The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-10-17
BUCHANAN AT THE NORTH-LET
THE SOUTH READ AND REFLECT.

Since the Maine and Iowa elections, says
the Richmond Wing, the conviction has been
fastening itself upon the minds of candid and
rejecting men ofall parties, both at the North
and the South, that Buchanan stands no
earthly chance of carrying the electoral vote
of a single Northern State, and consequent
| ly, has not the possibility of hope of beng
elected President. Such being the case, what
| is the great question now to be decided by
conservatives and patriots in all sections OF
the Union! Is ii not this, to wit: upon whom
should we unite in order to defeat Fremont,
save the Constitution, and uphold the equal
rights of all the States?
Such, we take it, is the vast and solemn
question, which national men everywhere,
and which Southern men especially, ard in
defiance of all party considerations, are called
| upon to meet and determine on the 4th of
| November. What course, then, is il their
| binding duty to pursue in the light OF exist
! inc facts and circumstances? For what can
didates should they cast their votes with the
exclusive view to the election of n safe, con-
servatve, reliable President, and the prostra-
lion of the foul and pernicious heresies Of
| Black Repubicanisml Admitting that MIR.
Buchanan is everything that his Southern
friends claim for him, the question still recnrs
can he, under any probable combination Of
circumstances, be elected, even though the
united vote of the South should be thrown
for him! We have endeavored in numerous
articles heretofore to show that his chances
Of election, in view of the deserlion Of him
| by large proportion Of his party in the Nor
thern States, are entirely and utterly hope
| less. This has been our sincerely entertain
4 -: e. ool al nd
recent and now transpiring events but serve
| to strengthen and confirm it. Nor are we
alone in such opinion but il is also maintain
ed by numbers of the calmest and most sa.
gacious men of both parties in both extremes
of the Union. In word, it has at last como
to be considered "fxed fact" rot, ns we
have said by ourselves alone, but by hun
dreds and thousands os others thoroughly in
formed on the subject, that Mr. Buchanan is
| practically ont. of the race in the present
contest for the Presidency.
! What are the evidences which exist in sup
port of this assertion! As we have often
asked before, do not the recent elections
speak out trumpet tongued on this subject,
and prove incontesably that there is no lon
ger hope for James Buchanan in the free
States! Have these elections really no sig
nificance! DO they mean nothing at all?-
When the Democratic party is beaten down
and overwhelmed in States that have always
been Democratic to the core-Democratic by
maioriies of many housands-Democrati
without, until now, either variableness or sha.
dow of turning; when this is the present state
of things, we repeat, in all the Democratic
States at the North that have yet held elec-
tons, are we to be told that the Democracy
in such States still have the power to elect
their candidates! Having been Just over
thrown in Maine, for example, by majority
| of nearly twenty thousand against them,
what earthly chance nov exists for their OBJ
tanning the vote of that State in November
Do they themselves entertain even the reno.
test expectation that Buchanan will carry
Maine? Do they expect, either that he will
be able to carry Iowa! And suppose on tho
,4th of October, that Pennsylvania, Illinois
and Indiana should follow in the track of
Maine and Iowa, and shouldrol up large and
| decisive majorities against the Democracy,
shall we still be told that Pennsylvania, In
diana and Illinois are all safe for Buchanan
Just two weeks afterwards! Now, the election
| in the three States we have named comes off
only two weeks hence; and so confident are
we in the belief that each one of them will
pronounce overwhelmingly against the DEM
ocracy, that we are almost willing to enter
into an agreement for the withdrawal of Mr..
Fillmore in the event of either Of them CIV
ing democratic majority on the l4th day Of
October.
What possible hope is there then, for the
election of James Buchanan? Where is he
to get his vote from? Not from the North,
k,l; all fropk nf al rfi mill
now readily admit. Nor would the entire
vote of the South suffice TO elect him, if he
could by any possibility get its entire vote.----.
But this he can never do for MIR. Fillmore is
absolutely certain, we think, Of nt least five
Southern States, with equal chances with Bu-
chanan, at this moment for some for or five
others. Aud no man now enterains soli-
tary doubt of his carrying New York. And
with New York and the united vote of the
South, can he not be, and will he not be, the
next President of the United Statesi And
will not Fremont, also, be defeated and Black
kepublicanism ''crushed out" efTectualy and
forevers And is not this alledged TO be the
first and highest and only object, in the pre-
sent canvass, of the Democratic party of the
South! And if it be, why do they not at
once abandon their own cadndate, whose
prospects of success are all Dead and unite
with us upon Millard Fillmore. who can be
elected beyond the possibility of doubt, If
they will just say sol With their ad here
at the South, he would be elected triumph
antly by the popular vote, and thus choice
by the House of Representatives be avoided.
Let them do this, and all will be well.
syy- A Jurors name was called by the
clerk. The man advanced to the Judges
desk and said
"Judge, should like to be excused"
at is impossible" said the Judge decidedly.
"But, Judge, If you knew my reasons"
"Well, sir, what are theyY'
"Why the fact s,"-and the man paused.
"Weil, sir, proceed" continued the Judge.