The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1860-08-11
Breckenridge no Longer Available
for the Defeat of Lincoln.

y
We had OCCASION last week to aludc to
the proposition of certain Breckenridge
organs, (,he New York Herald occupying a
prominent position among them) look ing to a
Union of the conservative element of the
country on Breckenridge and Lane in order to
the accomplishment of that great sine qua non
in this presidential fight, the defeat of Lincoln.
This proposal, urged by these organs of the
BIeckinridge democracy upon the assumed.
but, as we thought, false ground of the great.
er availability of the ir ticket over all others,
we considered absurd; no less because of the
peculiar and dangerous opinions of many of
the men who nominated and now sustain
this ticket, and the consequent sacrifice Of
cherished opinions and principles necessary
in order to union upon it, than because Of
the fact that we believed the candidates OF
the Union party to b. really the only availa.
Die, as they certainly are, TO the whole op,o.
sl'ion, the least Objectionable candidates.
The view we then took of the availability
OF the Union Candidates has been strength.
ened, even beyond our expectation, by the
result of the elections in Kentucky and
North Carolina, us referred to elsewhere in
the columns of The Wing to-day. 1t now
remains fixed fact, we think, that John
Bell and Edward Everett, on the score of
availability, as well as general acceptability
TO the democracy of both wings. are The men
upon whom all parties. sincerely DESTROYS of
Lincoln's defeat, should and must unite, if
that object is to be accomplished.
The elections referred to have msrvelously
opened the eyes Of the New York Herald man
in regard to the relative chances of Breckn.
ridge and Bell in the South, as we see by an
cdito'ial in that paper of Wednesday last,
part Of which reads as follows:
We have heard enough from the elections
in North Carolina. Kentucky and Missouri to
warrant the opinion that in the Presidential
election of November the democracy will lost
all the border slave States from Missouri to
Maryland. Tennessee, also may be added to
the number swinging round to Bell and Ever.
EFT, with the remarkable changes which are
going on in the great political tidal currents
OF 1860, in the Southern division of the
Union.
While there was reason to believe that the
Breckenridge democratic ticket would com.
mand the solid electoral vote of The Southern
states, there was reason for urging upon the
popular conservative elements of Pennsylva.
MA and New Jersey. New York and other
commercial and manufacturing States of the
North. the policy Of concentrating upon
Breckenridge and Lane, with the view of
Debating the republican ticket in fair and
square contest before the people. Now the
impossbillty of any combinations whereby
bleckinridge can be elected by the electoral
colleges reduces him and every other Presi.
dental candidate opposed 10 Lincoln to q
very grave responsibility to the country.
Looking at the popular reaction in North
Carolina, at the decisive defeat Of the Breck-
inlidgc party in Kentucky, at the decisive
reaction in the st. Louis district of Missouri
in favor Of Blair, the republican candidate
for Congress. and at the Douglas defect ion
among the Virginia and Tennessee democ-
racy, there is every probability that one. half
the electoral vote ofthe South will be turned
over to Bell and Everett"
1r view of all which the Herald concludes
that combination ofall the opposition upon
some nep ticket is indispensable, as the only
possible method by which L,ncoln's defeat
may be comprised.
There can no longer be doubt about the
now evident unavaiabilty of Mr. Breckin-
ridge. The Herald but gives publicity to
the honest convictions of thousands of Dem.
ocrats as to that. 1t is wrong, however, in
its conclusions as to the necessity for "a new
ticket. 1.-THE Herald he Sincere in represeu.
ting the present condition of political affairs
as shadowing forth real crisis in the history
of the country, honesty and consistency
(rare virtues. perhaps, with the IIerald)
demand, we think, that it should, upon the
evidence furnished in its own columns, and
so forcbly recapitulated above, hoist the Bell
and Everett flag. and labor as earnestly in
future for that, as it has for some time been
laborlng for the success of the Breck nrdge
ticket. Let the Herald do that, and let
Breckenridge and Douglas men in the South
rally round these embodiments Of conserva-
tism.-John Bell and Edward Everett. and
the prospects of Abraham Lincoln for the
presidency in 1861. will vanish like morning
mists before the rising sun.