The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-03-27
THE POLITICAL REVOLUTION IN NEW
YORK

The recent local elections In the State Of
New York have demonstrated that n politi
cal revolution is in progress throughout the
Empire State, Republicanism is RAPIDLY dy.
ing out and the mass of the people are pre-
pairing to make the American question the
paramount issue. The breath Of anti slavery
fauaticism Is nearly exhausted and the people
are returning TO their sober senses. The AL
bany Statesman, commenting on the signs de.
ducible from the result Of the recent local
elements, says" Thousands who voted for
Fremont have availed themselves Of the very
first opportunity to signify their undimnished
attachment to Amercanism. In scores Of
instances, where the Americans were but
third last fall, they now lead all the rest
The American cause has received an unnis
taxable impulse. Beaten MS our party was
in the last contest, the sign and numbers it
displays now are in the highest degree en-.
eouraging. The circumstances that gave ex.
istence and strength to The Republican party
have ceased to exist, while the necessity for
practical application OF Americanism in
Legislation and the affairs Of Government
have become all the more apparent by the
scenes that attend the success of the Demo.
cratic party. In the future the struggle must
be between the American aud Democratic
parties, and representatives of district ard
plponitS u'cbiibebs IHtTt Us pTuctlchIlN no
middle ground. Ignore the necessity OF
American reforms you cannot. To occupy
neutral ground S regard to them, is at least
inconsistent If not dishonest. You must he
for or against them, by acting and voting
with the American or Democratic party
Which will you claimi Thousands have al
ready made their decision Hence the
marked and disastrous dminution of the Re.
publican vote and the scarcely less marked
increase Of the American vote" In the
South a similar revolution in public senti.
ment is silently progressing. Thousands who
were induced to vote for Buchanan by the
cry of "no chance for Fillmore" have already
become disgusted at the duplicity Of the
Democratic leaders and alarmed at their
reckless radicalism in urging the adoption Of
policy which must, if successful, give the
entire control of our government and our in.
stitutons into the hands of not only foreign
ers, but of aliens, Of men who have not even
become invested with the right of citizenship.
Thousands even of the most prominent
men in the ranks Of the Southern Democracy
are beginning to shrink with horror from the
brink Of the terrible abyss towards which
the Democratic party, had in hann with the
most ultra Republicans, are now madly hur
rying, and hundreds OF thousands at the South
have begun now for the first time TO look to
the principles and policy Of. the American
party for projections to their institutions aud
safety to the country
The issue is already made. Americanism
or Foreignism, Conservatism or RndicaIism
Safety or SelfDestruction. The Democratic
party that so long avoided ii, and sought by
every conceivable urtiiice and stratagem to
put off the evil day when choice must be
made, has at last accepted the issue and is
now foun1 arrayed in defsn ncp of the most nj
TIA aud radical foreignism. Let the Ameri-
can party everywhere hold their opponents
to this single issue. Let the lines be distinct.
ly drawn, and hundreds of thousands who
have heretofore hlinily followed the lead OF
Democratic pariisans will shrink from them
with lonthing rs if from very lepers, and viii!
gladly enroll themselves among The advocate es
of the principles Of the American party
Lou. Jour.