Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-07-04
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The n. Y. Tribune states that q number Of
well known and influential citizens who have
not hitherto acted with TIE Republican par
y, most Of them Clay Wings and supporters
Of Fillmore in 1856, are preparing to bold a
City Meeting to respond 10 and ratily the
nomination of Lincoln and Hamlin
The split widens in Missouri. The st.
Louis Democrat states Col. Woodson and Mr..
Anderson, Democratic members from that
State, have pronounced for Breck and Lane
The Baltimore Argus has cut Douglas for
Breckenridge, and the Louisville Courier says
the Louisville Democrat is probably the only
paper in Kentucky that viii support Douglas
and his doctrines.
The Dayton Journal says the nomination
of Breckenridge and Lane is received with
much favor by number Of Democrats in
Miami township. ......
The Douglas ratification meeting in Dayton
was largely attended and enthuliastic.
The editor of the Steubenville Union, to
be on the safe side, has run up both the Dem
ocratic tickets and proposes to keep them up
until he decides which one represents the
Democratic party. The Union says the
friends Of Breckenridge and Lane are pre-
pairing for a grand ratification meeting in
Steubenville.
An exchange says the lamented Democratic
party died from compound fracture, COM
bined with inconsolable grief on finding that
the injury would prevent It from running.
The Ohio Statesman has printed a cam
paign song since the Rump Convention, en-
titled HDOuglas to the Rescue Instead Of
shouting
"We're band of brothers"
it is solemn as an epitaph We quote one
stanza, and commend it to Douglas Glee
Clubs. Please to sing
The mutteriRgs of e coming storm
Growl in the distance, fierce and low,
The nation waits with palsied arm
contest traught with gloom and woe,
The Douglas, p leads chosen band
"Ihe Douglas Of our native land
DR.. Charles Leib, not long since Demo-
cratic office holder under Mr. Buchanan, is
now editor of "The Rail-Splitter," Repub-
lican campaign paper at Chicago.
The Detroit Tribune earnestly enquiries
When is Senator Pugh coming West with
''the pleading carcass Of Mr.. Douglas, to
show it to the young men as a sample Of
Southern gratitude p He promised US in
certain contingency, which has happened,
that he would come.
The Breckenridge, Bright and Fitch men
of Indiana are so embittered against Doug
las that they threaten to defeat Hendrick,
the Democratic candidate for Governor, be-
cause of his sympathy for Douglas. Gov.
Willard of Indiana, has declared for Doug
las.
The Democracy of Preble county fred
guns and rejoiced over the nomination of
Breckenridge and Lane. The Urbana Citi-
zen says the Democracy of Champaign coun-
ty are about equally divided between the
Douglas and Breckenridge tickets.
1t is stated that Breckenridge paper is to
be started at Dayton.
The Newark Advocate makes the follow
| appeal;
SHALL IT BE DONE 2-Forty thousand votes
cast by the Democracy of Ohio in favor of
Breckenridge and Lane, and for the broad
National Platform on which they stand,
would place Ohio higher in the respect and
confidence Of the entire Union, than she has
stood at any time within a period of twenty
years. Friends of the National Union, shall
| it be done
The Chillicothe Advertiser, edited by Post
master Estelman, has raised the Douglas
flag. .