The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-01-25

THE NEW YORK DEMOCRACT-TIE
SOFT SHELL STATE CONVENTION SPIT
UPON" BY THE HARDS.
The Administration Van Duren Buffalo Soft
Shell Democracy aid everything in the way
of repentance and humiliation that could be
asked of them by the IIards; but, instead of
being received Upon this surrender of their
nigserism, with open arms by the Hards, they
are "spit upon and execrated," as the Seward
party spat upon the Scott platform Of 1852.
Hear the little Hard Shell organ of this city:
TuE SoFTs "EArIxG DIRT" AT SYRACUSE
men who went to Buffalo in lS4s, and then
and there resolved TO support She renegade
Van Buren, for the Presidency, and to fight
on. fight ever" foe their PLATFORM ''no slave
Territories and no more slave States'-these
same traitors with certain accessories after
the fact, have been in session for two days at
Syracuse, trying to cover up all iheir past in
facilities, and to swallow down all that they
rejected few years since. So potent is the
force Of official patronage and Presidential
recognition, that the same fellows who de-
clared ''the Democratic party forever dissolv-
ed" because they could not under Polk, con
troll all the federal appointments in this State,
are now solemnly resolving that "they are
the only Democratic party" because. under
Pierce, they do control all the federal APP
pointments.
Not satisfied with this, our implacable
Hard Shell mouthpiece goes on at this rate:
What farce is this whole affair-what
miserable, disgusting, Infamous and degrading
position do not these dirt eaters occupyl Men
No stood mn fa,r Iaoloripr 10
fore the world that they had at last awaken
ed to the recognition of great principle
that negro slavery was the ban and the curse
and the damning stain branded upon the
American people-that their especial polit-
cal mission was hereafter to labor that it be
restricted, circumscribed and hemmed in
that to the end that their unalterable hos
tility to the extension of slavery into terrific
ry now Free" might be accomplished, they
wonld never again support STAKEHOLDER for
office-that all political questions were Sc
condary and unimportant compared with this
that Cass, because he opposed theirproviso,
was unworthy of their support-that Dickin-
son, who voted for Texas annexation and for
the compromise measures should be carried
back TO old Virginia" and rejected and con-
temned by the free Democracy of the North"
here are these same men, for the sake OF
miserable offices, and in the hope OF retain
ing Them groveling in the dust, recanting
their professions, acknowledging themselves
hypocrites and pretenders, pleading recent
conversion, and sickening all beholders with
newly assumed cant of nationality and
patriotism.
This reception Of the overtures Of capituia-
ton by the poor Softs certainly gives but lit
tie promise of the brotherly reunion of the
party in the EmpireState Perhaps it would
be as well for the Democracy, in making their
estimates of the Presidential election, to leave
out the State of New York altogether. As
the case now stands, the Softs unquestiona-
bly, have the inside track for the Cincinnati
convention; and the only decision now re-
naming with the IIards is whether they will
go or stay out on the terms proposed. The
full endorsement by the Softs of the Congress.
sional Democratic Nebraska resolution brings
them into line. Now, what wilt the Hards
do? We shouldn't wonder were they to
abandon their original Tammany brethren
absolutely and forever. There is still
chance for the American party, or for Sew
ard; for the Softs, single handed, cannot car
~ the State against either the American or
Seward ticket. See the results of our late |
olaction " Y HERALD