Des Arc citizen., 1860-05-26

How. JOHN BELL.-The Cincinnati
 Press, an independent Black Republican
 paper, after asserting that MT. Bell mus,
 be more acceptable to the Northern than
 to the Southern people, and that his name
 was mentioned in connection with the
 nomination at Chicago, by some of thosa opposed to the protection of the South in their constitutional rights in the Territo- ries, uses the following languague:
 The third-party Convention at Baltimore has nominated John Bell for the Presidency
 The candidate is vastly better than the Con- vention which nominated him. We remark this because investigations have revealed so much corruption in the last movement of this kind that the connection of some of the mean stof the leaders of that with this, attaches suspicious odor rto it.
 John Bell is a statesman without reproach.
 If the Republicans really want what they profess to--a conservative canddate-and are not afraid to take statesman of character and experience, John Bell is unexceptionable for the Chicago nomination. His position on slavery is probably about the same as the Re- publicans will take at Chicago, or at any rate quite as far as they will venture to go in hos tility to slavery.
 The .NeW York Times free soil sheet, indorses the nomination of Bell and Ev- erett, and asserts: '' That in their hands the Government would be administered with ability, dignity, and the most con scenlious devotion to the honor and well fare of the whole country" This, of it. self, indicates MT. Bells position. But the Tmas adds the following beautiful record of MT. Bell:
 John Bell has acted prominent part in public life for many years. A lawyer by pro- fession, he ente+ed Congress first in 1927, and continued to represent his district in the House for fourteen years. At the outset he was warm admirer and political supporter of Mir. Calhoun. In 1892 he was opposed to the protective system, but soon afterwards changed his views on the subject. He resist ed Mir. Calhoun's policy of nulifcation, aud was Jealous supporter of Gen. Jackson un- til the removal of the deposits, when he left the Democratic party. In 1884 he was elect ed Speaker of the House, receiving the Whig vote, and that of those Democrats who were opposed 10 MT. van bMen. In lS29 he openly advocated the election of Judge White in opposition to Gen. Jackson, and thencefor- ward acted with the Whigs.
 In 1886, Mir. Bell, alone of the Tennessee delegation, advocated the reception of Abo- lition petitions, and was sustained by his con stituents. In 1S41, he became Secretary of War under President Harrison, but retired after his death, and remained in private life nLti 1S47. when he was elected United States Senator, and reelected in 1853, He opposed the Mexican war-supported the Compro- mise Measures of 1860, opposed the Nebraska pill and the repeal of the Missouri Compro- mise in 1854, and denounced the Lecompton policy of the Administration in 1858
 Mir. Douglas has just about us good a | ecord as Mir. Bell, so far as the rights of he South are concerned, and the Opposi- ion press who have found fault with MT. Douglas upon this point, (and very justly oo) can now have "a good time y in efending that which they have but re- ently assailed.