New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-16
THE REACTION AT THE SOUTH.

The New York Herald of the 10th has an article
on the subject of the late elections at the South,
in which the future positions and movements of
parties are discussed at some length We make
the suboned extract from the article, italicising
some of the most striking passages:
TIE IMPENDING PoLtrlCAL REVOLUTION IN THE
SOUTHERN STATEs.-rhe dsorganizers of the Demo-
cratic party at Charleston have achieved more
than they hargained for in the revolutionary disso
luton of their national organization. They have
not only Frustrated the Northern Democracy, but
they have procipitated political reaction III the
South, which promises, even during this exraordi-
nary campaign to 1col3t out q great political zero
luton in thdt section.
From the divisions among the Democracy in Viz
ginia, apparently beyond remedy, from the aston
ing forward movement of the new Constitutional
Union party in North Carolina. from the crushing
defeat of the Breckenridge Democracy in the late
Kentucky election, from the irreparahle split in
the Democratic camp in Missouri, it is now highly
probable, if not morally certain. that BeH and
Ecere4, i'e NoreMter, ,eW carry Dele,eare, Mary
ld2d T0'gtAiG, North Carolina, Tennessee Ke51-
lucky and Missouri, q string Of conservative South.
el1s Stdes representing srt5.nne electoral roteS,
Or a ntgority OF eighteen Of The cltoge electoral
rote Of TIC soatls..
Had Mr.. Yancey and his radical Southern asso-
ciates at Charleston remained in the Convention,
they could not only have prevented the nomination
Of Mr.. Douglas, but they could have secured the
nomination of a ticket competent to reunite the
broken fragments of the party and carry the cleo
ton. But Mr.. Yancey and his radical associates
were frightened by the vote of New York for the
Douglas platform, when the fact is that, until
pushed into corner by the terrible events at Bal
timore, the New York delegation were ready for
almost anything whereby they might secure the
right arm of the South to help them to another
share of the federal spoils and plumber.
How stands the matter now The Southern
States which refused to follow the seeeders out of
the Convention at Charleston refuse 10 f95o.c either
1,f,. al II
Of has campaign. The conservative majorities or
the people OF those States are turning over their
sutfrages to the new Constitutional Union party.
Thus, while the rival Breckenridge and Douglas
factions are devouring each other, in view of the
future control of the reunited Democracy tits very
probable that they never may come together
again, but that they will disappear after this cleo
ton, like the fragments of the old Wing party
after the election Of 1852 in new organization Of
parties
THIS aele Constitutional I5,iop pQq4p has al
ready oc'tlered Formidable toa7Heat il he
Somh-G todgmeM tritieh makes It a polrert3A
Of tie Presidential election As this important
fact will more and more impress itself upon the
independent conservative classes Of the North,
financial, commercial and manufacturing, the
more these late Southern elections are nyestigat-
ed, there is still prospect Of @ Northern con-
seltdtite reaction aci,icf may spot The culc0td.
tons Of TIE Republican party. The fact is es-
tabtished that the South is not, at all hazards,
Gnt1 iti>t Tie n oflH, but thhE sle Is stl ready
TO join hands with the North upon great national
Union ideas. This should, and perhaps will,
operate in our conservative Northern commercial
AMI manufacturing States to bring about power
full reaction against the Republican candidate
9poa ne broad rational basis of the Bell and
LtefeH Increment.
Last spring the Republican candidate for Cover
nor in the Republican State Of Rhode Island was
handsomely defeated. And wherefore? Because
he was radical irrepressible conflict and aboli-
ton Lincoln Republican. The conservative people
of Rhode Island, Of all parties, Republicans in
cuded looking to the substantial interests Of their
bread and butter, in connection with the South,
found it their interest to rebuke the anti,savery
radicalism presented to the people by the Republi,
cans in said election. Why should not this hint be
followed up by the BellEverett party now, in all
the Northern States under the new impulse of
these late Southern elections? Let them push for
ward their electoral tickets their principles their
late achievements: for thus, with the grand argu-
ment of the Union which has broken down the
sectional Democracy in the South, This ne,o Union
party may still beta time 50 10 aUade and democrat
ize This sectional Republican party Of the North as
torende, its defeat ciSible euet in season for tie
November election.