The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-07-18
RATIFICATION MEETING AT MADI'
soNvILLE.

For the Post.
Mr.. Editor: As this is day of politics,
! hope that your readers will bear with me
while give you n short sketch of Ratif-
cation meeting, held by the Buchanan demo-
Gratis of Monroe county, Tenn, on Monday
the 7th inst. After the County Court ad-
journed for dinner, the sheriff announced that
there would be Buchanan ratification meet.
ing held Immediately in the Court house, and
that all the friends of Buchanan were request.
ed TO come in, and all opposed to Back Re-
publlcanism were also requested to come in.
! did not consider myself invited by the first
call, and should not have been present if the
last had not been made. For fear of being
called Black Republican, | in company with
Others of my own faith, repaired to the scene
Of action. We did not get in to see the meet
ing organized, but judged that Jas A. Hare,
ESQ.,, was Presidentfrom the fact that he was
explaining the object OF the meeting when
we entered. His speech was brief, beginning
back at the garden Of Eden, and ending with
the destruction of Know Nothingism. MIR.
Hare is quite n gentleman in his manners,
aud said nothing to wound the feelings Of
the opposition. He wound up with short
but spirited exhortation to the Know Moth.
ings to turn and come up to the help of old
Buck against the Black Republicans, nssur-
ing them that there was yet a chance. WIN.
". Stakely next appeared, to fire the big gun
of the occasion. We were all looking for
something, as he is man of considerable
character and talent. We were somewhat
disappointed in our expectations. took no
notes, but here is the sum and substance of
his remarks: He boldly asserted that the
Know Nothings at the North had for their
candidate for the Presidency Nathaniel p.
Banks-he said another fnction of the same
party had ]. c. Fremont and VIM. l.. Dayton,
and the same party south had for their can
ddates Fillmore and Donelson, and another
faction had Commodore Stockton, making
four candidates. He assured his audience
that there was but one truly national ticket,
namely, Buchanan and Breckenridge
they were the national democratic candidates,
and no other were NATIONAL neither could Ell
ther of the others get ticket IN half of the
States. ('rhis is one spot on the fawn.)-
Next he made a wonderful appeal to the
Know Nothing sinners south, to come up
to the help of the southern democracy against
the Black Republican monster of the North
that the Union was in more imminent danger
| than it ever had been, and that there was no
hopes except Buchanan was elected, that
there was no turning to the right or to the
left, that if they threw AWAY their votes in
voting for Fillmore they were TO blame, MS
they very we'll knew thnt he could not get
State in the Union, and they in voting such
vote was not voting indirectly for a Black
Republican, butt were no less crime than
voting directly for one, not that Mr.. Fillmore
was Black Republican, but all who voted
for him knew TINT thew were throwing away
their votes, MS he could not get ticket at
the north, nor n State at the South. Now
for consistency. Mr.. Stakely surely thought
he was addressing truly kno,o. notLing-ai all
meeting, or he would not first have made it
appear that the opposite party was split into
four factions and was truly no party at all,
that they were mere cypher. and next wind
M with his exhortation TO the Know Moth
ings south to not throw away their votes
and come nm and helm defeat the mighty.
that there was danger and imminent danger
too. Persons more advanced in modern de.
mocracy than |, NAV see how this can be, but
| confess | cannot If his irst assertion be
true. the last cannot. He boldly told us that
the lour candidates of the four factions were
all of course Know Nothinps, buth failed to
tell the people that Banks in answering Gen.
Zollicoffer's interrogatorles, declared empha.
tcally that he was democrat: and also fail
ed to tell that J. G.. Fremont is democrat of
the deepest dive. But instead of dealing hon.
estly and letting the truth be known, he tried
to make it appear that they were all of the
same school of politics. Oh, consistency,
where art thou Next appeared w. l.. Eakin,
ESQ. take no particular exception to any
thing he said-he spoke like a gentlem,n,
differing honestly in opinion with other gen.
temen. In nv Judgment he fully answered
n portion of the preceding speech. Next M.
peared ]. j. Wright, ESQ.,, who made n
short speech, principally expressive of his
feelings in being honored by being associated
with and addressing so many time honored
and crey.headed soldiers of the cross as he
was then surrounded BY. and wound IN by
relating, in lop and chilling tone of voice,
some tremendous threats towards him by
those secret dark lsntern politicians, to wit
thew had told him in the Village of Madison
vile that if he did not vote for n certain man
and ever dared to show his political hand, it
would be cut off. He told It in such chill.
Ing manner that almost lodged, thinking I
could see them sever his hand, and even hear
it fall to the ground. How barbarous
Next appeared A. J. Vaughan and made
snort speech sonhewna' on tue oi'Ve'or"'ch
order' oehouhc'hs 'hose i''''e county news
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