The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-27
Douglas At the South

gentlemen, VINO nave neretoioio
quiet are taking ground against BREcKIS'
RIDGE. Hon. JOHN G. MASON has taken
the stump for DOUGLAS. Mr.. M, is well
known as a distinguished ex-member OF
Congress from the Maysville district, which
he represented for several terms in the
House with signal ability and efficiency.
He is one of the veteran leaders of the Ken.
lucky Democracy, and is man of sterling
honesty and independence.
The Mobile (Ala.) Register in a late num-
Der, says:
Now, what is the position of the Democratic
masses of Mobile? No honest man can deny that
it is Overwhelmingly on the side of National
Democracy and its regular nominees, Douglas
and Johnson. We believe that about four out
of five Democrats of the county are against the
disunionists on the issue, and if fair trial
could be had, and the Wings and Americans
would stand aside, Douglas can beat Breckin-
ridge one thousand votes in this county. And
yet the presses are two to one against US in
Mobile County, and, what is more important,
the leaders are four to one against US.
As it is admitted that Northern Alaba>
ma, where the heavy Democratic strength
of the State lies, is almost unanimous for
Douglas, and that the only hope of the Yam
ceyites is in the southern part of the State,
this Mobile feeling indicates that the State
will go for DOUGLAS. All the large south
ern cities are opposed by immense MAORI
ties to the BRECK1NBIDGE ticket. 1t will
be beaten awfully in Louisville, St. Louis,
New Orleans, Memphis and Mobile
TIE New Orleans True Delta of late
date claims that the National Democracy,
who supported Douglas and johnson, will
give majority of ten thousand votes in
Louisiana for those candidates. 1t adds:
Leaving some twenty thousand to be divided
between the Bell, and Breckenridge disunion
ticket Fifty thousand votes, all things being
favorable, will doubtless be given in Novem-
Der, and of these we think it no exaggeration
to claim thirty thousand for Douglas and John.
son.
Gen. BErHUNE, of Georgia, editor Of the
Corner Stone, and strong advocate of
southern rights, thinks that the strength of
Mr.. Douglas in the south is decidedly un-
derrated. He would not be surprised if he
should be elected by the Electoral college.
GEORGE n. SAUNDERS, a Native of Ken
lucky, has issued an address to the Democ-
racy of that State, urging them to stand by
Douglas, the regular nominee of the party,
and denouncing secession as tending directly
to disunion. However subtly disguised by
making Breckenridge and Lane the nominal
head, the inevitable logic of the movement
is disunion," is his language.
A TELEGRAPH dispatch to the New York
Daily News states that Alexander 81. Ste
phens, of Georgia. announces his intention
of taking the stump forthwith in behalf of
Douglas.
The Augusta (Georgia) Chronicle says:
The Democratic people are fast abandoning
the seceders ticket. In this (Richmond) coun.
ty, it is said by those who ought to be posted
that there are only thirty-two Breckenridge
men out of a voting population OF near two
thousand. Gentlemen from Columbia inform
us that there are seven out OF eight hundred in
that county. From Lincoln we hear of none.
III w uhtS tucTc Ore SOOuly Uut IuCy
are very anxious to compromise. The Frank.
lin Democracy. we learn, are almost unanimous
for Douglas and johnson; and the same news
comes also from Hall and Habersham. The
seceders bid fair in Georgia, according to
present appearances, to die out before the first
frost.
The Valley Star (Virginia) says:
A large majority of the Democracy of Rock.
bridge are in favor of Douglas and johnson.
n,,r ,rTo, fray so1l md md 11afnn
is of the same character. In Augusta the De-
mocracy are almost unanimously for Douglas.
Rockingham will give Douglas from ], 200 to
1900 majority. In Shenandoah the breckin-
ridge ticket has more friends than in any other
county in the district, but, when the sober and
rejecting Democracy of that county fully I'M
derstand the questions at issue, they will rebuke
in emphatic terms the attempts to disrupt the
Democratic party and to dissolve the Union.
The Aberdeen (MississippD Conservator
says:
We most heartily respond to a call that has
been made in the columns of the Corinth True
Democrat, that the party meet in convention at
Holly Springs on the 30th inst, where each
district can be represented, and make nomina-
tions for the State at large, and the districts at
the same time. Let, then, the national DemOc
racy of Mississippi meet in convention at Holly
Springs on the 30th inst, and let an electoral
LckeL De CQOScu tudt Will IOu up VIC dCCuS-
toned majority of the State for the true, ma
tional, and constitutional ticket, Stephen A.
Douglas and Hershel V. Johnson.
The Selma (Alabama) Sentinel says:
1t is with no ordinary degree of pleasure we
see movements of the old avalanche democra-
cy of North Alabama. The Huntsville Adr0-
cate, the Athens Herald, and the Decatur Reg
lister come to us with the names of Douglas
and johnson nailed to their masthead. The
Democracy of Madison are to rally on the 10th
at Huntsville; the democracy of Cherokee. of
Blount. of Marshall, of Limestone, of Lauder.
dale, of Lawrence, of Jackson, are moving for
Douglas and johnson. The skies are brighten.
ing, and we now see the old democratic guard
of Alabama are true to their usages and prin.
ciples, and are rallying, as of yore, to the buge
notes of national Democracy.
JEFF DAVIS and A. G. Brown, seceders
from Mississippi don't seem incl ined to trust
Mr.. Breckenridge. His letter of acceptance
don't satisfy them. The following is from
the correspondence of the New York Com
mercial advertiser:
WASHINGTON, July IA, 1860.
rumOr prevails here that the letters from
Mr.. Breckenridge and Gen. Lane to Gen. Cush
ing, accepting their nominations, Respectively.
are not satisfactory to either of the Mississippi
Senators, and that both will issue pronuncia.
mento against them. 1t is said, but will not
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