Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-02

Northern view Of the campafsn--
Prospect Of = Conservative Reac-
tfon.
While the dissolution of the democratic
party releases the South from its despotic
rule of the last twenty years, and will oper-
ate in that section, under Bell and Everett,
to bring into the foreground a substantial
conservative Union party, somewhat resem-
bling the old wing party, there is good
prospect OF similar reaction in the North.
As the parties in this contest now stand,
Douglas occupies the position of mere fili-
buster or gl.rilla fighter, not expecting any
thing but an ignominious humiliation in the
general battle of November, but employed
by his adherents to watch the roads and cut
off baggage train here and there In our
Northern local elections. His supporters
seem to entertain the idea that he has o
boundless popularity. and that, In spite of all
the heavy odds against him, his name will
enable bis partisans to elect few State exc
eutiEe officers and legislators in the Northern
States, and perhaps even few scattering
members of Congress.
There is lamentable reduction of the orig
| inal Douglas programme but even this We
fear is too much. The Breckenridge ticket,
with the administration at its back, will really
| leave Mr.. Douglas without any OF the sinews
| of war for the present, and without any col
i
IT hahd, the Independent conservative MEM
| hers of ihe-democratic party, looking to the
| future from the ruins of their party camp. in
| the North as well as in the South, will be
very apt to fall back upon the ticket OF Bell
AMI Everett, as atording the best existing
nucleus for q new, sound and healthy ma
| tional Organization.
Tue IN rcanIile and manufacturing classes
| of the North, like the substantial slavehold-
4. l.
| in their political instincts. habits aud opin-
| ions. Their interests make them so. These
substantial classes of the community are,
therefore, as much opposed to the e irrepres-
sible conflict" of the North against the Sou. b
as they are TO that wild Southern faction
which seeks to lead 8. the cotton States into
a revolution and separate Southern con-
federation.
The Bell ticket, North aud nth, at this
moment, represents large proportion of the
solId wealth of tine country. Out of the ex-
isting confusion of the democracy, and con-
>idrring the sectional limitations of the re-
publican party, this Constitutional Union
party, so much ridiculed of late Tor its weak
ness, will soon be respected for its strength.
Should the election, by any lucky chapter of
accidents, be thrown into Congress. the con-
test in the House will be between Lincoln,
Bell and Breckenridge. and in the Senate,
IueSl pIOoduly, oelWeen dduliu dlU Everett,
as the two highest candidates from the peo-
pie.
In this event the only compromise upon
which the House will be able 70 agree for
President, will 6e John Bell; and should the
House fail, Everett, by the action of the
Senate in having elected him Vice President,
will become the President. But assuming
that Lincoln will be elected by the people, it
is safe to predict that his party will begin to
fritter away from the moment he begins to
divide the spoils. From that moment this
Constitutional Union party will begin to
shine as the rising sun, and the heir apparent
for the succession-a great homogeneous ma
tional party North and South, resting its
cause upon the solid financial, commercial
and industrial interests of the country, and
upon a suspension of this terrible slavery
agitation which has wrecked all our defunct
Presidential parties of the last forty years.
". T. Herald, 9Th.