Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-27
THE UNION AND AMERICAN
The Fusion.

We published on yesterday a dispatch announcing
that private information had been received in Wash
ington of an agreement between the BELL and DoUG-
LAS men Of Georgia to have but one electoral ticket
in that State, to be composed of five DOUGLAS and
five BELL Every day the evidences Of Fusion
between the adherents of Mr.. DOUGLAS and Mr.. BELL
are growing stronger. We have again and again
warned those Democrats who are now favoring Mr..
DOUGLAS to beware of the wles of that shrewdest of
political managers, JoHN BELL The Richmond
Whiq. the leading organ of the Know NOthings N
Virginia and second to none in influence with its
party in the South, out in a lengthy editorial
en- Tuesday last openly advocating fusion of the
DOUGLAS and BELL strength. The entire article is
one well worthy of the study of Southern Democrats.
The Wing asserts that between LINCOLN and BRECK-
1NR1DGE on theone side, and BELL and DOUGLAS on
the other there is an impossible gulf, but beoeea
the Douglas and Bel parties there is no such inspera
Die barrier = they differ widely many important
questions but they are such as may be adjourned
g for future adjudication" There is no vital an
tagonism between them says the Wing a. and no
good reason why they should Tot together inthe
extraordinary emergency that has arisen The
Wing continues;
1t must be obvious to every friend of Douglas that
NE cannot SleCleu Dy lle OOl-
lege. He has great strength in the Northwestern
States and in of the Eastern and Middle States
but IN the South he is powerless. His most
guine supporters therefore can hardly suppose that
he viii carry majority Of the whole number Of
electoral votes.
Douglas certainly has chance of carrying Della
ware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia,
Tennessee Kentucky, Missouri, Alabama, Mississip-
pi, Florida or Louisiana
al 3 IL
the Wig says:
View The matter then, as we may, it is clearly
the policy of the friends Of Douglas to that the
votes of the Southern States cast for Bell, and
to accomplish that object they should, if necessary,
even vote the Bell ticket
We say, then, to the friends of Douglas, make a
gallant fight wherever you can. Carry for him as
many States as you can. But wherever, in ViF-
gnia, for example. you cannot carry the State for
Douglas take especial that it shall not be cast
against him, by being given to Breckenridge.
You see, Democrats, that according to the view
taken by the Richmond Wing that the carrying of
State for Mr.. BELL is not carrying it against Mr.
DOUGLAS. Are Messrs. BELL and DOUGLAS so closely
united in the minds of Mr.. DOUGLAS Southern sup
pOrters that giving the State of Tennessee to Mr..
BELLS not giving it against Mr.. DOUGLAS We think
not If the election has to go into the House. giving
the popular vote OF Tennessee to Mr.. BELL would,
according to the view we take be against Mr.. DOUG
and against Mr.. DoUGIAs alone. There can but the
three highest candidates go before the House LIN
coin and BREcKINEDGE will be two of them. The
race for the third place will be between BELL and
DoUGIAs. Then in such event it clear that
giving the vote of Tennessee to Mr. BELL gives him
that much advantage over Mr.. DOUGLAS and may
enable him to shut Mr.. D. out Of the House.
However we have every confidence from the zeal
with which the Democracy and the conservative
portion of the opposition North and South COM
ing up TO the support of BREcKNRDGE and LANE,
that the House of Representatives will have nothing
to do with this election.
While theIRichmod Wing is thus endeavoring to
prevail upon the DOUGLAS men of the South to sup
port Mr. BELL it offers them a consideration by de-
caring that the BELL men of the North ought to help
Mr.. DOUGLAS. 1t says:
Having thus given our views of the policy Of the
friends of Douglas it only remains for US ID say
word or two as TO the course which should be pur-
sued by the Constitutional Unionpar in the South
We should strive to carry for Bell every State that
we have a reasonable prospect of carrying; but
where that cannot be done, should throw our
weight in the scale Of Douglas the most national
and least objectionable of the other candidates. BY
Ihls interchange OF support between the lflehus VI
Douglas and Bell Lincoln can easily be defeated,
and the election carried 10 the House. where the
choice must fall on Bell or Douglas. Wherever we
are the strongest in the Southern States Mas
sachusetts Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Jer-
sey the Douglas should come to our aid.
Whilst in Maine, New hampshire, New York,
Michigan, Illinois. Indiana. Ohio, and the other
North Western States our weight should be thrown
in the scale of Douglas.
In regard to Pennsylvania 1t may be doubtful
which is the stronger Bell or Douglas. Such being
the case, 1t would be fair to make a division OF the
electoral ticket and thus the defeat OF Lin
coin E
Democrats we have already told you of the efforts
that would be made by JONI BELL to you for
his own benefit You can now begin to see for
yourselves the evidences Of this fact