The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-03-21
HON LANES RUCHANAN.

As this gentleman is in high favor with,
and will probably he the nominee for the
Presidency of, the faction which insults the
memory of Thomas Jefferson by calling
themselves Democrats, il may not he amiss
to show what he thought of them in 1915
Foreign influence, limited as it was then,
alarmed him much, and he trenbled for the
"wild and visionary theories" of those who
courted it. But that influence having now
become powerful, and ponderous snake
weight" in political contests, surely there is
a greater necessity for "banishing this fend
from our society" The extract is from a
speech delivered by Nr. Buchanan in the city
of Lancaster, on the 4lh of July, 1915:
awe ought to use every honest exertion to
turn out of power those weak and wicked
men who have abandoned the political path
marked out for this country by Washington,
and whose wild and visionary theories have
been at length tested by experience and
fo6nd wanting. Adore all, zoe ought 10 drire
from our shores foreign influence, and cherish
exclusively American feeling. Foreign IN
fuence has been in every age The curse Of Re
publicS. Her jaundlced eyes see all things in
false coors. The thick atmosphere OF pre-
judice, BY which she is forever surrounded,
excludes from her sight the light OF Heaven.
Whilst she worships the nation for this very
crime, she curses the enemy Of that nation
even for their virtues. In every age she has
marched before the enemies OF her country,
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and luling its defenders into fatal security,
while the iron hand Of desPOism was aiming
death blow at their liberties. Already our
Infant Republic has felt her whitening infu-
ence Already has she involved MS in 4 war,
which has nearly cost US our existence. Let
as learn pisdOnl from experience, and forerer
Danish Ibis Ge,ld FOREIGN lSrLUENcE] from
our society,""
Such were the views entertained by Mr..
Buchanan, in 1915, in regard to an evil to
Danish which the American party are now
struggling, and which he regarded rs dan
gerous to the safety of the Republic even at
that early day. The present democratic par
ty regard "Foreign Influence" as welded
through the ballot-box and brought to bear
upon the affairs of the country, power, not
to be crushed out, but to be sought, courted
and nattered. Unless Mr.. Buchanan's senti-
ments have undergone radical change, we
don't well see how the "foreigners" and
their peculiar friends will be able to swal-
low him, although they have heretofore de-
monstraed their capacity to gulp down al
most any thing which expediency or the sue
cess of the "party" might seem to require
But Mr. Buchanan has spent several Of his
later years amid the Establishments and luxu-
ries of the Court of st. James, and MS he well
knows that the party whose nominee he ex-
poets to be, would be powerless without the
foreign element, it is possible that he now
views the subject through different glasses,
and what was formerly great evil, may now
be regarded, notwithstanding the multiplied
proofs to the contrary, as positive blessing.
In that event, it will make no sort Of differ
ence-o the "party"-what he said or wrote
n few years ago upon this or any other sub
iect. Still old documents are sometimes en-
barrassing.