The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-10-10
SOU rHERN SENTIMENT-SoUND
VIEWS.

The Norfolk Herald, one amongst the old
est and most respectable journals of Virginia,
speaks as follows:
The Southern Democratic journals have
heretofore had strong hopes of carrying
Maine, and not being realized they are ready
to give up all for lost--Buchanan' election
and even the Union itself. For ourselves we
see no good reason why the defeat of the
Democratic party should necessarily break up
the Union. We think that so dreadful a
catastrophe as that may be averted by third
party, cmbodying that portion of the people
who are preserving the Union by sober coun.
sells, mutual forbearance, and an adherence to
constitutional principles. Such a party is in
the field with fair prospect of success, and
as the storm thickens the more necessary it
becomes for the friends of peace and union to
adhere to it. When that hope fails We shall
prepare 10 meet the worst But at present our
motto is, "Don't give up the ship"
IL is notorious fact that nj the clamor
about disunion originates with electioneering,
and from political demagogues of the Demo-
cratic party. They started the campaign,
Immediately after Mr.. Buchanan's nomination,
with this transparent subterfuge, to intimidate
weak minded, vacilating persons, whose fears
made them susceptible Of such Impressions
Seeing that the game worked tolerably well,
they became embroidered to push it to ex-
tremes. Every speech and harangue now
made by the leaders of this party is interlard-
ed with forebodings Of disunion, in case OF
Mr.. Buchanan's defeat; or, in other words the
defeat of the Democracy. Sensible men, who,
from motives Of patriotic integrity, support
Mr.. Fillmore, are told with an impertinence
inexcusable, that they are doing wrong-that
they are throwing their votes away, thereby
aiding Fremont and jeopardizing the Union.
If Mr.. Fillmore were not suitable person to
fill the high position TO which his friends
would elevate hm-nntred, vaclating, and
without otism-then there might be
some excuse for offering such arguments to
men of sense; but to be told that his old nd
herents must forsake him because, forsooth,
the Democratic party is in danger of defeat,
resolves itself into an absurdity too contemP-
tible almost for excuse, except upon the
shallow grounds of political trickery. A man
who would be driven from his course-from
his line of duty-?rom his cherished friends
and more especially, from the support of so
good and great, so well tried and patriotic
statesman as Willard Fillmore, upon such
pretext, scarcely merits common respect.
To turn Democratic and own it, to support
MIR. Buchanan and the principles of his party,
because conviction may induce belief in
their correctness, lie open, manly; but to for
sake the man of our choice, to aid in breaking
down the man, whom in our nmost heart we
believe bcst--to turn traitor, as it were, to
our own feelings and irrevocable convictions,
because self.aspiration, selfambitious parti.
sans tell US we must do so, under pretext of
saving the Union-merely, however, in sub
stance to save them and their party-is more
than honest men would ask. or sensible citi.
zens submit to.