New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-28
ORGANIZE.

/ The New York Express the ablest advocate OF
the Constitutional Union candidates in the North
makes earnest appeal to its political friends TO
organize at once, and prepare for the WORK before
| them. Its reasons for urging thorough organlzas
ton independent Of all considerations Of patrtot-
/ ISM are strong and foreihle. The Express says:
The friends Of Bell and Everett should organize
Iii all quarters and as soon as possible. We ere
/ now the only really national paIly ieinlhe envy
Other parties have gone through or are going
/ tarougi the process OF sectionalsm, and hence we
/ have become the sole link by which Union poll
/ tioians can again be cemented one with another.
4 Other parties must form upon u.s. because we are
i the emily real national parties. We are the second
choice now Of all the other parties. Even the Lin
| coin men prefer us to the divided Democrats, and
the divided Democrats decidedly prefer us 10 GER
tain others, or to any other Bell and Everett are
the second choice OF about everybody
What the Express says is true. Bell and Everett
are about the second choice of everybody of all
the other parties. And when it becomes evident
that there no chance for either of the Democratic
candidates. and that to defeat Lincoln it is neees-
sary to concentrate all the conservative strength
upon one ticket, we are not distrustful enough OF
Democratic patriotism to doubt that the members
Of that party win hesitate moment in giving their
votes for the Constitutional Union candidates, in
selves in position where, as the Express says,
.other parties must form upon rs" we must at
once organize. We mnst present compact body
and united front, and we must gather within our
ranks in the beginning, all the original friends of
the Constitutional Union ticket. We repeat that
sorganze'i Is now the word, and that it is the key
to success.
If it be important to organize in the North, still
A.
we stand in the middle, between the two Demo
cratic parties, occupying the safe ground of COM
promise. The members of neither wing of the
Democracy can go over to the other, but they can
come from both sides to us. They can come, and
they are coming. We occupy the exact ground
which makes US the nucleus of a great Constitu-
tional Union party, composed Of citizens differing
upon minor points Of public policy, but agreeing
upon the great and absorbing question of nation
atty and equally intent upon rescuing the country
from the hands Of the seetonalists. By the side of
SO momentous an issue as this all others sink into
insignifoance- and he strangely miscaleulates the
temper of the people who supposes that they will
adhere to old party watehwords and keep up old
party divisions iii the presence Of issue of such
magnitude as the preservation of the Union upon
the basis of the Constitution and the equal rights of
all sections. Party ties were never before so feeble
and weak as now-the time never more propitious
for a reorganization of parties upon the platform
which Mr.. Clay himself proposed when he foresaw,
years ago, the exact condition of things which has
now occurred.
Let us, then, organize in the Southern States,
and it will give such encouragement to our North
ern friends as will lead to an active and vigorous
efort-which we have reason to believe will be
successful in several of the Northern States-to
defeat the election Of Lincoln The Importance of
organization at the present time is forcibly though
briefly, set forth by the Express, in the following
language. We can; ourselves add nothing to the
strength Of the appeal
We have strength enough, uniting with Union
men everywhere, to carry great many, aye, a
majority OF the States. We have what is now the
only pivot upon which other parties can turn. The
key of things now is in our hands.
Hence organization, ever important, is now more
important than ever. Our newspapers should be
circulated. Our speakers should be called out.
Our temperate, moderate, national creed should
be made known to every body, everywhere
Cur misfortune hitherto has been to have two
great parties pulling us apart, and hence we have
been divided and distracted by them. Our fortune
now is, to be the means of drawing from moderate
Republicanism even, as well as from Union Demo-
eracy.
We look forward to q good time ceming, when
moderate men of all the dividing parties will unite
with US to save distracted country from the sec
tionalism which is now rending it apart and alien
ating all good feeling.