Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-06-09
How Democrats and Republicans
pIay Into each others hands.

1t has been and is the desire and object of
the national, conservative Opposition TO
Democracy and Republicanism. TO beat down
secticnalism wherever it rears its head,
either in the North or in the South, and to
set aside the exciting questions upon the use
less agitation of which the democratic and
republican parties feed and fatten, to the
great detriment Of the country. To this end,
and through its attainment, TO restore its
ancient concord and amity to the country
to invite the public mind TO the coGsidera-
ton of those measures of economy and poll
ev which underIie the welfare Of the govern
ment and The prosperity Of the people, and
20 save the Union from dissolution and de-
struction. Such are the exalted objects and
patriotic purposes which, in 1886, animated
the supporters of FILLMORE and DoSELsos,
and which now actuate the Constitutional
Union party in their support OF BELL and Ev-
ERETr. Their object being to defeat alike
Democrats and Republicans, they Of course,
encounter the hostility OF both alike. So far
as this hostility extends and can be made et-
fective the Democrats and Republicans are
united 10 a common cause against common
enemy. IL was in this way that the FILL
MORE conservatives in 1886, though polling
about one-fourth of the popular vote OF the
country, were crushed as between the upper
and neither mill-stones, and their voice WAS
heard through only eight votes in the entire
electoral College. However widely Section
al Democracy and sectional Republicanism
differ as between themselves, they cordially
agree in making "the negro the paramount
question, and in fighting their common en-
eny. If they can oTerwhelm and crush out
the national Union organization the field Is
left clear of all obstacles 10 the deadly contest
which will inevitably follow between
the North and the South as sections.
Hence we find them striking hands in this
battle against BELL and EVERETT. For ex-
ample, the able and patriotic letter of Mr.
EVERETT accepting the nomination fer the
Vice Presidency by the Baltimore Union
Convention, Is made the subject Of leading
editorial by HORACE GREELEY, IN the n. L.
Tribune of June 4th. This editorial consists
of about equal parts of shallow reasoning,
ridicule and assumed contempt Mr.. EVER
Kits letter is so just, powerful and patriotic.
that tie chief of his assailants in the North
to parry its force, was reduced to the dire
necessity of ridicuiing and undertaking not
only its sentiments. but the party which i'm
posed upon him the nomination. So sOOn as
this article is delivered here, in the regular
course of the mail, our democratic eontem-
porary, the Nashville Union and American,
clips it from the. columns of the Tribune, and
makes it grace the leading column of his pa
per-introducing it with appropriate refer
ences to the weight and influence of GREELEY.
Thus are they enabled to. work in harmony
tn heat down the enemies of sectionalism, and
promote the success of those agencies which
tend most strongly to bring about a pure
" sectional strife.
We desire to submit TO candid, eonsiderate
and patriotic men of all parties. whether the
direct tendency and inevitable result of this
warfare, If persisted in, viii not be . sharp
and bitter and destructive contest between
the North and the South as such. We also
submit whether it is consistent with the OBJ
legations of patriotic duty to further eoun-
- Of the parties whose course
ieads 70 81 iA'A' catastrophe. The con-
sentative people of the I'm .,or how. ;,in
their power, without distinction .. s,r,,,o-
party associations, to unite for the Union, L.
work together for the salvation of the ship Of
State, and to overthrow those who are en-
deayoring TO steer it upon the breakers of
disunion, and into the whirlpool of revolu-
ton.