Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1860-09-29
FOR REPRESENTATIVE TO CONGRESS,
GoLDsMITH F. BAILEY, of Fitchburg
State Nominations.

AIT GtDeTQt DMIGHI fOSl In u NoiNtotei"
Treasurer HENRY X. OLIVER, Of Lawrence.
AUDITOR LEVI REED. of Abingdon.
We have four candidates for the presidency,
supported by as many parties, and only one of
them running with any expectation of being
elected. There is no dream that either Doug
las, Bell, or Breckenridge can be elected by
the people, even among their most ardent sup.
porters. The most that either of them hopes
to accomplish is the defeat of Mr.. Lincoln.
All their efforts are directed against the repub
licans. If they could succeed, the result would
be no election by the people, and then
long, angry, and exciting struggle in the
house of representatives. We have never be
fore had just such canvass for the presi.
dency, and the present condition of the opposi
ton to Mr.. Lincoln shows that the republican
party is the only party in the country that has
a reliable organization and an assured exist,
ence.
Mr.. Douglas does not aim to succeed. His
purpose is to kill off the Breckenridge party in
the south, and prepare new organization of
which he may be the commander in 1864.
He mistakes his power and overlooks the
influences that will surely push him aside
in any new combination that may be formed.
If he were a man of transcendant reputation
for political integrity and consistency he could
not make his present aim successful, for this
is not the time when half way negatives that
mean deception can become the most powerful
things in our politics. And being what he is,
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arch agitator of the slavery question, with no
reputation Tor consistency and reliable purpose
in politics, he will fail utterly. There will
be new combinations, but he will not lead
them, and when this presidential election is
over, he will have abundant tine to consider
that "pluck" alone, does not secure mans
political fortune. If Mr.. Douglas had COM
menced his battle with the southern extremists
when they commanded him to move repeal
of the Missouri compromise, he might be to-
day, the most powerful and most hopeful of
our public men. But he was not a man of
high and earnest aims, and therefore pursued
another policy
Almost everywhere throughout the country
the supporters OF Bell and Everett are acting
with singular blindness, not to say stupidity.
The only success possible to them under any
circumstances would be the election of Mr.
Bell in the house of representatives, in case
Mr.. Lincoln should fail of an election by the
people. If his friends could win the republi-
cans to his support, he might be elected in
the house. But, as a general thing, the sup
porters of Mr.. Bell refuse to treat the republi-
cans with common decency. They pursue
our party, our candidates, and our prominent
men, with such injustice and rancour as are
seldom heard of in politics. There is nothing
like it in any of the papers or political circles
where either Douglas or Breckenridge is sup
ported. They too attack and misrepresent
the republicans, and they sometimes do it in Il
very atrocious manner; but some OF the Bell
and Everett men quite Guido them all, in ran.
cour and in INSCRIPTIONS Justification. There
are few exceptions, such as Henry Winter
Davis and the Baltimore Patriot but, general
ly, in that party, malignant hatred of re.
publicans is the passion most encour-
aged. And it has its effect. Republicans are
not likely to confer power on their most maig-
nant enemies. The country can endure even
a four years administration of Joe Lane, if
Providence has that affection in store for ms ;
and the Bell and Everett men evidently pre-
fer that result to any other, else they would
not combine with their opposition to Mr.. Lin.
coin such unscrupulous malice against his sup
porters, and such tireless endeavors to libel
and injure them as much as possible.
In the house of representatives., if the cleo
ton should go there. the republicans will have
Is votes, the Breckenridge men 10, Douglas
2, Bell l, and the delegations from the other
two states will be equally divided, and there
fore unable to vote for either candidate But
Mr.. Douglas will not be constitutional candi-
date. His votes in the house must be given
to some other man. One of them, Missouri,
may go to Breckenridge, but the other, Hi
nois, would sooner go to Lincoln. A change of
one democratic congressman from Illinois
would give that state to Mr.. Lincoln in the
house, and if one other state could be secured
for him, his election would be as sure there as
it now is by the people. But what chance
has Mr. Bell of an election in the house? 1t
is quite certain that the Breckenridge men will
not vote for him, and just as certain that flu.
sion between his force in the house and that Of
Douglas would give him but three votes The
republicans, the most powerful party in con
gress, could give him the presidency, if they
should see fit; but his friends are determined
to make it impossible for them to do so with
self respect. Why should the candidates o
the Boston Courier seem to us preferable tt
those of the Boston Post If the Courier ha
an answer to this question, we shall be happy
to hear it.
Political Notes.
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