The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-01-23
MORE DEVELOPMENTS.

| AS we predicted, says te LOUISVILLE jour
nal, III. slavery question has already shiveret
the united Democracy into fragments The
election is over Humbug and hypocrisy
deception and deviltry have done their work
There is no longer any necessity for conceal
ment. The tongues of the Northern Demo-
Gratis are loosened, and they are permitted to
tell the truth. The Southern Democrats
stand aylast at the ultra freesoilism Of the
Northern Democratic leaders, who, during the
canvass, were held up to the South us pat
terms of sound pro.slavery nationality.
We mentioned yesterday the domestic
braw among the Northern and Southern
Democrats ia the House Of Representatives
in which they openly repudated each other
The scene il the Senate has been quite as
rich and instructive. Senator Bigler, the firm,
and fast friend of Mr.. Buchanan, the avowed
mouth piece of the new Administration, was
at last forced to speak out to the intense hor
ror and cbagrin of the Southern supporters
of Buchanan. In the course of speech on
this all-absorbing slavery question, Mr.. Hale
exhibited large handbil, calling a Demo
cratic meeting in Pennsylvania, in favor of
Buchanan and Breckenridge and free kansas,
and announcing Ex-Governor William Biglsr
as one of the speakers on the occasion. Coy.
Bigler denied that he was present at the
meeting, and Mr.. Hale replied that then the
Democracy were guilty of double fraud, for
they not only announced themselves in faver
of free Kansas, hut cheated the people by n
false assurance that Mr.. BigIer was to be one
of the advocates of that doctrine. This
brought ont the Ex-Governor, and he nc.
knowledgpd that he was in favor of free
Kansas in the broadcast sense, and that the
Democrats were in favor of free Kansas
This annunciation caused dire Consideration
among his Southern Democratic brethren.-
Their secret was exposed. The secret which
they had so long concealed by frauds and
stratagrms and falsehoods is secret no
longer, and the people Of the South may now
know how they have been humbugged and
deceived in regard 10 the soundness of the
Northern Democracy, "the only purity in the
North upon which the South can rely for
safety to its peculiar institutions"
Even Douglas, the Ajax lebanon OF De-
mocrncy, the immaculate great little man, who
was said tn be sacrificing himself for the
benefit of the South, and in whom the South
was called upon, by all the Democratic organs
and stump.spenkers, to place the most implicit
confidence, has taken off the mask he was
compelled to wear during the campaign.-
During recent visit to Ontario county, New
York, he made a speech, in which he boldly
avowed himself in favor Of free Kansas, and
moreover, in speaking of the true character
of the Kansas Nebraska bill, he declared that
the effect and consequently the object of the
bill was to make Kansas free territory. He
ment contained in the Kansas bill, the people
would not legislate slavery into II territory
"Tnstend Of so doing, six of the original thir-
teen co"nies, had actually emancipated their
slaves without the least coercion from the
Government Of the United States; and the
same result would follow, as he thought, in
other slave.hoding States, il the citizens of
the non slaveholding States would only give
them the privilege of making their own laws
in their own way and the Territories, in
particular, where slavery has not yet been
introduced, were in no Danger of admitting
the Institution, ns il was against the general
conscience and prejudices Of the pt ople Of the
country, both North and South"
Upon the same occasion, ex-senator
Shields, paragon of National Democracy,
declared that "he was himself opposed to the
extension of slavery; he was a thorough anti.
slavery man; and were he an inhabitant of
Kansns, he should oppose the introduction of
the system into that territory"
Out of their own mouths are the Democra.
cy thus condemned. When Thomas Hart
Benton, md Hanibal Hamlin, and scores of
other Northern Democrats openly declared
themselves in favor of srersoilism, the South
-rn Democrats asserted that they were not
sound Democrats. and that the Northern De-
mocracy should not be judged by their
opinions. But Biglrr and Cnss and Shields
and Douglns were endorsed ms National De-
mocrats by the Southern Democracy during
the recent canvass. They were pointed to as
patterns of that Northern Democracy upon
whom the South might confidently rely. II
wns declared that the Northern Democracy
occupied the same position in regard to the
Kansas issue ns that held by the Southern
Democracy. Now the fraud is exposed. The
nationality of the Democratic party was
mere bubble. The people were fascinated
with the spcndor and brlli"ncy of the pris
matte colors reflected from It's surface. The
bubble has burst, and the bonsted nationality
has vanished into thin mir. Thousands and
tens of thousand. of citizens Of the Southern
States were deceived by the declarations Of
the organs and speakers Of the Democratic
party that the Democracy North and South
WINS the same. The Northern Democracy is
now exhibited In its true colors, and such is
the disgust that its ultra freesci!ism has ex-