Year: 1860

As the low but distinct mutterings of heavens
artillery gave notice of the approach of the refresh
ing storm, which moistens the parched soil and
saves from destruction the dropping vegetation, so
now, when the need of our country is greatest and
her institutions apparently in peril, do we hear
the subdued growlings of the popular tempest
which is rising rapidly, and will shortly sweep the
Union from the farthest extremity of Maine TO the
Rio Grnnde del Norte. The indications of the on
coming political storm are to be found in almost
every paper we take up whether published on the
prairies of Texas or amid the lakes of Peninsular
Michigan, for they tell of millions of order-loving
citizens who, throwing aside for the nonce their
habits of ease and retirement, have enlisted under
the banner Of "the Union, the Constitution, and
the enforcement of tho laws and for the first time
in their lives, have entered the field of politics. with
the determination to fight down the spirit Of dis
union, and crush out the demon of abolitonism at
once and forever.


The people see very plainly that those who have
been controlling the machinery of party movements
are unworthy Of confidence, because, while most
loudly proclaimng impending danger to the Union,
they have been most energetically adding fuel to
the flames of dscord which they affected to depre-
cate. In the North the Democratic party, even if
united, is poweress TO oppose the onward march of
Black Repubcanism, and, consequently, the hun
dreds of thousands who do not bow the knee at the
shrine of Sambo and who cordially detest negro
worship, look to Bell and Everett as the only men
having the ability to make head against the cohorts
of Abolitonisn. In the South we have the wars of
the roses re-enacted with much of the bitterness of
by-gone ages, and the two Democratic factions are
so intent upon their work of mutual destruction that
they loose sight of the peril which menaces the IN
ion in the possible election of Black Republican
President; but not so the true conservative OF
the cotton-planting States; they have prepared
themselves for the struggle, and now recruiting
their gallant forces from the rank and file of the
contendingremnants of the dsintegrated Democratic
party. The great mass of the people both North
and South, feel that Bell and Everett alone can
save the country from the curse of Black Republi-
can domination, and they therefore rushing in


to the ranks of the Constitutional Union party, pre-
pared TO battle against sectionalisn, abolitonism
and fanaticsm in any and every shape. As yet but
little has been done toward arousing enthusiasm nc
great orators have been stumpng the country; nc
flaming tracts have been circulated on wings OF
steam; no clap-trap of any kind has been and none
will be- used to manufacture public opinion, and
direct the popular current. The enthusiasm of the
people is the spontaneous outburst of their own
feelings, which has led them to get up monster
meetings in all the large cities and to form Bell and
Everett clubs IN almost every prominent commu-
nifty.


In New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Con-
nccticut Rhode Island, and Massachusetts,, we OF
serve that advances have been made by the surviv-
ing commanders of the scattered Democratic le-
gons toward eIecting such a union of the oppo-
nents of Black Republicanism as will insure the
certain defeat of Lincoln and Hamlin. 1t is obvou:
that this only can be done by rallying all the ele-
mentS of opposition around the banner of Bell and
Everett, and we Of the South must not be backward
in showing TO our Northern Union brethren that we
can and will give the electoral votes of every
Southern State to our talented candidates. We
must organize in every hamlet ana village, town
and city, form clubs, circulate papers and docu


ments, get up debates hold meetings, and in every


possible manner spread the truth among those peo-


pie who have heretofore opposed us, but whose


minds are now prepared to receive the good seed


and nourish it into vigorous lite.--Memphis Edgle.