The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-03-12
MODERN DEMOCRACY-WHATIS 1T
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searcher for solution Of the above query,
but all our efforts have been crowned with |
Industriously have we ran
sacked the musty records Of the past--labo-
riously have we pored over modern speeches |
and editorials to find clue to direct the
mind through dark labyrinths--but, like the
exploring dove when the earth was deluged,
we have found no place of rest in our wan.
derings. We do sincerely hope, If its simili.
tude can be found in the heavens above,
(Which we hardly deem possible,) or IN the
earth beneath, (Which is more lixely,) or in
certain warm place beneath the earth, (Which
is entirely probable) that some political dn.
guenean would forthwith give il form and
pressure, and place it at once at the head of
interesting curiosities. At one moment and
place 1t is one thing, AID then presto It is
another. 1t partakes Of 80 many colors that,
like the fable of the travellers aud the cham
eleon, you are ready to swear it is green, red
or blue, and when il is actually produced, in
all likelihood, it will turn out to be-black.
We have been led into this train Of refec.
ton by noticing the ingenious efforts of the
Southern Democratic press, in its attempts to
make little capital out of the Presidents
position on the Lecompton Constitution,
while at the same time it opens way to es-
cape from its recent pledges and its present
and anticipated entanglements. These editors
are fully awnre that Mr.. Buchanan is but
"dragging into the fedora! nest freesoil
chicken, enclosed in thin, pro.slavery shell,
which the peeping prisoner will pick the in
stant it enters, and step forth in all the pride
and glory of q new BIRTH" Still, however, If
they spoke out in church, It might derange
the harmony of the great National Democra-
cy. They know that neither Douglas, Walk.
er nor Wise, nor all combined, have done
hnlf as much to freesoi Kansas rs the Presi.
dent, but it would not be polite, or demo-
cratic, to speak evil Of dignities. They know
Buchanan is the same freesoiler that he was
when the late resolutions of learned "length
and laundering sound" were passed. Doug
las, Walker and Wise, however, are for the
time being, apostates to Democracy and trail
tors to the South; but now, unlike the Presi-
dent, they have no fat Offices nor patronage
to bestow. Let the places be changed, and
who that is acquainted with Democracy does
not know that these "apostates and traitors
would then be transformed into very proper
State Rights patriots, ready and willing al
any moment III voted for) to "saue the South
But for her extreme feline tenacity for life
the South would long ago have been killed
by such savers.
While, however, it is both fashionable ant
) democratic at the South TO "cuss" Douglas
Walker ind Wse-near the "Sun Dog lue,'
Democracy utters another voice. The Rich
mond Enquirer says Of Judge Douglas:
sand notwithstanding his attitude of Op
position to the Administration and to tn
Southern Democracy on the Kansas question
as it now stands, we still look upon him as
supporter Of the Constitution and fearles
vindicator Of the rights of the South"
Now, according to the Richmond Enquir
er, Virginia Democracy praises the same De
mocrat as IA fearless vindicator Of the right
d, Of the South" while Southern DemOcrac
: dsnounces him as an "apostate and traitor.
Glory to an institution which can comman
such multitude of wise prophets!!
But 60 north of the "Sun Dog" and lear
there the teachings of this hundred. tongue
Gamaliel. At the late anti-Lecompton meet
D ing in Philadelphia, RESOLUTIONS were adopte
3 condemning the Lecompton Constitution as
fraud and swiadLe, and yet the meeting ex
, pressed confidence ia MIR. Buchanan" Her
is specimen Of the unadulterated, unwashe
Dsmocracy.-whose confidence is always pre-
portioned and increased according to the d.
;, gree of the "fraud and swindls" perpetratet
I, Let the Swartwouts and Prices of the Ian
take courage, for they may receive the "cor
fidcnce' of Pennsylvania Democracy-th
: pure fountain from whence the little stream
. how-and bask again in all the glories of
q career of "fraud and swindling." Is this d.
u mocracy! Eureka!