Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1860-08-21

Mr.. Crittenden ON the Presidential Elec.
tiOn.
Hon. j. j. Crittenlen made speech a,
Louisville, KY, on the End inst. He compared
the candidates as follows:
ABE LINCOLN.
Mr.. Lincoln may be very worthy, upright
and honest man. He married Kentucky girl
and that is wholesome influence. Laughter
and applause] am told that he is Kentuck-
ian himself, which is another sautary fact. .Mr
Lincoln may be very honest, worthy man
but, in political point of view, be must be re.
garded as the representative of party that has
made him its leader He is the Republican
leader, and like all political leaders, he must O.
bey the party that brought him into existence
or be put down and crushed out by it.
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His election would create and continue an a.
larm that would keep the country agitated and
unhappy, if not create an opposition and resist
ance to the government itself. 1t is greatly to
be desired that be should not be elected. It is
hardly necessary to say that we should be forced
to apprehend from Mr.. Lincoln's election that
the impulse which che Anti-Slavery feeling
would receive therefrom would go further than
it has yet gone and create still greater danger to
the peace and security of the South. This per-
vading apprehension would necessarily make bis
election great calamity.
MR.. DOUGLAS.
I know Mr.. Douglas very well, ladies and
gentlemen. From Mr.. Douglas, personally,
should apprehend Eo danger. have never
been Democrat, as you all know. [Applause. ]
A frank, fair and honest opponent of the DEM
ocra:ic party, have ever been acting upon
Wing principles, from the first 10 the last. [In-
creased applause.] But | have known Mr..
Douglas in the public councils, and have acted
with him. Although genera ly opposed, and es-
peeially upon party questions, we have ut times
acted together, and particularly upon one mo-
mentous occasion when we acted together in OPP
position to that infamous Lecompton Constitu-
ton. [Deafening Applause.l Mr.. Douglas was
there making great sacrifice to his sense ofdu-
ty. IApplause.] He was sacrificing his connec-
tion on that occasion with many old political
friends; he was sacrificing as fattering prospect
for the highest Office in the Government as any
man 10 the country had. fully believe he did
what he conceived to be his duty; and, in def
ance of all opposition, the rack of the President,
pretended friends, and open foes he acted like a
man. Tremendous cheering He might have
been mistaken in what he did, but that little di-
minislled the value of the act. He thought he
was right, and he knew he was making sacri-
fee, and he was capable of making it when he
believed the interests of his country demanded
it. (Cheers.] can have no quarrel with him !;
he is Union man. Cheers. And a Union
man | can always trust, when believe him to
be sincere and in earnest, as believe Douglas to
be. [Continued applause.]
Mr.. @. proceeded to argue that the Bell and
Everett platform was sufficient, and showed that
great deal more was said about the Terrtori-
al Slavery question than it deserved. He illus
trated the state of the case by the following sto
ry:
Two Italians were walking out together on
bright midsummer night. One looked up to
the heavens, thick with innumerable stars, and
exclaimed, ''Oh, that had farm as spacious as
the heavens; that would be an estate worth
having" His companion exclaimed, 20, that
had herd as numerous as the stars above."-
Well, = said the other, sin the name of heaven,
what would you do with such an enormous
herd2" "Why," said he, II would turn them
on to your farm" [Laughter] "You would,
eh 2" sneered the other. "Yes what else could
do with them2n, Upon that they quarreled
aud fought for an hour. [Great laughter.] Now
it does seem to me that we are about TO make
out just such a moonshne sort of case. Con
tinued laughter.
But still this Is not the question. Mr.. Doug
las represents an old party at feud, in the first
instance, with the Republican party, calling forth
its bitterest opposition, and now at feud with
the Southern wing of his own party, that has
rejected him for another. His would be an adj
ministration of continual conflict The country
could hope for no restoration of peace and good
government. He, therefore, ought not to be
preferred, in my Judgment, to Bell and Everett.
(Cheers.] I have spoken, not to compliment
Mr.. Douglas merely; | have spoken because
desire to give my testimony TO his truth. / be-
lieve Mr.. Douglas to be a patriotic man, and
know him to be Union man by all the eviden-
ces that one public man can give another of his
sentiments. lApplause.] He is a generous,
bold man, speaking what he thinks, and doing
what he knows to be right. [Renewed ap-
plause.
JOHN O. BREOKNRIDGR.
And here again, as in respect to Mr.. Douglas,
my objection is not to the candidate as an indi-
vidual. should hope that Mr.. Breckinridge
was not disunion man. voice-Yes, he
isl He ought not to be. He belongs to q
tribe of faithful, devoted Union msn-the tribe
of Kentuckians. Great applause.] He must
have been seduced away from the path of his
duty, far from the path 10 which all the impul-
ses of his blood ought to carry him, ii he has
become dsunionist. But Mr.. Breckinridge
has made himself the head of q party. He is
part and parcel of the present purposes OF that
party !; and, as in the case of Mr.. Lincoln, we
must judge of mis- public course by the party
that he consents to represent. Who are theya
There is not disunionist South of Mason and
Dixon's line that know of who does not belong
to that party. [Applause.] We have for q
long time heard tnutterings Of disunion in the
South-more than mutterings-more than whis-
peringS of such sentiments. We have seen
them proclaimed by high men in high places.
DENUNoIAT1oN OF SOUTHERN DIsUNIoNIsTs.
These sentiments pervade the South, and make
up the body and soul of the party which has
nominated our fellow -citizen, Mr.. Breckinridge,
as its candidate for the Presidency. Is there no
danger that by electing him you would give
new energy to that destructive impulse, and
new power to this dsunion sentiment and to
the cause of disunion2 Mr.. breckenridge him
self follows in the lead. He is part and parcel
of the great party You see this by his flomi
nation and acceptance OF it, and can hence fore
see with clearness the disasters that would follow
his success. Possibly it may be the policy of
those who nominated him to unite Old Kentucky
to this new confederacy. Old Kentucky is quite
an important State in this Union. [Applause |
She is in the heart of it-she is the heart of it.
Immense enthusiasm To obtain her concur
renee is of the greatest possible consequence to
those who fancy that they can make Republic
in the South more glorious and more prosper
Gus than the great Republic of which We form
part. Such have been their plans for long
time. Kentucky and Tennessee, which old
General Gaines called the tive military States of
the Union. have lain in the way of that sort OF