New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-08-13

we have largely reduced the usual psmoeF9ne
u,afeT;tfes in beth States. Tn Missouri indeed, It
Ii not improbable that We have elected our randi-
dsee Tor Governor. We have gained, certainly
one member Of Congress, and perhaps two. In
North Can,l;pa we have cut down the Democratic
| majority more than one.hai.
| gut h Kentucky oas veterg has been grand,
| sTeep;rr overwhelming. We have not only de.
! fessea The enemy, ahorss, foot SD dragons. p
but We have put them to yout, ndseattered them
beyond ali possibility of sucoessW rally. In sixty
oounties-Fery litte more than halt the State
orr majority is overtwenty thousand When all
she returns come in, we are confident it will even
exceed this magnificent figure.
In Kentucky the issue of the Presidential con
test was made, and it has been gloriousy decided.
The election its true, merely for the Clerk
chip of the Court of Appeals of the State--a very
valuable and lucrative Office, and the competition
| Tor it was great. Mr. Boiling was the Incumbent
| of the office, bat there Was suspicion that he
leaned to Douglas in his Presidential preferences,
and accordingly the Democratic State Convention
| act him aside and nominated Mr.. McCarty. Boiling
thereupon declared himself an independent candi-
date, and published card defining his political
| position, and asserting that he WAS believer in
the doctrine of popular sovereignty. it was IN
derstood on all sides, SO far the Presidency was
concerned, that Boiling was the Douglas candi-
date, Coombs the Bell candidate, and McClarty the
representative of Breckenridge.
1t has been supposed that most of the Douglas
Democrats, seeing no chance of electing Boiling,
cast their votes fer Coombs. This is true only to
o limited extent. On examining the returns we
find that, SO far as heard from, Boiling has over
eight thousapd votes. In the whole State he will
probably have fifteen thousand. In some of the
counties Boiling beats McCiarty. We are not suff
GENTLY familiar with the sentiments of the people
to conclude that this is indication of the Demo
cratic feeling, and that Douglas is stronger in some
counties of Kentucky than Breckenridge is--but
this certainly appears to be the case, from the
returns. If, with some of the Douglas Democrats
voting for Coombs, the Douglas candidate in
come counties still beats McClarty, it shows Doug
las to be much stronger in Kentucky than most
inridge resides, and where he is personally popu-
lar, thus shows such leaning to Douglas, how is
it in other Southern States, where no such infu-
ences operate?
Gen. Leslie Coombs, the candidate chosen,
openly advocated the election of Bell and Everett,
and was fully identified with their canse. 1t will
not do to attribute his election to his personal
popularity. He ran for Congress- once against Mr.
Breckenridge himself aud was defeated He was
elected because the people of Kentucky are in
favor of preserving the Union instead of breaking
it up--and however popular, personally, Mr..
Breckenridge may be, and deservedly so, they will
not sustaina man who, no matter how true to the
Union himself, is supported by all the disuuionists
and secessiousts in the land. and by all those who
are attempting to "precipitate the cotton States
into revolution
These elections show the inclination of the pop
ular mind, and the precursors of similar results
in November. Ii is manifest now that Mr. Brock.
inrdge cannot carry several of the Southern States
at the Presidential election, and if the revolution
keep on az it has commenced he will carry
acarcely any of them. 1t is equally plain that the
great boc5 of the Democracy at the North are for
MIR. Douglas, aud that Mr.. Breckinrdge's chances
in that section are of the most shadowy and unsub
stantial nature. On the other hand, Mr.. Douglas
chances are no better because, although he win
poll large vote in the Northern States he cannot
alone, wrest any of them from Lincoln. How,
then, can either Breckenridge or Douglas be
cected2 The thing is altogether impossible, and
their continuance in the field serves only to embar
rass the contest, and may possibly prevent the
election, BY the popular vote, Of the Constitutional
Union candidates, Bell and Everett, over the can
didates Of the Black Republican sectionalists. But
there ID time yet fer an arrangement to be made to
secure this end. Nearly three months yet inter.
yene before the election. There is plenty of time
yet for the contest TO be relieved of the embarrass
ment produced by tile candidacy of Breckenridge
and Douglas, and for such a union of Conserya.