The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-07-07
View Of the Field BY an Enemy.
The following is from the New York

view OF the Field by an Enemy.
The following is from the New York
Tribune:
The RIVAL DEMocRAcIEs-The National
Democratic Convention has at length split
its party into two rival and intensely hos
tile factions, and has nominated two anita
gonistic tickets, as follows:
!. For President Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois
For Wee PTesident Benz Fitzpatrick Of Alabama.
2. For President. John c. Breck enridge of Ky;
For Vice President. Gen. Joseph Lane OF Oregon.
1t is noteworthy that all these cand-
dates are taken from the Senate chamber;
Mr.. Breckenridge presiding over the Sc
nate as Vice President, while the other
three are Senators, Mr. Fitzpatrick takes
us by surprise, as we have counted him
one OF the Senatorial majority who have
waged so herce war Oh Douglas for the
last year dr two He sustained the Le-
compton policy throughout, voting for the
Lecompton bill and against Douglas at
every stage Of the controversy; and We
have underteod that he concurred in the
policy of eiactpgsBfr Douglas from the
Chairmanship 6f'the Committee on Terri.
tories His,vote If we mistake not stands
recorded in the afiative OH the Senatorial
Caucus resolutions, concocted expressly to
put Mr. Douglas aud his followers out of
the Democratic party, To which the Senate
has devoted good part of the session, to
the neglect Of its proper and pressing du-
ties. All things considered. Mr.. Fitzpat-
rick 5 position seems to rs an awkward
one, badly requiring elucidation. He Is,
ike Douglas Z man of ABILITY, WAS former
ly Governor Of his State, aud has. politics
apart, maintained i Respectable position In
the Senate
he. l,l nl- +, l. 20
lent and character. but has a prestige OF
personal good luck Mr.. breckenridge i
yet comrorativel. ycung-n not quite forty
years Of age, (though he will be "A hundred
before he Is elected Prc>ideut) lie i a
grandson of John Breckenridge, Who was
q United States Senator from kentucky IN
lNOl, and died Attorney General under
Jefferson in 1905 The son volunteered
for the Mexican war. too late /" sec amy
service. but early enough To- gain the rank
and title of MAJOR. Ia ISL, he MAS elect
ed 10 Congress, and IN 1913 re elected. III a
district which had previously been of op-
po>ite tWhir) politics, but hl, relationship
10 Wings in 1t was very extensive, while
the age Of Mr. Clay. and the certainty
tia, lie would never be President had dis
posed many to regard a chance with indif-
ference, if not with positive favor.
General Coomb-, SAID Breckenridge 10
Leslie. a while ago. - consider that YOU
have done more Tor Your party and re-
ceived less return for 1t than any man ily-
ing just the opposite OF your case.
responded the General judge that yog
have done less fo- y,4r party and got more
for it than any other live man. And
they were both pretty nearly right.
Mr Breckenridge delivered in tie House
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probably made some good stuInp speech
g, but they do not seem 10 bear printing
He made. on. in >. or . on Kansas aud
tn. Lecoinl.,on scheme. which was not
only bad but poor. and another Oh South
ern Rights" i'm Frankfort last winter.
which was distinguished by every trait -:
the worst illusions OF the fiTe-~atcIs. ex-
cept ability and elogucHce Unless W.
sadly misIutlge he it destined 10 be badly
beaten ia his own STATE.
As to Gen Lane, currently known a.
Joe Lane, he IS just the poorest stick
ever set up for So exalted station. lie Is
"a soa of Gen Amos Lane, who was one Of
the inventors Of the .farkson party in In
diana. ran for Congress and WAS beaten
sundry times, but finally ran in on the top
of tG,. Jackson wave in 81, and was again
elected in 81. when he suls:ded We
way into the legislature OF Indiana some
fifteen OF twenty y"ar,.ago, and know that
he volunteered III tie u Xican war. where
in Ia. was made Colonel. which title has
exranded. under careful nursing. !nto that
of General We have seen him called
the Marion OF the Mexican war. but
cannot recall ary exploit which would
seem IL Justify that title He cmICrated
or was sent soon after TO Oregon, whence
lie returned in ii as a Delegate, hav-
ina been chosen in June Of that veal
He was reelected IN % a.sin in ~ and
again in Jl when he received j.nuj votes
10 541l for Lawson. Republican. Having
ran the Democratic machine for scrcral
years. he HOW. on the adoption al u State
Constitution. was sent Tor sent himself }
To the L n!ted States Senate, wherein he
! has distin guishcd himself by the most un-
/ bounded seryilifv 10 the extreme pro-s,a-
very faction He has done his little all 10
prescribe Douglas and drive him out Of
/ the Democratic party, for which he i
about To be rewarded by one Of the most
humliating defeats ever administered To
an unpriucipled. small minded d.ma goguc.
. He telegraphed the Oregon delegation To-
bolt at Charleston when the slave-code
platform was voted down, aud has been a
most ahiec, tool of the Fire Eaters through,
out. We shall be disappointed if his tick
ct does not run third III Oregon as well as
throughout the Union.
On the whole. the Douglas men have nc
reason to complain of the ticket pitted
against them. Next toCaleb Cushing and
jeff Davis, this is a. good ticket To run
against as they could have made il the Sc
lection had been contided to their owl
hands. We predict that Douglas and
Fitzpatrick will beat it in the popular vote
of the slave States, and run ii out OF sigh,
in the free States