New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-05-14
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.

Chlcag0 convention Will meeL, anu lnaL powerful |
sectional organization, the Black Republican party,
strong in numbers and flushed with the prospect of
victory will unfurI its banner and enter vigorously
into the contest. And az it respects the Democ-
racy, there seems to be less probability now than
ever of reunion, either at Richmond or Baltimore,
of the two wings into which they are divided.
There will, in all likelihood, be two Democratic
candidates in the field, and thus four separate tick
cts will eventually be presented to the people.
Thus will the opposition to Black Republicanism
be cut up and divided into three different parts at
the very time, above all others, when there should
be cordial union and concert Of action. Is there
any necessity for this. Nays 1t not the impera-
tive duty Of the conservatives Of all parties and all
sections to close their ranks, and present solid
and undivided front to the sectional enemies Of the
Constitution and the Union?
Until the year 1856, the sectional party Of the
North was but mere handful of crazy fanatics.
They were impotent for evil, and were so insig-
nifcant in numbers that their movements scarcely
arrested popular attention. But how is it at this
day? This same sectional party has advanced
with giant strides throngh every Northern State,
swelling its ranks at every step, until it now holds
absolute control Of nearly one half the States Of
the Confederacy. 1t is no longer weak and power
less-but bold, defiant, confident OF victory, and
unscrupulous Of the means necessary to secure it.
1t menaces the South and the Union with its hate
full domination, and it will enter into the contest
with that assurance of victory which is, of ITSELF
one Of the greatest elements Of success.
The conservative men, Of ali parties and all Sec
tons, recognize the Importance and necessity of
arrestng the footsteps Of this powerful organiza-
ton, and checking its career at once by decisive
overthrow and defeat. 1t is believed, with good
reason, that this party is stronger to-day than il
will ever be again. 1T is kept from present dsso-
luton only by the folly Of those opposed to it and
by the prospect Of the spoils and plunder Of four
years Of the Presidency. It is believed moreover,
that the present is the most auspicious time for
countering this party fairly and squarey upon the
issues which it has made and that the result would
be its utter rout and destruction. Defeated in
November, it would never raise it's head again,
even as powerful faction. 1t would sink into the
tennity and imbeciity Of the old Abolition guard
which was its predecessor, and venture no more to
threaten the Federal Government with its hateful
sectional domination.
Why, then, we ask, cannot the friends OF the
Constitution Of the Union and of equal rights unite
in compact array to overthrow and destroy this
powerful and truculent organization! Is the re-
pose Of the South Of SO little consequence that it
may be hazarded in consequence Of old obsolete
party divisions Is the peace Of the Union, per-
haps its very existence, to be jeoparded because
of unnecessary party jealousies and former party
antagonsms? Because Wings and Democrats once
opposed each other, when parties were national,
is there any reason they should now keep up the
warfare when they are confronted with party
whose triumph would imperi the Unions Shall
the memory Of old extinct issues still avail to keep
men asunder, when there is SO pressing necessity
for cordial and thorough union?
II the conservative vote in the Southern States
be divided between three or four candidates, the
triumph of Black Republicanism will be easy and
complete. Some of those States may be saved from
the grasp of this party-but it can only be done
by solid and compact union among all the consery-
ative electors of both parties. Not vote can be
spared-not man can leave the ranks of the
united Opposition without increasing the chances
Of Black Republican success. Our friends in the
North, who willing to stand by the Constitution
and the equality of the States, mnst present an un-
broken phalanx to the foe-or, by division, they
will invite disastrous defeat But this cannot be
done there are three tickets before the people.
One ticket alone, and one sustained by united
oouth' oaii ASa " 49, iis nA1o eAess',o
inc opposiaon W me, .no DlaoA hepupl'a'i paf1y ~
.he o.'.es " 'l,e Soi'n
siohe' p a,iea announ'ea' ~ w sen''o.
men are preseh.eu " ny peopie 9ho are AnoWn
all over the Union, Norsh, oouta, EAST anu " ese,
for the moderation, conservatism, and nationality
of tbar faenos and far their devotion In tbe f,on
st;tnt;on and tba constitutional rights of nil sec.
t;ons Of tba conntrv Tbese gentlemen are botb
ovnar;oncad stotesman uboee names have heen
linad with tbe nolitieaI history of the nation for
third Of century and whose mast lives AFFORD the
amnest onarantv of their honesty and their infex.
;ble natriotism. Ia there any need that the CON-
test he embarrassed by the presentation of other
candidatess Ia there any uropriety--is it not in
fact tbe marest madness in the south-to invite
efaat hv tba d;snarson and division of onr forces
rohn Raj, and Edward Everett are known to the
North and are accentable to the conservatives of
+bot eect;on thorouob concentrat; lion If the
Democrats who's IInion men and the Americans
of the North mon these names would give them
tbe victory in several nf the Northern States Add
tn these the united vote of the South. and section
alism il crushed out at once. and the Black Repub
lican party irretrieyably oyerthrown. On the
other hand. if the conservative strensth be cu
nn-reduced to nothing by diyision-the probabilit,
i that the entre North viii be carried by tht
Black Republican ticket and thus their success ii