The Constitutional. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1860-1861, 1860-09-15
Letter from, orr Travelling Cores
pendent.
BoSToN, Sept. ,, 1850.


COL Bou.e In postscript to my letter from
Philadelphia, promised you to write You again
either from New York Boston, and this morn
ing make good that promise by ending You tiis
hastily written epistle Upon my arrival III NV |
York; found the whole city in blaze Of political
enthusiasm. Bel, Lincoln, and Douglas was
the most ncessant cry, and 10; once, for tn first
thirty-sx hours, did h .ar the name CT Brcckin-
ridge, except that they betting that IL would
not get coo votes north OF Mason and Z xon's
line. He is not considered in the rae il NV
York at all. 1t is quite probable that he would
have had some remote chance Of having his name
occasionally mentioned in connection with the
Presidency, but there is little dsuniJn thumb
paper here called the Day Book dat has 'stroy'd
even that litt,e "loop to hang a hop on" asa
me f.om M fl MS Mr.. b. h.nri l-' shou d
| shout in stan,oran tones throughout th- Union,
for what little chance-he had for notOriety, to say
nothing OF FAM, Is being hunied.y tai n away
| Fl, IN him by his d'al friends.
| l have often heard OF tn; power and influence
cxertcd by thsEsw York rad, aud had always
been skepti,4 II CAD 70 it, but l assure you,
that ! now regard il Us III; most influential jour
nal in the Ugbn, and it is almost omuipot,nt in
New York. Is espousal Of The cause Of Bell and
Everett has given them position hich makes
them formidable antagonists OF Lincoln and Ham
lin. Why OF how it excrts such an Influence no
one knows vet everybody comedies It. The best
informed say I-lU, tiIIt Bill wlfl cary the
without much difficulty. God grant it / say,
though You are aware that have always been a
Democrat, and here suti'r M TO remark, that
whilst | am still a Democrat, i, IS only patriotism
that causes M to say that viii yOto for Bell and
Everett, for | see my candidate U}rccknridg,)
has not the most remote chance to beat Lincoln,
and Bell has--and | wou1 be recreaut TO the pa
triut,sm that CLOVIS within my heart were to
knowingly throw away my vote, which | would
DO, were l to east it for Bteckinrdg. and Lane.
In this great city Of Boston the sea Of polite
is dashed into fury as l have seen it in every city
town aud homi t | have visited since | left my
sunny home On R.l River. There is greater
amount Of true conservatism in this very city Of
Boston, and this great State of Massachusetts,
, than my foulAst Imagination could conceive
: This is ron-iI red the hot BID Of gaaat.isn an d
the Stat Ia, long been called the crthusias-
tic of all Others for ths Frees oilers yet, there j.
an element here AMI increa'ing dali ~, chat vii
crush out this mad spirit Of sectionalsm, aud ere
November arrives she will b. ready to cast hel
vot, for h,rs,H and John b III. This may seem
strange 10 you, but you will see th; vote at the
election. Why, at Roxbury a short time ago
one hundred aud sixty-thEee Dem joined
the Club al one meeting in that pa -, and hun
ircds and thousands Of the Fremont man win no
follow Lincoln and ) seward into u,ta iboltionsm
( Quits is doing more good by his G nile persu',
sive eloquence, his burning appeals fr the Union,
, t!an any ,n.n else in the STATE. The conteS
here is evidently between II and Lincoln Bel
- Al presrn: ha, ing somewhat the in7 lc track.
But l am spinning my letter to IN rAnrcessar.
length 81 BID you adieu until turn . New
, York. l"GTs, y.