Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1857-1865, 1860-08-24
Proposed Union of all Parties
Upon Bell and Everett.

The New York Herald of the l3 contains the
following article It will be remembered that the
Herald up to the late elections zealonsly supported
Breckenridge and Lane, under the impression that
that ticket had strength in the South.
PROPOSED UNION MOVEMENT. - The democratic
party is smashed and its fragments are scattered
1t longer resist the revolutionary current of
black republicanism What, then, is the duty of
the conservative elements of the conservative de-
mocracy2 1t is encumbent upon them, as they
would save the country from the consequences of
the advent to power of the Republican party to
come together and consider what they ought to do
in the emergency.
If the democratic party, split into two factions,
which are as hostile to each other they to re-
publicanisn itself-as hostile as ever the cavaliers
were to the roundheads, or the house of York to
the house of Lancaster-if thus divided into two
hostile camps the democracy do nothing against
the common foe, and if there is no probability of
reconciliation before the election, then the best
thing that be done is to ascertain whether there
is any other conservative party in the country
which, with their aid, would be strong enough to
stem the torrent of revolution.
From the indications furnished by tie elections
in the South, the Union party, represented by Bell
and Everett is the strongest and is just the con-
servative neucles around which the divided forces
of the democracy could rally without compromise
or humiliation either side. The Union party
cannot win by ITSELF with two other conservative
tickets in the field !; and neither of the two wings
of the democracy can be successful for the same
reason. The only alternative left is that they both
come to the assistance of the Union ticket and help
to defeat Black Repubicanism. These two factions
cannot fairly ask the Union men to unite with
them, for they are not united themselves, and it
would be useless for the Unionsts to join either of
them. Indeed it would be impossible for them to
would flock to in the different States But the
Union party are a unit. They seek the same OBJ
ject as the democracy-the defeat of republicansm
and they have quarrels with either section OF
it. Why, then should not both sections of demo-
Gratis marshal themselves under the standard of the
Union for this election, to avert the pressing
danger and prevent the ascendency of a desperate
faction, who have proclaimed a sectional war
against the institutions of the South whose result
can only be the dismemberment of the federal re-
public? 1t is clear that with three conservative
tickets in the field, all divided from each other and
acting against each other as much as against the
enemy, the republican party must triumph beyond
all doubt. A house divided against itself cannot
stand.
The great mass of the conservative clements of
the North anxiously looking for some way in
which they can resist the onward march of repub-
licanism. The only practical way is that which we
have pointed out. OF two evils the democracy
ought to choose the lesser. 1t is lesser evil to
elect Bell than Lincoln and the matter now
stands or the other must be elected. Let the
democracy, unable to elect candidate of their own
determine which of the two men they will send to
the White House, and which of the two parties
would be the safer to be entrusted with power. II
seems to that this question ought to be very cas-
lily decided. Let great meeting be called at once
in this city to settle the question, and let similar
meetings be held in other cities and throughout the
country. II is not yet too late, There are still
three months to the election. Much can be done
in that time If the united movement that we re-
commend be adopted-and it is the only practica
one the only one that can be successful--therC
would soon be such burst of enthusiasm and suct
q furor of patriotic excitement would sweep tht
revolutionary republican party out of existence.