Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1860-07-25
Political items.

E0AItAc8l AleAAas
The Raleigh IN. CO. Staalard which was strong
DOUGLAS paper, has hoisted the names of BREckN-
RIDGE and LANE showing thereby that there win be
no electoral ticket for DouG1As and Johnson in the
old North State. An the Democratic papers in
North Carolina, except one, (the Newborn E1qtrer,)
have come out for tae BREcKIsRIDGE ticket.
BHEckINaIDGx N NEM Yonk.-The New York 7si-
b,pae of the 18th says:
The Breekinridge meeting at the Cooper Institute
last evening was highly successful far superior in
weight as well as in shrewdness of management and
IN enthusiasm to the late Douglas meeting at Tam
many Hail. It is now evident that Breckenridge
will receive full half of the Democratic vote in
this city, to say the least
The WytheviIle Telegraph says: "a The Raaey Sent
se, hitherto enc of the most uneompromising and
influential Opposition journals in Virginia. repudi
ates BELL and EVERETT, and unfars at its masthead
the names Of BREcxNRIDGE and LANE
CoIIAPsED-The new daily paper. the Sentinel
started here to advance Mr.. Douglas interests has
collapsed, after a feeble existence of a few days
Thus the .Squatters'' are caving in all oyer.-M T.
Day Book.
The Eufaula (Ala.) Express, Opposition paper,
comes out for BREcKNRIDGE and LANE in its issue of
the 18th.
J. f. CLEMENTS. Esq, publishes letter in the
Hayneville (Ala.) Chronicle declining to serve as
DOUGLAS elector for the second district in that State
and declaring for BREcKNRIDGE and LANE.
The Seneca IN. " ReUeilei( formally American)
has deserted BELL and EvEEErr and come out for
DOUGLAS
W. D. ROBERTSON, an old Line Wing, of Kentucky,
has come out for the BaEcKIxRI0GE ticket
The Philadelphia Ne,os, tie old Wing organ in
COLIN. The NeloS at the last election, supported Mr..
FILLMORE.
The Aberdeen (Miss) Sunny South has the author
ity to deny the report, ndustriousIy circulated
that Hon. REUBEN DAVIS supports DOUGLAS Gen.
DAVIS is earnest for BREoKXRDGE as is every other
Mississippi Congressman.
The Richmond Wing (BELL and EyERErT) goes
with all its might for DouGIAs electoral ticket in
Virginia. Of course
The Louisville Journal calls for an organization"
to secure the election of Bell and Everett In the
State of New York the Bell and Everett organization
IS sold out to Douglas. and sold mighty cheap too.
Nelo York Tribune.
Of the Virginia papers so far as heard from, 2S
are for BRECKIXRDGE, 4 for DOUGLAS and or I'M
certain.
ANDREW HUNTER, Esq. of Charlestown Va, who
conducted the prosecution against old Osawattamie
BROwS & Co., and who has long been prominent
leader of the Wing party in the Jefferson District
has expressed his determination to support the
BRECKENRIDGE and LANE ticket.
Regarding the position of Senator Brown of Mis-
sissippi the Washington Constitution says-"Upon
the authority of an intimate personal and political
friend of Hon. A. G. BRowy, whose peculiar rela-
tons with him justify the utmost confidence in what
he asserts, deny the report that the distinguished
Senator intends opposing the election of BRECKN-
RIDGE and LANE" The Constitution also publishes
note from the Hon. Isaac L STEVENS, under date of
Washington, July 20, in which that gentleman says
Gov. Brown left here with the expressed determi-
nation to exert his energies in furtherance of the
election of Breckenridge and Lane. This kao1D.
The Washington correspondent of the Cinci matt
Enquirer, under date of the 2Ist says It's now
certain that joint DoUGLs and BELL electoral ticket
will be formed not only in Georgia, bu.in several of
the Cotton States"
Forty-three Democrats of Ashland county Ohio,
sand host of others" have published call in the
Ashland Union, for county meeting in the court
house in Ashland, the 18th of July ratify the
nomination of BRECKNRIDGE and LANE, and to ap-
point delegates to the State Convention"
CHARLES BENSON has announced his separation from
the DOUGLAs Squatters and declared his intention to
vote for ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
A BRECKENRIDGE paper called the National Flag,
has just been started at Janesville, Wisconsin.
The Washington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Gazette, under date of the 2lst says Unless North
Carolina gives some comfort to the BEIL-EvERErT
faction week after next, that movement will kind
Ter give out" and then we shall have straight fight
between LINCOLN and BRECKNRIDGE."
D. N. FLEMING, one of the delegates to the Charles
ton Convention, and editor of the Piqua (Ohio) In
quirer once an out and cut Douglas man, is dis
gusted at the interpretations of the WIcKLFFE Su-
preme Court sovereignty plank in the DOUGLAS plat
form, and comes out soul, body and bones, for LIN
coin and HANLIN.
The Spirit of the South says that the nomination of
JOIN C. BRECKENRIDGE of Kentucky, and JOSEPH
LANE, of Oregon for the Presidency aud Vice-Presi-
dency is the fruit of one of the nobest manifest,
and thus far most successful struggles for the rights
of the South which our history records
The Union Springs (Alal Gazette, strong Oppo-
sition paper. repudiates BELL and EvERsrT, and
hoists the flag of BREcKINRIDGE and LANE.
An Ohio Republican member of Congress is cred
tied with the following speech on hearing of LIN
coins nomination
'Yes!" said the honorable member. 'sthe Chicago
Convention, instead of nominating an able and ex-
perienced statesman have gone West. and found
fellow lying on a rail- ike coon 1ohh his bely full of
grdpes-and they have taken him uD and nominated
him for the Presidency"