New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-07-09
FoLITFcA1s MOVEMENTS - PRESENT
ASPECT OF THE CANVASS.


fuption III Baltimore first arrived, there seemed to
be a prospect Of a general stampede among the
Dourlasites in the South, and we expected that in
short time they would cave IN and give up the
ghost Instead of that, they adhere to their cause
With a tenaoity worthy Of all admiration, and we
confess ourselves surprised at the formidable APP
pearance they now present in nearly every South
| aFn State.
The Chairman of the National Democratic Doug.
las Committee at Washington is the Hon. Miles
Taylor of this State, who is, as our readers well
know, a distinguished and influential member of
Congress. The Douglas cause in Louisiana is sus-
tanned also by Mr.. Soule, Ex.Governor WickliHe,
Major Heron. and other citizens Of general repu-
tation. In Arkansas, Col. Flournoy and other
leading politicians out for Douglas. In Tennes
see Hon. George w. Jones-for fifteen years a
member of Congress Hon. j. Knox Walker, Hon.
VIM. H. Polka brother of the late President
Polktogether with politicians Of less reputs, are
claimed for Douglas and in the field of Journal
ism be is sustained by the powerful support Of the
Memphis Appeal. In Virginia five papers pub
lished In those strongholds Of the Democracy, the
Tenth Legion and the Northwest, are out for
Douglas, and it is admitted even By the Breckin-
| ridge men that his vote in that State will be not
less than twenty thousand. In North Carolina and
in Missouri the feeling for the Little Giant is very
strong, and in Georgia his associate on the ticket,
| Gov. johnson, is stumping the State with conf
dence of carrying it. On all sides we see eviden-
| ces Of vitality among the Douglas men that show
how much in earnest they are, and how strong is
their determination to stick up, through thick and
thin, to the ticket that they regard as the regular
| ticket of the National Democracy.
But the most significant sign of the times is the
pronunciamiento recently issued By the National
Committee at Washington, signed by Hon. Miles
Taylor, chairman, in which the idea of fusion of
| the two wings of the Democracy upon common
ticket is secuted and repelled with something
very much like feeling of indignation. 1t is
known that in several Of the States it has been
proposed, as means of preventing them from GO
ing for Bell and Everett, that both wings of the
Democracy vote for common ticket, and that the
electors thus chosen be guided by circumstances in
the disposal of their votes, giving them to Doug
las or to Breckenridge, as may seem best after
the net results of the campaign are ascertained.
We suppose that this has been construed, in the
Southern States, as an eXpedient to get the
Douglas men to Vote virtually for Breckinridge,
and hence the haste with which the suggestion has
been repudiated The Douglas men, regarding
their ticket as thoroughly regular are deter
mined to adhere to it with firmness and constaney
let the consequences be what they may. II con-
cessions are to be made, they say they must come
from the other side. Referring to the proposition
to unite upon common ticket, Mr. Taylor. in the
address to which we have above alInded, pro-
snounces the following emphatic opinion:
50 far as Is known to the members of the resident
Executive Committee, no person who supports the
arf MAJ af nat
no person who desires the election Of Stephen A.
Douglas to the Presidency, and of Herschel Y.
johnson to the Vice Presidency II has ever ex-
pressed q wish for any such arrangement or
entertained, or even couTtenanced, for single
moment, any suggestion or proposition tending
towards it. Nor does the Committee believe that
any such arrangement can with propriety be made
at any time, in any place, or under any circum-
stances, with those who have placed Breckenridge
and Lane in nomination, and are now their ayowed
supporters in opposition to the regular nominees
I Of the Democratic party.
This settles the question settles it beyond the
possibility Or doubt. Mr.. Taylor, speaking iii bis
own official character as chairman of the National
Committee, does not believe that the arrangement
suggested can with propriety be made, al any
time, IN any place, or under any crcans Stances
And we cannot understand how the propriety Of
this determination can be doubted by any Demo
crat who believes, as he does, that Douglas and
Johnson are " the regular nominees of the Demo-
cratic party
Thus then, there Is no prospect of fusion Of the
Democracy, North or South. They are divided
and estranged the one wing from the other, beyond
all hope of reconciliation. Apparently they are as
antagonistie to each other as ever were the old
Federalists and Republicans in the times Of Jeifer-
son and Hamilton, or the Nuiers and the Federal
lists ia the later days Of the Jacksonian era.
Meantime the great conservative Union party of
the country-the men who support John Bell and
Edward EYerett-are quietly but firmly awaiting
the progress Of events and the day of election.
Between the wrangling and discordant factions Of
the Democracy they stand #itheool composure,
confident of their strength and rejoicing in the be-
lief that their is daily gaining in the favor
and affections of the people. They see, as must
every one else see, that theirs ii now the only
national party in the country that their ticket is
composed Of men whose patriotism is beyond the
reach of hostile eriticism; and whose broad, catho-
iie national principles, applied to the administra
ton OF the government are competent to secure
Justice to all sections aud to demonstrate the fact
that, without the surrender Of any Of the rights Of
each, tho people Of all portions of our broad land
may yet I've in peace in happiness, and in frater-
nal unity
Such is the ticket which, amid the clouds that
oyerhang the Democracy, appears as the q bow of
promise to tile eyes Of the people. The Demo-
cratic party is no longer competent-if it ever
was-4to save the South or to save the Union. It
cannas even save itself for IT has gone 10 pieces at
the very moment when il Should have held to-
gether. Like q vessel wrecked upon rock, its
diSecta naeibra are drifting about with no pros
psct Of ever again being collected together.
Now is the auspicious moment for The people of
all sections Of the country, and of all varieties of
conservative political faith to rally to the standard
of Bell and Everett. In the South, with the De-
mocraey divided between Douglas and Breekin-
ridge, the prospect Is favorable for the electoral
vote Of nearly every Southern State being given to
| Bell and Everett But we want majority vote
for our candidates-we want vote approaching
unanimity. Let the South only concentrate upon
Bell, and all shades Of the opposition to Black Re-
publeanism in the Northern States viii speedily
do the same thing, leaving Lincoln far in the
minority. This is the way, and the only way, to
prevent tile pow imminent triumph Of the sectional
4 party of the North.
Hanazzazsmaasaaszzasas
Il - mD
On saaday. the 9Th inst, RoRERT DAVIS PALfREg
friends .,s 49, ~