New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-28
THE pRosPEcT.

Two menths ago, we frankly admit, the pros
poets of the Union party were rather piue,
members, however were faithful, earnests de.ei
mined, They were made Of that sort OF s.VAa
which never Yields even in defeat. uatheians
fresh courage from the contemplation q lhe op-
staces before them, they went TO work WIN a sore
of obstinate determination, which, we iet sure,
was bound to produce good results sooner or later
Thosa results are already apparent. We have
seen a coed deal of political warfare in our time,
and have had a hand in no little of it, butwe have
never yet seen so great and decisive revolution
in public sentiment as has occurred within the last
few weeks. It really seems that the sground-
swell which political writers have been SO long
predicting has actually occurred at last and that
Bell and Everett are about to sweep everything
before them in kind of political tornado, similar
to that which bore Gen. Harrison into the Presi-
dental chair SO triamphantly in 1910.
And why not The South has heretofore beer,
generally, Democratic, because tkat party p-o-
fessed its greater willingness and greater ability to
save the South from Northern aggression. Rut it
has now had eight years continuous possession of
the Federal Government, and the South; so far
from being saved is in greater peril thanever be-
fore. The people of the Soath trusted the Demo-
rigkts-but, under its Administration, net only has
anti slavery ia the North acquired greater strength
and arrogance, but it even threatens TO secure the
supreme control of affairs at Washington. Worse
than ALL the Democratic party, after failing in its
mission, became demoralized and FELL to pieces
and now, having lost its unity, the two wings are
waging war upon each other with bitterness
altogether unexampled, and a hostility that be-
comes daily more terrific.
It is perfectly natural, then--and as proper as It
is natnral--that the honest members of that once
powerful organization should escape from its
wreck, and look around for new associations.
And it is also perfectly natural that they should
find a satisfactory position under the broad ma
tional banner Of the Constitutional Union party
represented by such true statesmen as John Bell
and Edward Everett.
Thus do we account for the grand political
revolution now going on in all portions of the
country, North and South. Thus do we explain
the great moving of the masses, whereby party
a few months ago weak in numbers but invincible
mspirit now counts its legions of recruits and is
advancing with such triumphant march to the final
field Of contest and of victory.
Especially is our admiration excited by the
splendid fight cur friends are making in the North
ern States, to rescue them from the possession of
the Black Republicans, and to defeat Lincoln
upon the very ground where he was, at first, abb
solutey certain of victory. Massachusetts, we are
assured, will be redeemed at the coming election!
Connecticut, by a combination of all the oenser-
vatives upon single ticket, will be lost to Lin
coin! Rhode Island, small as she is, is worthy of
recapture from the hands of the sectionalists, and
the efforts our friends are making promise to be