The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-07-15
Nov Hampshire Democracy Elk
President Pforoe.

President Pierce.
ThoDtnooraiic Standard, published at Concord,
New iiampshirs, Is The organ Of the Adminis,ra-
ton 10 flat State, aud Is conducted with more
Tim ordinary ability IL occasionally gets ''ered
npe little and cuts loose upon the Abolition wing
Of it, party, telling truths which some cf the
faithful would prefer not TO have told. For OK
ample, VIC and the following pointed paragraph in
~ issuc Of the "a inst, which we commend to the
leadets 81 the Domocrailo party in this direction
who are daily charging chat the Opposition, the
Opposition only, sch naHliason with the an,i-sln.
very element in he Free States.
BtwNne ov rms ISrnIorERs.--Thcrei Il an in
trgue going on in al the Northern States % elect
delegates 20 Charleston, hostile to tho present Ad-
ministation and is policy, and in favor Of Doug
las. The prime movers In This intrigue arc The
same Dcnocrats who sympntlhsed with Hannibal
Hainn, and that class Of politicians. but who
did not 10 over 70 the Republicans with thcm.-
They are, however a. thoroughly tainted with
Abolition scntimenie, and will in the end accom-
plish moro mischief 10 the Democratic party, than
they could have done II they had deserted with
iiamlm.l Tho intrigners alluded 10, include the
men whom Franklin Pierce put IN Office through
ont the ontire North, aided by the oounsels Of this
same Hannibal Hainlin, and others like him.
We arc aware that the South had confidence in
Pierce, because they thought he supported their
cause They do not know the man. While he
supported measures favorable to their interests
into which he was actually driven, be held on ID
ihe abolifioniscd Wimot Proviso Democracy Of
the North II was so throughout New England
and New York. And the Democratic party and
the South arc now reaping the bitter fniits Of The
donble- faced treachey Of Franklin Pierce. Iii.
organ. the N. II. Patriot. and all his followers In
this State, at this momS luntter Sovereign
", Douglas symps<1 80 it Is in Maine
Just before an clecIYonF6c papers and whiprers
in of the Democratic party invariably commcnc,
the game Of Jrog. They are at it now, and theii
efforts in that direction are incessant and really
amusing to one who knows what's on hand. Foi
example, some illpstrous scions of the house o.
Annanias and sapphira are telling about here o.
the wonderful and large gains Gov. Harris will
make in the Western District. In the westerr
District some Of the same interesting family sweal
that he win gain largely in East Tennessee, ant
in Middle Tennessee they roundy assert, while n,
Is losing there, which they cannot deny, that b,
will make heavy gains in both the Eastern ani
Western Divisions Of the State. Now this is al
thc merezt brag and bluff, intended to operate upor
The Opposition and discourage them from going I,
the polls to vote. There is not a Democrat in th'
State stupid enough to believe that Gov Harris
if elected at all, will attain to one-fourth the ma
jority he did two years ago. Far from it,-and /
Is within our knowledge that the Governor him
self is anything but confident of success, and a
best expects to be run down into the hundreds r
The Nashville Union and American is scared on
Of Its propriety at the diseouraging prospect an,
is begging piteously for votes and praying (what
Dissertation , to the faithful TO rally or all is lost
while the candid and calculating men of the part,
concede the loss of both branches Of the Legsla
ture, and seven out of ten of the Congressional
Districts. Here is just the facts of the case
the Opposition poll full vote, rs we have the hes
reasons to believe they will Notherand will b.
elected beyond doubt, and the Legislature be Sc
cured. The idea that East Tennessee is not goint
to throw the old majority for Netberland is utter
ly absurd. She has never failed yet when an Eas
Tennesseean was on the track, and she will no
fail now.