, 1860-03-10
HrccAtnrfl.e mud Seymour.

- @o4 tA1 01l@lloSc 1u{iLt.I
The Democratic programme for the next
Presidential election, was settled ia washington,
last Thursday night.
Kentucky and New York nre to be haruesscd
to tile car ot Disunlon Democracy, and Dreckin-
ridge and Seymour are to be the Charleston
nominees for President and Vice President.
Every eAort to aSert this decision will full and
nothing will remain for the Charleston Conyeu-
tion to do but to confirm this arrangement.
winch that body will be sure to do
q put this statement on record, not in The
light OF prophecy, tor We arc neither a prophpt
nor the son OF one, but as the maturcd decision
Of the Congressional leaders of the Democratic
party, IN eouEcil assembled, and the develop
ments will sustain it ;.s surely Us the Chariestan
Convention will meet, unless, indeed, something
entirely unforeseen and unanticipatcd should
occur to change tile programme, Of which there
Il little danger in the short space Of time to ill.,
teryene.
rhe record OF Mr: Breckenridge was chiefly a
ncsatlse one, until he undertook, in an unior-
tunate momcnt ior his own prospects, to make
that speech Of Lis at Frankfort, in Kentucky.
There IS enough IN that speech to dc!eat len
eral JIckson-nay, eyen a Washington. lis
full Of nisunion aud Disioyalty to The Union. It
avows, also, the new doctrine Of Congressional
intervention to fasten slavery upon Territories
aafeaa5 ttee, II It cant get into them securely
10 any other way. 1tis true, q slaye code fpr th.
Territories is only to be made when wanted, but
That what his party demand for the Territories
ut this very Inncture Of time.
looeed, We SHOULD not want more cfIcc;ual
e!ect'onserlng document, than s1r. Drrckin-
T!dgc Frankfort speech. Let United Unno.
sllon scatter it broadcast in I'll the States. and
VIC should not despair OF nearly half the Snuth.
crn states for the Opposition nominee. in such
contest. And as to sir. Seymour, his recnrd
IS quite sufficient to kill any man cut of his
own state; in bis own State, lie cannot hone TO
set even two-thi:ds Of the New York De,uocra-
e.. so that tile Oppositionists, irthey will only
| unite On some one ular, will hare p!casa..t
| times next fall they will be able TO rout tie
| democracy. horse, !oot and dragon.
IAe country is noT fnrcwarre,l. Let it nut
m the arnsor of resistance atoncc, and let all
tie opposition come together without delay.
COUNSEL Ike brethren, anil form i ticket that
| Will sweep the nation. The thingi il feasible.
ihe thing ought to be done. Nay, the thing is
already tone. Its only a question CT tine,
before the summer opeu&, the two great parties
Will DC IN the Aeld under their regularly ap-
pointed Leaders. and the result viii be u trri-
umph OF the United Opposition ticket.
i1e determination OF the Disunionist Demo-
cratic leaders, to rally under Bscckiurid.e and
Seymour, and to force the Charleston c1nyen-
slon INTO their nomination, indicates III acknowl-
edged defeat before hand, and their choice Of
these men is in part to punish tho other aspi-
rants for recusa,icy mud hypocrisy, while thew
arc preparing to carry out their tteasonal,it.
designs against the Union. But thrv will fail
In this Us we|l:s in tho election, as the result
WILL c!oarly prove. Meantime We repeat let the
opposition every where b.. up aud doing. Thry
now Know who their opponents will he