New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-08-17
COLD ConYPoRT.

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! The ST. Louis Bulletin is d Breckenridge organ
and one Of the few Breckinridge organs published
in the State of Missouri. At the late election ir
that SKATE the Breckinrdgers were the worst beaten
party that ever undertook to win political con
Fest Their candidate for Governor received only
some six or eight thousand votes in the entire State
the majority against him being eighty or ninety
thousand They did not elect, so far as we can as
| certain, single member of Congress, nor were
their efforts in any other respect fruitful Of any
| good results.
! One would suppose it a difficult thing for s
Breckenridge organ 10 extract any comfort from
such result as this Such total. overwhelming
and disastrous defeat would naturally lead to the
conclusion that the party sustaining it would be
chastened by affliction into a subdaed silence. No
so, however. with the st. Louis Bulletin. The
fabled Ant;eus was said to have derived fresh
courage and strength from every successive CON
tact with the earth. The Bulletin must be con-
trolled by linea descendant OF that famous myth
illogical hero. Listen to its consoatory language
right upon the heels Of its terrible defeat:
The ELEcrIoS.-The returns demonstrate one
faet-the utter impotence of the Bell and Everett
party in Missouri. They have not only been com.
pletey prostrated in this district, but, throughout
the State disaster and ruin have been their attend
ants. They have fought their last fight. Their
rank and file are enlisng under the banners OF the
two great parties which destined to contend for
supremacy in the nation Many of them may
serve for a time under the banner of Douglas but
his faction Is fastening to its end and its dsorganl
cation will leave but two parties in the field Every
sign in Missouri points to the consummation of
these facts. Let every Democrat buckle on his
armor for the contest, and a glorious victory in
November will crown our exertons.
Our contemporary, it appears, has no word of
amentation over his own disasters. 1t is '' the Mt
ter impotence Of the Bell and Everett party that
relieves him of trouble and gives him so cheerful
a view of the future. Considering that the afore-
said Bell and Everett party have come very near
eIecting their candidate for Governor. and that
they have reyolutionized one Of the Congressional
Districts and gained member OF Congress
considering, further, that the Breckenridge party
was SO far behind in the race to be entirely dis
tanced--we must confess that the " utter impo
tence of the Bell and Everett party in Missouri,
particularly when compared with the Breckenridge
party, does not appear quite so plain to us as it
seems TO do to our ingenious contemporary Of the
Bulletin.
Nor are we altogether sure that, like Sir John
More, the Bell and Everett party in Missouri has
fought its last ight,i as is declared in the ex-
tract above given. The material of which that
party is composed, in Missouri and elsewhere, is Of
that character that never fights its last fight. 1t
fights often, and gets whipped often-but when
time is called it, it rGappears always in the ring,
and has never vet finally thrown up the sponge.
And unless we greatly mistake its bottom and its
hackers and bottle holders, it will walk of with the
belt on the 9Th Of November next, in most of the
Southern States, and, we are not without hope, in
Missouri also. All we ask is & fair play and
that nobody be allowed to cut the ropes.