Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-11-01


the strength of the three parties. The pro-
position was agreed to by the Douglas men,
and meeting of the respective Executive
Committees was arranged to be held at At
lanta on Monday last-the Breckenridge
Committee being invited. The Bell and
Douglas Committees accordingly met. but
that of Breckenridge refused, and the matter
failed. and the three parties are voting for
their respective tickets.
This action OF the Breckenridge men drew
from the Union Committee the following:
Address of the Bell and Everett Conn
!, mittee.
ATLANTA, Geo., Oct. 29, 1860.
To the Voters Of Georgia:
In Difference to the call made by large
meetings of the people of all parties, we met
here TO day, 10 confer with the Executive
Committees of the other parties in Georgia,
with the design of arranging, on a liberal ba-
sis, common ticket for the union of all our
people and instruct that electoral ticket,
when chosen, TO cast the vote of Georgia in
The Electoral College, in such manner as most
effectualiy 10 defeat the election of our COM
mon enemies--Lincoln and Hamlin.
1t pains Us to be compelled to announce
declined to join in this patriotic movement.
Upon them alone must rest all the response
bility for continued strife aud discord among
people whose interests and destiny must be
the same.
The Executive Committee of that party
have even declined to meet and consult with
us on the propriety of union and harmony.
Our friends in the North, battling for onr
common Constitution are weakened and de-
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urgently demand that moral power which our
union would give them. With all our hearts,
we are ready to bury our minor differences,
and hold up their hands in this fearful strug-
gle. Our Breckenridge friends have denied
US this privilege.
We believe crais is at hand. which will
demand all the wisdom, courage and cool
frmnesS of our united people. To meet this
crisis, we greatly desired to break down in
advance all party divisions and hush all 10
cal aHmosities. In this earnest and sincere
desire, we have met with an unconditional
repulse from our Breckenridge leaders.
general union of all parties being the
original purpose and demand, and being de-
feated in this. we are left to the necessity of
continuing our organization as heretofore an
nounced.
We have the pleasure of saying, however,
that the following resolution was unanimous
ly adopted by the Bell and Everett Executive
Committee:
ResolUed, hat should the Bell and Everett
candidates be chosen members of the Electo-
raj College by the votes of the people, they
will carry out the wishes of their consttu-
ents, in casting the vote of the State in such
manner as shall effectually defeat Lincoln
and Hamlin.
Now, voters of Georgia, to your modera-
ton, wisdom and justice, we submit the
issue.
Will you sustain party which has DELHI
erately preferred strife to harmony, and d.
vision to unity? Will you endorse and per-
petuate the reign of party discord?
Will you select for your leaders distractors
of a common cOuntry-disturbers of the pub
lie peace-devotees at the shrine of animosi-
ty and sectional hatred, and persistent agi-
tators of questions which, they themselves
admit, are as Lar, Constitutional Lar?
Shall politicians still gamble for spoils on
the sinking body of bleeding Union, whose
wounds their own hands have made, and
which their own continued folly would wi
den and deepen unto death? And shall such
men find in the people their defenders, and at
The ballOt-box their Justification?
If Mr.. Breckenridge alone can defeat Mr..
Lincoln, then our ticket is pledged to him in
the Electoral College. If Mr.. Breckenridge
cannot defeat Mr.. Lincoln. should the vote of
the State be thrown away upon him, when.
by giving it to another, the feat of our
common enemy can be accomplished?
You must answer this question at the bal
lot-box of freemen in November.
The times are perilous. Rash men should
not lead now. "Wisdom, justice and moder-
noble motto of Georgia's soFer
be written in the hearts of
Georgia's soyereigus in this crisis of our his
tory; Tor. by these alone shall we be able to
avert danger, or overcome an enemy.
J. w. A. SANFORD,
Chairman Elk. Com. Constitutional Party.
The most important aspect in which this
action of the Breckenridge party can be
viwed is, that it may be made to weaken the
South in the Electoral Colleges, and materi-
ally aid in the election of Lincoln. The laws
of Georgia require majority of the entire
popular vote to be given TO the successful
electors, otherwise there will be no election
by the people; in which event the State Lee
gislature is required ito appoint the electors.
With three tickets before the people it is by
20 means certain that either will be able to
carry majority of the popular vote. and the
failure to elect by the people, according to
our information, is altogether possible, if not
probable. The election may therefore de-
volve upon the Legislature. But the law of
Congress requires that the electors shall be
appointed on the same day in all the States of
the Union. Now, if Georgia fail to elect on
Tuesday next. is is a question, to say the
least, of grave doubt whether the action of
the Legislature different day from the 9TH
er States, will be legal; and hence her vote
may be thrown out altogether. If such be
the result the Electoral vote of the Union
will be reduced from LOS to 293' which will
make 147 majority and sufficient TO elect
the President; whereas it now requires 1872
Lincoln may, in that case, lose New York
and still, by carrying the rest of the North,
be elected. But if he lose New York, and
Georgia not fail to cast her vote, he will be
defeated beyond peradventure.
Thus it appears that it is of the very high
est Importance that Georgia should not lose
her vote; and the Breckenridge party in pur-
suing course to put it in the least hazard,
are unfaithful to their own professed loyalty |
to the South, and show a recklessness of con-
sequences, that can only be explained upon
the superstition that they are totally regard
less OF the welfare and safety of the Union.
and fatally bent on ruling or running. Let
this be warning to the misguided adherents
of Breckenridge in Tennessee who cherish |
the Union. 1t looks as if the desire and pur-
pose of these ultraists is to do what they can
to secure the election of Lincoln.
Union men, you are now approaching the
end of your labors. You have done well.
During the few remaining days, strive to do
better. Your reward will be the conscious
ness of having contributed to the perpetual