New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-14
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Nathsng was needed to animate and encourage
the friends Of Bell and Everett in the Northern
States but show of strength in the South, ivy
months ago MIR. Everett was reported 10 nave sa'u III
private conversation that if the South showed any
disaositSon to sustain the ticket they would make
such rally for in the North would carry most,
| ii not all. Of the New England States.
This assurance has been overwhelmingly given
! hv an ,,pprecedented victory in Kentucky, and BY
a heavy reduction if not total annhiiation, of the
Democrats maiorities in North Carolina, Missouri
and Arkansas. We were TOO fast in giving North
Caroline to the Democrats by zen thousand ma.
iority--too fast in coneeding Missouri to them
TOO fast, even, it seeres in surrcuderng Arkansas
FROM the latest retsrns it is no. improbable that
Bell and Everett member of Congress has been
elected in the lastnamed Stsse.-in a State which
has never yet failed to vote the Democratic ticket
in every electioS, State and Federal and has in
pariably sent an unbroken Democratic delegation
TO Congress!
When old Democratic Arkansas yields, the ques-
ton had well be given up at once. tits decided.
In the flush times of old Whiggery, when the Har-
rison party swept the country like tornado, and
in 4s, when Taylor was so grandly successful, Ar
| kansas was as firm in the cause of Democracy as
| ever, never swerying from her Democratic allie
glance, but presenting always front of bold def
ance to the political foe. If it be trne-and the
news is almost too good TO be true--that we have
gained a member of Congress in this staunch old
Democratic State, the Presidential contest, so far
as Mr.. Breckenridge and Mr.. Douglas are concerned,
is already decided. The Maakoff of the Demo-
cracy has been taken, and the frightened forces
which lately occupied it have been put to disas-
trous and deadly rout.
| Let our Northern friends, therefore, take cour-
age and press ON in the gallant fight they are MAX
| ing against the Black Republican sectionasts.
The South has spoken in a significant manner, and
with an authoritative voice, for the cause of the
Constitution and the Union. The revolution has
commenced, and revolutions never go back
wards.n
We are not so distrustful of Democratic intelli-
gence and patriotism as to doubt that the great
masses of that party, North and South will now
appreciate the true character of the contest Sat
isfy them that neither Mr.. Breckenridge nor Mr..
Douglas can be elected by the people, and that the
ticket of Bell and Everett in the North is the most
available one wherewth TO prevent the election Of
Lincoln, and that party will assuredly combine
with ali the other conservatives, to give the finish
ing blow to the already tottering and staggering
sectional party which derives its only strength in
appealing to the prejudices of one portion Of our
common country against the other. Good men
ought surely to combine to effect good object
when bad men are combining in reasonable
foray upon the integrity and permanence Of our
common confederacy.
Our late victories, then, are Of great significance
not alone In the South, but throughout the Union
Elsewhere than in the South, spirit of trustful
hope and confidence will be aroused, and the count
less legions Of true Union men in the North will
flock around our standard with high hope and with
grateful hearts At last, a distinct and square
issue Of nationality against sectionaism may be
made nationality as represented by the conserva-
tive masses of all parties fighting under the broad
banner of Bell and Everett not for party victory
as Wings or Democrats, but for victory Of the
Union, for a victory of Fraternity, Equality, JUS
tee and Peace, against party whose object is to
degrade and humiiate the people Of one half the
Union. We cannot doubt the issue Of such con
test. 1t remains only for the union among us to
| to be thorough and cordial and the black banner
Of sectionalsm, once lowered, will never again be
raised to be Haunted in the eyes of the national
Union men of all sections and parties.