The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-10-03
HEAR A VOICE FROM LOUISIANA.

Men of the South-Union men of 1851
once more you will have to rise in you
might and put down the disunion spirit tina
is now sprouting mp green and thrivin!
from the buried seeds of 1851. Hear tn,
New Orleans Creole:
A gentleman who holds prominent posi-
ton in Louisiana, has jus. returned from
tour of travel ut the North, decided to sup
port Mr.. Buchanan, because his election pil
hasten the dissolution Of The Union. Their,
are strong reasons to believe that no incon
siderable portion of the warm friends of Mr.
Buchanan are at heart in favor of divided
Republic.
That Democracy which once stood, like tn,
frowning rock, against all the assaults upor
the Constitution, is to-day broken and scat
tered new doctrines have swept away all it,
ancient landmarks; new leaders-od red
type Journalists, and young radical revolu
tionists, struggle for supremacy. Growing
corrupt with the enjoyment of power, its
leaders of every hue disregard pledged faith
if gain is likely to follow treuchery. Com
ing to consider the masses as mere instru
ment for individual aggrandizement-a lad
der, upon which to climb into power, they
cease to have regard for the transmission OF
our institutions unimpaired to posteritv, OF
to love the Union, except they may continue
to have supremacy in the Union. Hence the
frequent assertions now made by Southern
Democratic journals, "that Fremont is pre-
fernble, traitor as he is to the land of his
birth, to Flmorel" II they cannot rule,
they desire that issue to be presented which
shall weaken the bonds now connecting the
North and the South.
AT this moment the scenes enacted on the
plains of Kansas are the result of the supi-
neness, rs well as the desire, of the Demo.
cracy to estrange the different sections of the
Union. Kansas is not reduced to peace. be.
cause the continuance of strife on its plains
opens the way tor the Democracy South to
rise into power in Southern Republic
while the Dsunionists North NAV WELD the
supreme authority in a Northern conleder-
acy. Disunionism North and South now
works most astutely for the same object
The Southern Democrat will vote for Buch
anan that the issue between the North and
South may speedily come. The Abolition
lists of the North sustain Fremont, to make
the issue direct between the free and the
slave States
1t is worthy of remark that the leaders in
the secession plot which, a few years since,
agitated the slave States, are now leading
men in favor of Mr.. Buchanan. Gen Out
man, of Mississippi, then openly avowed MS
reason for raising the banner of secession,
grievances which he now supports in sus-
tanning the cause sof Buchanan. Pierre
Soule, OF Louisiana, stands in the same po-
sition with the distinguished NJ. e. from
Mississippi. Throughout the entire South.
ern States, the same men who were then
ready, at the point Of the bayonet if neces-
sary, tn throw off the control of the general
government, are now found the supporters
of James Buchanan-side by side with the
Van Bm-ns, the Nflghts and an army or
those, to avoid whom, they then struggled to
destroy the Union of these States. Have
these men purged themselves of their old
hostility? Have they exhibited penitence
for their former heresy, or repudiated all fu-
ture design upon the integrity of the Repub-
lie! Or are they now designing to accom-
plish, indirectly, what they then failed to se-
cure by open action?
Is not Buchanan supported at the South
with the ultimate design of consolidating
merely geographical parties? and are not
many persons coming to his aid, because
his election will intensity the present strug-
gle between the North and the South!