The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1856-06-13
THE CINCINNATI NOMINEES.


sylvania, had received the nomination OF the
democratic party for the Presidency, and j.
c. BREcKESRDGE, of Kentucky, for the Vice
Presidency. Mr.. Buchanan was nominated
on the 18th ballot, and Dir. breckenridge on
the %. In point of talents and character, the
nominations are very respectable, and look
ing to the almost universal feeling at present
prevailing at the North of hostility to the
South, growing out of the Kansas-Nebraska
question, we believe the head Of the ticket
will prove much stronger than would have
either Pierce or Douglass. Dir. Buchanan,
was born in the year 1891, and is eonse-
quently in the Seth year of his age-he en-
tered public life as a Federalist, a1d was sew.
eral times elected TO the State Legislature.
In 1920 he was elected TO Congress over the
democratic candidate; and in 1922 and "a
was reelected, running both times as Fed.
eralist, and being elected over democrats
The reader, acquainted with the history of
parties, will recollect that during the admin
istrations of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe
the old Federal party had been gradually les
SEEMING in numbers aud influence, until il had
ceased TO exist as national organizaton.-
The "era Of good feeling" which prevailed
during the administration Of Mr.. Monroe re-
suited in bringing five candidates on the
Presidential track-Andrew Jackson, Of Ten.
nessee; VIM. II. Crawford, of Georgia; John
Quincy Adams, Of Massachusetts; Henry
Clay, of Kentucky; and John c. Calhoun, of
South Carolina. The latter subsequently
withdrew, and ran for the Vice Presidency.
All these gentlemen al that1ime were known
to the country as democrats In HE contest
of that year, the leading Federalists Of Penn.
sylvania, New Jersey, and New York, dis.
covering the element of popularity in the
military glory that surrounded the name of
Andrew Jackson, generally went to his sup
port, while those of the New England States,
with n few notable exceptions, gave their
votes and influence to Mr.. Adams. Among
the former was the present nominee Of the
party now claiming 10 be the pure, unadul-
tcra;ed democracy. He was in Congress in
1924, when Mr.. Adams was chosen Presi.
dent, and has been charged, (and the charge
has never been refuted that we have seen,)
with playing prominent part in getting up
that masterpiece of partisan villainy, the
story of "Corruption, Bargain and Intrigue"
between Adams and Clay. These two are
gone, but they outyed the foul Islander,
and went TO their graves, mourned by ma
ton for whose common veal and prosperity
they had labored. If Mr.. Buchanan has been
unjustly charged with completely in the ne
farious plot alluded to, tits due to the posi-
ton he now occupies as the candidate of one
of the prominent parties of the country for
the Presidency, that it should be shown;
and VIC presume but few Of the cold Clay
whigs," who have been so fervently-yea,
imporiDg!y-appenled to, to some upto the
help of the mighty against the wicked" will
feel like accepting the gracious invitation
until the party implicated shall be exculpated
until his garments are clcansed and puri.
fed Of this foul stain, which has been upon
them for more than quarter Of century.
In 1928, Mr.. Buchanan ran for Congress
as democrat, and was elected. In 1881, he
was appointed Minister to Russia by Presi.
dent Jackson and on his return, in 1884,
was elected&o the United States Senate, to
fill an unexpircd term. He was subsequently
q member Of MIR. foik's Cabinet, and was
appointed by President Pierce Minister Pleni.
potentiary to the Court of st. James, from
which mission he but recently returned.-
1t is but proper to state that Mr.. Buchanan
has generally stood high in the estimation Of
modern democracy, and but for his supposed,
or real, connection with the Islander on Clay
and Adams, would have commanded no lit
tie Of the respect of his political opponents.
OF late years he has been regarded rather rs
national man, though at an earlier day, like
Mr.. Fillmore and almost every other public
man North, he frequently expressed him.
self in opposition to the extension of save-
ry. Mr.. Buchanan, from his want of identi.
ty with the Kansas. Nebraska issue, was not
the choice of the Southern democracy; but
magnanimously yielding 70 an cxigency
which could not be avoided, they assented
to his selection, and are now prepared to
rally around him as the "only hope and
refuge of the country"
Mr. Breckenridge, the nominee for The
Vice Presidency, Is young man, and CON-
paratively unknown to the nation. He
was in Congress when the Kansas. N ebraska
measure was adopted, and voted for and nd:
vocated its passage, He is between thirty
five and forty wears Of ,ge, comes of a tai.
ented family, and is said 10 be finished scho.
lar and to possess abilities Of high order.
His public record is brief, (no great objection
with the democracy, we believe,) and he was
nominated with tho hope Of carrying Ken
lucky. orH
The PURITANs AND THE HUGUENoTs.-
The descendants of Huguenots Of South
Carolina are holding meetings and voting
canes to Mr.. Brooks, as reward for his re-
cent rather supplementary conduct ut
Washington. The Puritans of Massachu.
setts are on the othpr frnrk md are nhout nm |