Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-07-03
A Cheering SiDu.

A cheering sign.
The indications of the success of the Con.
stitutional Union ticket-the only national
ticket before the people-are increasing and
growing more encouraging. Every day
something occurs evincing the desire of the
people to strike off the manacles of party
aud to act alone for the good of the country
1t is this desire which is causing democrats
and republicans, north, and democrats, south
to disregard the calls OF party leaders and to
cooperate with the conservatives in the sun
port of BELL and EVERETT. Now. that The
democratic party is severed, and no longer
has the remotcst chance of success, we have
implicit confidence that tine conservative
portion of the democracy every where will
gradually, but surely, rally under the only
standard which can promise to break I'D re-
publicanism and save the country As a
significant Indication that our confidence is
not unwarranted, and that the popular
tide" as our contemporary of the Richmond
Whig says, sis setting in, in favor of BELL and
EVERETT we point 10 the cheering fact that
the Philadelphia Koaifor, an old and able
Democratic paper, has come ont for the Con-
stitutionaI Union candidates, and will battle
nobly for their election. We subioin the fol-
lowing extracts from its last issue. and CON-
mend their patriotic tone to the moderate and
conservative Democrats of Tennessee and of
the South and of the whole Union. Hear The
Monitor
whilst there Is still a Union Of States. II
is incumbent on every loyal and patriotic
citizen to adhere 10 a National Party There
is now only one such party remaining The
Democratic party Is TGptuTed into sectional
moietIcs- We step from suudered organf-
cation to the platform OF The UNIox-THE
CoNsTTTUTION-AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE
LAVE" When this fails us-when this. TOO.
shall be riven in twain-and there shall lie
no other alternatiFe-we must, per force.
make choice between the sections.
We are lifelong Democrats. NererfhIfess t-e
ors lriEling to ehtst under tie banner Of Bel and
Euaett, scko hate been Uhigs and Ams1cans.
We ealix not as Uh,gs or Anlaiezns, but as Can
additional Union soldiers. The banner Is en-
blazoned with the motto of the Constitution
AND The UNION, and it floats upea th, breeze
in every State We follow that banner. It's
bearers are statesmen; renowned throughout
the worId-ren0wned for their virtues, for
their commanding intellectual endowments.
for their long experience in public affairs, and
for their public services as Governors, as
Senators, as Cabinet Ministers and Diploma
fists.
The Northern adherents of the Sectional
Southern Democratic Candidate for the Pres
ideucy will vote for BELL aud EVERETT, in
preference to the Northern Sectional Demo-
cratic Candidate, and in the South the adhe-
rents of the latter will do the same thing
The party is torn TO pieces By the dissensions
of ambitious leaders, who have usurped
the powers belonging of right to the people
But now The PEOPLE will be reused. and they
will rescue their priceless heritage from the
peril into which it has fallen from mis-
placed confidence in the capacity and fidelity
of the custodians to whom il has been en-
trusted BELL and EVERETT sriU sareeD the
SosA from one ED TO the other; ard if the hith-
erto conservative people of the North are moi
false TO the obligations of duty and PATRIOT
ism, and not blind 10 every consideration of
interest-both national and individual-they
will carry New Jersey, PENNSYLVANIA. New
York, and at least bali the New England
StateSl .AwakIi arisei or be forever faIIenI'
Sound the trumpet-beat the drum-ring the
hell-and rally the masses, Mott and South
East and West, to the rescue of the Union in
the sacred names of Washington and the Con-
stitutionl
The contest is now between Bell and Liza
only National party left in the field, to COM
bal the Abolition party. The other factions
are merely engaged in Ri kenny cat-ight
among themselves, and nothing but the small
ends of their tails will be left at the end of
the battle.
'This is the high and noble spirit, says the
Fzg, which should actuate every patriotic
d .mocrat, North and South. in the present
momentous contest. VIII not the Democrats
of Virginia and Tennessee do as many of their
brethren at the North are doing, and rally
around the standard of BELL and EvEsErT
The Democratic party is dissolved and dead,
and there is no earthly chance for the cleo
ton of either BREcKNRIDGz or DOUGLAS aad
spy rOts giren to either of these gentlemen Tuf 5e
s7sirdsastts rots for Liaoola! Will our Dem.
oeratie friends aid in the election of the Re
publican candidate, by refusing TO vote for
Bell and EVERETT? We do not believe they
wiii-ue are sure they will not Huzza,
then, for BILL and EVERETT