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The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-10-10

PRESIDENTIAL CALcULATIoS.-Th Even.
ing Post is engaged in the innocent amuse.
ment of giving the electoral vote of New
York to John c. Fremont, an event wholly
improbable and quite impossible, if the can
vass progresses us it is now going on
throughout the Empire State. Mr.. Fillmore
instead Of receiving l39,30O votes MS the
Post estimates, will receive more than that
number by several thousand from the rank
and file Of the American party. lie will re-
ceive thirty thousand Old Line Wing votes,
and several thousand votes beyond this num-
Der from voters until the year or two past
attached 10 the rank and file of the Demo.
cratic party. The :ull vote of the State in-
stead of being 498, 900 as the Post estimates,
will be about 100000 larger. The folly Of
the POST estimate is in overratng its own
strength in about every county in tho State,
and undertaking the vote Of those who will
oppose itsnominee. Time will prove this 10
be true.-N. Y Express.
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CORRESPONDENTS BETWEEN HON.
A. ]. DONELSON AND THE PRESI-
DENT OF THE WHIG CONVENTION.
Rat Co., IQEc

DALTlMORE, oept. ~, 1896.
HoS. A. J. DoNELsoN, Nashville, Tenn
Sir:-Before you receive this letter the
public journals will have Informed you that
the Wings of the United States have held a
general convention, in the city of Baltimore,
for the purpose of designating and adopting
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Pres.
dency OF the United States.
The proceedings of that Convention are
already known to the world through the
public press, yet, by its command, the pleas.
ing duty is imposed upon me, as its presiding
officer and responsible organ, to make known
to you the fact that the wings of the United
States, as represented in that Convention,
separate and apart from all other party or.
CARNATIONS, have with one voice, chosen and
adopted you as their candidate for the Vice
Presidency, associated with Mr.. Fillmore for
the Presidency.
We consider the election Of the ticket Of
Fillmore and Donelson necessary to the re-
pose of the country, and therefore our earnest
prayer is for your success.
In this communication il is not permitted
me to indulge in any expression of my own
opinions and wishes, but to speak only for the
Wing Convention, whose servant / am.
have the honor to be,
with the greatest respect,
Your obedient servant,
EDw'D BATES,
of ST. Louis, Mo.
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A SIsGULARLY CANDID ADMIssIoN.-We
recommend, says the Baltimore American
the following candid admission of the San
bury Northumberland county, Pa.,) Ameri'
can to the attention of our Southern Demo.
cratic friends. 1t may be only necessary to
premise that the journal named has the names
of James Buchanan and John C. Breckinridgs
at the head of its columns. The editor il
not only more candid, but exhibits greatly
more intelligence than his party generally
though we doubt very much whether his
friends here, who assert that Fillmore has no
strength anywhere, will thank him for the
evidence he has given of the possession of
both of these. qualities. After speaking of
Mr.. Buchanan's Southern strength, and utter
impotence at the No rth, he adds:
"Ihe West and the Eastern and Middle
States, toith few exceptions, are almost unani.
nous for Fillmore and Fremont. This is
truly a strange state Of affais and much to
be regretted. Any one at all conversant with
our political affairs must have foreseen, long
since, that such would be the result. The
crisis has, no doubt been hastened on by the
:ll.timcd action of Presiden. Pierce, Judge
Douglas and others, in regard to the Missouri
Compromise, and the Kansas and Nebraska
bill"
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EcoNoMY.--Economy is not the mean pen.
ny wise and pound foolish policy which many
suppose il to be; il is the art of calculation
joined to the habit of order, and the power
of proportioning our wishes to the means of
gratifying them. The little piIferng temper
of a wife is despcable and odious 10 every
man Of sense; but there is judicous, grace.
fu economy, which has no connection with
an avaricious temper, and which, as II depends
upon the understanding, can be expected from
cultivated minds. Women who have been
well educated, far from despsing domestic
duties, will hold them in high respect, because
they will see that the whole happiness Of life
is made up Of the happiness Of each paricu'
lar day and hour, and that much Of these
must depend upon the punctual practice OF
those virtues which are more valuable than
splendid.
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An Ex-Governor CoRNERED.-.The
Clarksville Chronicle "corners" one of ouI
ex.governors:
"a. v. Brown, in his speech at White
Bluff, said that the Missouri Compromise
was the first great wrong to the South, and
that its repeal was due to justice and the
rights of the South. He then went on to
argue that this Compromise was repealed by
that Of 1850. Then If he is honest in his
declaration that the Missouri Compromise
was wrong, and that it ought to have been
repealed, why did he say that his "heart
would break sooner than rejoice" over the
the Compromise of 1850, which did repeal IL!
To justify the Kansas bill, he was compel.
ed to declare the Missouri restriction great
wrong, and to relieve his party of the re.
sponsibiity of its repeal, he had to assert
that Il was repealed by the Compromise of
1850. and in doing this, places himself in
the attitude of mourner over that repeal
in 1856.
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AN INDIcArIoN OF RETURNING REASON Al
WAsHISeros-Th Washington correspon'
dent of the N. Y. Express, writing under
date Of the 10th ult, says:
aThe Administration party, as might have
been expected, are in great tribulation over
the Maine election. The acting head OF one
of the Departments, remarked yesterday, to
an Office holder from Massachusetts, that the
result in Maine proved that Buchanan was
totally out Of the question, and that all that
remained for the Democrats was to vote with
the Americans and secure The election oil
Fillmore. This must be evident to every
rejecting Democrat Of the National School
who is not utterly bewitted by prejudice"
A note to the letter states that this "actlng
head Of one Of the Departments" was Mr.
Horatio King, first Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral.
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SENATOR JONES, OF TENNESSEE.

SENATOR JONES, OF TENNESSEE.
This new convert TO Democracy, says the
Richmond Wing, has said many hard and
bitter things, in his day, of his present polit-
cal companions. He has nevertheless become
great toast with the Democracy of late.-
To show what he thought of the party with
which he has now associated himself, we ex.
tract the following passage from one of his
speeches made in 1874:
"But, gentlemen, said the Governor, if the
moral, and social, and political tendencies Of
Locofocoism be not overuled, all that is val.
ued in our happy form of government is
gone! The toll of our fathers in building this
glorious ediiice will have been in vain; for the
effects, tendencies, and he believed, intentions
of the leaders of this falsely called Demo.
cratic party is to break down all the guards
that have been thrown around society for its
protection; TO tear down with ruthless and
sacriegious hands the very pillars of the tenn
pie of liberty; to throw society back to its
original elements of anarchy and confusion;
to substitute the willof one man, or the
interest of party. for the will of majority,
and the interest of the whole nation. To SET
all Laws, Constitutions and the settled usages
of the country at defiance, and make them
subservent 10 the basest Of base party pur-
poses.
"lf party thus reckless of consequences,
thus unmindful of the high obligations OF
patriotism, shall be continued in power, what
immunity will the most sacred Institutions of
government, the most valued and cherished
safeguard of society, find from their ruthless
assaults! Will our dearest interests, our
most sacred rights, our domestic altars, our
household gods, find security from the foul
demon-!ike spirit of aggrandizement and
mobocracy that peryades the serted ranks Of
Locoiocoism! Now, sir, there is nothing so
pure, SO sacred as to be able successfully to
rebnke the madness Of such spirit or defy
its malice or cupidity. warn you my coun-
trymen, to pause solemnly before you give
your confidence or support to such u party
with such principles and practices. Be not
deceived with the siren song Of democracy
saying all is well, "lay not the Hattering unc,
tion to your souls" II this party be continued
n power, ere another fourth of a century
shall have made up its record, you or your
children may, when filled with vain and fruit.
less regrets, find your only comfort in madly
hugging the iron letters that bind you to a
hopeless destiny. May the God Of WASH
ington and Liberty save this once happy peo-
pie from a fate so fearful.-Ertract from a
speech made at Lebanon, Tenn, 7th September,
1874.
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DEFEAT CONFESSED IN ADvAScE.-Tht
Louisville Courier, one Of the bttereet and
most inscriptions Buchanan journals Of the
State, publishes in its editorial columns Q
letter from "a Kentuckian down East" in
which II is said,
Everybody 10 New England is for Ere
mont. Here and there you will find sick
Buck or Fillmourner, but not enough "a
count From appearances, COL Fremont
,oiH gel every Northern State, unless il b.
New York, tohich may possibly go for FIJI
more. Buchanan can get the rest and be
beaten, and the South will 60 TO the Devil, OF
dissolution, or BOTH"
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sY- The Berks county Press, Fillmore.
paper, published at Reading, Penn, in late


paper, published at Reading, Penn, in late
issue, contains the following:
"DIscRETIoN THE BETTER PART OF VALoR.
The friends of Mr.. Buchanan have become
convinced of the utter hopelessness of their
cause, and Of their inability to secure the
election Of their candidates. Despair has
seized upon them, and they have very wise
ly concluded thae it would be best for Mr..
Buchanan to withdraw entirely from tho
contest. A consultation was held on Friday
last at Ephrata Springs, which was attended
by considerable number of his Reading
friends, and at which the matter was said to
have been warmly and spiritueously discussed
but the conclusion arrived ut has not yet
been made public. 1t is such ms will no
doubt permit him to remain nominally in the
field with no hope of an election. The signs
of the times are such MS must satisfy any OBJ.
serving man, that the Democracy with their
Cincinnati platform, will scarcely carry n
single State in the Union.
Mr.. Buchanan will only be able to carry two
counties for certain-Berks and York-with
a slim chance for only eleven more. These
facts have come home to his friends, and they
can do nothing to prevent it,"
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TULIP GROVE, Sept. 3Otb. 1856.


Sir II have had the honor to receive, to-
day, your note of the 25th, with that of the
18th inst, informing me of the proceedings
of the late Wing Convention at Baltimore, by
which my name, as a candidate for the Vice
Presidency, in association with that of Mr..
Fillmore for the Presidency, has received the
unanimous vote Of the delegates comprising
that Convention.
Such testimonial of public confidence by
distinguished and leading members of party,
upon which had no other claim than that of
fidelity to principles which should be common
to all parties when the country is in danger,
is received with feelings, for the expression of
which, can find no adequate language.
can only say to you, Sir, in reply, that it
has been my effort, through life, to follow the
great lights to which we are indebted for our
happy form of government, and that there Is
no sacrifice which am not willing to make in
order 10 maintain it in its original purity.
The evil of the Gay is seetionalism, and the
country can find no repose until this danger
GUS spirit is rebnked by the voice of the peo.
pie, animated as they were in the days of
Washington, by a holy love for the Union,
and determined to withhold their confidence
from those who do not regard its preservation
rs the paramount object of their lives.
If the South claims the election of man
to the Presidency because he is favorable to
Southern interests, and the North one because
he is favorable to Northern interests, there is
an end of our federal system. This was not
the sentiment of parties in the days of Wash.
ington, Jefferson, Mndison and Jackson. II is
our Dilrnose No nat riofs hv yhatavar mama
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Chlhr OhNih.
These States give sixty-three electoral
votes. Add to these the votes of the South.
ern States, which is one hundred and twenty
and Mr.. Buchanan will doubtless be elected.
Upon the statement Of the aUuon" we place
great reliance, though we are free to confess
that we are prepared for different result,
fanaticism being abroad in the land. The
South, however, we know, will do its duty,
let what will come!'.
This, reader, is the best the Washington
Union can do for Mr. Buchanan, and even
this is much better than will be realized by
the Democracy. Buchanan is NOT GER
TAIN of single one Of the Northern States
mentioned! He cannot get either, unless it
be possibly, Illinois or Indiana. Give him
these two and the phole South and he cannot
be elected! But there are sepen Southern
States that are quite sure to vote for Fillmore
viz: Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Florida
Then set down Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi us doubt
ful-Mr. Fillmore's chances being equal to
Buchanan's in all Of them, and we have left,
as certain for Buchanan only South Carolina,
Texas and Arkansas! This is the state of
game, now, and every one will see that Buch-
anan's prospects ara daily "growing small by
degrees and beautifully less" His own friends
have given up all the Northern States, save
just enough to elect him, ,oith the aid of the
,ohole Southern rox, when they know that he
has not the "ghost Of chance" to get half
of the Southern States!-Macon Citizen.
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THE REACTION.

The fanaticism of the Black Republicans
has spent its force. The sanguine hopes ol
the Democracy that they had a right in per-
petuity to the spoils of Office has died out
A sober and moral second thought is awak'
ened throughout the country, which must
prove greatly beneficial to the interests Of the
people. The vile calumnies raised against
Mr.. Fillmore, concerning his views on squat.
ter sovereignty and the restoration Of the
Missouri Compromise, have been triumphant
ly refuted, and every candid man is now fore.
ed to admit that no one is more strongly op-
posed to the Infamous doctrine of squatter
sovereignty than Mr.. Fillmore, or more deter.
mined to check agitation and ill-blood by
refusing absolutely to sanction any attempt
to restore the Compromise of 1920.
MIR. Fillmore thus stands before the coun.
try not only as the National candidate, but as
the sole nominee worthy Of Southern sup
port. As we have previously shown, Mr..
Buchanan is really Northern politician,
whose endorsement of squatter sovereignty
is as fatal to Southern rights in Kansas as
the open and avowed animosity of Col. Free
mont. The letter of the elder son of Henry
Clay, which we placed before our readers last
week, contains words that compel Southern
men to pause. MY father he writes, thought
Buchanan weak and corrupt; wanting as
General Jackson has 1t, in moral firmness.'
The sage of Ashland, Harry of the West,
who most heartily approved Of the admins
tratisn of Mr.. Fillmore, thought Mr.. Buch.
anan weak and corrupt. Can any Old Line
Wing, who reverences the memory of Henry
Clay, persist in being recrennt TO his cause BY
clinging to corruption and weakness! A
noble answer was given TO this question in
the Baltimore National Convention, when,
with unanimity and enthusiasm unparalleled,
the delegates of the old Wing party, from
twenty-five States declared thei- devotion to
Millard Fillmore, the Constitution and the
Union.
It would be impossible to overestimate the
importance of that action. Already do we
find the National Intelligencer, that journal
which Clay and Webster delighted to read,
raising the names of Fillmore and Donelson
to the head Of its columns. The New York
Commercial Advertiser, also paper of great
influence, had preceded the lntelligencer two
or three days, in the same course. Other
journals of high rank in all sections of the
country are certain to do likewise. The uni.
ted movement of the Northern and Fillmore
Americans of New York will tend to swell
the number of voters for the good cause in
that State, and to give an overwhelming ma.
jority in November. In the South every day
adds to the strength Of the American candi.
dates. and it only requires each man to be
true to himselfand his cause, and victory will
be certain.
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TIE VOICE OF A Nsw York DEMocRAT.-
We take the following extract from letter
of a New York Democrat acting with the
Fillmore party: "Our organization is daily
increasing; the wavering are strengthened ana
determined; the opposition are dropping INTO
our ranks, and voters are coming as CLOUDS
and as doves to give New York city and
State, 10 the American candidates. There
can be no doubt about it, you may set tins
State in the righ. line, and would add bet
on it, did not my early training discounten-
ance betiing.-Ndsh. Gdz.
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fY- Construction and freight trains on
the Michigan Southern Railroad came in col.
lision near the New Albany and Salem cross
ing few days since. Eight aborers were
killed aud twenty wounded.
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wMrs. Whitcomb, widow lady, resi-
dent Of Salem, Ohio, recently cowhided
Miss Mel, spinster, "for words spoken in
debate" on the subject Of the virtues and
vices of said Whitcomb and some coxcomb.
The lady announces her attention Of cow
hiding several gentlemen who are obnoxious
10 her.
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FREMONT ELECTORAL TIcKET-1'he Bal
timore papers learn that the following gen.
tlemen have been selected as the Republican
Electoral Ticket for Maryland.
For the State al Large-Francis p. Blair,
VIM. Pinkney Ewing.
For the Congressional DistrictS-lst, Jas.
Bryan; I'd, John Lincoln; Sd, G. w. Mar
tenet; 4th, Francis F. Cochran; 9Th, David
Gamble; 9Th, Joshua Switzer.
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$4,000
100000
$4,000
49S,OOO
Total vote.

W-A very short time since the Bogus
Democracy denounced Americanism as
"Whig trick" Now, however, since the en-
dorsement of "Fillmore, Donelson and the
Union, at all hazards" by the National Whig
Convention at Baltimore, the same facile po'
iiticians denounce whiggcry as "Know
Nothing trick!" So they rip. No falsehood
comes amiss, TO them.
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A CHANGING SHoT.-At Harrison Lake,
Wisconsin, lately, SPORTSMAN on shoot.
ing at n duck In the lake, was Mortified TO
see man spring forward and fall on the
beach near by. II appears that the ball struck
wave and bounded back In line varying
only about fifteen degrees from whence i
started, and passing through the heart Of the
man who fell, instantly killing him.
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MORE EVIDENCE FROM PENNsYL-
WANNA.

The New Orleans Creole, of the Goth inst,
suys: aEarly in the summer, DR.. Duncan, of
Natchez, Miss, than whom there is no more
reliable man in that or any other State, made
a visit to Pennsylvania, revisitlng the home
stead of his fathers, and making an extensive
tour Of the State. Within the present month
he has written that the fever of Fremontism
is subsiding-that Mr.. Fillmore has steadily
grown in strength, until there is scarcely a
doubt that no will carry Pennsylvania itself.
He assures his friends that there is no doubt
but that Mr.. Fillmore can be elected if the
South stand up with tho conservative men of
the North in his support. At all events there
is now no shadow Of hope for Mr.. Buchan-
an. The South must support Mr.. Fillmore
if it desires so to vote as to subserve its own
interests. The reaction in all parts of the
North he has visited is most signal"
The Creole adds: Not only are we assured
from the Executive Committee of the Amer
lean party, of these being facts, but we find
the following, to the same effect, in neutral
PIPER of the city Of Philadelphia:
SMr. Buchanan's friends insist that his per-
sonal popularity is to have great weight in
the election-that State pride will aid him
largely, and that it is idle to expect the DEM
ocratc commonwealth of Pennsylvania to
turn her back on the candidate OF the party
especially since he is one of her native born
sons We are not able to discern any force
in all this. So far as we can judge Mr. Bu-
chanan has not much popularity in Pennsyl-
vania. There is nothing in his history, nor
are there any elements in his character to
concliate popular admiration, or inspire the
people with any zeal in his behalf. Clearly
he is no stronger than his party; and If the
detection of such distinguished democrats as
Cameron, Curtis, Woodward, and scores of
Others who might be named, Is to be regarded
as an indication in this respect, ne will lose
considerable portion Of that support which
has heretofore been necessary to carry the
State for the Democracy. Pennsylvania vo.
ted for Gen. Harrison, and also for Gen. lay
lor. She has occasionally sent Whig Sem
ator to Congress, and Mr. Bigler, the success
sor of Mr.. Cooper, was chosen SIMPLY because
the opposition were unable to unite upon
candidate. The Buchanan men are, therefore,
without the prestige arising. from uniform
success, nor have they confidence in the re-
suit which often contributes SO essentially to
a victory.
"The election which is to take place in this
State on the l4th October, will tell the story,
SO far as Mr.. Buchanan is concerned. Ii his
friends are beaten then, he will not carry
single free State"
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ty- A prominent Democrat Of Ohio, who
never voted for Wing but once 10 his life
and then under very peculiar circumstances,
recently made six weeks tour through that
State. Before he started he heard bets offer
ed that Ohio would go against Fillmore by
majority OF forty thousand, but he says he
would not now risk n dollar against the
States going for Fillmore.
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DECLINE In PRIcE.-The Warenton (va.)
Flag notices decline in the price of negroes,
and says that several sold to the highest
bidder on Monday, at prices ranging several
hundred dollars below sums paid for the
same description Of servants few weeks
nno
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Gov. JONES REFUSES TO DIVIDE TIME
We deputied friend in Memphis TO propose
to this gentleman division O: time ut his
appointments, and he sends in reply that the
Governor declined to do so.-Msmphis Eagle
d- Emo.
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BALTIMORE, Oct. lst.--A locomotive explo.
ded this morning at Bolton depot on the
Northern Central Railroad, killing the fire.
man and engineer. They were thrown 80
feet from the track.
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w- The Democratic papers are denying
now that they ever claimed Maine! After
Abe second Tuesday of October they'll deny
that they ever claimed Pennsylvania or lndi-
ana.
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GROWING SMALLER BY DEGREES.
The Atlanta Examiner buchanan Organ)
has the following!
"The Washington Union sets down as .eer-
tain for Buchanan, the following anti slavery
States:
NEW JERSEY.
PENNSYLVANIA.
INDIANA.
ILLINOIS.