The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-11-02
NEW YORK POLITICS

Hitherto New York Politics or rather New
York politicians have ruled the country. 1t
is therefore right that the people should be
kept advised of the movements of parties In
that State. We quote from the Herald of the
2Sl ultimo.
I'VE publish this morning, at length, the
late great speech of Prince John Van Buren,
at Oswego, which is very interesting, as fur.
nlshing the official Interpretation of the SYRIA
euse soft shell platform. We now understand
exactly the meaning of the Cassidy and Van
Buren, resolutions on the Niger question:
First, upon the presumption that a strict ad-
herence to the doctrine Of popular sover-
eighty" of the Nebraska bill, will secure the
expulsion of slavery from Kansas, the softs
consent to try the Nebraska bill but, second
~, if that should fail, they are resolved that
Kansas shall not come into the Union until
popular sovereignty in the Territory shall
surrender to the dietation of the free soil ma
jority of the House Of Representatives at
Washington. Thus the Prince, with the dig.
nifty of the lord of the manor, sits astride of
the fence. with one leg on the hard side and
the other on the soft side-with one hand
raised aloft for the compromises of the Con-
stitution, and the other for the old Buffalo
platform. He goes for the Nebraska bill
that ought to satisfy the hards; he goes for
making Kansas a free State, anyhow, squat
ter sovereignty or no squatter sovereignty,
and with this the softs are manifestly content.
meanwhile, however, W. ii. Seward Is not
idle. Last Friday he made speech at Buffa-
10, resting the whole brunt of the battle upon
the Kansas question. He has thrown off all
DISCUSSES, and speaks, for the second time d.
rectly to the point and to the purpose of an
overwhelming Northern avalanche against
Southern slavery, Union or no Union He
does not, like the Prince. stop at the halfway
house of the Nebraska bill-he does not pro
pose to give that bill trial first, and then to
fall back upon Congress should squatter SOW
eregnty fail to expel slavery from Kansas
but from the jump, he insists that Kansas shall
be free by act of Congress, and that there
shall be no more slave States, come what may.
In substance the platform of the Prince ap
pears to be about as good for the Buffalo dem
ocracy as that of Seward and then, as the
Prince assures us that the democracy in this
election will carry the State by an unprece-
denied majority, il is about time that the de-
sertions from the softs to the black republic
cans had ceased
But there are two or three other parties
in the field, as appears from our text and the
reports which we publish to-day of the meet
ing of the democratic wings last night at the
Broadway House, and of the hard shell dem
ocratic ratification at the Metropolitan thea.
ire, will explain 70 some extent what these
other parties are. There is alec to be live
wing State Convention to day, of the real
true blue Clay, Webster and Fillmore wings,
commonly known rs national wings or silver
grays First, then, the genuine national hard
shell democracy will understand from last
nights hard ratification, what they are to do.
Secondly, the democratic whig' assemblage
at the Broadway House foreshadows, perhaps,
the action of their eleventh hour State Con-
vention. The call says it is to take such
measures as may be deemed advisable to main
tain our integrity and honor That cannot
mean fusion with either Seward or the softs.
Perhaps it means separate wing State tick
ct, or peradventure fusion with the Know
Nothings or the hard shells. We await the
results"