New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-20
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the Republican organization, that their candidate
for the Presidency is taken from the extreme
Northwest, and their candidate for the Vice Pres-
dency is taken from the extreme Northeast. What
means can they have for knowing and ascertaining
the qualifications OF persons to fill the Federal
i offices III the Southern States!
MR. BELL AND MR.. EVERETT.
4 The candidates presented by the Constitutional
| Union party have every possible claim upon the
4 confidence and support of the American people.
There is little need of setting forth these claims in
detail and by particulars, for to suppose any one
| ignorant Of the merits and services Of John Bell
| and Edward Everett is 30 suppose him Ignorant of
the history of the country during the last thirty
! years. Both have been distinguished and iniuen-
| tial members of both branches Of Congress. Mr..
| Bell has been Speaker of the House of Repre-.
| sentatiYes and Secretary of War. Mr.. Everett
| has been Governor of Massachusetts, Minister to
/ Great Britain, and Secretary Of State Both are
men Of great political experience, and both have
proved their fitness for the highest trusts. Both
are animated by the spirit of a generous and COM
I prehehsve patriotism. OF all Southern states
| men, none is more popular ut the North than Mr..
| Bell; OF all Northern statesmen none is more
! deared to the people of the South than Mr..
! Everett. SO commanding, indeed, is the merit of
both candidates, that it is fully and freely
coded by all our opponents. Republicans, sup
| porters OF Mr.. Douglas, and supporters of Mr..
Breckenridge, all admit that, while they prefer
others. the interests of the country would be en-
tirely safe in the hands of MIR. Bell and Mr.
Eeverett. All would acquiesce in the election of
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Constitutional Union party. We cannot disguise
it from you that we look forward to the future
with grave anxiety. This is natural when we con
slider the exeitabty of the American people and
the nfiammatory character Of the political issues
which now divide them. Surely, great dangers
lie in the path on which we are moving. Our
appeal is to the patriotism, the reason and the |
conscience Of the country to leave these perilous
edges of sectional strife, and thus avoid these |
dangers. We would fain recall the American /
people to fresh sense of the ahectionate and
fraterna wisdom which breathes through the |
Farewell Address of the Father of his Country |
There are men now living who, when this address |
first appeared were of an age to comprehend its |
spirit and to be touched by it's councils; what a |
change have they lived to witness in the senti |
ments entertained towards each other by the |
alienated sections of our once united country |
And how do our altered hearts and ayertsd |
countenances yindicate fine propbetic sanacitv of
Washington We readily admit that there have |
been great faults on both Sides let us not emniov
ourselves in the ungracious office of COMPARING |
offenses and weighing proyocations, but let rs |
omen wide tile arms Of reconciliation and ccase II
use the LANGUAGE of renroach The BLESSING nro. !
missed to the peace.makers shall rest mon aii who
address themselves to tbis bene6eent work va
wish to preserve the Union, and transmit it to our