, let her first give earnest proof that
the day of tamperng is past, and that fur
ther aggression is at the cost OF the Union"
That is the way the Charleston Mercury,
the leading democratic paper in South Caro-
lima talks about its Northern Democratic
brethren. And yet the Washington Union,
the pensioned organ Of the Administration,
and all the lesser little prints on that side,
are continually asserting that the Northern
Democracy are sound on the slavery question.
What the Mercury says on that subject is
true, as every observing man knows-what
the Washington Union asserts on the same
subject is false, as every days experience
proves