Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1860-05-31
The URion Nominee.

Is received IN Tue country may DC
inferred from the following extracts
collected by the Nashville Unoa, anG
which We copy:
The New York Express, on the
morning after the nominations, did
not have word to say for the can
diaates put forth by the convention,
which it has so long pretended to
put implicit faith in. 1t CURLY an
nounces the fact in three lines in
its summary Of news, and devotes
nearly two columns to post gran
dial address in favor Of Sam Houston,
adopted in meeting at the Metro
politan Hotel, two days before the
meeting OF the Baltimore Convention.
The New York Times argues that
Mr.. Bell cannot be formidable at the
North, "because his party position
does not represent any strong and
earnest sentiment OF the Northern
ipeople.
The New York Courier and En-
q,arer says: As mich as We like
The man (Mr, Belly We believe that,
nominated under the circumstances
that be now is, he has not he Slight
est prospect OF success. No party
which ignores the issues Of the day
can have any zeal vitality. There
are issues now before. the country
which have been recognized by the
Republican and Democratic parties,
(but which the so-caIIed Union par
~" has ignored. Those issues must
be met at some time or other, and to
seek to ignore them is but folly.
! The New York Sun believes that
"lhe Convention has utterly disap-
pointed the hopes Of the people,
Whose wishes it affected to represent,
lard its action will be re pudiated and
condemned.
4 letter from New York says the
nomination Of Mr.. Bell gives great
dissatisfaction among the Union par.
lty, and that they are about to issue an
address in favor of running Gen.
Houston. They have no personal
objection to MIR. Bell, bat they say
The is not the man for the ciisis.
At Cincinnati, the Commercial,
says: "Tho news of the nomination Of
Bell at Baltimore, did not create a
particle OF sensation, except that OF
surprise. The nomination oil HOus-
ton was expected. Democrats and
Republicans interehanged mutual
congratulations over the result, the
former insisting that Bell Wouldn't
| hurt them in the South, The laiter
that it couldn't affect them in the
North.
The Baltimore Patriot, the old
leading Wing ami Opposition jour
nal of Maryland, says: BELL aud
| Everett are the names which can
have the undivided support Of the
Southern Oppos itiOn: but until we
find they can ge: also the votes OF
! the Northern army, it would be no.
ping against reason aud experience,
we fear, TO look for their election "
The Padueah (Ky.) Commercial,
Opposition says: "Ihere is 90 man
who we would rather see President
of the United States than Mr. Bell,
yet candor eompels US to say that we
rather regret his nomination at the
present juncture. + Should Mr..
Bell accept the nomination We are
for hin. with our whole soul. how
ever, without stopping to count the
chances for bis success.
The Chicago correspondent of the
Cincinnati Ga2eHe says: The Pres
lidenlial ticket made up at Baltimore,
on Thursday, il considered by ex-
pe rieneedpolitioians less dangerous in
Itself than from its indirect influence
towards iDsuring reunion Of the
two Democraeies."
The Chicago Press and Tribune
says: at is reported, on what seems
to be good authority, that ex Presi-
dent Fillmore has signilied his in.
tention to support the nominee of
the Chicago Convection whether it
shall be Bates, Lincoln, Chase or
Seward. 1t is even said that if
Seward shall BE- nominated, Fillmore
will stump Pennsylvania in his b.
half" Upon this the Buffalo En-.
press remarks that it has reason
to suppose Mr.. Fillmore will give
bis support TO the nominee Of the
Chicago Convention, be he whom
be may.
What does all this portend?-l
Even the great embodiment Of
Know Nothingism, upon whom the