The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-07-11

TO which he fed! Beware. He could offer
| n2 human sacrifices on the altar OF ambition.
| VIII We too halt between two opinions! sIf
the Lord be God, follow him, but If Baal,
then follow him." VIII you follow this po.
litical Baal! All! there is danger. For "Baal's
prophets are four hu ndred and fifty men,
And with them are united the prophets Of the
gropes, four hundred more which eat at .Jeze-
BETS table and are commanded by an Arch
bishop. While the true Democracy of Ameri-
csc inc hiding all who love human liberty. may
exclnim, with Elijah, 81, even only remain a
prophet of ,he Lord T. Ali there is danger.
The fused mass of foreigR influence, Free
soilism, official corruption, deadly enmity to
! Protestant. born liberty. and republican insii.
tutions. is propelled with terrific and mighty
momentum against the temple of liberty, bv
the parricidal hand of reckless ambition, dis
guised in the garments and assuming the
| halowed name Of Democracy. God grant
| that it may Withstand the shock! For il it
fall we shall be overwhelmed in lis ruins, with
the expiring shrieks of American liberty
sounding in our ears. There il danger! All
those who have been thrown off by the true
Democracy are attracted To this mass and
rohere with it; all the scum and filth Of the
social Acheron float to it and increase its
putridty. All the vultures in the sky are
lowering over it seeming their prey.
The braggart pretender to the defence Of
Southern rights himself, like Buchanan de.
se:ter from his party, the ebo Skinned, gizzard
footed, half bully and half blackguard, will
hug this candidate of foreigners, Freesoiiers,
and federalists, to his bosom, travelling on the
Russian road that leads to the C0nsiantinople
of his aspirations. Some of the men who
assisted to nominate Buchanan were evidently
afflicted with doubts and fears. They heaved
at the dose they had to swallow, and held
their noses. Apprehending his return, If
elected, to his vomit of federal filth, they tried
TO chain him by platform fetters which should
shine in your eyes like the golden bands of
the pure Democracy. Hence they dug up the
phosphorrscent corpse of the United States
Bank, and paraded the proceeds of the public
been lnvshing them on unnatnralizcd f"r-
eigners, owing allegiance to n foreign govern
ment] before you, and gabbed about internal
improvements, economy OaughD confidence
in YOU, &c. &c. And then a hook baited
with progressive minnow for the "Bhoys,"
the Gulf of Mexico (meanng Cuba) and the
Isthmus, (subaudrtur Nicaragua,) and as much
more M The progression geometrical should
lust for.
There is danger! Their professions are one
thing for the people, their practice another
for themselves. II is true they have diff
cult game to play, but they are adroit and
practiced. No art will be neglected to gain
an advantage and win the prize; for it is an
Empire. No sander will be too gross, no
talsehood too revolving, no fraud too vile, no
cozening too mean, no bullying too brutal, no
trucking too atject, If 1t will insure success.
Will any true Democrat, knowing these
things, offer ndignty to the memory of
Madison by voting for his revler and ira
Queer? Is there one who will aid in placing
n federalist in the chair so ably filled by that
true Democrat, and true patriot, James Madi
son? God forbid My soul is subdred by
sorrow when ! see Among the nominators of
Buchanan men who Know love their country
and its republican institutions, and whom !
love very dearly, blinded and led astray by
the delusion of name-believing that to be
Democracy which is not, and acting under
that delusion in support of those who disre
gard the principles of the illustrIous men who
founded the true Democracy, and promoting
measures destructive to the equal rights OF
American citizens.
AN OLD DEMOCRAT.
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