Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-04-18

The next President must come from the
States bordering on the central line, where
men know the value of the North and the
South TO each other. and where the cOnserva-
tive feeling is always strongest and most ac-
tive. With such a man, and with broad Ia
tional principles or his banner, the whole
South, all the Central States, aud many of
the commercial ones in the North, can be
carried for the preservation of the Cousiitu-
ton and the Union. II such one is not
nominated at Charleston, we shall have SEEN
the last of the Democratic party, and the
ichole country must rally round the BdLimOTe
Coapenti0y, and secure tor il the nomination
of o conservative man to lead the reaction
that has already commenced in the North
against the revolutionary and destructive
tendencies OF the abOlitionized black repub-
lican leadtJs.-N. /. Herald
With these words the Herald concludes a
very remarkable article upon the Charleston
Convention. There is no pos sibiliiy, that
the Charleston Convention can give 10 the
country a candidate possessing the qualities
described essential to attract the support OF
the conservative masses of the country. In
the whole list of candidates named as to be
presented for the choice of that Convention
not a single one possessesthe necessary quail
ficationE. Ifiherc could be found among them
the fact of his being presented by the demo
cratic party, odious as it has become to The
whole conservative population, would drive
from him the support of hundreds of thou
sands who would otherwise be willing to
trust him, but they fear the Greeks bringing
gifts, and they mistrust the democratic candi-
dates whoever they may he.
On the other hand, there is not one among
all those from among whom the choice of the
Baltimore Convention will probably and
must almost certainl, b. made. who does not
come fully up to the standard mentioned 10y
the KrdLd as indisp. nsable 10 success. There
is not one of ihem in whose favor the whole
conservative vote of the country could not
be easily rallied. There is not one of them
for whom the national minded. Union-lcving
their votes, and whose administration they
would not hail as an assurance of a restora-
ton Of pure patriotism and economy, aud
nationality to the government.
There is, then. no occasion 10 lock 10
Charleston or to Chicago. for what we know
beforehand cannot be ionnd there, but what
We are sure cannot be missed at Baltimore.
IL Is 10 this Baltimore Convention, and Ia il
alone. that the whole body OF the conserva-
tive men of the nation, comprising an over-
whelming minority of the voting population,
must look, aud to il they are now looking
for a national conservative candidate Tor the
Presidency. who will no. only 'lead the re-
action that has already commenced in the
North against the revolutionary and drstruc
tive tendency of the aboitioaized black re-
publican lradrrs,r but will concentrate the
conservative men Of The South against the
corruption and exiravaganee and disunion
trndencies of ssctionalized Democratic lead
ers-
The county has come 10 recognize the
propririy of HUNrBREr MARsHALi-'s remark
In 1856, that be would no. give toss Of
copper betwecn Democracy aud Republican
isui." They are equally objectionable. They
are equally supervising of any public good.
The snccrss OF elmer Is pregnant with dan-
gsrous evils. and The only safety Of the coun-
Try j. in the defsat Of both by The triumph
~ the Constitutional Union party. B4ltiasons
Clipper.