Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-18
FOR VICEPRESIDEN7
ELECTORAL TaCKE,r.
TUESDAY, sEPTLmBER is, 1850.
The Policy of mr.. Douglas.


Mr.. DOUGLAs having fully satisfied himself that he
annot rule is now determined that he Will, if posi-
ruin. The dispatches published in our last paper
inform US that tie DOUGLAS committee in New York
have rejected the proposal of the BREcKNRDGE COM
Htttee to form joint electoral ticket in that State
all who are opposed to LINCOLN The proposed
Arrangement was to form a ticket composed of IF
cen DoUGLAs men, ten BELL men and ten BREcK1-
RIDGE men. The ten BELL men have already been
placed on the ticket we learn from the address
of the BELL committee, but the BRECKENRIDGE men
have been rejected. This has been done by the ap-
proval, if not by the advice of Mr.. DOUGLAS The
New York city papers tell that Mr. DOUGLAS in his
JOKES WooD speech in the vicinity of New York, on
Wednesday last was very severe on the supporters
of Mr.. BRECKNRDGE and.would not tolerate the flu
sion project. The New York Times in its comments
on that speech says:
Mr.. Douglas, after arFaigning the Breckenridge
Party as fragrant disunionists traitors to law and
Constitution, found occasion to denounce all com
nunon or league with such and protest that under
no circumstances could his signature be obtained TO
compact so devoid Of rectitude. There was no room
left for doubt 10 the absolute universally of his
principle. He is opposed to fusion all the agdg from
Maine 10 California.
When we consider the fact that il is only by a
thorough union Of the friends of BELL DOUGLAS
and BEECKNRIDGE in New York, that State can pos
sbly be taken from LINCOLN, when we consider that
the DOUGLAS men have yielded to the BELL party
ten places the ticket when we consider that the
BRECKENRIDGE men did not ask as many places on
the ticket by one third they gave to the DOUGLAS
r1en, 1t Is strange it is passing strange that Mr.
DOUGLAS should have opposed such a fusion 1t can
only be accounted for by the supposition that find
ing he cannot rule he is determined TO ruin Will
Southern Democrats longe- follow the banner of so
desperate leader? With hun the first thing to be
considered is not the defeat of LINCOLN but the de-
feat of BREoKNRIDGE. His vaulting ambition has
o'erleaped itself Instead of being the crusher he
will be the crushed. STEPHEN A DOUGLAS. like
MARTIN VAN buren,, when forming a constituent part
OF the Democratic party, was seemingly all power
full he vainly thought that his strength was all his
own. He gave no credit to the brave hearts and
brawny arms that sustained him. The elections of
1860 will teach him that there is wide difference
between the power of STEPHEN A DOUGLAS as a
leader of the Democratic host, and STEPHEN A..
DoUeLAs the advocate of STEPHEN A DOUGLAS for the
Presidency. The elections of 1913 taught MARTIN
Van buren, lesson which Mr. DOUGLAS is slow to
In the very beginning Of the canvass when some
of the respective friends of DOUGLAS and BREcKN-
RIDGE in Pennsylvania and New Jersey talked of
forming a joint electoral ticket III those States to
sustain them against LNCOIy, the DOUGLAS Execu-
tive Committee at Washington in hot haste issued a
pronuncImento forbidding the formation of any
such combinations with the friends of BRECKENRIDGE
anywhere. FORSYTH, and HENDERSON, and RICHARD
sGN, and Ed. MARSHALL, and other leading DoUG1As
men, openly proclaimed that if there were any flu
Sons to be made they would make them with the
BELL party. 1t mattered not what were the conse-
quences in any particular State there was to be no
fusion with BRECKENRIDGE men. Let it benefit BELL
or LINCOLN, still no fusion with BREcKINRIDGF
Messrs. NILES TAYLOR, PUGH & Co. il their lengthy
address to the Democracy of the United States E"
said:
1t remains for Us to add as the sentiment of tie
Democratic National Committee, and the universal
seltiRed Of the supporters Of Douglas and johnson
that No COMPROMISE WHATEVER Is ADMISSIBLE /"
We have made no proposition for a Joint electoral
ticket in any State, and we earnestly erLo you TO re
yed such propositions INDIGNANTLY WHENEVER AND
WHEREVER MADE II hare any friends in ana STATE
let those friends CALL A STATE CONVENTION AT ONCE
AND NONI' ATE FULL ELECTORAL TICKET. PLEDGED
To THE EXCLUSIVE SUPPORT OF DOUGLAS AND
JOHNSON WE CAN AGREE TO NOTHING
ELSE"
Mr.. DOUGLAS in hi. speech at Rocky Point R. L.
said:
Il am asked why do not advise my friends to
make Union ii ket with the SecessiOnists? Why
DON YOU MAKE OIL AND WATER NIX
The States and Union, the DoUGIAs paper at Wash
leg. said, few days ago, referring to the probabi-
ties of fusion with the BRECKNRIDGE men in New
NO'k, Mr.. DOUGLAS Will never recommend fusion
with traitors and disunionists." The Louisville
DeaoTat, the ablest of the DOUGLAS organs in the
South, recently published an anti-fusion article
which was copied into the editorial columns of the
DOUGLAS organ here. from which we make the fol-
lowing extracts:
= The organ Of the Yancey party here (Louisville)
says: 1t Il known TO the whole country that Doug
las and hs men have refused in every instance, any
fusion with the Breckenridge wing of the Democra-
cy. Let mat confession be recOuected lt Is true,
and we want II understood distinctly that such
coalition has been rejected. Ii has been proposed
and insisted upon by the lanceyites, and refused.
They (the Douglas mem do not propose a union
without conditions Their policy is plain and dis
unct They VIII accept all the help they can get
honorable terms, 10 accomplish the end. They will
not support Lincoln or Breckenridge. No national
party can stand on either Of their platforms Hence
State. II there was any danger of Lincoln or
Breckenridge IN this state there might be teInpa-
ton 20 coaiesce, for the success of either is danger
GUS to the country; but no such danger exists.
Hon. MILES TAYLOR, the Chairman Of the DoUGIAs
Committee at Washington. telegraphcd to his friends
in New York, on the 10th inst when the fusion be-
tween BELL DoUGIAS and BRECKNRrpGE was under
discussion, "not 10 cder jEdo ana alliance griR The
Brec4iNridge naeS.'
An arrangement was made in New Jersey between
the BELL and BREoKNRIDGE men and norton of
the DOUGLAS men by which joint Electoral ticket
was formed, composed Of two DOUGLAS men, tro
BREcKpRDGE men and three BELL men, thus insu- |
ring the vote of that State against LINCOLN But the
,,afie,dqr friends of Mr.. DoUGLAS nominated in on
nositiop TO it a straight out DoUGLAs ticket An
a--.n,amept was also made in Pennsylvania nv
which q Joint DOUGLAS and BRECKNRIBCE ticket was
agreed upon, securing the vote of that State also
,gsinst LINCOLN This FoENET violently denoune-
al A DOUGLAS Convention was called at which
NJ DorG1As was present and made speech
Cd az which another straight out DOUGLAS
+icl,et ,vss nominated. The only result of which
iii n, 20 increase the charces of LINCOLN for Penn
sylvania.
Tins Is the bitter hostility Of Mr.. DOUGLAS and his
Db,as friends manifested to those Northern ana
sors,,,rn Democrats who are suppoTtl3g BREcKIN-
INC, ans LANE. VIII those Democratic SESSnds OF
&C who prefer BRECKENRIDGE TO BELL Or LAY
I,pger ojzs him their assistance now that they
ave assured there Is DO probability OF the DOUGLAS
,;o,at CARRYING any State in the South! We make
:, .nneal TO the partizan leaders. They have al