Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-04-11

The Charleston ssslafe.3
They who are behind the scenes, they who
are in the secret, assure Us, that the Charles.
ton Slate is made mp, that the nomination
problem is solved, and that Douglas and Orr
are to be the Democratic candidates for Pres
ident and Vice President.
They tell US. and with some show OF reason
too, that the question now with the Demo-
cratic party, is not one of promoting this or
that man TO the Chief Magistracy, but rather
one of political life and death. In this view
of the case, we learn the Slate has been re-
vised and the calculations corrected since the
Connecticut and Rhode Island elections, and
the names Of Breckenridge and Seymour, OF
New York. taken down, and those of Douglas
and Orr put up again, for there was time
when they were in the line of succession by
common consent. It is now believed, that
there il not one man in all The Democratic
ranks, not even Joe Lane, who stands the
| slightest chance of an election but Mr.. Doug
las. and even with him it is a forlern hope.
Douglas and Orr are representative men,
argue The Yarwicks. and the other aspirants
for the Presidency aud Vice Presidency see
and know and feel this, while they are moth
ing bat individual men. The effort to break
Douglas down, say they, bias only revealed TO
their opponents their entire impotence, and
lifted him igher in the estimation of his par
!, fy- 1t is seen and felt that his position on
the slavery question, is, in some measure, te-
nable IN tie eyes of his party. while theirs is
not and never can be- And though the am
bltlon OF his rivals may possibly lead them
to act so as TO ensure bis defeat, if nominated,
bis friends are positive that he will get the
nomination in spite of all opposition.
while the slaye-code extremists will be
forced 10 yield up their prejudices and vio-
lent theories, and to sacrifice them upon the
common party altar, for the hope of success
under the only man who can by any posi-
blliiy achieve it for them, the selection of Mr..
Orr, though South Carolina moderaGo it
Is believed. will be acceptable TO the Dis
unlonlsis, for the reason that he has proved
himself to be their willing instrument, while
presiding over the House OF Representatives,
aud they would gladly bail his accession to
the Vice Presidency their most faithful
servitor. lie is a representative man also,
and his domination would be a balm for their
wounded pride. in icing forced into the sup
port of Mr.. Douglas.
All who know anything of the interior ar
rangements of the Democratic party, are per-
fectly aware that their policy is not the fruit
of a multitude Of counsel. Their delibera-
tons are always in secret concIave, aud their
college OF cardinals does not reach to the
sacred number of seventy. 1t is the little
Cancns at the CaIi al that determines the
policy to be pursued. Conventions are mere
blinds to hide from the peoples eyes the
working machinery of the party. and they
have never yet been known, Stree their in
PRODUCTION, TO fail of their object. to wit, to
confirm the programme of the secret Slate.
There is no doubt, but that the conflict be-
tween the followers of the several aspirants
win be terrific, before the balloiing begins.
ard il may be. even for several ballots; but
at the right moment. if, indeed. not on the
very first trial, Douglas will receive the nec-
Vice President will follow matter of
course The bargains by which this result is
to be achieved. have already been struck, and
we are credibly assured, they will be execu-
ted to the letter, between the high contract
ing parties. There will be many weak ones,
who will fall to the lcew ard, in these in
trigues. iut such is the fortune of political
war. and in the din of battle their voices will
neither be heard nor needed.
There never were SO many formidable as
pirants in the Democratic party for the two
National Executive offices. but the exigency
only demands greater strategic talent to dis
pose of them, and put some hOrs du combat.
The most troublesome obstacle in the way oil
barmonizing upon Mr.. Dou glass. we are well
informed, is the Man of the White House,
the present President. He wants to he re-
nominated, or failing in the achievement OF
this object, he wishes TO appoint bis success
sor, who is Joe Lane, of Oregon! Not
single one of the Warwicks in Washington,
or elsewhere. we learn, is in favor either
of the Presidents Te-nomina ion or Joe
Lanes candidacy, because, to re-nOminate
Mr.. Buchanan, would be 10 commit suicide,
and to take up General Lane, would be
merely pis Giler, and a confessed defeat be-
fOTehand. Brsides. we are told, that none
OF the politicians who are looking for Office
have particle of confidence in the Oregon
ian, even If he should be selected The great
officially has hitherto been to lay Mr..
Buchanan and his man joe Lane on the
shelf; but the means have been found at
last, and they are, the Presidents late attack
on the Independence of the House of Repre-
sentaiives, and the evidence of The Coyode
Committee of Investigation fixing corrup-
lion upon the present incumbent of The EX-
ecutive Chair
There is not man Of any reputation for
sound judgment in the Democratic party at
Washington, we are further assured, who
does not now scout the id, a, that any of the
Southern aspirants for the Presidency can
carry "A single free State, and on the other
hand, that there is no Northern candidate
who has the least chance of doing so, but
Mr.. Douglas, and as has already been said,
even he is a forlorn hope. Such being the
position sf affairs, the nomination of Doug
lass and Orr has been fixed upon.-BaitiBsoTe
Patriot.