The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-10-10
sECTToNALIsM vs.. NATIoNALIssI!l

SECTIONALISM VS.. NATIONALISsio!
The Democracy aver that there are two
sectional candidates for the Presidency in the
present campaign. Every body knows that
Fremont is out and out Of the North, North
ern. The friends Of Buchanan in the South,
have from the beginning Of the canvass insis-
ted that Buchanan was out and out Of the
South, Southern. They have repudiated the
idea OF his being any other thing than the
candidate Of the South, According TO their
showing, he knows no North, TO East, no
West. These regions of our land, extend.
ing over considerable surface, geographical
ly considered, are beyond the ken of his po-
liiical regard. If we are to believe them, his
most ardent affections, which, for. long years
at least have had no natural channel in which
to run, have entirely been concentrated upon
the South and her institution of slavery; that
having no "lawful heir" upon which TO lavish
that tondness which is portion of his ma.
ture, he has adopted the Solth as substitute
upon which he is to besio his doatiug. We
are led to infer that if he &ses the South,
like that English monarch 1--WE forget his
namc) who lost ais son at sea, he would
"neve9 smile agninn Unless, indeed, in a fg-
uratve sense, over'that iavorite Monongaheia,
open doors and liberal hand.
The only question is, will the South be
adopted! The old sage of Wheatand comes
pleading through his friends with lugubrious
countenance and mendicant voice, that he
loves the South, her institutions, her people,
her land, but above all, her niggers; that if
there is one object nearer to his heart than
another, it is the extension Of the South, and
the increase of slavery.
1t is true that in former days he may have
denounced all these things, and especially
slavery and lis extension, and that, too, when
lis sun o; llle had long passed its meridian,
and all the Judgment he ever had was in its
maturity. Now, however, say his beggar
| friends, the nomination for the Presidency
has removed all the scales from his eyes; he
sees that the bantling of anti.slaverv, which
had been the child of his adoption, with that
ingralitude which has become proverb, has
slipped from under his protection, and gone
to be petted by Fremont. The South is the
only hope of his declining years, they whine;
if it will not come under his wing his grew
hairs will go down in sorrow TO political
grave. He has been repudiated at the North
and the East and the West, and he will be-
equally repudiated by the South, unless the
experience the South has had OF the North
ern Democrats, goes for nothing in their
choice; unless they are willing again and
again to be dupes and victims of The same
system of deception and iraud-of falss hood
and Misrepresentation. In the South, since
they have been party, every candidate they
ever had has been lauded TO the skies for his
Southern sentiments and his Southern feel
ngs. In the North, the same candidate, by
the same party, has always been upheld and
prriS. .H h..n,t Of 10, h,.,
and Northern feelings, until all honorable,
rejecting men have become dsgusted with
the base repetition.
Where are honest men, who love the Union
and respect the Constitution, to look in this
day OF seclionaIsm! They cannot look to
Fremont without sickening sense of disrup-
ton which NAV follow his election. They
cannot look to Buchanan, because he is the
) great "Repudated Of the people," and be-
, cause, il the statements and pleading of his
friends OF the South be irue, he is purely Sec
tional, and would, even ifthere was shadow
OF prospect for his election, he 10 represen-
/ tatlve OF the nation.
There is one man, true, tried and faithful.
who has stood at the helm in times of storm
and danger, and who already has received the
plaudits of the whole people OF tie land, for
the services he rendered, and the honorable
duties he ably discharged; u man who is ma.
tona and not sectional-one who can look
throughout the broad limits of the Union.
and say that he knows and that he loves it all:
that it hels called to administer the govern.
ment, he viii administer ii for the whole, and
not Tor part; who dare to say in the North,
what Is true IN the South, and who would ra-
ther be right than be President. He beps no
vote by subserviency to sectional prejudice: