Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-08-14
No Chance for Breckinridge.

Inc recent elections in Kentucky, Missouri
ana North Carolina, establish the fact that there
Is no chance for Breckenridge Even the New
1ork Herald, J" which has been contending sc
earnestly that he would carry the whole South
now despars, as will be seen by the following
taken from that paper of the 9th inst:
I'VE have heard enough from the late elections
in North Carolina, Kentucky and Missouri to
warrant the opinion that in the Presidential e.
lection OF November the Democracy will lose all
the border slave States from Missouri to Mary
iano: tennessee, also, may be added to the
number swinging round to Bell and Everett
with tne remarkable changes which are going
on IN the great political tidal currents OF 1860.
In the Southern division of the Union"
As it is now known certainly that there is no
chance for Breckenridge, and about the same for
Douglas, it is clear thatas the duty of all to
rally to the support of Bell and Everett that
Lincoln may be defeated.
Since the above was written we have received
the HERALD of the 10th, from which we take
the following: ataa ew s.'
From the divisions among the Democracy in
Virginia, apparently beyond remedy, from the
astonishing forward movement OF the new con
stltutlonal Union party in North Carolina, from
the crushing defeat of the Breckenridge Democ-
racy IN the late Kentucky election, from the IT.
reparable split in the Democratic camp IN Mis-
souri,, it is now highly probable if not morally
certain, that Bell and Everett, in Novenber, will
carry Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Gar
DINA, Tennessee, Kentucky and Missouri, q string
Of conservative Southern States representing 69
electoral votes, or q majority Of eighteen OF the
whole electoral vote of the South.
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"How stands the matter now2 The Southern
States which refused to follow the seceders out
of the Convention at Charleston refuse to follow
either of the two clashing factions of the party
in the work of this campaign. The conserva-
tive majorities of the people of those States are
turning over their suffrages to this new constitu-
tional Union party. Thus, while the rival Breck-
inridge and Douglas factions are devouring each
other, in view OF the future control of the re-
united Democracy, it is very probable that they
never may come together again, but that they
will disappear after this election, like the frag-
ments OF the old Wing party after the election OF
1862, in new organization of parties.
This new constitutional Union party has al
ready achieved formidable Judgment in the
South-a Judgment which makes it a powerful
party tor the future, whatever may be the re-
suit of the Presidential election. As this i'm
portant fact will more and more impress itself
upon the independent conservative classes of the
North, financial, commercial and manufactur-
! ing, the more these late Southern elections are
investigated, there is i'll prospect of North
ern conservative reaction which may spoil the
calculations of the Republican party.
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| "Why should not this hint be followed up by
the ell-Everett party now, in all the Northern
States, under the new impulse Of these late
Southern elections2 Lei them push forward
their electoral tickets, their principles, their late
achievements; for thus, with the grand argu-
ment of the Union, which has broken down the
sectional Democracy in the South, this new u
MON party may still be in time to SO evade and
demoralize this sectional Republican party of the
North as to render its defeat visible event in
season for the November election.