Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-04-19

A Washington correspondent of the New
York Herald, writing April 10th, gives the
following account of the schemes, dreams, and
hopes of the Constitutional Union" people
who hold national convention at Baltimore
on the 9th day OF May. The writer represents
that they are very anxious to have Douglas
nominated at Charleston, and then he goes on
as follows
"They say that with Douglas as the demo-
cratic candidate, we old line wings and Ameri.
cans can bring the republicans to terms; but
let the democracy give Douglas the go by, and
the Chicago convention will run up Seward
and nail his flag to the mast; and where, then,
are the scattered old line wings and Americans
Of the north to go? Seward will carry off the
anti Lecompton vote and good share of the
Catholics, and he will be elected, and we of
this third party will disappear like fog before
the rising sun.
We don't want to stay out in the cold as in
1856. We have had enough of that F; we are
disposed to Join the republicans on easy terms
but we cannot support Seward. We thought
we had scared him off with Judge Mclean,
when, bless you, Felix Zollicoffer, of Tennes-
see, writes us a letter that he has dug up an
old presidency fishing letter of Mclean, which
lays him out with the South Americans as fiat
as Bates. You know that since this late aboIi-
ton letter of Bates, our Baltimore convention
would not touch him with pair of tongs
Then again, if we drop Mclean, John Bell
goes down with him; for Bell has expressed
his readiness to run with Mclean. We have
still Crittenden and Bolts to fall back upon
but our chances north and south all hinge, in
the first place, upon Douglas. Let Douglas be
made the democratic nominee, and while we Of
the third party in the north can bring the re-
tn W. 10 r1 in
the south, as against Douglas, will be able,
with a good stiff southern ticket, to carry
southern states enough to throw the election
into the House. And what then? Why,
then, as each state in the House only gives one
vote for president, and as our third party upon
that point holds in the House the balance of
power, we shall hold the election in our hands.
Don't you see!
Mr.. Douglas, then, against the field, is the
candidate of this party for the Charleston NOM
ination. They tell US he must and will be
nomnated-that the northern fire eaters, when
| they smell the fat things of the kitchen, are
ready to surrender back down, eat dirt, roll in
the mud and shout and sing all day for Doug
| las-that this southern fireeating hotisty to
Douglas is all bosh when you bring these sala-
manders within smelling distance of the spoils /;
and that he who believes there is any sincerity
or any danger, or any truth, in all this south
ern anti-Douglas thunder and lightning, is a
id fool.
You will find all this out at Charleston.
The fire eaters will flop and buster, and cave.
The Cincinnati platform, no more and no less,
will be adopted; and Douglas will be put on
it. That platform can still be interpreted both
ways; and if it don't suit so well in the south
with Kansas in the foreground, it will suit tc
drive the republicans off from Seward, so as
to let us come in up north, and make a good
fight against the democracy down south on {
separate ticket
Such are the latest movements and estimate!
of the engineers of the third party. To &c
foothold they desire to break up both thC
republican and the democratic party, and they
think that Douglas is the man to do it. An(
they are ready to bet on Douglas"