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

W his numerous readers how II happens that
Mr.. Fillmore's ard Mr.. Fremont's friends, in
some Of the northern States, are running the
same set,of electors for both tieketsf Is it
not for the purpose Of uniting all the factions
to defeat Mr.. Buchanan. the national candi-
datei Yes, the black republicans and know
nothings are fusing to defeat the national can
didate, and it is lamentable fact, that We
have party here in the south who is giving
them laid and comfort" Will the editor Of
the Post tell his readers how this isi-Clevs.
land Banner.
Certainly, the editor of the Post will tell
his READERS all about it--tel them the truth,
the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.
To begin, there is no State North, there is
no State East no State West, no State ir
the Union where "Fillmore and Fremont's
friends are running the same set Of electors for
both tickets" and We defy the Banner or any
one else to show that such is the easel The
charge, like ten Thousand Others intended TO
affect Mr.. Fillmore at the South, is a sheer
fabrication, a dirty SANDER, the offspring of n
contemplate and factious spirit which halts
at nothing to promote dirty and selfish end.
This charge did not originate with the Ban.
nerve have met with il in several demo.
cratic sheets of the more vile and reckless
sort, but believing that no intelligent and
candid mind would give il the least consider
alton, We did not notice it, and should not
now if our neighbor had not invited our at.
ten;ion to the subject. We repeat, the charge
is a sheer fabrication, without a shadow of
foundation in truth, ana of character with
nineteen Of those against Mr.. Fillmore and
his friends, to be found in the columns of
the INSCRIPTIONS democratic papers South
and the dirty Black Republican journals North.
In regard to the "Back Republicans and
Know Nothings of the North fnsing to de
feat the national candidate" as the Banner
(facetiousy, of coursr,) styles Mr.. Buchanan,
the assertion is almost too silly and ridcu.
lous to merit contradiction. It is q fact no.
torious to the whole country-so notorious
that even the Banner cannot be ignorant
of it-that the Fillmore folks and the Black
Republicans are antagonistic, and can no
more fuse and mingle than oil and water
that there is gulf between them broad and
deep-that one party is national and the
other sectional-that the Black Republicans
hate Mr.. Fillmore with an intense hatred be.
cause he peysists in being national, and not
sectional, and denounce him with bitterness
which finds only parallel in the bitter de-
nunciations emanating from the democratic
press South. Every Black Republican sheet
assais him for his want of sympathy with
the sectional movement, and all their speak
ers assail him because he had the courage to
denounee them as guilty Of moral treason.-
They denounced him while President be-
cause he refused them sympathy in their
war against the South, and they oppose him
now because they know, if elected, he will
be, ms he was before, the President of the
Nation, and not of section. In truth, so
hostile are the Black Republicans to Mr..
Fillmore and the party which support him,
that could Fremont be withdrawn tomorrow
nine.tenths of his present followers would
rush to the support of Buchanan rather than
vote for the man the history Of whose ad
furnishes incontestble evidence
of his soundness and nationality, and of
want of sympathy with fanatics and agta-
tors, whether North or South. We say, these
facts are notorious to all intelligent men, yet
here is democratic editor trying to palm up
on his readers such ridiculous stuff as is con-
tanned in the paragraph at the head of this
article. Oh shame, where is thy blush!
We know there is class of small potatoe
whose impudence is only
pqualled by their ignorance-going about
The country charging that Mr.. Fillmore is an
MISUNDERSTANDING it against the record of
rs pure and unimpeachabc an administration
rs the country ever had-against the testimo-
nv of the best men of their own pa-ty-in
The face of facts which no arguments, no
no sophistres can invaidate or
weaken. These same men who make this
charge know that we never had more ma
Ljonal President than Mr. Fillmore, nor one
whose official and administrative policy was
freer from the faint of sectionalism, and they
feel in their hearts-if such men have hearts
that should he be elected, the government
will be in safe ard competent hands, that
,ritation will cease, confidence be restored,
and peace, harmony and concord again prevail
throughout our borders. And yet these same
men, with these convictions resting upon
their minds, raise the shout Of abolition.
st!" and our neighbor at Cleveland, OF whom
we expected better things, takes up the echo
and gravey intmates that the party which
supports Mr.. Fillmore is uniting and fusing
with its bitterest and most implacable op.
this, too, at a time when it is
evident to eyery observing and well in.
formed man that the contest is really be-
tween the American and Black Republican
and that the third gentleman is
not in the race. If the crimson OF shame did
not mantle our neighbours cheek when he
prnned that paragraph he is harder case and
farther gone in the ways Of party iniquity
than We had believed him to be.
We have now, as requested, told our nu.
merous readers about the alleged fusion be.
tween the Freesoil and American tickets, and