Gazette and sentinel., 1860-09-22
A Voice from Kentucky!
Brsckiwidge the IDOL IF hcatEeAy!
COMBS Vote no Test CT BeN's Strength

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a letter which he has received from his son
in Kentucky. We make such extracts from
it Of a political character MS we nave time 10
insert. We are sure they will be acceptable
to orr readers. /; Knowing the writer, we are
confident that he would make no assertion
m weak and unreliable grounds-therefOre
the nnre important and valuable the infor-
nation that he gives:
.You ask me the condition Of politics in
this State. and what chance Breckenridge has
for carrying the State. To give yon a fair re.
sumo Of parties and politics here would re
onire more tine and space than | can devote
to these subjects. Things, as CASH PErIT
would say, "are. like fried roo'-d good deal
mired up." TO SAY that Breckenridge will
carry Kentucky, would be utter'ng a state
ment the truth Of shich is ruled in doubt;
but to say his chanceSGfor doing so are now
better than before the'AuguSt election, would
be making a statement not at all at variance
with truth, aud is patent to all observing men.
We don't regard the recent election in this
State as by any means a test of the relative
strength Of parties. THE fusion of the Doug
AS and Bell parties, and the concentration OF
,lnost their entire strength upon Coombs,
together with his great personal popularity,
aud the sympathies Of men excited in his be.
| half because Of his immense losses and al
most complete bankruptcy in an Internal I'M
I provement enterprise, (the Lexington and
| Danville Railroad | refer to- ele cted him. lie
inside appeals to them that excited the warm.
! eat svmpathies of the human heart. and caus-
| cd men TO forget party issues and party ties.
I know Of a score of strong Breckenridge men
| in this town who voted for Coornbs, that all
the arguments and influences that could pos
sibly be brought to bear could not win them
from the support Of Breckenridge. 1t is so
throughout this county, and all over the State,
so far as | am able to learn. Besides this,
nothing Ike the full vote Of the State was
pollcd. There was a deficit Of upwards Of
10000 votes as compared with the vote OF
last year for Ma-ofin and Bell, and it is fair
to inrer-and | really believe is the case-that
those sc ,GO0 votes were the hard-fsted Breck
inridse yeomanry Of the land. who felt no
interest in that election-who, in fact, did not
know las I heard Of many Of them saying)
THAT the Court Of Appeals Uas running at
air.
Another thing that operated very materially
against Breckenridge was the backwsrdness
Of opening the canvass in The State. They
suffered the Douglas and Bell parties-who
are working cheek by jowl-to get the jump
on them. They got to work some two weeks
earlier than the Breckenridge electors, snd
presented their side Of the question-crying
aloud "Disuniopism" against Breckinridge-
without being met; causing men who were
vaciIlsting to take sides with them. Men who
had not heard the issues Of parties fairly ar
gued, we're forced into position, and hadn't
moral courage to back out. But they are now
beginning to see the NANTES, injustice done
B;eckinridge and his supporters, and the false
hood of the vile and malicious charge. prefer
red against him; and the tide of opposition
] is now being turned with telling effect upon
! the heads Of the wilful utterers of those sian.
ders."
We have no doubt that the above gives
true exposition Of the mystery of Coombs
great majority in the late election in Ken
lucky. We regret that we have not time tc
put instype the whole Of our friends remarks
E respecting Mr.. Breckinridge's late Lexington
speech, which we give in full in a supple
ment in this weeks paper. He says:
ut was = bold, manly, mastery effort
one calculated to do credit to the head AM
o heart Of the man-st once a successful expo
{ sition Of the principles upon which he is will
{ ing to stand or fall, and q refuration Of tn
vile assaults made upon his personal and po
litical integrity. will portray feebly the oc
casion and speech:
$ "The meeting was held at ashland" an
? by 10 O'Clock every available space within
It one hundred yards Of the stand was filed b.
h Kentucky men and Kentucky m IRE
S mendous efforts were made by s,alwart maj
e shals to keep them at bay, but men nor wO
men would obey so eager were they to cate
every sound from the lips of Kentucky's n
vorite son. He appeared upon the platforr
u at twenty minutes before II o'clock, and va
= received with, I might say, tornadoes Of sp
plause. Men yelled ike ~lunatics, and almo'
seemed ready to devOur him with caresses
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