The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1859-05-13
Democratic Extravsgance -Falia-
cies of it's Defenders.


Government have been doubled in the
last six years Of Democratic rule; that
the appropriations were made by demo
cratic Senate during all that time, ana by
a democratic House of Representative,
with the exception of one Congress- ana
approved by democratic President inc
democratic leaders and organs are striving
to shirk responsibility by throwing inc
blame altogether on single Black he
publican House of Representatives we
have shown how fallacious was this at
tempt, and by an examination OF the
votes they produce to sustain them have
proven that if the party in Congress ana
in that Black Republican House OF Rep
resentatiyes had been true to their duty
and their professions, they had it in their
power to have prevented the unnecessary
appropriations of which they now COM
plain. The force of these facts cannot be
broken. No sort of defence or apology,
however specious can justify or excuse
them before the people. The proof is
cleaf and overwhelming, and if it does
not crush the party and expel it from
power, we are deceived in the amount of
forbearance and endurance possessed by
a long-suflering and an outraged people.
1t is expected that the democratic or
gans and standard bearers will continue
to harp on the proAigacy of the alleged
Black Republican Congress. We desire
our opposing candidates and the people
to bear in mind that the 34th, even, was
not Black Republican Congress. The.
House of Representatives had a majority
at that time, and only the House of Rep
resentatives. That body had no power to
pass appropriations over the heads of the
President and the Senate, both constantly
democratic. These facts are incontro-
vertable, and instead of throwing the
blame on the Black Republicans fix it UNI
alterably on the Democracy.
Another fact which we wish kept con-
stantly in mind is that the Democratic
office holders and agents squandered all
that was appropriated by that Congress and
many millions more. AT the second ses-
sion of that House of Representatives the
administration called upon the very men
who, they now pretend, were guilty of
this enormous extravaganza, for S2,l35,-
0l3.60 to supply deficiencies in the APP
preparations made by that Congress for
the year 1857. The first session of the
35th Congress, being largely democratic,
appropriated nearly Sl0,000,O00 to supply
the deficiencies in the appropriations (by
the same House) for the year 1858. The
democratic appetite was utterly insatia-
BILE. Not,satisfied with what that party
now denounces as prohigacy and waste,
the loby.jobbers and place holders of the
administration absolutely take it all down,
and come up to another and a friendly
Congress, for millions more We shall
give tomorrow some of the doings of the
delectable S5th Congressional which
there can be no pretense of dispute. The
people shall know who their robbers are.
IMPENDING OUTBREAK IN HuNGARy.1tz ~
Gazette de Cologne and IoT62
Brussels, both contS
ments as to an impending our
Hungary. The removal of troops from
Gallicia has set the Sclave population OF
that province, in fcrment, which Rus
sian agents are accused of originating.
though spontaneous combustion is not
wonderful there, as the massacres of Tar
now and the conduct of the Archduchess
Sophia in 1871, are not forgotten. italian
regiments, the only troops now left are
scarcely to be depended on during the
war, and Kaiser Franz Joseph is playing
a desperate game by drafting all his
available bayonets into Italy.
B6F" A facetious friend of ours thinks
that Democracy will make no serious OPP
position to change of Administration;
that they feel the necessity for it. even to
subserve their own interests. He argues
very conclusively in this wise: Having
plundered the Treasury, and extracted
the last dime from it they will be willing
for the Wings to go to work and replenish
it, that they may once again indulge their
favorite luxury of depicting it. Office is
very poor business for Democrat with
out ode monish," and though they have
a happy faculty for squandering the pub
lie treasure, or of appropriating it to their
own use they never accumulate it in the
vaults of the Government. As statesmen,
they are an improvident set, though they
are never accused of neglecting their per-
sonal interest in the spoils.-Lynchbuy
Viryinian.
HB. Peterson's Detector warns persons
who are compelled to handle bank notes
not to wet their thumbs while counting
the bills. 1t remarks that if the thumb
comes in contact with the tongue after
handling a note from the pocket of a man
infected with the small pox, the infection
is as sure to take effect as the innocula-
ton of child.