The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-11-06
10 BEN ana douglas Men.

day is as certain as any event not yet de
cided can be. This certainty is proven b.
the utter despair of our opponents, th
confidence of Republicans, and the comics
sion Of all wel-posted public men.
Now we say to all those Bell and Dougla
men who agree with the Republican party
as to the necessity of restricting slavery t
its resent Iimits-and most of them i'll tht
North do agree with us that the institution
ought not to be extended-we say to al
such, why not go with US noac and help u:
Il to elect conservative and wise opponent
of such extension, and assist in giving g
majority for the Republican candidate that
will be terror to all traitors. You would
IA hundred times rather see President
elected by the People, than to see the con-
test go into Congress, there to breed dire
disturbance and keep the country in bad
blood and tum ult all winter, and finally end
/ in 10. Lanes election as acting President.
Why not, then, help Old Abe, the only man
who can be elected by the people by any
/ possibility?
| Neither Douglas nor Bell have the shad-
Ow of chance before the people or in Con-
gress. Douglas cannot get an electoral vote
by any probability, and Bell stands no
chance for more than three or four Southern
States at most and we shall not be surprised
if he gets none. But say he gets enough to
take him into the House lin the event Of
Lineoln's defeat before the people,, Bell has
only one State (Tennessee) there, and if
Douglas helps him, he can only add anoth-
er Illinois). No party has a majority there
Lincoln coming nearest Us States). Hence
no President can be elected in the House of
Representatives, unless in may be Breckin-
ridge, and he really stands the best chance in
that body, for he is an out-spoken, reliable
friend of slavery, and it would be an easy
matter for some Of the Pro-Slavery Ameri-
cans in the three tied States and Tennessee
to change to Breckenridge and elect him
One change in Maryland, one in North Car
olina, Ole in Kentucky, and three in Tenn
essee would do the business. And this may
be the game contemplated and understood.
But if this can't be done, the Breckin-
ridge men will only have to stave the elee-
tion off in the House till the 4th of March,
which they can easily do by using parlia-
mentary tactics, such as are frequently re-
sorted to at which time, the two candi-
dates for Vice President-Hamlin and 10. |
Lane-only, being before the Senate, and |
the Breckinridgers having a majority of |
that body over all other parties, Lane would |
readily be elected Vice President, and |
would become acting President.
Hence our Douglas and Bell friends per-
ceive that the defeat of Lincoln before the
people could possibly benefit nobody but
the Breckinridge and Lane party.
Besides, if the Bell and Douglas men in
the North help Lincoln, their friends in the
South who adhere to the Union in case of
Lincolns election will share in the benefit
of the offices, for if the Republicans have
good reason to believe that their President
got any substantial help from the Bell and
Douglas men in the North, he would be un-
der obligations to them for unexpected aid,
and would gratefully remember their friends
in the South in the distribution of official
avors.
1t seems to us that every consideration ap-
peals to Bell and Douglas men to leave their
forlorn hopes and vote for the man whom
the People are determined to elect, thereby
swelling his majority and overawing con-
templated treason by an overwhelming p0b-
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riotism.
Bell and Douglas men, who believe that
Slavery ought to be restricted to its present
limits, laying aside little technicaIities and
questions in regard to means,
we are at heart together in priaciple, if you
will only act out your real sentiments. You
know we are right in wishing the blighting
confined where it is, so white
men can prosper in the territories. Come
out then, like men and vote with the party
of Progress, so you can in after years con-
template your vote in 1860 with pleasure
instead of discomfort. Vote for Lincoln and
Hamin and you will never regret it.
BgS@ The Douglas men met at the Court
House last night, where they had some
speeches. We say-not in an exultant spirit,
but as a matter of news-that the meeting
was very spiritless-the exact opposite Of
the Lincoln meeting at Mozart Hall.
We believe that numbers of Douglas men,
satisfied of the utter downfall of their party
in this county and elsewhere, viii to-day
vote for Lincoln. How fallen are the once
proud Democracy!
Ek75@ Young Men, commence life Alright
and vote for Lincoln anj Hamlin.
RAIN.-If it rains to-day, Lincoln men
don Z etn,. at hnr,., hrt rtnr,I o I;4.I, ..oL !