Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1860-06-15
ell aud Everett-An Appeal to Democrats

Bell and Everett-An Appeal to Democrats.
Let US suppose that we are in peril--let us
suppose that the Republican party are pledg-
ed to a warfare upon slavery, dangerous to
the stability of the institution. and destruc-
tive to the peace of the country! How is this
peril to be ayerted? In other days the Demo-
cratic party claimed the power to protect us:
1t would be difficult to find we'll informed
man with sufficient impudence to assert 1T
now. Split into Lecompton and ant-Le-
compton factions at the North--nto secession
and anti-secessiOn factions at the South
utterly demoralizcd- to agree either
upon & platform or candidate an inVltation
to oin them for protection is about rs rea-
| sonuble as an invitation to commit suicide
Looking soberly to the danger to be appre-
hended from abolition agitation, we ask,
then, where are the Southern people 10 so!---
II these approximations really exist, they
have bat one alternative, and that Is to JON
the Constitutional Union party We may
be asked, "h;ve you thepower to protect US!
We answer, ''tile Southern Democrats can
give it to Us. With their aid we can
carry fifteen Southern States, and Pennsyl-
vania, and New Jersey, enough to elect, to
say nothing of other States in which the pro-
liabilities are greatly in our favor. NO
Democrat can carry Pennsylvania first, be-
cause the free trade notions so generally pre-
vaent in that party, are peculiarly dlstaste-
full to her people; and next, because there Is
bitter and irrecOncilable feud between tie
Douglas and Buchanan wings, which renders
| it impossible for them to act in harmony
We can carry it, and that makes the election
of our candidate certainty, it the Southern
Democrats will only DO what they have so
often appealed TO Us 10 do-Eorget party: ana
unite cordially upon the strongest man to
break down the Republican organization -
| We offer them Il Southern man by blr;h, by
education, and by residence-onc vino Is IL
| stakeholder himself, and whose past memo
res, and future hopes, all centre IN slave
State-a Statesman pure and undetiicd--a man
whose life is without reproach, and Il patriot
whose fidelity TO the Constitution is urques.
| toned If they were in earnest when they
told us in 1856, that as our candidate had
no chance, it was our duty to come to the!r
aid for the sake Of the South, surely they
will not hesitate now to make the sacrincc
! they demanded (and not in yuln) CT u.s.
| Since that day the picture has been reversed.
| 1t is now the Democracy who have no Chance,
and the question is, will they aid us, or will
they permit a republican to be elected
through Southern divisions? Processing to
entertain no great dread Of Mr.. Liucoln': in
reference with slavery, we should yet de-
precate his election as one~ot the greatest
curses which could befal the Republic. 1t
would establish precedent for the election
| of sectional candidates that could not fail to
so embitter the minds Of the Southern people,
as to render civil war at no distant day IN
cvtnble. 1t is in the power Of tha Southern
| Democracy to avert this danger: to restore
peace to IL distracted land, and iratcrnal feel
| ing to divided household. We leave 1t to
time to determine whether their patriotism
is equal to the demands upon it.---IemDh's
ENlNlret.