Alamo Express [San Antonio, TX], August 18, 1860
We have nailed to our mast-head as our first choice of tickets, JOHN BELL of Tennessee, for President, and EDWARD EVERETT of Massachusetts, for Vice President. In our humble opinion it is the best ticket before the people,–the only one that embodies a pure, uncontaminated conservative, Union sentiment. We do not think it necessary to give our reasons in detail for supporting this ticket. We think it the duty of every man who loves his country and the Union, who hates sectionalism and disunion to support the Union ticket. For talent, honesty, purity and patriotism Bell and Everett have not been equalled by any ticket of any party since 1844.