Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-26
The baltimore Nominations - ne
Democracy divided and denati"nai-
fzed.- he Union Ticket the only
safe one.


The National Convention of the Democra-
cy, began at Charleston, ended at Baltimore
Oh Saturday, by the nomination OF two sep
arate tickets for the Presidency and Vice
Presidency. This result sweeps from th'
party the last vestige of it, nationality. 1t
is now divided on Mason and Dixon's line.
so far as an effective organization is concern
ed. and i emphaIically i couple OF lmpotent
factions Whilst few Southern men re-
NAMED with the Northern Democracy and
aided in the nomination OF DOUGLAS aud
FIIZPATRlCK, a few Of those OF the North as
sembled with the Southern wing and joined
in presenting BRECKENRIDGE and LANE to the
country. Under these circumstances: If both
tickets accept, we regard Two things as
->certain-I, that DoUGLAs cannot obtain an
electoral vote in the South, and 2, BRECKEN-
REJeE cannot carry an electoral vote IN the
North. Neither can have the slightes chance
of election by the people, 1t may suit the
leaders of both factions to deny these posi-
tons. The DOUGLAS men will maintain that
there is no chance for BRECzINEIDGE, and
rec rerso; while each will claim for itself the
great mass of the democratic strength
Nevertheless, they will both be in the wrong
and the result will prove that the warning
factions will literally consume each other.
Of course, we cannot know whether both
tickets will accept. We cannot know whether
BRECkENRIDGE-who has in his brief public ca
reer unequivOcally declared himselfin favor OF
non-interveniOn and popular sovereignty who
wrote q letter in behalf OF DOUGLAS during
his struggle in 1858 with LINCOLN, even after
his celebrated speech at Freeport, but who
has since boxed his compass and steercd
pretty braFely for slave Goodwill under
take to lead the violent enemies of his own
late friend andguide. 1t is equally uncertain
whether DOUGLAS will consent to give up his
place in the Senate for the sake of bringing
about his own and the complete overthrow oil
the democratic party. We will have to await
the unfolding Of events upon these points.
In the event that BRECKENRIDGE fails to
make the race, the feeling is so strong against
DOUGLAS in the Southern Safes that lie will
be left fur behind. But if, on the contrary,
DOUGLAS shall decline, the acceptance by
BkECK ENEIDGE of the nomination on a plat
form which was the Immediate cause of the
dissolution oil the party, will cut off from his
support all that portion of the party who
refused TO vote for that platform at Charles
ton, which was a majority of the party
represented in that Convention.
Whether, therefore. the Democracy enter
the canvass with lis double head under the
Baltimore programme, OF one or the other
voluntarily withdraws, the result will be the
same. The fight has proceeded too far. the
radical differences upon which the party
split. and out of which have grown the two
nomiD atoms are too well defined 10 he aztec
ted by Ihe individual action of either of the
chosen chiefs. IL is altogether evident that
must look elsewhere than to the Democracy
for the relief of the government from the
evils which have accumulated in its admin
istration, and the dangers to its permaneucr
which mi~chiei-mukcrs have summoned
around it. There is now left but one organ
izItiOn which can truthfully pretend to ma
IiOnaliry of sentiment and strength. and that
is the Constitutional Union party. l. is the
true conservative party of the Union 1t
stretches its ample arms from the Northern
Lakes 10 the Southern Gulf. and from the
rocky cliffs of The Atlantic 10 the golden
sands of the Pacific, proclaiming the Consli-
tuition, the Union and the Laws, Justice,
equality and fraternity. 1t claims all. with
out regard to past party associations, who
entertain this as the paramount sentiment
as its friends. Il is the PEoPLEs Party tick
ct, and is headed by BELL and EVERETT, the
mention Of whose names inspires confidence,
and excitcs admiration. Let the people now
discard the politicians who have conducted
US into our present perils. Let them rally TO
the support of BELL and EVERETT with the
ardor aud enthusiasm due to their merits as
genuine statesmen of the old national con-
seryativc school, and the country will be re-
deemed from those who seek its destruction.