Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-08-10

ter-we shall heartily support both his nomination
and his election. We give fair notice that practi-
cal triumph over the sham Democracy and its mas
Ter, the slavery Propaganda, Is the end for which
we labor and to which we hold, not only personal
aspirations but party names wholly subordinate
Mr. BELL made the speech and, in our iudg-
ment filed all the requirements which GREELY had
laid down. The Cincinnati Gazette, New York Times
and other journals of the antslavsry order express
ed their willingness to accept him. from their
knowledge Of his "past record . if he could be
agreed upsn the candidate
But unfortunately for BELL there we're too many
asp-ants for the same favor. The coalition was not
perfected and the result is that the Black Republi
cans have more than one candidate in the field
whom at different times they have expressed a
readiness to support. And the question now pre-
sents itself whether in the election of either
LINCOLN BELL that party would not have
just cause to feel thatthey had scheved practically
a triumph. Looking to Mr. BELLS spast history con-
nected with the public SERVICE to which we are
ferred for his opinions upon the "pending issues of
the day." with the further assurance that from his
opinions thus obtained he 'has nothing to addn and
has nothing to take away" an impartial
public come to no other conclusion than that the
only grounds of objection which his present position
furnishes to the Black Republicans is that he is the
nominee of the Baltimore, and not of the Chicago
Convention.
We have concluded hssty review OF Mr..
BELLS connection with the public service, COM
mencing il 1922 during the latter part of the Fede
raj Administration of JOIN ADAMS and coming down
to the present PERIOD at which time he stands before
the American people the candidate OF faction for the
Presidency. In order to avoid making our criti-
cisms too tedious for the general reader, we have
purposely refrained from entering on thorough
expose of his various positions and shameful ncon-
sistencies on the many grave questions on which
he has been called to act during his past history
| except far as they have necessarily come up in
tracing his tortuous and unfathful course in con-
nection with the various parties and public men
with which he has been Unidentified at different times
the main and leading purpose of these articles. To
accomplish purpose within reasonable space.
we have had, necessarily, to pass the various
incidents of his eventful career more hurriedly
than otherwise, would willingly have done.
In what we have said, we have endeavored to do
Mr.. BELL full and impartial justice; we have stated
fact of Importance without accompanying it with
the proof that we might not be charged, in any
show of fairness, with mistake or misrepresenta-
ton The accuracy of our conclusions. based
upon these facts, submitted to the reader
to approve or reject his own judgment may deter
mine
By the record, as thus made out, it will be seen
that Mr.. BELL has been untrue to every leading
and to every party with which he has been iden
tiled from 1929 to 1860; that he has been vascia-
ting and uncertain upon every important public
question and in every emergency in the history of
| the Government during his public career, just in
proportion as his own selfish and individual fortunes
seemed to be favored by this policy or by that
that he has lived in utter disregard of public pledges
and personal obligations whenever they have
stood in the way of his own individual fortunes;-
and that far he is to be judged of by his past
history connected with the public service" he stands
totally unworthy of the public confidence the
means of his elevation to the most important trusts
and highest honors of the government.
In few days we purpose laying before the
public more thorough analysis of his various and
conflicting positions upcn many matters of COVER
mental policy on which he has been called to act at
different times; and especially his action upon the
slavery question. out of which have sprung the
pending issues of the day." which cannot fail ofin-
terest to all impartial citizens who desire to shape
their action in the determination of this canvass in
accordance with the welfare and safety of their
country