The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-10-01
NAsHvlLLE-THE DEMOCRACY.


There Is something dreadful on hand at
Nashville-party elements are in terrible
eommotion, and the democratic leaders are
vibrating in their boots like reeds shaken by
tbs wind. All of which we learn from the
following article, appearing in the Banner OF
that city, of the 23d ult:
"Treason, Stratagem and Spoils"-"Suth-
IN Rumbles.' There is something in the
wind. 10 the classical language Of Simpkins,
Jr we "smel a rat" and are suspicious that
something is to be ratified. Our semi-occa-
slonal trips through Cherry-street during
the last two days have excited our apprehen-
slons that the country is in danger. The
faces of suspicious individuals meet our gaze
in isolated groups, apparently bent upon some
secret business.
By heav'n, there's treason in their aspect
That cheerless gloom, those eyes that pour earth
That bended body and those folded arms
Portend evil 10 somebody. Is anybody
scared? Our candid opinion is that the demo
cratic party is in trouble There is some se-
cret sorrow preyng upon its vitals, and
desperate attempt is about to be made to
rive! The patient will not survive long with
out relief, and there is danger of dissolution
from the effects of physc. The doctors are
all in town for consultation. We have seen
them-some of them-ahd they are the
choice amoug the Faculty. There is Senator
Nicholson at the head, and Andrew Johnson,
Secundem. They are in a yellow study, as
sisted by Burch, late Speaker of the Senate;
Whitthorne of Maury, Quarles of Mont
gomery, Hon. Harvey NJ. Watterson of War
rem, Capt. H. c. II. Miller Cannon, Wilson,
and Payne Davis of Marshal, Col. Howard OF
Wilson, our friend Dunnington Of Maury,
and last, and always handsomest, our cotem-
porary Faxon, of the Je6ersonian. There
are many Others in council, representing the
interest which is felt in the patient. They
will deliberate profoundly before they pre-
scribe. We understand that ALL agree upon
the nature of the complaint " hich has thrown
their patient between the sheets. II is the
yellO,o melancholy. They differ, however, rs
to the treatment. Some are for applying
shin plaSterS, while others insist upon strict
! ly mineral treatment. We anticipate i .gastrs
discussion upon this point, but as it will be
private, the world will be no wiser Our spe-
cia reporter vii! be there, but he knows bet
ter than to disclose the proceedings of se-
cret societies.
We commend them to prudence and eau
ton, lest their
pots fall short, like darts which weak hands throw
| With an i'll aim, and have too far to CO."
gY- If the man who owns "Jim Cay's
place" once the residence of the great Ken.
tucky statesman, has not "a brow insensible
to shame" the following from the Lexington
Observer will bring the blood to his callous
| heart:
The cry of coalition" is now in the mouth
| of every Locoi0co IN Tue ooutn from The mean
est to the highest. All of the new converts
to Democracy are especially loud in their de-
nuncations of the proposed 'union of the
opposition" upon any platform whatever. no
matter how broad and national it might be.
Among these alarmists James b. Clay has been
as active as any one else, when he ought 10
know from experience that the Jocofoco cry
of 'coaiton" is an old trick of his newly
adopted party. James Buchanan (his par
tcular frend) got up just such another cry
about Henry Clay number of years ago.
| When Jackson was beaLen for the Presidency
by Mr. Adams, it was proclaimed throughout
! the length and breadth of the land that there
had been "bargain and sale" effected be-
tween Mr. Adams and Mr.. Clay, and this
charge false and foul as it was, hung like an
incubus upon the latter for many of the best
years of his political life This charge snow
admitted by the Democrats themselves to
have been false, but does not James B. Clay
remember how tercely they denounced his
father during this period, and how vehement.
ly they talked about '4hat coalition~ And
If he does, it seems to us that he ought not
to ioin in with them now in giving volume to
this old party howl about the union of South
ern men with traitors of the North, for the
purpose of swindling and wronging the South
! Let him leave this task to those who once de-
nounced his father for the same offence, and
who quoted James Buchanan as authority for
the lie for years.
THE PARTY SYSTEM DREAMING UP-No