The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-09-19
How Stand Parties at the North--A
Calm Letter from q Northern man to
the Southern OppoSitionists.

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We ask our Opposition friends who arc
supportingthe Belleverett ticket under the de-
iusion that it has strength at the North, to read
the following clear, aalm and truthful state
ment of facts as to the condition Of things in
tnat section, by RObt. Tyler, ESQ. It is prcg-
pant with solemn admoniton 10 Southern men
IN this trying emergency:
ideslre distinctly TO warn all conservat;ye
voters lying south Of Mason and Dixon's line.
against the possible error into which thew
lnay lail' IN reierence to the supposed popular
slrehgth o. Toe 6en-Everett movement in tho
North. 1t is best to speak plainly ON th;a
point, because incalculable mischief NAV -
produced by misapprehension in regard 10 n
and nothing can be lost by presenting the
unvarnishea truth. Southern conservatism
should hope for the best, but be fully prepar-
ed for the worst, and no step should be in
cautiously taken. Inthe event Of the sue
cess ofthe Abolitionists in November next,
tie Southern States (such as may be pcrsna-
ded 10 vote, under erroneous views, the Bell
Douglas coalition ticket,) will have gained
notl ing for themselves, while 1t is but too
evident the division 6us exhibited in the
Southern section in the face Of the universal
Abolition ascendancy in the free States,
would only tend to encourage the enemies Of
the Constitution and Of States Rights, in their
Illegal and Enatical career. Il appears 70 me
that reasonable prospect Of the defeat OF Lin
coin by the election Of the Bell Everett ticket
can alone justify any Southern State in its
abandonment of the Democratic party At this :
important and dangerous period. NoY, the
people Of the Southern States may form toll
cradle correct idea0f the prospect Of Bell IN
the North, when the plain truth IS thar the
peenllaf trends Of Bell and Everett cannot
posslbs sE0N . ls4jusity II q col,1f ~
a single non skaUeBoLding State. state this
as an undoubted fact and am willing TO meet
the verdict at the ballot. box, The Bell Doug
las coalition tickets, in some of the Northern
States, have been conceived and arranged by
rhe more intimate friends Of Judge Douglas
with no expectation of securing any Electoral
votes against Lincoln, but solely with tho
purpose Of exciting the Bell and Everett men
10 antagonize the Democracy in the South,
md. thus to divide and conquer the section
which defeated him at Baltimore. AT the
Presidential election in '56, out oftwo millions
hundred and thirty one thousand votes cast
1y the Free States, there were given for Mr..
Fillmore the meagre sum total Of three hun
ired and ninety-four thousand. These votes,
,lect one Elector, on any ticket, and only
served to make a Democratic plurality in
hree Of the smaller States. In other words,
he Fremont party had clear majority over
he united Democracy and the Fillmore fac
ion in twelve Of the Northern States four
ears ago. Since then the American or Know
othing movement has been greatly weaken
q, and 1t would be, in my opinion, an ur-
exaggeration to place tho probable
ell Everett vote at higher mark than one
alf the Fillmore vote OF 1856. Il is now
ropoSed TO recall from the ranks Of the Black
ep0blicans the men who have been steadily
oting With thai party for the last three or
ur years on all questions, whether Of Nation
State, or munieiapl concern. At . mo-
lent when the Lincolnites are flushed with
triumph, it will not be found an
lsy task to withdraw from among them those
no have been voting with them Tor four years
lck against the Democracy, and who, it is
'Ssibie, might prefer either Bell or Everett 10
incoln but who, IN their free soil procliyities,
lquestionably prefer Lincoln to Breckenridge
Lane. In more than one half Of the non
States there is no vestige Of n
ell Everett organization, and IN those States
which an Electoral ticket or portion ofan
Iecteral ticket may be seen, the highest aspi-
ton of those connected with the movement,
indirectly to obtain some doubtful advan-
&c, which they are utterly powerless direc
y,-to grasp. With these indisputable facts
fore them, it is for the people Of the South
n States, Of all parties, TO decide whether
is worth their while to assist Judge Doug
5 to play his game ofpolitics at their expense,
'esenting a divided and distracted section,
capable of effective constitutional resistance
ter Lincoln's election and 10 become fnoTe
I'd more torn to pieces and demoralized, nn-
his hoped for time to use and oppress them
ay arrive.