Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-09-27


Many of the DouGIAs leaders in the State having
from the first boldly stated their willingness to see
the State go for Bell rather than BREckIskIDoE il
was feared that they would reject the proposition
Of Mr. BRlrroS to withdraw the DouGrAs ticket and
let the entire Democratic vote Of the State be east
for the BREcKnRDGE electoral ticket with the under
standing that the vote of Tennessee was be cast
in the Electoral College for whichever BRECKISIlDeE
or DOUGLASS might need it to defeat LINCOLN BELL.
1t is certain that both of them cannot need it. There
are one hundred and three electoral votes. One
hundred and ffy-two are required to elect that be-
ing a majority of the whole vote. Tennessee has
twelve votes. In order to need the vote of this
State to elect, either candidate must have hun
dred and forty other votes. BRECKENRIDGE and DoUe-
LASS cannot both have that number. Ifthey should,
that would make two hundred and eighty, to which
add the twelve votes CT Tennessee making 292 and
you have left but eleven votes for LINCOLN. No one
doubts his receiving many more than that and if he
does BRECKENRIDGE and DOUGLAS cannot both get one
hundred and forty votes and if they cannot both get
that number, they cannot both need the vote Of the
State to make an election. The most enthusiastic
devotee sof DoUGLAs has not the remotest hope OF
electing his electoral ticket in this State. They know
that their policy only tend to aid Mr.. BELL In
refusing to acquiesee in Mr. BRITToNs proposition,
they reject with all their might the only possible
chance that there for Mr. DOUGLAS to get the vote OF
the State if he should require to secure his election
They talk much of their principles. The vote OF
| Tennessee for Mr.. DOUGLAS would not damage their
principles and yet they refuse their assent the only
possible mode of securing it for him. We do moi
ask them to endorse our principles or our eandl
dates. We do not endorse theirs. Bad as we think
Mr. DOUGLAS, we think him better than Mr.. BELL OF
LINCOLN. In a contest between those three, we
should prefer DOUGLAS. All that we ask of the
DOUGLAS men is to say as much of BRECKENRIDGE
But as was feared, the DOUGLAS managers IN TINS
State Indignantly reject, and bitterly denounce the
BRITTox proposition. The Chairman of the DOUGLAS
State Central Committee in this city, was caledupo
by a member of the BRECKENRIDGE State Central
Committee, to see if the DOUGLAS Committee would
confer upon the subject, and the DOUGLAS Chairman
| informed him that the DoUGLAs Committee would moi
confer upon the subject The DOUGLAS organ In this
city utterly and Indignantly rejects the proposition
1t says of the friends of BREcKSRDGE, "We arc
ready to receive them after due acknowledgment
of error; certainly not without" HOPKINS, of Chat
tanooga, DOUGLAS Assistant Elector for the State
says dig Uoice Is for 1oar" Andrews DOUGLAS
Elector for Sixth District, says
"No. sir !; let the conservative men act together
| and not have fusion of Union with disunlon-non
intervention with Intervention. But If fusion IS tt
| come. (AxD IT Is TIE hope OF HEART THAT IT MAJ
| COME AND NOT ONLY CONE But PROVE TRIUMPHANT LET
| IT BE WITH THOSE WHO, LIKE OURSELVES PROCLAIM
THE UNION, THE CONSTITUTION, THE EN-
| FORCEMENT OF THE LAWS, and noninterYen
| ton"
HARVEY N. WATTERsoN, DOUGLAS State Elector, Is
for mo Fusion" W. H. CARROLL, DOUGLAS Assist
ant Eector for the State is for mo Fusion" The
Memphis appeal DoUGLAs) says
"Whilst we have no authority to speak for the
party at large in Tennessee, we give it as ear
nest individual convictions, that but one kind of co
aliton between the friends of Messrs. Douglas ant
Breckenridge can be made. If the latter will aoita
drdlc their electors in the field and support thu
national nominees we perfectly willing that the
| disposition which the UNION AND AMERICAN suggest
shall be made of the electoral vote in case the tickle
should triumph
R. NJ. EDWARD of Cleveland, one of the DOUGLA
State Committee, as decidedly opposed to putting
BRECKNRIDGE men in the Electoral College" Thu
have the DOUGLAS managers spoken in this State
From what we could learn of their feelings toward
the friends of Mr.. BRECKINRIDGE, we feared tina
such would be the result. The question now arises
will the rank and file of DOUGLAS men in this State
| who are either at heart for Mr.. DOUGLAS, or WHIT
prefer BRECKENRIDGE to BELL or LINCOLN, follow tht
ictation of such advisers will they reject such
| leaders, and act for themselves? The next few
1 weeks will determine.