The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-08-22

longer heard in our cities. The Stiffness oI
death pervaded every street. Detection and
despair sat upon every mans counienance.-
The newspapers Of the day, instead Of being
.illed with arrivals from abroad, and sales OF
merchandise, tecmed with bankruptcies
And our ships were laid up to rot as mon.
uments OF THE WEAK AND WICKED
policy of our Government.
Who that had witnessed these things
cannot observe the hand Of the Corsican des.
pot, like that dreadful hand upon the wall Of
the Babylonish monarch, writing our destruc.
ton. Who can avoid believing that Bona.
parte was the source of this policy, and that
il was intended to opemte in unison with
his continental system, II might perhaps
be unwarrantable to assert that our adminis.
tration were actually corrupted by France;
but their politics were biassed by warm
and improper partiality for that country,
there can be no doubt.
HE ACKNOWLEDGES THAT HIS TONGUE CANNOT
PORTRAY THE coRRUPTIoNs OF THE pEMoc.
RAcY.
TINE WILL NOT ALLOW NE TO
ENUNERATE ALI, THE OTHER WILD
AND WICKED PROJECTS OF THE
DEMOCRATIC ADMINISTRATIONS
Suffice 10 say, that after they had deprived us
of the means of defense, by DESTROYING our
navy and disbanding our army; after they
had taken away from us the power of re-crea.
ting them, by running commerce, the great
source OF our national and individual wealth;
after they bad, by refusing the bank of the
United States constitution of its charter,
embarrassing the financial concerns of the
Government, and withdrawn the only uni.
versa paper medium of the country from
circulation; after the people had become un-
accustomed to, and Of course, unwilling to
bear taxation, and without monev in the
Treasury, they rashly plunged into war
with nation more able to do us injury than
any other in the world. What was the dread
sul necessity for this desperate measured
Was our country invaded! No, Were our
liberties in danger? No. Was it to protect
our little remaining commerce from the inju.
ries sustained by the orders in counc?-
No. Commerce was not such favorile, and
the merchants wished for no war on that
account.
HIS IDEA OF DEMOCRATIC DUPLIcITY IN REGARD
TO FOREIGNIsM.
| Besides, If the existence of the orders in
council had been its true cause, after their
repeal, our country would have accepted the
olive branch which was offered by England.
What then was the cause? The one for
which we professed to draw the sword and risk
| our all, was to determine an abstract ques.
ton of the law of nations, concerning which,
an opinion different from that of our admin
istration,was held by all Europe. To decide
whether man can expatrate himself or not.
In the decision of this question our admin.
istration pretended to feel deep interest,"
THE GRFATE2 PART OF THOSE
FOREIGNERS, WHO WOULD BE AZ
FECTEDNBY TT, HAD LONG BEEN
THEIR EARNEST FRIENDS, THFY
HAD BEEN ONE OF THE GREAT
MEANS OF ELEvATING THE PRES
ENT (DEMOCRKrIC) RULING PARTY,
AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN UN-
GRATEFUL FOR THAT PARTY TO
HAVE ABANDONED THEM.
| He SAYS FOREIGN INFLUENCE CONTROLS THE
ADMINISTRATION.
Superficial observers may suppose this
to have been the real source of the war, but
whoever will carefully and mpartialy exam
inc the history Of our country, will find its
true origin to have been far different. 1t
took its rise from the ovERwEENING PARTIAL.
IrY WHICH THE DEMocTArc PARTY have
uniformery shown for France, and the con-
sequent hatred which they felt against her
great adversary, England. To secure this
foreign feeling has been the labor of their
leaders for more than twenty years, and well
have they been repaid for their trouble for it
has been one of the principle causes of in
PRODUCING and continuing them in power.
Immediately before the war, THIS FOR
EIGN INFLUENCE COMPLETELY EN-.
BODIED ITSELF WITH EVERY POLITI.
CAL FEELING OF A MAJORITY or
THE PEOPLE. PARTICULARLY IN
THE WEST, IT'S VOICE WAS HEARD
so LOUD ATTHE SEAT OF GOVERN.
MENT, that the President wus obliged to
yield to its dictates or retire from Office
The choice in this alternative was easily
made by man (Madison) WHO PRE-.
FERED HIS PRIVATE INTERESTS TO
THE PUBLIC GOOD. We were, there.
fore, hurried into war entirely unprepared.
TIE ADMINISTRATION coNQUERs DISC RAcEFuL
PEACE.
What has been its results? Exactly what |
reasonable men expected at its commence.
ment. We declare our intention of conquer. |
ing Canada whether for the purpose of an.
nexng to the United States or of compelling
our enemy to yield the doctrine Of imprison-
ment, is immateria 10 the present question.
Instead of conquering it, we have ourselves
been invaded in every quarter, and the best
blood Of our country has streamed in defense
of our soil. The very capitol of the United
States, the lofty temple of liberty, which
was reared and consecmted by Washing
ton, has been abandoned to its fate by bis De.
Successor, (Aladison,) who ought
to have shed his last drop of blood in its de-
fence.
After the (Democratic) administration had
entered upon the war, instead of coming for.
ward with manly confidence, and taxing the
people for its support, they basely shrunk
from their duty, in order TO maintain their
and adopted the odious system of
carving on the contest by borrowing money.
What were the effects of this policy? Does
not every man in the country know, was it
even disguised by the administration, that the
Uated States would, in a short time, have
become bankrupt, had not peace been conclu.
ded! Thanks to Heaven, that We have oh.
tained peace, bad and disgracefu us It is, 9th.
erwise, the beautiful structure of the federal
government SUPPORTED BY THE SANE
FEEBLE HANDS, might have sunk, like
Ihe Capitol into ruins.
HOW THE DEMOCRACY EMBARRASSED THE couN.
TRY.
This system of anticipating our revenue
,as left an immense load OF debt upon the
.ountry, the payment Of which will be gre
,ious burden, not only upon the present gen.
,.,t;o, h,t nnon nostertv This hurfipn