The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-23
The august EIectIon.

In the campaign of 1856 our position was
such that we were daily blessed with the
perusal of numerous letters from the South
We supposed our sources of information to
be remarkably good, and being constantly
in receipt of the most confident assurances
that most of the Southern States were sure
for the American ticket, we frequently pub
lished portions of that correspondence for
the delectaton of our readers. All through
that long and exciting campaign We were
promised the united support OF the South.
The South appreciated moderate views and
men. The South would not see them sac
rihced, and If we here would only breast
the storm of Northern sectionalism, they
would look out for Southern sectionalism.
Nice promises were these, and we believed
them eagerly. We made our readers be-
lieve them, and were both deceived together.
By and by came the August elections, and
we began to search the teegraphic columns
for our victories. Kentucky, gallant Ken
lucky, was sure to redeem its word. But it
didn't. Missouri, there could be no doubt
about her. But there was. North Caro-
lima, the Old North State, sure as shooting
for Fillmore-but somehow that went Dem
Ocratic too. So it went cus; our castles in
Spain faded like sunset giories. We couldn't
give it up. We wrote to these good South
ern friends of ours, tue gist of our letters
being, '' What the deuce does it all meant"
And they wrote back that these State cleo
tions had all turned on local issues. In No
vemher it would be very different, and we
should have States enough to carry the
election into the House, which by that time
had grown to he the only hope. When No
vember came, Maryland voted for Fillmore,
and every other of these Southern States
which had made such brilliant promises,
slumped through and went for Buchanan.
We have revived these "reminiscences,
painful as they are, because they involve a
good lesson for the present campaign.
1t is this: The South is Democratic, and
all hopes based on Southern promises will
turn out deceptive. We are just getting the
first installment Of this. There was North
Carolina, where the old Wings and Ameri-
cans were strong, and where the conserva-
tive sense is much more apparent than in
most other Southern States North Caro-
lima, which was quoted by Mr.. Macomber,
on Saturday night at Aurora, as sure for
Bell and Everett, has just gone Democratic
by from 1000 to 10000 majority. This
happens in the face of very active cam
paign, in which the conservatives had the
advantage of popular local issue. In Ar
| kansas, which we have been told was sure
for Bell and Everett, there is hardly rip
pie against the Democracy. In Missouri,
we can only gather that the fight IS close,
the Republicans and Bell men there being
united on Mr.. Orr, while the Democracy are
almost a unit on c. F. jackson. In Ken
lucky, we hope that Leslie Combs may be
elected. He is a true old Wing, q noble
and a gallant man. He has the support of
the Bell party and practically of the Doug
las men, the latter being down on McClarty,
the regular Democratic candidate, who is a
Breckenridge man.
Now what consolation is there in all this
for the Bell men Missouri, if carried at
all, will be carried by joint action of Re-
publcans and Americans, which cannot be !
maintained in November. Kentucky may
elect Combs, owing to Democratic divisions, /
but the Douglas men will vote for their own /
candidate in November. And the end will /
be that we shall have 1856 over again, fine /
promises and no ful6llment. There was
then no reliance to be placed on the South. |
Nothing better can be expected now, and /
should not Lincoln be elected by the peo-
Pile all the trading which is going on viii /
terminate in getting Douglas into the House /
Instead of Bell. Our sanguIne American
friends will find themselves left out in the /
wet, ANONYMOUSLY cheated aud thorough 7
" disguised with all coalitions with Doug
las Democracy.-Bu Com. Advertiser.