The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-04-25
THE PIERCE ADMINISTRATION.

The following paragraphs close a very
Pungent article in the Columbus (Ga.O En-.
quirer upon the fruits Of modern Democracy:
sand, now, with the history of this shame
less trhiug with the credulity rs well as
with the dearest interests of the South still
fresh and green in the recollection of an
abused constituency, they are insolently told
that they can hope for no future safety I'M
less the power so wantonly abused shall be
perpetuated IN the possession of those who
have abused it, Pierce, or Buchanan, or
Douglas, or some such political aspirant must
again be elevated TO the first office of the
country by the mixed and commingled mass,
which, for the sake Of the spoils, always gath
err to the democratic standard, or we are told,
all is lost: May we not ask, in answer to
this, what strength has the present Executive
brought TO the cGsise of the South! Or rath-
er has he not, with the aid of his political
friends, first fed to obesity the hungry herd
of aboiIionists, and then aroused their Sec
tional feelings and managed to unite their
whols sectional power against us? Are not
the aboltionists n thousand times stronger,
more dangerous and daring in their move
ments, and more fearfully united in this action
at this moment than they weren't the COM
mencement of the Presidential term? There
must he cause so obvious 10 every mans
senses. Somebody or some party has
brought about this appalling state of things,
and should be held responsible for The un.
mixed evil which now nfflicts our common
country. Ask yourselves on whose should
ers this responsibility ought to rest! Look
but for q moment at the course pursued by
the President and his supporters, and the an
swer is at hand.
at would seem, now, that the contest is
likely to arise in the Cincinnati Convention
whether this man, or another of his kth and
kidney, shall be tile standard bearer of his
party, and If elected, the future Executive of
the Union. And we are insolently told, rs
before remarked, that our safety, our inter.
est, and The dearest rights of this section, de.
pend upon his success. With the history of
the past before your eyes, do you believe il?
Have you any hope that those who have
raised the whrldwnd will try to guide you
safely through the storm? Can you imagine for
n moment that the evil spirits whose instru.
mentality have gathered the portentous
cloud will bare their guilty bosom to shield
you from the crushing power of the SILVER.
ing thunderbolt! No, you do not believe it,
and you cannot.
"But there is one thing which every sensi.
bic man does believe. II is this, that when a
public man has been tried and found honest,
capable and true to his trust; when n man
discharges the duties of the Presidential Of.
flee so MS to advance the interests, promote
the prosperity, insure domestic quetude, and
crush the monster of sectional strife, he is
worthy of further confidence and can again
be trusted without much danger to the pub
lie veal. Such a man Willard Fillmore
has been presented as candidate for the first
office of this great country, and the great
mass of the true conservative patriots of the
Union will rally to his untarnished banner and
elect him. Such at least is our hope"