The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-10-31
A FEW LAST WORDS.

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poor ability, honestly and earnestly
and our work isdone. Itnow remains
for the people to render their verdict
it is for them to say whether they
will have peace and quiet, harmony
and fraternity among the States; Oh
whether the war of sections, which
has been shaking the Union to its
centre, shall continue until it is bro.
ken into fragments, and all its glories
go down in anarchy and blood. MIL.
LARD FILLMORE is the candidate OF
the conservative, Union-loving and
Union-preserving element of the ma
ton. He has been tried-weighed in
the balance and not found wanting.
On a former occasion, when sectional
strife and disunion madness ragged
and threatened to overthrow and de-
stroy all for which Washington fought
and Warren died, WILLARD FILL
MORE proved himself competent to
quell the storm and bring the endan-
gered vessel back to its ancient moor
ings. He stood upon its deck in that
dark and fearful hour, when the bane-
full fires of abolition were burning
tiercely in the North and the lurid
CLEANS of disunion were lighting up
the Southern sky, and said to the
raging elements around, "Peace, be
still" He was obeyed, and calm,
and harmony, and quiet, and sun
shine rested upon all the land. He
was tried in the fiery furnace, and
passed the ordeal unscathed-he was
subjected to such a heat as no other
President had to encounter, and he
came out without even the smell of
smoke upon his garments. And when
his labors were ended one unanimous
burst went out from the hearts of a
grateful people, of "Well done, good
and faithful servant" He is again
before the nation for the Office of
President-the same WILLARD FILL
MoRE-the same Great Statesman
and Patriot-knowing no North, no
South, no East, no West-knowing
nothing but the Constitution and the
Union-"the Union, now and forever,
one and inseparable!' Will you
again put him in command, where
the country, now in greater danger
than before, may have the benefit of
his abilities and experience, or will
you turn aside from him and encour-
age the war Of sections until there is
nothing longer to contend forl 1t is
for you, fellow-citizens, to determine.
Of his competitor, upon this occa-
sion we have but little to say. We
do not believe he is the man for the
times. His history proves he is not.
Mr.. BUCHANAN has been q mere
politician all his life; and though not
without large abilities, there is moth
ing upon record to show that he is
the man for the crisis. Conceding to
him all that the honest portion of his
supporters claim, still he is in bad
hands. The disunion members of
that party now control the democracy
of the nation. 1t was not always SO;
but it is so now. Mr.. BUCHANAN
may be patriot, may love the Union
and desire to see it perpetuated; but
the men who control and direct the
party of which he is the nominee, and,
therefore, the representative, do not
love the Union and intend to destroy
it, and if he should be elected he will
be made to conform to their views and
designs. The present perils are too
great, the dangers too imminent, to
risk an untried man, and one who
will inevitably be surrounded by adj
verse and hurtful influences.
But the time for argument and
persuasion has gone by. The candi-
dates are before you, fellow-citizens-
the pen of truth has made you IA
miliar with the history of BOTH
There they stand-MILLARD FILL
MORE, the Statesman and Patriot
JAMES BUCHANAN, the Politician
We believe, as firmly as we do in the
Christian religion and future state
Of existence, that the election of the
former will bring back harmony,
peace, quiet and fraternity, and ban
ish sectional strife, unholy, unnatural
strife, forever from our now distracted
country. We believe just as reli-