Des Arc citizen., 1860-09-05
From the New York Herald.l The Presidential Campaign-Breckin-
 ridge the only Hope against Lincoln.

The Presidential Campaign-Breckin-
 ridge the only Hope against Lincoln.
 There are four organized parties and six different candidates nlhe field for the Presidency, and yet il must be apparent to every intelligent observer, of any party of faction, that for practical purposes the contest is to-day narrowed down to Lin. coin or Breckinridge. Were the Presi- dental election to come off tomorrow, it is morally certain that Lincoln would carry every Northern State. from Maine to Minnesota, thus giving him l76 cleo toral votes, or twenly-two more than ma jority of the whole electoral vote of the Union.
 Such is clearly the commanding position of the minority Republican party to-day but the elements of the great popular ma ,jority opposed to 1t have stillthe import ant item of three months and more of val uable time within which to arrange their forces for the decisive battle. Nor is there any longer shadow of a doubt as to lhe course they should pursue. A few figures will make the case as plain as .pikestaff
 The whole electoral vote of the Union. .... 30S And of this vote required to elect is.. .... 152 The Northern electoral vote is ..... 173 And the Southern electoral vote is. ....... .120
 Thus It will be seen that in addition to the whole Southern electoral vote, the parties opposed 10 Lincoln must carry northern States enough to cover thirty-two electoral votes in order to defeat him. How is this 10 be done? Let us see. The whole electoral vote of the South will surely be cast against Lincoln. This gives us l20. Add California four, and Or egon, three, and we have l57 votes to start with. Add Pennsylvania, twenty seven. and the sum will be l54, or clean majority of five of the whole electoral vote.
 The vote of Pennsylvania, in short, will decide the election: and how stands Pennsylvania In the campaign of 1856 her Presidential vote was: :-
 For MT. Buchanan; Democrat. ".... 230,772 For Col. Fremont, Republican...... ..147 ,962 For MT. Fillmore, American. 82 ,202
 The plurality of MT. Buchanan over the republican vote was over S2 1000, and his majority over both wings of the oppo- sition united was COY. Since that day, or rather since the State contest of 1857, the local elections of Pennsylvania have gone against the Democracy by default. The Republican party there has been merged ina mongrel combination called the peo- ple'sparty; but the Chcag ticket requires Its supporters everywhere to range them- selves under the republican flag. Thus the opposition elements of Pennsylvanla which have been working together since 1927, are again divdei into two camps, the Lincoln camp and the Bell camp. Taking the vote of 1856 as our guide, and allowing that half the Fillmore vote of that year has gone over to the republicans, and, in round numbers,
 The vote of Lincoln will be, say...... 100000 Add democratic anti. LecompteR de-
 serters, .............,.. 10000 And Lincon's vote will be ...... ..... ..210,000 Reduce the democratic vote to.... 70. 220, ,000
 And there is still a Democratic plurality of 10000 Thus. allowing the old line Wings and Americans free course for their ticket of Bell & Everett, and making liberal allowance for American and Dem- ocratic deseners, we see that il IS only ne- cessary for the two wings of the Democra- cy to unite In order to carry Pennsylvania by pl rality of at least ten thousand over Lincoln.
 Let the Democracy of Pennsylvania, and of every other Northern State, unite upon common electoral ticket, and Lin coin may be handsomely defeated The South will vote solid for Breckinridge. = California and Oregon will follow suit The vote of Pennsylvania, then will only | be required to settle the question agalnst | Lincoln; and there is every reason among patriotic men for every sacrifice of party or personal preferences to accomplish this result. The factious instructions of sour ed and reckless party managers should be disregarded, and the masses of Democracy | should make the defeat of Lincoln their first duty aud their paramount object.
 Put this Republican party into the White House. and before it can be busted | il may compass the control Of every de- parlment of the federal governmental Then. the Republican doctIinc of negro equality would be apt to assume shape so revolling as to precipiate the South in revolution. the terrible consequences of which defy all human calculations And so for the sake of the Union, and the peace of the Union, the suffrages of all Northern men devoted 10 the Union should be cast in the way best adapted to defeat Lincoln, whose election will be an anti slavery triumph, which may drive the South out of the Union.
 In this view, as the friends of Mir. Dou- glas can do no,hing in any event for their champion, they should cordially resolve to do the best they can to save themselves and their party, which they can only do by defeating the Republican ticket.