The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-09-19
UNITED SOUTH TOsAEa THE UNION.

@"S - HS"ouiS NHginlh rh1e. DSmo-
cratic orators and journals n the South are
trying to delude weak mins with the idea
that it is necessary to vote br Mr.. Buchanan
to prevent the election of Col Fremont
How will that prevent Frenont's election
If he can be elected and is to be elected. it
must be only by his hatng strength enough
in the North for that p,rpose-and that not
relative but positive steagth. He must
carry majority of the electoral votes, or he
cannot be elected. Nowhow is his capacity
to effect that diminishes by the vote of the
SOUTH eau any one silled in figures or
logic explain the process TO usl Suppose eve
ry vote in Virginia shoJl be cast for Buchan-
an would that acknowledgements strength IN
the North Suppose e,ry vote in the South
should be cast for Bchanan would that
make Fremont's chane Of election lessl-
Certainly not: beeauseie must stand or fall
by virtue of the suppl he receives there,
over which the South hs not the slightest
control and cannot excise the slightest in
fiuence. We should thk this plain enough
for the simplest min but, nevertheless.
Democratic managers, llways presuming on
the gullibility of the pple, are continually
prating on the necessif of uniting on Buch-
anan to prevent the ection of Fremont
How very anxious hte they become of a
sudden, to oblterate q party lines and raj
ly under common leaer-that leader being
their own candidate They deprecate the
possibility of the SoutHividing. Good souls
how it grieves theml They pour forth whole
Ilads of woes upon tie impolicy of distrac.
tion and the wickedess of division. Is it
not strange las a cotAporary well asks that
this patriotic schema of uniting the South
aid not occur to the Imocratic leaders when
there was only one chdidate for the Presi-
dency in the field, an he the tried and true
Willard Fillmore-te "Model President"
who largely contributed and aided in estab-
fishing, as the policybf the government, the
very principles whic the South is now call
ed upon to unite in rrpetuating. If such a
man, so tested and r.iable, was set aside by
them, how can they hive the assurance to call
on Southern Americas now to desert their
own nominee and dover to the support of
James Buchanan-a nan who in his youth
denounced the war, aplauded the opposition
to the admission of Missouri as q slave State,
sought to extend lie of restriction to the
Paclfic-who oppose the recognition of Tex
an independence, Wien urged by Andrew
Jackson, and who afterwards would not ia
vor the admission of'lexas into the Union.
until he had satisfied himself that it would
be the means of limiting and finally over
throwing slaveryi ) lot this an inviting Of
fer they set before tia portion OF the South
ern people who desire The election of Willard
Fillmorel If they really desire to prevent
the election of Fremont, let them come to the
man who was first in the field and who is
sounder and stronger than their own candi
date. For, though The same impossbility of
diminishing Fremonfs strength by this means,
as by that they propose, would exist-yet, as
1t is highly improb,ble Fremont is strong
enough to carry majority of the electoral
votes union Of the opposition would pre-
vent the election going into the House of
Representatives And rs Mr.. Fillmore is
stronger in the Moth than Mr.. Buchanan,
and was first in the field, it is proper that
those who call for Union should come to him.
DEMOCRATIC E6NoMY ILLUSTRATED
The following reIarks of the Baltimore
American are particularly pertinent at this
time:
Gen. Perce's administration cost the peo-
pie last year seveng-one millions two hun.
dred and twenty-sx thousand eight hun
bred and forty seve, dollars.
Mr.. Fillmore's administration in 1850.
cost the people ttirty-scven millions one
hundred and twenty one thousand three hun
bred and ninetyloT dollars.
Difference in one wear, thrty-four millions
one hundred and five thousand four hun.
bred and fifty.thre-a pretty round it'll"
sum, 49,, l05, 453 in one year. But to the
remarks of the American:
"Onc of the resolutions of the platform
adopted by the Democratic Convention at
Baltimore in 1852, and re-affirmed by the
delegates of the SINE party in National
Convention at Cincinnati in 1856, gravely an
nounces It rs one Of the cardinal principles
tine American Democracy, that it is the
duty of every branch of the Federal Govern
ment, TO enforce aud practice the most rigid
economy.
The present Secretary of the Treasury an
nounces that for the fiscal year ending on
the tllrtieth jane hist, the expenditures OF
the Government amounted to the sum OF
seventy-one millions two hundred and TWEEN
ty-six thousand eight hundred and forty-six
dollars!
MIR. Pierce'e administration.
cost in one year S7l,2l6,S46
MIR. Fillmore's administration
cost in onegcar 37l2l,394
Difference in one year $34lO5,43
BY reference to the report of Mr.. Corwln
the Secretary of the. Treasury under Mr.
Fillmore's administration, we find that the
expenditures Of the Government during the
fiscal year 1850 81, amounted to the sum OF
$4S,075,S7S. Ofihis sum, Si0,954,4S4 was
paid for expenses Incurred by the admnistra'
ton of Mr.. Polk, on account OF the Mexican
war, leaving balance of $37,l2l,394.
The ELECTORAL VoTE.-For the conven-
fence and at the request of many of our rea
ders, we again subjoin the table OF the elec-
toral votes 10 be cast bv the several States at
a. ol,o,;on.