New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-05-12
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THE NOMINATIONS AT BALTIMORE.
SATURDAY MORNING MAY 10. 1860.

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BELL and EVERETT Good names, both Of them.
Men known to the whole country by many years Of
service in high position statesmen whose records
stamp them as national patriots in public affairs,
and with private characters without spot or blem-
ish. Men that nobody need ask who they are.
For third of century, both of them have been
prominently before the nation, in the discharge Of
high public trusts in the Cabinet and in the Senate
of the United States.
John Bell has been conspicuous in the politics Of
the country from the time when Jackson was in
the plentitude of his power down to the present
day. After serving with distinction in the House
of Representatives and attaining the high dignity
Of Speaker Of that body, Mr.. Bell was invited into
the Cabinet of Gen. Harrison in 1s41, and assumed
the bureau Of the War Department. The death Of
Gen. Harrison led to the Reorganization Of the
Cabinet, and Mr.. Bell, in company with his col
leagues, except Mr.. Webster, resigned his position
Subsequently he was elected to the Senate of the
United States from Tennessee, and in that body he
served with distinction until the 4th Of March,
1859.
Edward Everett has discharged high diplomatic
trusts has been Secretary Of State, and has repre-
sented Massachusetts, in the United States Senate.
He was in the Senate when Massachusetts seemed
and before that State had fallen under the evil in
fiuences of such miserable pretenders and dema-
gogues as Sumner and Wilson. In every position
he has occupied, Everett has been "clear in his
great Office Y and stands before the nation to-day a
splendid specimen of true, national, unselfsh
patriot and statesman. @
Such are the men that the Union Convention has
placed before the people for their sufrages. It is
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Convention at Charleston has given new phase to
| the Presidential contest Up to the time OF the
meeting of that body, there was general disposi-
tcn on the part of Southern men of all parties to
sustain its nominees, if they had given national,
conservative men. But that Convention dissolved,
and made no nominations and the Democratic
party is now divided into two wings, with little
prospect of an effective reunion for the Presden-
tal contest In this state Of affairs, the question
arises, what shall be done? If the opposition to
Black Republicanism is to be divided into three or
four distinct parts the triumph of that organization
| will be almost certain. Can the Democracy organ
ize national party to defeat them? The expert
| ment was made at Charleston, and failed. What
then, shall prevent cordial union of all.the con-
servative Opposition, North and South, Democrats
Wings and Americans, upon the Union ticket pro
L
! all conservative men, opposed to Black Republi
canism, to unite upon some common ground, to
defeat that party of intense sectionalisms And
can there be any better ticket offered for this pur
| pose than that of Bell and Everett?
| We do not commit ourselves Internationally, to
the support of this ticket. We are for defeating
the Black Republicans, ard we shall embrace the
most feasible plan, to be determined by future de
yelopments, for accomplishing that end. But, as
at present advised, we know of no mode tha
promises 50 well to effect that object as cordia
union of all the elements opposed to Black Re
publicanism upon the tcketproposed at Baltimore
This is no time to be quarreliDg old party di
visions at the South and rekindlng the old party
watch.fres. The grand object is to save the Soutl
and the nation from the sway Of William Fl. Sew
ard. viii the Democracy, North and South, unit
with the Union men in securing this great and pa
triotc end, by cordial union upon the Baltimore
| nominations? We shall see.