New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-18
A PRACTICAL VIEW OF THE CASt-
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Sometime before the Democratic Convention,
aad the disruption Of the same at Charleston, We
took the position that the only sensihle and prac-
| teal mode Of preventing Black Republican from
being President, was by a unicn of all the con-
| sentative voters of all sections and parties upon
common ticket of opposition. There is large
majority of the people of this country opposed TO
the election Of Mr.. Lincoln. There y not only q
majority of the people opposed to him, but ne is
extremely obnoxious to sH the people Of eRe-half
| Of the Confederacy. The means of defeating him
are easy by simple conjunction of all these who
desire his defeat whereas there is danger of his
election If the opposition divide their strength
among two or three candidates.
The New York Herald, a journal which always
aotes the first symptoms Of a popular revolution,
has been convinced by the results of the late eec.
lions in the South that this is not only the best if
not the only mode, Of defeating Lincoln, but that
the proposed combination should be made upon
the national, conservative, Constitutional Union
ticket of Bell and Everett. Its reasons for it are
forcible and logical. To those reasons, as given
below, we invite the thoughtful, serious and can
did consideration of our readers:
THE CONSERVATIVES OF THE NoRTH-THE BELL
AND EVERETT 0RGANIzATIoN.-It is settled that the
one hundred and twenty electoral votes Of the
South will be against Lincoln in the approach.
ing Presidential election, and that accordingly
only thirty.two of the one hundred and eighty
three electoral votes Of the North are required to
defeat him. There is popular majority against
him in New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island Penn.
sylvana, Indiana Oregon and California; and to
carry all these States over his head it is only ne
eessaly that The conservative forces opposed to this
disuaion sectional Republican pa,fg Of Tie NORTH
should combine dgGilaS ii.
But how is this TO be done? In the outset, sup.
posing me defeat Of Lincoln to be the paramount
and Douglas, we broached the plan of system of
fusion electoral tickets among theYe. Bnt it was
| soon apparent that this schemasS cooperation was
/ as yet, impractcable
/ Next under the impression that the South would
1 be q unit in support of Mr.. Breckenridge, we adj
vised general rally in the North to his standard
as the shortestw to secure the Northern balance
of power. But the late Southern elections have
dissipated this idea, Not yet disposed to give up
/ the ship, we next recommended the withdrawal
1 by an agreement among themselyes-of Breckin-
/ ridge and Lane, Bell and Everett, Douglas and
/ johnson, and the recommendation by them of q
| joint stock ticket upon which all their supporters
4 might combine. But this proposition appears to
/ have fallen upon the candidates indicated like the
voice OF a man upon the winds or the angry waves
/ of the swelling sea.
/ With an overwhelming popular vote in the man
ufacturing and commercial States of the North op-
posed to Lincoln, the several parties in the field to
/ which his defeat is the first neeessity appear TO
have surrendered themselves to the idea that the
case is foreclosed, and that Lincoln is already
| elected. We are not yet disposed to concur in
this conclusion. On ne CONTRARY, ace deEiere that
Lincoln may still be defeated. The means are at
hand there time enough get to pat them into shane
for practical action, although there is no more
| time to waste in beating the empty air.
| The late Southern elections show that the Bell
and Everett party in that section has become a
party OF positive poWerd great party for the fl
tire aetatece7 may be The Issue Of ttis election 1t
has already achieved enough in the conservative
States of the South to recommend it to the cordial
m If ha
alive States of the North Should Lincoln be
elected, what will become of the cashng factions
OF the Democracy? They will most probably be
absorbedin other party organizations as were the
fragments of the Wing party after their crushing
defeat of 1859, and as the remains of the American
party have been absorbed since ls55-their first |
and last national battle.
On the other hand this Bell-Eyerett marty. |
founded upon the Union as it Isl including tie or.
ganic institution Of slavery in the Southern States
Y the natural antagonist Of disunion in both sec
uons-of the Republican party, which seeks to |
abolish slavery in the South, and of the Southern
hre-eaters, who make the indefinite expansion Of /
slavery the test of their submission to the Union |
We haze had sufficient manifestations of The /
streiagth of tbs ne.D Constitutional party IL The
South 10 satisfy rs that there It teN hold and il is
upon ne ticket of ts established nucleus of great
party N the future that zee oto call upon The indie
pendent Union lorg men of al parties and classes
In the North 10 5dlg.
Our conservative financial, commercial and man |
ufactuiing cities in this movement should at once
resulting from the John Brown foray we had nu- |
merous Union meetings here, there and every |
where, to reassure the people of the South that 7
their Northern brethren were not all fanatica cut
throat, abolition reYoluti0nists. Those demonstra
tons did no harm, but now they would do much I
positive good. Let the good work, then, be com
menced, as usual, in the commercial metropolis,
and upon Tie basis of the Bel and Euere0 Haoue
Deeft as the most practical Union Foundation of
THIS crisis, and we may soon have such response
from all sides as will indicate that Lincoln is by no
means already elected.
We are gratified to hear that in this city and
State the Breckenridge men are very fayorabiy dis
posed to fusion with the Bell and Everett party.
Such fusion has already been consumnated in
New Jersey, and we expect the same thing IN
Pennsy lPania. the Bell and Everett party push
forward their cause. Thousands of conservative
old line Wings, Americans Democrats and Repnb- |
lcans, too, may be brought in by timely and ener-
getie action, who may be otherwise left out among
the waste ammunition of the campaign. With half
the electoral vote of the South to endorse them. |
there is now fair chance for the election Of BeiI
or Everett as our next President by casting the
election into Congress through system of opera
tions which recognizes common cause against a
common enemy. And the Douglas party having IS
fused with the Bell and Everett party in Georgia
why should they hesitate to do the same thing in
any Northern State?
POLITICAL ITEMS.
The CANVASS IN NonTH ALABAaA.-.Jere Gem