The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-07-25
THE WAY IT WAS DONE AND THE
WAY 1T WAS TO BE DONE.

WAY 1T WAS TO BE DONE.
The following was published by the
American Organ, at Washington, four weeks
ago, and no contradiction of it has yet aP'
peared. We doubt whether any plausible
one will ever appear. We ask the people to
give it careful attentions:
SLIDELL, BELMONT AND BUCHANAN
John SlidelI of Louisiana is known rs one OF
the most INSCRIPTIONS and adroit political
intriguants in the Union. He is native Of
New York. and left that city for New Or
;eons very suddenIy, many years ago. Es-
t,hlisbing himself in New Orleans, he in
troduced into that city the New York system
of noIities. and originated and contrived in
1914 the great Plaquemine Fraud, by which
Henry CLAY was to be deprived of the elec.
torinl vote OF Louisiana, and thereby, rs il
was expected, of his election TO the Presi
dency.
Augaste Belmont, the Austrian Jew, nov
representing this country at the Hague, is a
nephew by marriage, of Mr.. S.idell. He OBJ
tanned the appointment of Minister 10 the
Hague, 10 the exclusion of every other ap
picant for foreign mission from New York,
through the influence Of Mr.. Buchanan. And
why, our readers may inquire, did Mr.. Buch-
anan interest himself for Dir. Belmont, the
Austrin Jews Maniestly because Mr.. Bel.
mont, the instigaton of Mr. Sidell, had in
the winter of 1852, got up Buchanan meet.
ing in Now York, to promote the nonlna-
tion Of that gentleman for the Presidency by
the Convention of that year.
The mission to the Hague was the guild
pro quo, which Mr.. Belmont received through
Mr.. Buchanan for advocating his claims in
1852 $40 a,al fo.a abj etb7t
In 1856, Tsaih Rynders, ofNew York, and
his Empire Club of two hundred and fifty
men, proceeded to Cincinnati at an expense
of not less than $4,000, to urge tho nomina-
ton of Mr.. Buchanan. Who paid their ex.
prnces! Belmont, of course the Austrian
Jew, and agent Of the Rothschilds.
And in return for this expenditure, and
$4,000 more which he has promised to con.
tribute, Belmont, IL NJ. Buchanan shall be
elected, is to be rewarded with the mission
to Paris! We assert this on undoubted De.
mocralc authority, as IL was openly asserted
at Cincinnati, by the friends of Buchanan,
that Belmont would contribute one hundred
thousand dollars to the expenses of the cam
paiSHs VI DucHnHiH were HOHilHuttu.
With these facts staring them in the face,
can old Wings be induced by promises
which will never be fulfilled, to support Mr..
buchanan, whom Henry Clay despiscd above
all other men, and whose nomination has
been mainly effected through John Sldell,
the author ofPlaquemine Fraud, aided by the
money! of his nephew, Belmont the Austrian
Jew!
When charges of bribery and corruption
were made against Mr.. Clay, why did Mr..
buchanan. who knew they were false, refuse
to contradict thems He professed then, as
he did in after years, TO be a warm perso-
nal friend of Mr.. Clay. What sort OF friend
ship was that which allowed him to remain
silent, when one word from him would have
refuted, and forever, the base Islander against
Mr. Clay! That word James Buchanan re
fused to utter, and was rewarded for his
baseness by the mission 10 ST. Petersburg
The course he then pursued was character
istic of the man. Cold. blooded and selfish to
the highest degree, he was never known,
throughout his whole career, to be moved
by any other consideration than those which
tended to his own political advancement.