The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1860-08-24
Vice President VS.. President.

Among the few papers in Alabama that
now support Breckinridge and Lane is
the Montgomery MaR. The Nail was a
Wing paper, before it fell into the Dis
union trap, but it is now intensely ultra
and believes that the only hope Of the
South is dissolution OF the Union. In
1856, it thought Mr.. Brecl,inridge very
bad man--it now seems to be of n different
opinion, and as it is occasionally quoted
by the Secession paper, Of this State, it is
well enough to let people see the senti-
ments it formerly ente .ained of its pres
ent candidate for PRECEDENT. In Octo-
Der, 1856, the Mailpubl he'd the following
editorial:
"SusPIcrous" BREcgfN IDGE.--The name
of John c. Breckinridgo, Nice-Presiden
tial candidate of the Democracy, is in pro-
cess Of being made odious to the pcotle
of the South and Cor ,lis he may thHnk
not American speakers or writer's, Uat
such journals as the New Orleans Delta
oltra southern Rights journals, of the
Democratic cstripe-,journalst that embraced
the Cincinnati platform, as containing all
that will save the South. "here and here
after" 1t is not Mr.. Fillmore's friends
who denounoe Breckinridge as the sus-
picious candidate from "a suspicious
State'-it is an organ of the most intense
of the Democracy! And who are they,
who defended lin for making speeches
IL company 1M Joha Van Bren, and declar-
ing Mh he does no, belong to a,,y party ,ohich
goes for the crtcHSion Of SIpcery? and, for
making other Sqtt talk to Freesoiers, in a
free State, while standing side by side wah
| lie EreCS0iicr, John Tap Buren,! Aye, Who
defended him?
1t is not such papers as the New Orleans
| Delta, or the Charleston Mercury-:jour-
nails devoted to intense Southernism,
though connected with the Democratic
Squattcr Sovereignty party. II is not Ncy.
| But wherever, in this broad land, you find
a miserable hireling of Federal powcr-a
| plant, unqucstioning tool Of the powers
| that be-a creature calling himself man
but who has long since parted with all
manly attributes--a mere political pan
| dcrer, who at so much per month pro-
longs an official relation to men who des-
| pisc while they employ him-a party
scavenger, without olfactories, who revels
in the ordurc he is called on to handle
II lllilIs SOl'i
a price, long ago-an individual of the
class that party corruption keeps at its
vilest work whenever you find such a
man. he is the defender Of John c. Brock
inridgc for associating with John Van
Buren,. and in the presence of Freesoilers,
clearing his skirts Of belonging to party
which goes for the extension Of slavery.
Yes, these are the men who would make
the South believe that Mr.. Breckinridge
ist tor the South, when he himself denies
that he occupies that position-will he,
himself, comes out openly for Squatter
Sovereignty.
And are these cwoNcd, paid m;nions q
FtdYR RP0ccr-creature without opinions;
stepped in corruption obedient only to
the will of their maaterS-boumd to &C
whore they are cent, and TO say and dc
what they are ordercd-arc these hangers
on, pimps and stool-pigcons of Federal
power, to teach the ,S5Wh It's duty? God for
bid! ii the South is to be sold out, lie
the factors in the transaction be, at least
nominaly respectable men.