New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-28
HOW DOES MIR. EyHRETT LIME
BRING SOLD OFT.

but we do not yet learn how 1t strikes the genue-
men who are to be made the principal victims,
viz. Dir. Bell and Mr.. Everett. Probably these
gentlemen have no very strong expectations OIL
being elected; but, having been nominated WIN
the proper formalities, and in very gentlemaniy
way. to soy TIE least, and having accepted Tue
bonors conferred in lengthy, laborious, and pam
fuly.studied letters, they may be supposed "
labor under the impression that they are running
and ar, entitled to all the votes they can honestly
Get II is much to be elected President or
Vice. President; it is something to get electoral
vo.es for these Offices; but TO and get no votes,
:, nothing. We remember how Hugh l.. White
ouce cot the vote Of Tennessee; how William VIII
once COT the vote of Vermont; how Mr. Webster
once got the vote of Massachusetts,; but IT re-
oui1es an effort to recollect that Kimber Cleayer
WAS ever candidate for Vice-President; or that
Charles J. jenkins was Mr.. Webster's associate
IN tbe Dead Mans ticket which a few hundred
,ersors in Massachusetts voted for in 1859. Mr..
Fillmore got 100000 votes from the people,
and carried one State in 1856 Mr.. Bell
and Mr.. Everett, if the men who put them in
nomination act in good faith, may carry more than
one State, though their popular vote will of course
be much smaller than Dir. Fillnore's. But if the
blot of Hunt & Co. is carried out, they will get
neither popular nor electoral votes. If the Bell
and Everett vote is sold 0it to Douglas, there will
be sudden breaking up of the whole party IN the
Southern States, and by the middle oil November
the country will be in broad grin at the sight of
aparty bargaining for non-elecion by thepeope, so
that they may be the third or second beforethe House
of Represt natives, and either failing altogether
TO effect a non.electOn, as is most likely, or else
throwing themselves into the position OF the fourth
party in rank and so rendering their candidates
wholly ineligible for election by Congress. If sue
cess should attend such a movement in this State.
Douglas will be the third candidate, and Bell will
be nowhere A stampede from Bell to Breckin-
ridge would immediately take place in all the
Southern States every one of which, except. per-
haps, Maryland, would go for Breckenridge, while
Lincoln and Douglas would divide the Northern
vote. The net upsbot and result would be-Joe
Lane! 1t is presuming too much on the ignorance,
corruttibility, or revengefulness of the men who
nominally support Bell and Everett in this State to
suppose that such plot can succeed. IL viii
be crushed out so soon as il obtains shape and sub.
stance
We have said that the country is not yet informed
how this plot to sell out to Douglas strikes Mr..
Bell and Nh Everett; but 80 far as relates to the
ashamed gentleman, we have the means Of
knowing that he considers or did until very lately
consider Mr. Douglas the most mischieyOus poll
tician in the United States. In letter written by
him, explanatory of some remarks which he made
at Taunton, Mass, after the assault Oh Mr.. Sum-
ner, he uses this language:
have condemned from the outset and still most decidedly
condemn the policy the late Administration toward Ksusss
opposed the Nebraska bin IN the Territorial Committee
Of which member voted against the amendment to the
bin by which the Missouri Compromise repealed. OPP
posed the bill the best Of my ability in speech delivered In
the Senate on he 9th Of February, 1884, ofwc send you
copy and should have voted assnst is passage (as
stated my place at the nett meeting Of the senae had not
illness PEELED o'clock in the morning to leave
the Senate chamber before the vote taken informed my
Southern political friends when the bin brought in that
ought to be entitled bill annhate all conservative feeling
in the non ,s ehong Stste With these yiews OF the sub
ect though trust higher than any effect party
politics FULLY cOncred in The main line @ a'gHrest IA Mr.
personalities in debate and believing that they always
persuade convree could not Of course beow
my unqualified appreciation the manner in which lac treated
the subject"
This is a pretty unequivocal sentence Of con-
demnation upon the compromise breaker who is
now the candidate of Hunt II Co., and TO whose
support Mr. Everetts friends to be transferred.
In the remarks, already alluded to, made at Taun-
ton, Mr. Everett sudes to " the civil war, with
{" its horrid train of pilage, fire, and slaughter,
" carried on, nittOut the slightest pror0cation,
against the infant settlements Of our brethren on
(" the frontier of the Union; the worse than civil
/" war which has for months ragged unrebuked at
the Capital of tie Union, and has at length, by
{" an act of lawless violence Of which know no
parallel in the history of Constitutional Govern
ment, stained the floor of the Senate chamber
" with the blood of an unarmed, defsnseless man,
and he Senator of Massachusetts," and he
clearly traces these events to Stephen A. Douglas
when he says: If by laying down my life this
" hour, could undo what has been done the last
" two years beginning with the disastrous repeal
" Of the Missouri COmpromise) to embitter the
different parts of the country against each other,
" and weaken the ties which unite them, ] would
" willingly, cheerfully make the sacrifice"
Mr. Everett must have very pretty opinion of
the political gamblers who are, perhaps at this
very moment, making out the necessary papers for
the transfer OF himself and bis friends to the author
of all this mischief We should like to know if he
is willing that Mr.. Washington Hunt should take
him TO the sign of the three golden balls and shove
him up the spout, with the remote expectation that
he may be redeemed at Washington before the 4th
of March, 1861 If he is too busy to inform US,
we hone Mr.. Leverett Sat0nstall viii afford the