Richmond daily Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1842-1861, 1860-07-19
pnIITICAI. ITEMS


to-day, the Yancey candidate would be beaten badly.
POLITICAL ITEMS.
call for Bell aud Everett meeting, to be held IN
Atlanta Georgia Is published in the American, and
signed by about hundred and seventy gentlemen.
The Democrats of Floyd, Georgia, have held meet
ing and appointed twenty delegates to the Douglas State
Convention.
The friends of Douglas and johnson had meet
ing in Columbus, Ga, on Monday night 10th instant.
The Squatters are getting bolder
The Douglas men of Newark, N j., in convention on
Monday night last voted down 10 to proposition oil
a Breckitc to run joint eetoral ticket
At Vicksburg the other day seceders were Offer
ing bets upon Breckenridge in Kentucky Lousanian
pulled out the money TO accommodate them, and
the secders seeded. They backed-but dn't back
Breckenridge.
The Lebanon Democrat resents some ones calling
John c. Breckenridge an "upstart." We apprhened that
his recent nomination and acceptance have made down.
start OF him.
The ligature between those Samese twins Toombs
and Stevens has been cut Both living at the last
accounts, but the symptoms were little alarming.
A Breckenridge and Lane organ says that any Douglas
or Bell champion that wants to meet Lane in discussion
can be accommodated. We should IS soon think OF
meeting the wind in q whistling match
An Oregon paper says that Joe Lane cannot carry
that State. 1t advises Joe TO take water" But Joe
won't do that.
Joe Lane in his manuscript begins his own with
capital letters and God Almghtys without.
The Bell aud Everett party in Connecticut are about
to call State Convention, to meet in New Haven on
the LIST of August TO nominate candidates for President
| electors.
Mr.. Bouligny, the Opposition Representative in Con-
press from Louisiana who last winter announced his in
enton to support Douglas for the Presidency and who
was thereafter regarded convert TO Democracy is
now supporting Bell and Everett.
The Breckenridge party is considerably stronger than
the Douglas party in New Hampshire while the two TO-
reher do not constitute more than third of the
| Of the State.
| The Breckenridge and Lane men in Georgia are hang
ing and burning Douglas and johnson in eihgy.
We are assured by correspondent in New Haven
that the Bell and Everett men in that city about to
organize club and are led 10 expect good report
not only from New Haven but from the State Of Connec
tcut at large.
It Is with great pleasure says the Augusta Chronicle
we announce friends everywhere that all the OPP
position press Of Georgia supporting John Bell and
Edward Everett for President and Vice President Every
day we receive cheering from all parts of the South
that the good work goes bravey on. The united De-
mocracy was poweress to defeat the Republicans 10
save the country-how much less able Is either ring
20 do any good thing Let the people then rally TO the
standard of the only party which promises peace equa-
| ty and success.
Senator A. G. Brown of Mississippi says the WASH
| ngton States has left Breckenridge for Douglas.
Douglas has 80 out of the 40 Democratic papers in
| Missouri.
The Democratic State Convention in Kentucky, for
the nomination of electoral ticket pledged 10 the reg
ular nominee, Dougas will be held at Louisville on tie
| 22d of July
The Democratic Executive Committee, which met at
Raleigh, North Carolina on Saturday, decided that il is
unnecessary to call meeting Of the Democratic Conven-
| ton.
| ko1d L.
Tennessee, Saturday night: Speeches were made by
General Quincy, Of Arkansas and Others and resolu-
tons adopted endorsing the nomination OF Douglas
| Duncan McRae, leading Democrat of North Caro-
na and late consul at Paris made mastery speech at
Raleigh, last week. for the national nominees, Douglas
and Johnson He denounced the conduct OF the Seces
sion delegates from that State, and declared that Dis
union conspiracy was father to the bolt.
| correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer at Ca
man p. o, Tippah county, Mississippi, in writing
| business letter, saws: ave throw hundred and
eighty this precinct and there but two that
sympathize with Yancey Co. 1t is unanimous for Doug
las"
The strongest Douglas fight at the South will be made
| in Louisiana, under Soule and Wickiffe
meeting in Frcestone county, Texas, resolved that
the bogus delegates who represented Texas ut Chicago
| deserved death by hanging.
The New Orleans Commercial Bulletin predicts that the
old Wing spirit of 1910 will be aroused Louisiana this
year for Bell and Everett.
There is to be grand Constitutional Union Ratifca-
ton Meeting Dover, Delaware. tomorrow, that will
be attended by large delegations from all parts of the
State.
We have already noticed that Gov Hersche V. John.
son. the Douglas candidate for the Vice Presidency
hung in eigy in his presence, at Macon, Georgia
The Atlanta Integencer says its pen faters when it
writes that Governor johnson hung in efgy-that
it could have believed that he Empire Of the
South could congrcgite sufficient number OF rowdies
and bllckguards TO perpetrate such an irdgnity.-
What pains much in reference to this dsgraceful
is that perperated by backguards who call
| themselves Breckenridge men-who claim TO belong TO
| the side Of the house that We belong to-"
The Meridian strong Democratic paper in Lauder
dale county, Mississippi has hosted the banner of Doug
las and Johnson.
Hon. Reverdy johnson, Of Baltimore, who has dared
to out for Douglas says the Alexandra Gazette
aud is warm active snd determined in support Of that
gentleman 10 be the especial object Of The nvec
tive and satire Of Of the leading presses Of the
Breckenridge men. They appear to delight in abusing
him. As long as he content to be quiet member
Of the Democratic paity"-Reverdy johnson Demo.
crat-he passed muster, with the other recruits -
| But he presumes-they term it presump!ion-to
make speeches and write letters for Douglas they pounc,
upon him-too and nai-we forbear the classical que
talon usual on such occasions-and decry him to the
| tent of their power.