Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-10-26
THE JOURNAL.

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Correspondence Of the N. Y. Tribune]
Eject of the October Elections tn
the South.
9AAE.A ~ LOUISVILLE, Oct. Is.
a The result of the recent elections in the
North has had the effect to work an entire
change ia the relations Of the various parties
in the Southern States. One month ago,
there was strong probability that the Union
party would succeed in dividing the South.
ern Electoral vets with Mr. eBreckinridge ;
but the overwhelming defeat Of the Bell
/ Douglas coalition in Pennsylvania, Ohio
{: and Indians, has created an absolute stsn-
: peds from the Bell and Douglas parties 70
the Breckinridge wing detheV - ~,
the design being to give the southern Eiec,
+, toral vote a. q unit to Mr.. sBreckinridge; and
should the Fusion in New York be vieto-
rious in the common contest, according to
the agreement Of tho contracting parties,
thew claim New Yorks thirty-ive votes for
Mr.. Breckenridge or the Disunion party ).
and thus they design making Mr.. Breckin-
ridge the next President Of the United
States by the aid Of the mes who have the
greatest cause of complaint against Mr.. b.
and the Southern secessionists. Mr.. Doug,
lass friends are thus to be made subservient
to the elevation of his most implacable
enemies. a at
Mr.. Breckenridge has unbounded popu
larity with all classes in all the States of the
South, due in part to his respectable talents,
his eminent family connections, his con:
genial manners and great amiability of
temper. So much have these qualities
endeared him 10 the masses of oil political
parties, his opponents IS well as friends,
that they cannot conceive that John 9. Brock
inridge would aid in any reasonable plot
against the Government, They also believe
firmly in his star-that he is q man of destt.
ny. There is story current Il do not vouch
for its truth) that his mother dreamed when
he was child, or before he was born, that
she would live to see him President of this
great Republic. This story has q strong
favor of romance, and reminds one Of stories
told of ancient heroes, and coupled with his
hitherto uninterrupted successful advance.
ment in public life, adds much to the probs
bilities of his future success. These things
with an impossible and superstitious people
make him universally popular.
As to Mr. Douglas strength, it 10 really
uncomfortable, and he could not have poiled,
at any time, more than one hundred thous-
and votes in all the Southern States and
since the recent overwhelming Republican
victories in the North, q large majority of
those will attach themselves to the Breckin-
ridge interest They merely supported Mr..
Douglas because of his supposed strength
In the North, and the hope that Breckenridge
would withdraw from the contest, and the
South would be obliged to take Mr.. Douglas
in selfdefense. Now the dream is dissipated,
the fog has cleared away, and they see the
sun and md reckoning accordingly.
OF course Il g8sm of the Bell men
has gone down, wen more rapidly than it
went up. They see that they are but q
forlorn hope, aAd though they affected to
believe that they could carry some five or
six Southern States, they now despair even
of old Maryland. Their forces are disheart-
ened, and the more pro slavery ones are
retreating towards the Brcckinridge camp
Mr.. Bell will now lose his own State, and
also Kentucky, both of which were counted
on strongly for his support H
These are the strongest probabilities. -
Great numbers of the fri; nds OF Bell in Ten
nessee are joining the Breckinridge party
and as far g Mr.. Douglas is concerned, he
cannot now retain even an electoral ticket;
and what there is of one will fuse with the
secessiouists, and thus render the triumph
of Mr.. Breckenridge in the State beyond q
cavil. Virginia will also return to her first
loveLfor when did she vote against Democ-
aracy? And Democracy with her is the
South. asgT T
The friends of Mr. Breckinridge here are
exultant over the effected fusion Of all parties
in New York-the terms suiting them to .
nicely for by it they claim the election of
their man should your State return the
Fusion ticket Can the honest friends Of
Mr. Douglas in New York be more instru-
mental in electing Mr.. Breckinridge to the
Presidency, and thereby placing in all the
highest places of the Government men sworn
to pursue their friend and favorite to the
isbitter end" and to allow him no truce short
of political annihilat;on No quarter is to
be given to the little rebel. He has sinned,
and his sins must be purged by scourging. I
Mr. Breckinridge's friends here would prefer
greatly the election of Mr.. Lincoln, not that
they like "Honest Abe" but they hate the
Illinois Senator more. -4g Ia -
:, The Breckinridge men are quite as much
elated at the recent Republican victories In
the North as the Republicans themselves
often asking the question, Where is the
Northern strength Of the arch little dema-
gogue :,
After careful survey of the whole South
ern field, conclude that Mr.. Breckenridge
will have almost the entire South with him
in November. There may be half .
dozen Of the electoral votes against him, bnt
the balance will certainly be in his favor
Mr.. Lincoln will have q very respectable vote
in Kentucky-say from five to ten thousand.
There is no fear of Disunion. Kentucky, at
least, will not consent to it, nor will con-
servatives anywhere in the South.
A FoRo,BLR ILlusrRArloH.--A friend from
Ripley county, Indiana, relates to US pretty
good hit which Teutonic citizen of that
neighborhood Inadvertently made. the other
day, In giving his reason for voting the
Republican ticket
II links leaves de Democrats long time
ago, but every year dey pulls de wool ober