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g thrown for q separate electoral ticket, the
will ho in a nainnfffv in Ohio With

out any change in public sentiment. If the
Americana make no electoral ticket, in our
Judgment, it will be quite as bad for the Re.
Publicans. Bat even without any diversion
from that quarter, the State is safe for Douglas.
The events at Charleston, the disruption at Bal.
timore, the sloughing off of the Southern Dis.
unionists from the Democratic party, the firm.
ness with which their arrogant demands were
met by the majority, have strengthened US not
less than 10000 in Ohio.
Old Democrats who have not voted with Us
since the repeal of the Missouri Compromise,
IN 1854, are returning to the party in great
numbers. The independent voters, a large body
mlre the manly, fearless, independent course
OF Mr.. Douglas, and will support him with
warmth and cordially. There is nothing about
Lincoln to attach this class to him. He will
only get the votes of the most bitter and inve.
terate partisans, who will go for anything la.
peeled Republican. All the enthusiasm is for
Douglas. Accounts agree in representing the
siastic than any others. From every precinct
and neighborh0od we hear of persons, hitherto
opposition, who have made up their minds to
vote for the Little Giant. None can doubt who
mix with the people that he is the popular ia.
v0rlte. In these estimates we take no account
OF Breckenridge and Lane electoral ticket, for
it is morally impossible that the supporters of
terlally effect the result i'm Ohio. Democrats
near nothing of this movement, expect through
the columns of the Republican papers, who
seek, by magnifying it, to create party out
OF nothing. Republicans pay the expenses of
firing salutes in honor of their nominations.
republican papers seem to advocate their
claims, to the exclusion of Lincoln and Hamlin
This has little effect on Democrats, except to
attach them stronger to the regular nomina.
lions. great change is going on in public
sentiment in Ohio, and the Lincoln partisans
Will be astOnished at the majority which the
people of Ohio will give Douglas in November.
The Republican prints have endeavored
to create the impression that there was a
serious bolt in the Ohio Convention. The
Minnesotian, the other day, fairly gloated
over an item of this character. To show
what basis there is for the statement it is
only necessary to refer to the official report
of the proceedings of the Convention. Most
of the delegates to it were elected prior to
the split in Baltimore, the Convention hav-
ing been first called for the Oath of May,
but afterwards postponed until the 4th of
July. There were 1892 delegates in attend.
ance, and precisely two Breckenridge men,
and they were Federal Office holders
ded. The resolutions endorsing Douglas
passed, upon call of the ayes and nays, by
a vote of ayes $50, nays o.! This is a fair
sample of the lying it takes on the part of
the Black Republicans, to build up Brock
inridge party in the northern States.
WE THINK NOT.
The boilers, at Baltimore, nominated
Breckenridge and Lane. The Disunionists,
at Richmond, ratified the nominations of the
boilers. Old Buck, at Washington, be-
slowed upon them his blessing. Could three
greater curses have attended the advent of
a ticket on the public stage ?-Cincinnati
Enquirer.
MAINE TO BE REDEEMED.
The news from Maine is most cheering.
At the late Democratic State Convention
in Portland, consisting of seven hundred
and fifty delegates, the nomination of Doug.
las and johnson was ratified with entire
uuanimity, and amid the greatest enthu.
siasm. The Portland correspondent of the
Boston Herald says:
The delegates from all parts of the state
bring encouraging news of Democratic con.
versions. They say that the watchwords,
" Douglas" and Popular Sovereignty"
have revived the hopes while they have
strengthened the hands of the party, and
that it seems as if the old times were come
again. Voters are coming back in focks,
full of joy to find themselves able again to
be Democrats. Those members of the
Northern press who have deserted the Ma
tional standard, are denounced by the party
in terms more earnest than polite, from the
seacOast to the backwoods.
A DOUGLAS meeting was held at Balti-
more on the evening of the 9th. The
gathering was very large. Henry May was
chosen President. Ward clubs marched to
the square with bands of music, &c. A
letter was read from Fernando Wood,
strongly indorsing Douglas as the nominee
of the regular National Democratic Con-
vention. Much enthusiasm was manifested
throughout.
A DOUGLAS Club was formed at Newark,
n. j., on the 9th. Resolutions were offered
endorsing the action of the State Commit
tee for Union Electoral Ticket, which, after
long and exciting discussion, were lost by
vote of yeas 4 to nays so. The meeting
adjourned at late hour; the Douglas men
resolved on no compromise or fusion, and
there will probably be two electoral tickets.
The Hon. Henry M. Rice lately went
up to Lake Superior, by the way of Chica-
60. The La Crosse Republican, speaking
of our Senator, says:
He will in few days start Breckenridge
paper at St. Paul. He visited Pennsylvania,
and is confident that Douglas cannot poll as
large a vote as Breckenridge. He declares
that if the election was between Douglas and
Lincoln, that he would vote for the latter. This
is the feeling of many Breckenridge men.
A DEMOCRATIC State Convention has been
called in Virginia on the 10th of August,
at Charlottesville. It is currently reported
that the friends of Douglas will call State
Convention at Stanton to nominate an
electoral ticket.
FRANCIS W. KELLOGG has been nomina-