Holmes County Republican. [volume] (Millersburg, Holmes County, Ohio) 1856-1865, 1860-10-18

A Lsua Word 90 DOuslas Men.
Douglas men even deaf as adders, can
not but hear the loud talk of Forney in the
Philadelphia Piess of Oct. 10th. The
Press says:
The returns Of yesterdst's election indi-
cate the election Of Col. ANDREW George
Curtin, as Governor of Pennsylvania By
an unprecedented majority. Mr.. Fosters
silence has assisted him, it would seem,
with no section OF the Democratic party.
The vote has been unusually large, and the
defeat .singularIy significant. The returns
spsak in bolder and stronger Saxon than
We can write. - siist7 So i''ssa' -
There can now happily be no more balk-
ing Of the great question involved in the
Presidential struggle. The reasons in fa-
vor Of combination against Abraham Lin
coin, however they may have operated pri-
or to the e;eetion decided yesterday, and
however they may operate in advance Of
that which is to be decided on the first
Tuesday of November coming, cannot be
efestise when men come to choose bet,oeen
candidates, each Of whom represents a
principle antagonsstie TO the other.
Nov, we take it there can be no more
union between Breckenridge and Douglas
than between two naturally repulsive forces.
Each represents distinctive platform
No advocate of Mr. Douglas believes, or
s6ects TO believe, in the doctrine upon
which Major Breckenridge stands, and no
advocate Of Major breckenridge believes
or affects TO believe in the doctrine upon
which Mr.. Douglas stands. The Southern
friends of Breckenridge, more frank than
ths most Of the friends of Douglas, de-
clare, as a general thing, that under no
circumstances viii they ever accept either
the candidate or the creed upon which the
regular Democracy stand. In the Ian
gnage of Senator Benjamin, of Louisiana,
in his last great speech, they would not ac
cept victory If their platform was to be
construed in one way in the North, and
in another way in the South. They be-
lieve that the institution of slavery is car
ried by the Constitution of the United
States into the Territories of the Union,
and that 1t mast be protected there against
the popular wil, and ralhef than yield this
principle, or submit 10 the election of
Northern man 10 the Presidency of The
United States, like Abraham Lincoln, the
most of them would be willing to justify a
preparation for secession from the Union.
They have made the issue. Standing up
on this idea, they have SO consolidated the
Southern people around their candidate,
Mr.. Breckenridge, that we shall not be sur
prised, since Colonel Curtin's election, to
see very large majority in favor of that
candidate. They are sensible of this great
advantage; aud while in The Southern
States they reject with disdain all coali-
tions with Mr.. Bell, whom they regard as
traitor to Southern Institutions, and tram
pie upon Mr.. Douglas as an enemy equally
hostile with Mr.. Seward himself, they are,
with condescending sagaeily, particularly
willing TO unite with the friends of Bell
and Douglas in the free States to carry
electors against Lincoln, because they know
that in such combination they will be
able 10 gain something which will be add
ed to The controlling aggregate of their
triumphant electoral vote in The South.
EVERY FUSION IN THE FREE
STATES. THEREFORE, is INTEND
ED TO PROMOTE THE ELECTION
OFfJOHN c. BRECKENRIDGE TO
THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED
STATES.
The friends of Mr.. Douglas, rather than
see themselves used as instruments in IA
vor of extreme Southern Disunionism, will
now leave the responsibility Of the coming
result to those who, while protesting that
the election of Abraham Lincoln must lead
TO dissolution of the Union, stubbornly re-
fused to sustain and support the only can
didate before the American people who
could have prevented the election of Mr..
Lincoln,