The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1858-03-12
MODERN DEMocRAcY-wHATIs TT


searcher for solution of tie above query,
but all our efforts have been crowned with
disappointment. Industriously have we ran
sacked the musty records of the past-labo-
rousIy 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 lizely) or in a
certain warm place beneath the earth, (Which
is entirely probable,) that some political da-
guerrean would forthwith give it form and
pressure, and place it at once at the head Of
interesting curiosities. At one moment and
place it is one thing, aLd then presto! it is
another. II pariakss Of so many colors that,
like the fable of the travellers and the cham
eleon, you are ready to swear it is green, red
or blue, and when it 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 aware that Mr.. Buchanan is but
dragging into the fedora! nest freesoil
chicken, enclosed in thin, pro.slavery shell,
which the pceping prisoner will pick the in
slant it enters, and step forth in all the pride
and glory of new BIRTH" Still, however, if
they spoke out in church, ii might derange
the harmony Of the great National Democra-
cy. They know that neither Douglas, Walk
er nor Wise nor all combined, have done
half as much to freesoil Kansas as the Presi.
dent, but it would not be polite, or demo-
cratic, to speak evil of dgnites. 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 at
any moment Gf voted for) to "sape the South"
But for her extreme feline tenacity for life,
the South would long ago have been killed
by such snvers. .s- si's,s s,s.s-.F-7~ua.as'r-
While, however, it is both fashionable and
dsmocratic at the South to "cuss" Douglas,
Walker and Wise-near the "Sun Dog line"
Democracy utters another voice. The Rich
mond Enquirer says of Judge Douglas:
"And Notwithstanding his attitude of op-
position to the Administration and to the
Southern Democracy on the Kansas question,
as it now stands, we still look upon him as
supporter of the Constitution and fearless
vndicator OF the rights of the South"
Now, according to the Richmond Enquir-
er, Virginia Democracy praises the same De-
mocrat MS "a fearless vndicator of the rights
of the South" while Southern Democracy
denounces him as an "aposta,e and traitor"
Glory to an institution which can command
such multitude Of wise prophets !!
But 60 north Of the "Sun Dog" and learn
there the teachings of this hundred tongued
Gamaliel. At the late ant.Lecompton meet
ing in Philadelphia, "resoutions were adopted
condemnng the Lecompton Constitution as
fraud and s,oindle, and vet the meeting ex-
pressed confidence in Mr.. Buchanan Here
is n specimen OF the unadulterated, unwashed
Democracy-whose confidence is always pro.
portioned and increased according to the de-
gree Of the "fraud and swndle" perpetrated.
Let the Swartwouts and Prices of the land
take courage, for they may receive the "con-
fdence" of Pennsylvania Democracy--the
pure fountain from whence the little streams
fow--and bask again in al! the glories of
career of "fraud and swindling." Is this De-
mocracy! Eureka