The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-08-13
THE WAR ON DOUGLAS.

THE WAR ON DOUGLAS.
The President and his organ at Washing.
ton keep up the war on Douglas briskly.-
They are determined, says the Nashville Pa.
triot that he shall be crushed, II the exercise
Of what influence and power they possess, in
alliance with the negro worshippers of Iii
nois, can compass that end Of their revenge
But, what is the tendency Of this state ol
things? Who is TO be benefited by il? Wha,
effect will it have upon the interests of the
South! How will it operate upon the grand
quadrennial contest for the Presidency in
1860! The Washington correspondent Of
the Richmond South, in his letter Of the
26th ult., gives us, without intending it,
answers to these interogatories. He says
The indications are multiplying that the
voice Of the Southern States will scarcely
be heard in the next Presidential election
The fight for succession vii! be confined TO
the Northern ones. II will be single-handed
-betveen the LecOmptonites and the
Black Republicans. The former will proba-
bly, be victorious: carrying n sufficient mum.
ber of those States to secure q majority Of
the Electoral College. ] think SO from the
manner in which Senator Douglas is loom
ing up in Illinois. In 1860, the electoral
vote will amount TO 306 OF these the
slaveholding States will be entitled to but
l20-not one Of which, by-the-by, am will
ing to believe, will he bestowed on either
wing of the Freesoilers-on either Douglas
or Seward, should they be the Northern can
didates. One hundred and ffty-four votes
will elect. Hence the Anti Lecomptonites may
lose 81 roles in the nOl.SlduehOlding States,
and ,oin ,oih the remainder, ,oithom The aid Of
Southern uote.
Thus YOU have the issue of 1860 distinct
ly before your eyes, as concerns the South
and North II will admit Of no favorable
Interpretation for the former. 1t is but too
apparent to my vision that we are to be over
whelmed by superior numbers.
According, therefore, to this sham demo-
cratic authority, the war upon Douglas tends
to give additional strength TO anti Lecomp-
tOnites and black republicans, BY prccipita-
ting n contest for the Presidency between
them, thus drowning the voice of tho South,
and injuring the interests of our section, by
placing it in the power of Northern section
alsm to elect President "without the aid of
n Southern vote" Now, wha! excuse have
the President and his organs for forcing such
a state of things upon the country? What
can be their object! A State Convention of
the sham democracy of Ohio, which met at
Columbus, on the goth ult., adopted the fol-
lowing resolution
"That we regard the Lecompton contro-
versy, so.called at an end, as being settled
issue. Therefore, zoe refuAe 10 recognize IL as
a test TO be prescribed by either side of those
,oho differed in opinion upon il, believing that
all who hold the cardinal principles of the
party and sustain its organization by voting
the Democratic ticket rs good enough Dem
ocrats for all purposes.
Why do not the President and the Union,
his organ, conform TO this policy of the de-
mocracy of Ohio, and let the "Litte Giant
alone, if they are actuated by proper motives.
and do not seek to bring about the sectional
contest spoken of by the correspondent, of
the South! Are there to be several stand
ards of sham democratic faith-one to keep
together the sham democratic majority in
Ohio; another to disperse the sham demo-
cratic majority in Illinois, and give the State
over to the nsgto-worshippers; and others,
for Pennsylvania, Indiana, &c, &C.!