Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-23
S56.--I 60.

We are having the same old Northern fight
over again (Fremont changed into Lincoln
Bell substituted for Fillmore.) but with this
essential remark that in 1860, not as in 1856,
neither Douglas or Breckenridge can possibly
be elected by the people, as was Buchanan.
Hence, there is to be-there must be-a
change of Administration; and the only real
question is-shalI it be Bell, or shall it be
Lincoln? Bell, we say, because in the House
of Representatives, neither Breckenridge,
Douglas or Lincoln has positive strength
enough to carry II States, and because Bell
is the second choice OF all of them.
The Lincolnites affect success certain
tv of success They tell us now exactly
what they told us in August, 1856, every
thing is ours The whole North is united u
Fremont is carrying everything, from the
Missouri river to the Passamaquoddy.' Look
over the files of the republican papers OF Au-
gust 1856. and read exactly what is written
in 1S60-with the substitution of Lincoln"
only for Fremont and Jessie" They are
giving us Jessie" now exactly as they did
then The ''Old Gentlemen are ''nobodies,"
'.nothings' of no sort of account-''Silver
Greys," Learned old fogies'-''behind the
age''-not all up to jessie If an election
had been taken in August, 1856, Fremont
would have been elected sail oat of sight"
There was no real, true organization against
him but the democratic, and that was just as
powerless against Fremont in 1856 as now
against Lincoln. The Presidential campaign,
however, has not began in the Northern
States, and it will not now fairly begin be-
fore the LIST of October. The democrats, by
that time. will be weary of knocking out
each others brains, GuarrelIng and wrang-
ling. The office-holders serving Buchanan
will see lit don't pay" to elect Lincoln, and
Buchanan himself will become affrighted at
the part he is acting, of aiding and abettng
in the election OF Lincoln.
The campaign, however, has already begun
in the South and West. The Kentucky re-
suit is a symbol of the general result in the
slave States, where three tickets are run, or
to be run-and every day there, Bell and
Everett become stronger-hence it becomes,
every day, mere obvious that Bell is the
only man. unobjectionable both TO the North
and the South-the only real live Unien
candidate.
The FremonterS in 1856, calculated just
as they calculate now in 1860. I'VE can car
ny the whole North" 1.-The North united,
can elect Fremont-Lincoln," etc. But this
uniting of the North is impossible. 1t is i'm
possible to unite the Yankee abolition ele-
ment of this country. and the conservative
slave State emigration into Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, Iowa, California and
Oregon. The Yankee manufacturers too, are
conservative-must be conservative as well
as the Yankee ship owners and Yankee mer-
chants-for the bread and butter Of both depend
upon it. The manufacturer and ship owner OF
the North-the merchant OF the North-lts
bankers, commercial houses, freighters,
truckmen, cartmen, and workmen, cannot al
ford to DECLARE WAR AGAINST THE SOUTH, Tor
| that is to be the definition of the election OF
Lincoln The one idea of ''anti-slavery" is
war, talk about it as men please-wAR
against the fs57 THE BARBARIANS .a1 OF the
South, or in the religious slang OF the day,
s'war against the SIN and the siHnerS' of the
South. wide Independent pdSsiH.
Now the war of the commercial honses,
the ships, the banks, the merchants, the man
ufacturcr, the workmen of the North against
the cotton, rice, tobacco, and corn growers
of the South, is war that, in mercantile
lingo, sCon't pay. There is no profit in it.
There are no commissions for it. 1t is war
against commerce and trade, and therefore a
war against interest, as well as a war against
patriotism.
By September now, and October, this
Trade and Commerce will speak,-thunder
toned. 1t will be laughed at, and sneered
at. as Union saving''-"the Union savers"
&c.,-but the thunder will roll and strike
too ia 1860, harder than in 1856. The mis-
cradle politicians that are framing three or
four Electoral Tickets to help that one, that
everybody not of it, and in it, wants TO beat,
and meaas to beat,-will be struck down by
its bolts, and be crushed underit. The great
Public Opinion, that demands UNITY OF AC-
TIoN against the common enemy, is an uni
yersal Public Opinion. Ii is voice not
feeble even now; but coming, rising, and
rushing on-and wo! woI to all that Tor sell
fishness, revenge or faction, stand in its way.
IN y ErDress