Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-07-27


speaking for Lincoln and the other republic
can candidates, and besides stumping his
own state, will visit the western states, and
90 to St. Louis to help Frank Blair.
Fourteen Douglas men at Moline, H.,
who had subscribed for campaign copies OF
the Boston Post, now it has come out for
Breckenridge, indigently order their papers
stopped and ask to have their money return
ed.
The mob at Lexington, Mo-, has destroy
ed the office of the Advertises newspaper
and driven its editor out of town, for put
ting up the names of Lincoln and Hamlin.
The paper had previously for three years
been neutral The leader in the mob was
f. Winser, agent of the H3tna insurance
company, who first declared the insurance
policy in his Office cancelled and then led
in the rutlians. This is a part of the wind
the pro-slavery party in Missouri are SOW
ing; they will not many years hence reap
the whirlwind in the shape of quiet but
irresistible ballots declaring the stale free.
The good work goes OF.
The Hon. G. Denniston of Newly York a
prominent and influential member of the
American organization, and leader of the
party in the House of Assembly in 1886,
attended a meeting at Prattsburg on Tues
day evening to form Lincoln and Hamlin
Club, when he declared his intension to
vote for the Republican candidates, as he
regarded them as the only National candi-
dates in the field. Mr. Denniston possesses
a large influence in the Southern tier.
One hundred and four citizens of Han
nibal, Missouri, " believing that the success
of the principles Of the republican party is
necessary to the well being of the country"
have united in a letter to Frank Blair TO
come and make them republican speech.
The New York Herald says :--'Lincoln
is virtually elected. Breckenridge and
Douglas have elected him between them,
and all that Old Abe has to do now is to
select his cabinet and get his things ready
for journey to Washington" This might
be some thing did it not come from such
an unreliable source.
The Illinois Belleverett committee die
not expell the venerable John Wilson from
his craftsmanship for any attempt on hi:
part to sell the rump of the party to Doug
las, but because, when the majority ex
pressed determination to run a straigh
ticket, the old veteran exposed the trick a
being purchased by democratic-money, t.
draw votes that would else 20 to the repub
licans, as in 1856. He told them the trutl
and he got his reward on the spot. Wilson
will now, we presume, support Lincoln.
DIR. Charles Benson of Winona, MINI
quits the democracy in disgust, and has mad
a public speech declaring for Mr.. Lincoln
4 He says Douglas cannot be elected; Breck
enridge viii not be; and therefore it is tn
duty of all good citizens to help elect Lin
coin and keep the result out of the hand
of the pro-slavery L. S. Senate.
Cassius NJ. Clay draws the biggest crowd
of any in his canvass of southern indiana
1000 at Terre Haute, 5000 at Indian
apolis, and 10000 at Vincennes.
!. The journal of Commerce traces the ped
!, igree of John c. Breckenridge, whom j
styles the president af 1861, . down, start
: ing with John Knox as the fountain head
If any deduction may be made from presen
appearances in regard to the result of th,
November election, the Newly Time
thinks that the line that began with job
Knox will end with knocks John.
5 The democratic party has got itself int
r such tangle about slavery in the territorie:
t says Judge Orr in his speech at St. Loui
that it is like the Hoosier who told a stor
about killing wild turkey in harvest fell
and dragged it over the fence through th
snow. Snow said bis listener. who eve
heard of snow in harvest Hang me- r,
piled the Hoosier, If ha'int got the tai
of two stories mixed so that don't kno
what I'm about"
!, AT the republican convention of Be
. mont county. Ohio, (where the vote stood
Fremont 1917, Buchanan 2,8IO. and FIJI
more 1853, in '56,)-two leading den
ocrats declared for Lincoln, as did also
n c. Danford, the Fillmore elector for tn;
4 district four years ago. and DIR. Jenkin
> chairman Of the county convention tbi
5 organized the local BeIl-Everett part
" These changes are significant. The Piqr
! Register, the democratic organ of Milan
Of county, Ohio, has run up the Lincoln fla
ID its editor having seen the hollowness
' democracy in a raiient attendance upon
g, at Baltimore.