The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-10-03

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pErNsyLvANiA.-We believe it is begin
ming 10 be conceded, even by Mr. Buchanan's
warmest friends, that he is without strength
a, the North, and will not be able to carry
his own State. All our information from the
Free States tends to this conclusion. The
general tone of the press and the letters from
that direction, Justify us in assuming and rs.
ssrting that he will not be able To carry n
single one Of the sixteen Free Statesmen
even Pennsylvania. We would not, for any
consideration, Intentionally deceive or read
crs IN regard To the strength Of either Of The
candidates; but We cannot help believing that
the opinion of Mr.. Buchanan's weakness,
now 80 prevalent, is well grounded. Among
ethor evidences going to confirm us in the
opinion here expressed, we have received the
following from II friend in an adjoining coun.
", which we take the liberty Of laying be-
fore our readers:
"a planter from Alabama. n gentleman
with whom several citizens Of this place are
we'll acquainted, has returned from the North,
where he has been travelling with his family
He has been in Pennsylvania very recently,
and says that Fremont will carry that State
bevond a doubt and IN fact is so much alarm.
ed about the final result of the election,
that although having brought with him from
Alabama a large amount OF funds with which
TO purchase negroes, he has bought none,
and carries his money back with him home.
He is Democrat, an intelligent gentleman,
and owns plantation and LOG negroes: he
says that the conservative men at the North
acknowledge the rights of the South and
are irving ali the assistance in their power,
but that we are divided among ourselves, and
must look for the worst"
1t being now evident that Mr.. Buchanan
cannot be elected, even were he to receive
the united vote of the fifteen slaveholding
States, il is certainly the duty and the inter
est of the South TO abandon the support of
thut gentleman, and rally around Mr.. Fill
more, upon whom they can concentrate and
elect, and whose election will prevent ca
tastrophe that may sunder the Union forever.
The conservative, rejecting, Union-lovng
men of nll parties in the Free States are
gathering around Mr.. Fillmore, and in some
o: them they must be successful. They Of
fer him TO the South with the assurance that
II Southern men will unite upon him, he
will be triumphanty elected md sectional.
ism forever crushed out Will the South
accept the offer of the national, conservative
men Of the Free States, or will the demo-
cratic portion of II persist In holding on to
Mr.. Buchanan in face Of the fact, now so
prominent that he cannot be elected in any
eyent--not If he should receive the suffrage
of every Southern voter! For the politi.
clans, great and small-the men who hunt
for office and live by preying upon the pub
lic--we make no appeal to them-such care
sothing for the Union, and would let It slide
tomorrow IL they thought they could rise
upon It's ruins. But we appeal to the honest
masses, the working men and the owners
and tilers of the ground--wo ask them to
take this matter into their earnest c0nsldera'
ton, give IL the study its importance de.
mands, and then vote as duty aud interest
dictate. II is no time to stand on party ties
and party bias now. Cast party, like you
would baneful physic, to the dogs-heed not
the seductive and siren cries of the politi'
clans, but look into the subject for yourselves
and act like men fully impressed with the
great responsibility resting upon you. We
repeat, il is for the people, and not the poll
tielans, 10 determine whether sectional strife
shall end with tho present Presidential con
test, or shall continue until the Union is final
~ destroyed aud all its glories blotted out
forever .---.
icy Thos. Rogers offers for sale his val
uabIe Tavern Property, Calhoun. See adj