The Constitutional. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1860-1861, 1860-08-20


who had repaired the second time to Richmond,
and who refused to 60 on to Baltimore. Mr..
Breckenridge approved the secession, and then
received the nomination of both bodies of the ST.
cedcrs and thus he and his party are hitched on
to the Southern car of disunion, now being driven
to the devil by the political Jchu Ysnccy. do
not believe that Mr. Breckenridge and his Ken
lucky friends mean disunion at this time but
those with whom he aud they have united their
fortunes certainly do. His nomination by frag
ment of the Democratic convention produced
within him feeling ofreyulsion. Circumstances
and his own associations urged him to acc, pit
and he was too feeble to resist their force. He
has declared in his acceptance that he approved
the secession. and that he would mot mcanly re-
fuse the nomination" of his friends the scceders
The same considerations that have brought him
to act thus far with the disunonist, will bear him
along with them to their ultimate ends. 1t is a
common for sinister men, who have an en-
terprize of mischief and wickcdness, to allure
better men to take the first false step with them
and impcrceptibly TO become deeper and deeper
involved, until they lose the power to cxtricatc
themselves from the tolls Mr. Breckenridge and
his friends are embarked with the Southern dis
uniopists in the same bottom and on the same
stormy sea; and their own safety, as well as 10y
atty to the Union and their country, require them
at once, to abandon the ship and the enterprzc
lie is as much ola sectional candidate as Lincoln,
and will not get an electoral vote in free State
Mr.. Breckenridge is gentleman of good talents
of fine manners, and of easy and graceful elocu
ton. His habits are indolcnt, and his attain
mcn;3 and thoughts superficial. He is cool, eau
tous and selfish and yc; fine boon companion.
He has been practicing lawyer for fifteen years
frequently candidate for popular office, and
member of the State and National Legislature :;
and where his evidences of intellect or states
manshipl Echo answers where What has he
ever done, or said, or written to carry his name
to the next generation His life and history can
be embodied i'll five phrases Lawyer" MEM
Der of the Kentucky Legislature" Representa-
tive in Congress, "Vice President" and Senator
elect; and there can BE- neither addition nor am,
plihcaiion. Discretion and luck have achieved
for him all bis official elevation. | have no.
taken into the account that he was Major in the
Mexican war, because he brought not one laure.
leaf from that service Blu: this doubtless WAS
for the want Of opportunity, the war being over
before he reached the field Of operations, for Mai
Breckenridge is unqucstonably a gallant and
chivarous gentleman and a soldier 4 few years
ago luck promised to confer the GROWING honor
upon this young Foriunatus. Old Buck had like
to have died at the National Hotel in Washing
ton, and Mr. Breckenridge left for Kentucky with
out imbibing any of the poison. As old Buck did
not Dir, then began TO suspect that his luck had
abandoned him. and this suspicion has been con
6rmcd by the fact that old Buck, from being hi,
enemy, has changed to be his friend and is max
ing stump speeches for him. His discretion too
has left him, or h. never would have accented
this nomination. And with luck and discretion
both gone, how can Mr.. Brcckinrdgc's friends
hope that he can ever reach thu PresGencvl
But Kentucky has a Democrat who is an Amcri-
can statesman, of approved executive ability, Of
broad national principles, of nGomi,ahle will and
of unh"nding integrity; and whose public If
would be the only platform which the county
would have required for hm-and that Democrat
is James Guthrie Had he been the nominee Of the
entire Convention hc would have carried Kentucky
by an Unprecedented Democratic majority. Or if
that body, after ascertaining its inability, TO
nominate Douglas and preserve its unity, had.
with view To form union of national men
TO defeat Lincoln, recommended Guthrie and
Everett TO the support of the American people,
not as partisans but us statesmen of enlarged
views and eminent ability, and devoted to the
Union, and every national interest, they would
have beaten down ali Scctionalsm' and have been
triumphanty elected. No Covode Committee
would have been required, as for Buchsnans adj
mnstTation, to lay bare to the scorn of the world
the rocking and thorough couuptions of the Gov
eminent under the administration of James
Buchanan; for he would put the knife 10 them
and cut them all of. Scoring TO be- the gnoblc
tool of any clique or cabal, lac would himself be
President. He did not suit the dsunionists.
because with all the power of the Government
backed up by the resistess Union hosts in every
State, he would crush their Vaccinations and
bring the traitors to punishment on the commits
sion of their first overt act lie was rejected bv
the friends of Douglas, because they know that
III held the squatter-sovcreignty doctrine Of their
'lIfI ~ Dt dll uuCb1SIuuIlOndl ncrtSy. He was
unacceptable so the Treasury lceches, because
they had experienced that he would not permit
them to fatten upon its spoils. Obnoxi Gus to
both of the sectional wings, and to the sposmen
of the Democratic Convention, Mr. Guthrie found
but small favor in it
The Black Republican candidate is an honest
man of fair ability; but fol some years past h.
has been possessed of but one idea, hostility to
slavery. He and his coadutor for the Vice Pres
dcncy, are both residents of a free State They
were nominated by an intensely sectional party,
which, with the exception of few scattering
stragglers, is confined to the free States; and in
none Of them does it constitute the majority of the
people. The only common bond which ntcs
this party is fnatical hatred of slavery, or its hy-
Pocritica stimulation; and if its candidate should
be elected, the government would be- administered
with the purpose 10 Undue all its branches, and
especially the Supreme Court, with anti-slavery