The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1857-08-21
AN ELECroR ON MR.. BUCHANAN.

buchanan Elector in Georgia last year, has
written a letter upon the Kansas policy of
the Administration, id which occur the fol.
lowing passages:
The Kansas act is q law Of the Union; the
principle in il is q law which, like all other
laws, Mr.. Buchanan is sworn to take care is
faithfully executed Gov. Walker has been,
and is now, guilty Of violating this law. Mr..
Buchanan can preserve the law from viola
,ion by renewing Walker, aud he can remove
him by simply writing his name; fails and
refuses to remove him, he fails and refuses
"to take care that the laws he faithfully ex.
ecuted," he fails and refuses to keep his oath.
wilfully and daily. Forty days ago this vic.
lation of the law begun--forty days and
nights it has continued and forty times is Mr..
Burhanan perjured man. There is no es.
cape from this sconclusion. Blinded parti
sans. the tmil. traitors. and hired serbhlers,
may write until seven the world itself could
not inin the books that should lie writ
ten " and they will succeed in deceiving no
one, not even themselves. There stands the
vn at.d oath, aud its living light will scar
the eyeballs of our guilty Chief Magistrate.
| would rot have his conscience for his din.
dem. were it twenty times as brilliant
| Other Presidents have ia led in their pledges
| to party. hut this is the first time n President
Of the United states has.prrsisied day after
day in the wilful violation of his oath of OF
| flee. Such n terrible crime is not easily
matched in the history Of man--bnt two in
stances occur to me, Judas lscariot and Bene
diet Arnold. Those who pate so much about
the President of our choice and his past
fidelity would do well to study the history
OF these, his two ilnstrons predecessors in
ireachery Some criminals are like rivers
they begin in small streams which increase
ms they flow until they swell into a mighty
torrent, sweeping along proudly and defyng
control. Others may lie compared to that,
| terrible cataract OF the clouds, the water
! spout, which Gstonishes and overwhelms in a
clear day In This class may he placed the
three distinguished charnci ers we are now
considering Judas was II very good man, SO
far as we know, until his first great crime
at least an sure "he never east n vote against
| the South" lie had followed the saviour
through the regeneration and was promised
one of the twelve thrones from which to
judge The twelve tribes of lsrael-and yet.
Tor thirty patry pieces of silver he betrayed
| Him aud became Il son OF perditOn. There
was one differ ence between the Apostle and
the President, and am sorry to say it is in
favorof Judas-he rent out and hung himself
May we not hnpe MIR. Buchanaa will yet iol
low his patriotic example.
ATHblu beHTs II SUN ClOStT resemblance u
Buchanan. Arnold had fought and BLEED on
many II bloody field Of the Revolution TO
gain liberty for the oppressed colonies
Buchanan had talked an voted for Southern
Rights through many Il hard fought battle il
the halls Of Congress. Both had got us hugh
as they could possibly expect to go land here
in Is the key To the treachery OF both,) til,
path of ambition lay behind them-they hat
reached the end. But here he parallel ceas
es. Arnold got about fifty thousand dollar.
and II commission in the British army, for hi,
treacliery. Tue pay of Buchanan more near
ly resembles that of Judas; he betrayed u
and violated his oath for the Infamous plan.
dts of our Abolition foes the Herald. Post
Tribune, and others OF that ilk.
The reader will agree with us that tn
above is pretty stong to he uttered by maj
who some eight or ten months ago was goin!
about, by commission Of the Democrat
party of Georgia, telling the people that tn
only safety of the South was in the election
OF this same President, Mr.. Buchanan.
MIXING PoLirlcs AND RELlGloS.--A South
+ western gentleman sends Harper's Magazin
the following authentic fact; aud it is udm'ra
: bly, suited to the present times, when man
: preachers a: the gospel Q).think OF Paul ii
Mr.. Winston did:
"Gcofge Winston was a devoted Bapis
man in Mississippi, and an equally arden
{ Democrat. 1t WAS hard to tell which had III
I uaimest place in his aft ctons-his wife, hi
, church, or his political party. On one coca
b sion he had several friends spending III
! evening with him: and, before they rrtir, d, Il