The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-27
THE GAME OF FRAUD.
From the Richmond whig,l


II is almost waste Of ammunition to
shoot at the Democratic Platform. II would
require swellmuzzled gun Of hughest cali
bre to hit the whole of it in weeks steady
firing. 1t is a forest of ve-biage Of every
hue. BY succession Of quadrennial accu.
mutations and abrasions, il has come to re-
semble the delta of some great river, where
every variety of incongruous sediment has
been deposited.
We see that new additions pledge the De-
mocracy to carry out The Monroe doctrine
rigidly-that is, to permit no European gov
ernment to colonize this continent or to in.
terlere with the government O.: any por
Of it. Stree seas and progressive free trade
throughout the world" is also declared to be
cardinal principle of the Democracy. This
would indicate disposition for universal
war, and is scarcely practicable short of uni
versal conquest. Some of the Virginia del.
egates made some exception to this new
item of Democratic faith, and protested that
it was not to be regarded as test of ortho-
doxy. But their objections were little heed
ed by the tumultuous Democracy. 'Our as.
tendency in the Gulf Of Mexico" was like
wise asserted-which means, We suppose,
the conquest of Cuba, st. Domingo and the
rest of the neighboring Isles. We presume
the Virginia protest was designed to apply to
this portion of the programme as well us the
progressive free trade."
As sample of the candor and ingen.
uousness which distinguishes Democracy,
we have in one of the first resolutions a
strong denunciation of Internal Improve
ments by the Federal Government, and the
very last act of the Convention was reso.
luton in favor of railroad to the Pacific
ocean! Such brazen duplicity is part and
parcel Of Democratic tactics; and is not mere
ly dscreditable to the character Of the coun
try. II has wrought vast and irreparable
mischief. II has made the politics of the
country base and degrading game; it has
substituted expedency for principle, and
generated the brood of shnrping demagogues
who infest the land. 1t has given vitality to
the slavery agitation, and iomented it into
dangerous element of domestic discord.-
We see it's practical effects in the diverse in
terpretations put upon the Nebraska Kan
sas nct-the President and his Northern fol.
lowers procaiming that net to bea "measure
for Freedom" and the Southern wing,
"guarantec for slavery" This shameless
double dealing, reduced to system, and put
forth under the sanction Of one Of the great
parties Of the country, is the immediate par
ent of the abolition outbreaks in the North,
and the civil war in Kansas. II tends des-
troy thu moral bands which hold society TO-
gether; and its baneful effects will continue to
be felt in the future. It may achieve the
success of n spoils pnrtySbut it threatens ru.
in to the country. An election carried by
snch an agency settles nothing, except the
individual who shall distribute the loaves
and fishes; it leaves public questions unset
tled-it exasperates sections-t keeps the
public mind inhamed. Say Mr.. Buchanan is
elected on the principles Of the Nebraska net
with its contradictory interpretations. His
Northern friends every where sustaining him
rs the advocate of squat.er sovereignty and
the fsend of free Kansas, and thereby encour-
aging their followers to initiate the conduct
of Reeder, in trying to subvert the govern
ment by force: what is gained by II? Or
take the internal Improvement question: the
people who voted for the Pacific Railroad in
the Convention, and those Michiganders,
who last week denounced Gen. Pierce for
his vote-they will be disappointed and in
dgnant, if Mr. Buchanan should put his veto
upon m Internal Improvement bill; should
he withhold it, he would incur the wrath Of
his Southern supporters. But as PROPOSE
tions for improvements will only come from
those sections favorable to the policy, and ns
the resolutions in favor of The system was of
later date than that against it; the only effect
Of this double.denlng will be to pnss bills
for the benefit of the North and none for
that of the South.
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