The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-07-20

IL IS 40 undeniable fact that Stephen A.
Douglas is the regular Democratic nominee
for Presidency. Even if this were not the
fact, however, it is still true that John G.
Breckenridge is not the regular candidate
and that in every free state at least, Mr..
Douglas has nine supporters where Mr..
Breckenridge has one.
Starting from these reasonable premises
from facts which no man will deny in pri-
vate conversation, no matter what news
paper denial they may 6nd-and how shall
we account for this other paIpable fact, that
in nearly every free State, efforts are being
made by protested Democrats to run Brock
inridge electoral tickets.
We can understand why it is that Re-
publicans favor this policy. We know
we'll enough what is their motive 10 firing
Breckenridge salutes, and in getting up
Breckenridge ratification meetings. But
what is the motive of those professed DEM
ocrats who are travelling in the same road =?
Let Us accord to these Breckenridge sup.
porters all, perhaps little more, than the
most enthusiastic of them can possibly claim.
Let us admit that by strenuous efforts,
backed by Federal and Republican patron
age, they may possibly succeed in securing
one-th,rd of the Democratic vote in Maine,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecti-
cut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania,
and all the States of the Northwest.
This conceded-what follows ? Why
simply, that every one of those States-the
whole Northwest, and every Middle,
Northern and Eastern State which might
otherwise be snatched from the Republicans
IS made certain to gaue It's electoral uote to
abraham Lincoln /!
We are told, sometimes, that the friends
of Mr.. Breckenridge intend to elect him in
the House of Representatives. We know
that he can never be elected there but let
US admit, for the sake of peace on this
point, that he might be, if he could get into
the House. How can be do this If the
nomination and support of third ticket is
going to give every free State to Lincoln
and it certainly must, if these secessionists
are as strong as the more ardent of them
pretend to be-what is the sense of talking
about an election by the House of Repre-
sentatives If Mr.. Lincoln carries the
States we have named, or ii Mr.. Douglas
gets only thirty.one electoral votes from
them-the Republicans triumph, and Lin
coin is our next President !! Who does not
perceive this ?
And who does not perceive that all this
Breckenridge talk, in New England and in
the Middle and Western States, is tending
directly to Black Republican triumph?
Nobody is so insane as to believe that
Breckenridge can carry one of these States.
Why, then, is his name kept before the
people? Why are the friends of Douglas,
and Douglas himself, traduced by protested
Democrats in every free State? There can
be but one answer to the question. 1t eau
not be to elect Breckenridge in the House
for the election cannot get to the House,
unless Douglas gets more than thirty North
ern votes. IT MUST BE TO ELECT ABRAHAM
LINCOLN!
Is this denied? We reply to the denial
that actions speak louder and honester than
aDords. The facts are undeniable. The
running of a Breckenridge ticket, if it does
anything, endaDgers Democratic success in
every free State. In ten States at IS our onlu
source of danger the only thing that can
possibly render Democratic triumph doubt.
full! And yet, down to this moment it is
persisted in. What other object can there
be than to elect Abraham Lincoln?
Look at the great leader of the Breckin-
ridge party-the man who planned secession,
and has led the seceders from the first. Who
and what is he? Is not WILLIAM L. YAM.
cEY AN AvowED DIsUN1oNIsr Has he not
told US bis purpose was and is to precipitate
revolution IN the cotton States? Have not
his co-laborers assured US, in the halls of
Congress and in other public assemblies,
that the Inauguration of a Republican Pres.
ident would be resisted by force THAT the
South would break up the Union before
such President could get hold of the reins
of government? Who doubts that they
were in earnest?
And who can doubt that here is, after
all, the grand secret of the Breckenridge
movement? 1t is our honest belief that
neither Slidell, nor Yancey, nor any other
fre.eater, supposes it possible to elect Brock
inridge by the people or in the House
THEIR PURPOSE is DISUNION
and they know that whether they succeed
or not, in this, they will at least succeed in
putting the young and ambitious Kentucki.
an, and bis vain associate, upon the shelf,
with the dead men !-Providenee Post.
The revised penal code, passed by the
last session of the Pennsylvania legislature,
makes all persons who speak loosely or pro-