Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-09
Progress of the New Revolution
signs of a Southern Reaction.

The Herald, the organ of the BRECKENRIDGE
YANcEY democracy of New York, in its issue
of the 5th. has an article under the above
caption, worthy of note, coming from such
source tn scanty returns which it had re-
ceived fros5 North Carolina. where the de-
moeracy werc united in the support of Ellis,
it confssses show that the democracy we're
roughly handled by the Bell-Everett Union
Party of that quiet conservative old South
ern Commonwealth There is something
Significant it adds. gin the reported gains
of the Union party" Then, after briefly STA
ting the condition of affairs in Missouri, Ken
tucky. Arkansas. and Texas and the proba-
BILE result of their August elections. the Her
aid says-"the danger to Mr.. BREcKINRIDGE
lies in the first and second tiers of the North
ern slave States, including Delaware, Mary
land. Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee,
kentucky and Missouri; and all these he
NAV lose in November should the results to-
morrow in Kentucky and Missouri be against
him. The Herald continue
The apparent drift of the political current
in North Carolina, in connection with the
connecting Douglas tickets in Kentucky and
Missouri, Justify the conclusion that these TWO
States will be carried by the Beli-Everett
party In tsis eUeHt all the other States trhtch are
5ork Indicated man lie counted for Bell and EUeT-
I'll =, Norezngrr Nor will the effect OF the loss
of Missouri and Kentucky to the democracy
stop here. IL lciU react upon the North ana Id
fbis section it will give vigorous impulse
to the Bell-Everett party. from the encoura-
cling prospects of carrying the election INTO
Congress and for the chance. too, OF having
their candidate for Vice President the second
highest on the list.
In this event should the House iall To
elect as il certainly will, from the three
highest candidates for President. we know
what will follow. Should there be no elec-
ton of Vice President by majority OF the
whole electoral vote, then the two--only the
two-highest candidates tor Vice President
90 to the Senate; and should they be Hamlln
and Everett. the latter, of course Will be
elected the Vice President, who will become
the President in default of an election By the
House.
We await further returns from North Caro-
lima, and the issue in Kentucky and Missouri
There is evidently conservative reaction at
work among the people OF the southern
States and we NAV have such manifestations
TO this end within few days will inspire
all the conservatives of the North with con-
fdence in their ability TO throw the election
into Con eress where there can be 10 doubt
of decision against the republican party IN
the Senate from the impossibiEty OF an cleo
ton by the House.
Since the above was written. Missouri ana
Kentucky have pronounced against the
Rtrold be right, we may safely put down,
Delaware, Maryland, Virginia. North Carroll
ma, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri for
BELL and EVERETT. But these States will
not be alone Alabama, Mississippi. Louisla-
ma, and perhaps Florida aud Texas, will be
with them. Where then is the BREcKINRIDGE
vote to come from to carry him into the
House if the people fail to elect? He can
get no votes In the free States. unless we
give him California and Oregon, and there is
little probability that he can carry them.
His friends ought to withdraw him from the
c,ntest By keeping him in the field, they
VIII only Ubstruct the constitutional union
men in their Efforts to defeat LINCOLN. The
reaction in the North, foretold by the Herald,
will be great but unless BRECKINRIDGE is
taken out OF the way, it may not be enough
to secure the election of BELL and EVERETT
10y the electoral colleges. They will go into
Congress, however. ahead of all Others and
if the House does not elect BELL, the Senate
4 will choose EVERETT Vice President, and he
will become President. But this is not what
the Constitutional Union men want. They
desire an election by the people; and with
such emphasis as shall afford the country
some guaranty of peace from the agitations
of bad men of all parties. in future. Truly.
the friends of BREcEINRIDGE and LANE, if
they desire to promote the best interests of
the country, will not insist longer upon keep
ing their favorites in contest in which they
are already routed. They cannot court an
Inhalation; and had better avoid it whilst they
may.