The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-06-10
The Virginia Eleotieus-What the
Presidents New York Organ thinks.

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The N. Y. Herald of the 2sth ult.,
commenting upon the complexion of the
election returns from Virginia, says "Me
democracy have suffered moral, If not NOR
tai defeat IN tie WY SsSasiepoi Of tie parry"
The Herald then goes on 10 say
What has become of that heavy vir.
ginia majority of thirty thousand for Mr.,
Buchanan And how is il that, under
the prestige of that majority, the party
has failed to do as much for Mr.. Letcher
as they did for Mr.. Wiser The reason is,
that ever since Mr.. Buchanar1's election
the selfish, plotting and intriguing poll
ticians of the party have been at work
mining and counter mining, plotting and
counter plotting, North and South,
against the administration and against
each other for the Charleston Convention
and the spoils and plumber of tlfe sue
cession. Thus we find the democracy in
both sections cut up into conflicting
factions and cliques; and thus, from the
treacheries, rivalries and hostile Presi-
dental cliques among the party in Vir-
ginia, the opposition have been encour-
aged to rise for the conquest of the State.
II they have succeeded, they owe their
success to the demoralizations in the dem
ocratio camp; but if the opposition have
failed, 1t is because they have failed to
appreciate and properly. to appropriate the
real weakness Of their adversary.
1T is remarkable fact that the section.
al and factious leaders and Presidential
asplrants OF the democratic party, North
and South, have We'd with each other in
their efforts to break down Mr.. Buchan-
ans administration. For example, the
Northern anti-Lecomption democracy
have made war upon the administration
and joined the republicans in the charge
that it has been faithless to the rights of
the North and has sold itself to the
"slave power;" while the Southern fire.
eaters have as bitterly denounced the
President as an "old Northern federalist,
and a ''traitor to the South" Between
these extremes, we think, it is perfectly
clear that Mr.. Buchanan has pursued that
broad, conservative, national policy in
dispensable to an honest administration.
and equally essential to the unity of the
democratic party. But The party is broken
10 pieces North and South, from the conflict
ing intigues Of jealous and ambitious sectional
leaders; and thus i is highly. probable that tie
contest Of 1860 UiV be to tie demoraEzed De-
mocracy whatMe contest Of 1852 was to The old
wh!g gparty-its, final defeat and dissolution.
We know. that this impression very ex-
tensively prevails among men of all par
ties-that they "feel it in their bones"
as we have heard the opinion expressed ;
and we know that the narrow escape of
the democracy in 1856, and their subse-
quent defeats, defections and divisions,
have furnished the most substantial rea-
sons for this opinion. But we do not sur
render the field TO the dnti-slavey Republican
party. II is manifea that there can be no Goa
6.ioa hef,seen Aen and tie opposition elements
Of tie So,ih. -'-' -
The Virginia election has been fought
by the opposition party of that State as
conservative pro-slayery party; and in
Kentucky and Tennessee they occupy
the same antagonistic ground against the
black republicans. From the general ap-
pearance of things in Kentucky and Ten
nessee, we have every reason to expect
that in August next the opposition will
carry those two States. In that event we
shall have at once in those important
conservative slave States, and in Dele
ware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina
and Mississippi, and in the southern bor-
der free States of Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois. the materials for Q
powerful conservative third party in 1860,
competent to carry the Presidential cleo
ton into Congress; and competent there
to control it.
We see enough in the returns of this
Virginia election, and in the peculiar
principles of the Southern opposition
elsewhere, to perceive that there must
and will be a third party in the field for
the succession; and taking into account
the disbanded Americans, old line wings
and disguised democrats, there will be
materials enough to give this third party
in 1860 a half dozen Of the central States,
including both sides of Mason and Dix
on's line and the Ohio river. Thus while
we recognize in this Virginia election
new sign in the South of the overthrow
of the demoraiised Democratic party, we also
recognize in it the nucleus of new par
ty which may defeat the game of the Re-
publicans.
WAR IN MODERN TIMEs.-Our dispatch
of the Canada's news contains an item
which struck our mind with particular
force: we allude to the order of Napoleon
allowing to all Austrians vessels that may
come into French ports, in ignorance of
the war waging between the countries,