Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-05-28
The Great Political Failure of the

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Under this caption the New York H1aH
thus refers to the nomination of BELL and
EVERETT, showing conclusively that it is all
| u party trick on the part of some of the Re-
puJlican and Democratic papers TO be call
ing the Baltimore ticket political failure {:
The party press, without exception, affect
to regard the Baltimore nomination of the
Union candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency-Bell and L erett-as
signal failure, the greatest of the present
day. The Democratic and Republican jour
mails vie with each other in applying all
sorts CT disparagng cpl bets and nicknames
10 these gentlemen, aud endeavOring to
show that as candidates they amount to
nothing. Among these journals are the
Richmond Enquirer, the Albany Atds, ArgiLs,
aud EUening Journal and the New York Fri
bune One calls Bell Wing. another calls
him old fOgy, third says he is dull, and
a fourth that be is a miserable abstraction"
The Democratic journals take care TO tell Gs
that this nomination cannot iniure their par
ty while it is likely TO iuflct serious mis-
chief on the Republicans. The Republican
journals on the contrary, labor to prove that
it cannot possibly affect the success of Re
publIcansm, but may do some damage TO the
Democracy at the South. The truth is that
both sets oi journals are partly right. The
Democracy may be defeated by Bell and Ev-
erett in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennes-
see aud other Southern States. and the Re
publcaus may be defeated by the same can
didatcs III Pennsylvania, New Jersey and
INDIANA.
Why do these journals take so much pains
TO run tue UHiou canddaie7 down if they
really amount IO nothing? We rather sus-
pect that it is hccaus they find them formida-
bic opponents in the present state of parties
and political complications. Bell and Ever
cit are beth respectable aud able men, and
about the safest that could be nominated.
under existing circumstances. As for Hous
| ton Of whom so much has been said, he
would not be- by any means II safe mau tor
President of tue United States. He is not
conservative would be very likely To plunge
| the country into war and furthermore he is
very mach OF u humbug.
We cannot yet tell what the Democratic
party will do. At present it is in state of
disIntegratiun; and If it should continue in
that condition. and the conservative masses
should rally around Bell and Everett these
men would be found very tar from despicablu
candidates. But ii Is objected against them
that they have no platform. In that very
fact cUn,iss their strength. The absence Of
a platform is the greatest of platforms in the
present critical condition of The Country: for
il opposes the agitation of the slavery oucs-
tion, the pabuluR of all the politicians and
demagogues, North and South, aud the only
source OF danger TO the Union Ii is this
which, above all Other things will commend
the Candidates to tue great masses of con-
sentative voter, who are heartily sick Of the
revolutionary Republicans of the Nor,h and
Tie evolutionary hre-eaters aud secessiou-
Its of the South. On the whole, viewing
the horoscope of the political heavens. we
think the nomination ui Bell and Everett is
good, and that IL may turn out highly i'm
porIHnt in its beaiiug ou the two great
parties Ut the day, anu IN the interests of
The country, NJ crisis in It's history with
out parallel since the foundation Of the
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