Mr.Badger of North Carolina, of identically similar principles with Crittenden, could have given direction to the old Whig sentiment of his State, and could have held it steadily as Kentucky was held to the Union.

The Bell and Everett campaign had been conducted upon the single and simple platform of the Union and the Constitution,--devotion to the Union, obedience to the Constitution.

Mr.Everett, whose public life of grace, eloquence, and purity had not been especially distinguished for courage, pronounced with zeal and determination in favor of Mr.Lincoln's administration, and lent his efforts on the stump to the cause of the Union with wonderful effect through the Northern States.

The eagerness of Virginia Democrats never could have swept their State into the whirlpool of Secession if the supporters of Mr.Bell in Tennessee and North Carolina had thrown themselves between the Old Dominion and the Confederacy.

With that aid, the former Whigs of Virginia, led by Stuart and Botts and Wickham and Baldwin, and united with the loyal Democrats of the mountain and the valley, could have held the State firmly to the support of the Union, and could have effectively nullified the secret understanding between Mr.Mason and the Montgomery government, that Virginia should secede as soon as her open co-operation was needed for the success of the Southern revolt.
THE WHIGS OF THE SOUTH.
A large share of the responsibility for the dangerous development of the Rebellion must therefore be attributed to John Bell and his half million Southern supporters, who were all of the old Whig party.