The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-11-27
PROGRAMME FOR MR.. BUCHANAN.

The sea OF politics, IKE that t"troubled' one
spoken of in Scripture, continually "casteth
up mire ard dirt" After the recent storm we
might reasonably have expected calm. 1t
might have been hoped that, while .profes.
sional politicians continued to do their dirty
work, as both nature and necessity compel
them to do without ceusing, the Editors, ut
least would have had tho charity to let the
people alone, and TO give them one good long
breathing spell. But not 80. The Editors
and the letter writers are found early at work
to prevent the political sore from healing
They have already formed Mr.. Buchanan's
Cabinet, and now come forward with cut
and dried programme of the schemes and
policy of the coming administration. Mr..
Buchanan, no doubt, appreciates the disnter-
ested motives which impel these wiseacres TO
save him the trouble of thinking for himself
The New York Herald, always abundantly
supplied with ingenious lies and with sophis.
tcal conclusions based upon its own fabrica.
tions, presents in its issue Of Thursday last,
the following speculatioEs which we give for
what they are worth and no more:
We perceive that several of our Fremont
contemporaries of this city adhere to the theo.
~ Of the Southern nulIitiers, the Cincinnati
platform, and the Ostend manifesto, as the
inevitable policy of Mr.. Buchanan. We think
they are mistaken. We predict wholly
different policy on the part of the President
elect Fl ON that of the extension of slavery
into Northern attitudes by border rutfianism,
and that of the acquisition of Cuba by IN
authorized Lopez expedition under General
| Walker. We are aware that the foreign and
domestic programme laid down for Mr.. Buc.
hannn is magnificent and attractive; but it is
surrounded with too many dangers to be
either splendid or fascinating to Mr.. Buchan.
an. Mr.. Davis proposes to hurry Kansas into
the Onion as u slave State, in virtue Of the
coercive processes under which the work has
thus far been accomplished. This act, he
knows, will revive tentold the anti slavery
agitation of the North; but he has discovered
an ingenious yet very simple counter irrita.
ton, whereby the nigger agitation will be
swallowed up in the universal patriotism of
the American people, North and South.
What is this saving remedy against IL revi-
val of the Northern anti slavery agitation 3
1t is the simple remedy OF II foreign war, and
the plan for bringing ths about is one of the
incest inventions of the age. We have re-
cognised the government of Gen. Walker in
Nicaragua He has lately issued decree re-
establishing the institution of slavery in that
State, where it had stood abolished for forty
years. This decree may prove good thing
for the development Of the vast commercial
J resources of the country. At all events, il
has made Walker the protege of the nulters
of the South. All, therefore, that he has tc
do is TO pick quarrel with Spain, and to
make sure work by letting the word and the
blow fall together in hostile descent upon
Cuba with his American citizen volunteers
T Five hundrcd 'n II, do MS well us five thousand
They may be captured and executed lik,
pirates, after the fashion of Lopez and hi.
followers, but Mr. Buchanan and democrati,
Congress, in both Houses, will be called upor
, to uvenge them, and this will give us ut once
magnificent war with England, France ant
Spain, in which the Northern nigger agitation
will be overwhelmed and buried out of sigh
, in the universal rising of the country to thu
: support of the administration and the demo
! cracy against our foreign enemies.
This, or something very like it, we under
, stand is the plan Of Jefferson Davis for Sc
curing Kansas and Cuba, and for consoidat
ing, at the same time, the democratic part!
upon sure footing, North and South. W,
, apprehend, however. that this plan smells
little too strong of gunpowder for the nerve
Of Mr.. Buchanan, and it is our serious opinion
, that he will set out upon foreign and do
mestc policy so very pacific and conciutor,
as to disgust the Southern nulifiers and driv
them off into little fussy outside faction he
fore siegle year of the new administration
and perhaps before a single month of it
shall have expired. We await the issue.