New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-07-10
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es Itself lis Follows. We call especial attention W
the declaration contained in the first sentence 81
the first paragraph;
We are satisfied that arrangements are nearly
consusnmated which will defeat the elechon q
Lincoln There exists great discomfort IN tne RANKS
of she Republican party in the Eastern SfsVSs. "a
| New York Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Sonneet-
icut. Rhode island and New Jersey, the kep9hne
| ans are, beyond doubt, greatly disoTganlzea aha
| dissatisfied with the Chicago nominations.
! IN these states Lincoln and HaEalin have been
coldIr received In all of them the Union party is
! tbnros,cklV organized. Some Of them it will GER
exists ii viii take measures to insure the defeat Of
| the Republican candidate. In a few weeks, per.
| haps in few days, this result will be apparent,
ana IS consequence the masses OF the people, not
ousy in the South bnt in the North, viii rally hS
huHdreds of thousands to the standard Of Bell and
Egerett, as the oaly one that promises 8 victory,
Perhaps the Clipper is little too ssnguine ia re.
gard to tho States mentioned, though its sources of
information are better than ours. The opinion,
too. may be based on the fact asserted thai ar
| rangements are already nearly consEmmated
which will defeat the election Of Lincoln. What
! those arrangements are, we do not yet know. But
it is undeniable that ere is growing issatisfac-
/ ton with tho nomination of Lincoln ia all of the
Eastern States and that nothing remains to secure
I an easy victory ever the Republican candidates
4 but cordial union of all the elements of oppe.
siton, Perhaps it is to this union the Clipper re-
fersas the means whereby Lincoln is to be defeated.
Whatever it is fe Clipper promises that it will be
apparent in q few weeks, and perhaps in few
days.
The Memphis Bulletin, paper Of high character,
moderate and conservative in its tone, and of great
reliability, has the following.
Since the result of the Baltimore Convention has
been made known, Democrats in every direction
4 have declared their purpose TO vote for Bell and
Everett. We think the indications point to STAN
| pede among the Democrats that will not only Sc.
cure to the Union ticket plurality in the Southern
States, but an overwhelming majority of the pop
\ Hlar vote. The Democratic masses are disheart-
| ened, because the men who have been accustomed
\ TO lead them are disputng as to which division
| represents orthodox Democracy, This is not all
They are weary OF the strife and sick OF the hury-
| b1rly of Democracy. We think the very name.
\ thaN1as been omnipofent to charm in other days.
I! is now odiOas to them.
| Such, also, is the report that comes to rs from
| other quarters. When the honest masses OF the
| Democracy see as they must necessarily see be-
fore the day Of election, that the Democratic party
is scattered and divided beyond all hope of recon
eiliation that it is no longer national and chat it
is unable to prevent the election of Lincoln they
will make haste to ally themselves with the only
party that now contests The field, with any promise
of success, against the sectional ticket Of the
North.
This, indeed, is the determination already ar
rived at BY the Philadelphia Monitor, a journal
edited with much abilityby a lifelong Democrat,
who has always stood up for the rights Of the
South with unfiinchng firmness. Says tile editor
Of that paper.
Tile contest is NOR betteeea Bel and Lincoln.
The Constitutional Union party is the only national
party left in the field to combat the Abolition party
n nth Hr@ ara p1p nnraO rad q
kenny eat-fght among themselves, and nothing but
the small ends of their tails will be left at the end
of the battle.
The contest is now between Bell and Lincoln,
says the Montor-ard this is the way it should be,
if Lincoln is to be defeated. The Constitutional
Union party, continues that journal, is the only
national party left in the field to combat the Abol
tionists and it might have added that it is the only
party capable of making successful fight. This
it can easily do If Democrats, in enlarged spirit
Of patriotism, will appreciate the necessity and the
duty Of combining with u.s. for the purposes of this
Presidential election, against the comnon foe Of
us all.
In 1856 the appeal was made to us--the Opposi-
ton Of the South-to ally ourselves with the Demo-
craey to defeat Fremont. We were not asked to
merge ourselves into the Democratic organization,
but simply to form temporary alliance with the
| Democracy for specific purpose, and to avert a
threatened disaster. The appeal was responded
to- and, consequence, every State Of the South,
| except Maryland, went for the Democratic eandi
date by a decisive majority. Now, when our posi-
tions are reversed, we make the same appeal to
the Democracy. We do not ask them to yield in
any degree the political principles which they hold,
but merely to pursue that course, in the interest of
the South and the Union, which will defeat Lincoln
and, by SO doing, permanently overthrow and
destroy the Black Republican organization. This
they can do by sustaining the Constitutional Union
ticket, represented 1t is BY statesmen Of national
reputation, of unbending honesty and integrity,
and Of tried and proved devotion to the Constitu-
tional rights Of every section Of the country.
In other days the severity Of party discipline
kept the people up TO the mark much more rigidly
than Ut present. Allegiance to party was consid-
cred as Q perpetual obligation to be repudiated
only at the peril Of political dishonor and disgrace
Now IT Is altogether different. Loyalty to mere
party hangs as loose garment upon the shoulders
of the people; to be put off at pleasure and
il is necessarily the always, when parties are
in progress Of disntegraton and reorganization, as
| they are at the present time. The same state of
things happened in the time of John Quincy Adams,
administration, aud it happened again during the
/ Presidency Of Mr. Van Baren. In every Republi-
can Government there must be transitions and re-
organizations Of parties, dependent upon the fuc-
tuating current Of public events, the new issues
that constantly arise, and the new men by whom
| those Issues are to be decided
Such period is the present. The leaders and
politicians Of the Democratic party may sit down
| and bewail the fate which their own conduct has
brought upon the organization, but the honest
a Al zssr.