Wabash express. [volume] (Terre-Haute, Vigo Co[unty], Ind.) 1841-186?, 1860-07-11
Figuring.

The entire electoral vote of all the States
is 3O3 of which l,2 is majority. One
hundred and fifty ftoO rotes is then required
in the electoral college, to elect President.
Lincoln can therefore be elected and lose
Oregon. California, Illinois and Indiana,
yet be will carry each one ofthose States.
and every other one north of Mason & Dix
on's line. There is no State 10 the Union
more certain for him than Illinois, and In
diana will give him her electoral vote by
handsome majority. 1t does seem to us,
that no intelligent man can, under all the
circumstances which now surround the
different political parties ofthe day, for one
moment doubt the election Of Abraham
Lincoln, by the popular vote If the Re
publican party is not strong enough of
itself to accomplish this, the di-affection
in the ranks of ITS opponents will do it.
When an opposing army is scattered when
the right wing or the left wing is turned
or the Centre broken, it is an easy matter
to march through. surround, conquer or
make victory signal aud complete. Mum
bers are not then alone necessary to ensure
triumph, but the discomfture of the
enemy gives victory 10 tne advancing col
unu.
Our old enemy - disoiganized. The
right wing of its army is turned in the
South, the left swings around in he North
aud TO make The discontinue complete, a
gallant charge on the centre is all that is
required. It's commanders are suspicious
of each other-tbere are too many general.
i>simos in the field-too many aspiring TO
be first, and too few willing to be subordl
mates. A skIllful strategi.t has but to axe
/ his glass, look over the extended field, and
seize upon the victory which is rendered to
him.
So far as Mr.. Douglas is concerned, he
ought hardly to be regarded in the fight
He is like the General. who. possessing Q
some pluck is nevertheless SO pre- emf
nently selfish, that his soldiers lose conf.
dence in him, and at the very momen,
when the death struggle comes, desert him
His troops do not obey his bugle blast aud
they disregard his orders, and he can not
carry one battery or one outpost. The Little
Giant is not i'll the great fight of lS60-no
single State in this confederacy will cast
its electoral vote for him. Every State that
is Democratic, will give its vote for John
c. Breckinridge. Douglas most bitter
most unrelenting enemies are found in the
Democratic household. "Et tu Brute" con
tinually escapes from his lips. The dagger
of Casca continually flashes before hi:
eyes and soon funeral oration, by some
modern Antony, beginning with, al come
to bury, not TO praise him" will be pro
nOunced over his political grave.
The chances of Mr.. Fillmore in 1856 tC
be President of the United States, was ius
one State better than are Mr.. Douglas il
1860. No intelligent man of his own party
expects to elect him. Should by possibll
ity the election be throw into the House
then he can get the vote of but one State
no more. He has destroyed the party tha
has made him what he is, and now politi
cal ostracism awaits him, and the time i
fast approaching when he will glide from
before the public eye-withdraw from tn,
arena of American politics-be pushed int
a state of retiracy, which will only enc
when the clods OF the valley rattle over hi
coffin. The historian may call him tn,
Little Giant" but the world will say h
was great Demagogue. The biographe
may say he was an artful debater, but th
} common sense of mankind will decide tha
his g:eat doctrine of Popular Sovereignty
: was the very sublimated essence Of hum
buggery.