The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-08-21


I with my consent, nor shall any other man,
| by a bargain with Mr.. Douglas and bis
I friends, or with Mr.. Breckenridge or his
/ friends. Cheers. will make no bar
I gains with them; 1 have fought them all
my life. When they were strong and
/ compact party fought them, and am still
willing to fight them, whether they come in
single platoons, or as an allied army
/ TCheers.1 Why, how would ticket look
| made up of half Americans and half Doug
/ las men? TLauglt er. Is it possible that
/ there is a. man who was ever a Know Moth
| ing, who would consent to such an arrange
ment.
I THE KENTUCKY FUSION.
I am told that Douglas friends helped to
/ elect my friend Gen. Combs Clerk of the
Court of Appeals of Kentucky few days
| ago l am glad of il, but have no doubt
/ but that be could have been elected without
/ their aid. But if they were really the cause
/ of his election, by what motive were they
| influenced Not regard for him or for his
principles, or any sympathy whatever with
| the Union cause but from intense hatred
of the Breckenridge Democracy. It they
| could again form an alliance with these
Breckenridge men and unite the Democracy,
/ they would turn upon the Union men as
I fiercely as ever, and denounce them as they
have denounced US ALL with all the appro-
briors epithets in the language. ! have no
political bargains to make with them l
shall stand by the Union flag, and "Squat-
ter Sovereignty" with my consent, shall
never be one of its notices. Cheers.
THE PROSPECTS OF THE CANDIDATES.
| 1t is said that it is our duty to unite with
! anybody to defeat the election of Mr.. Lin
! coin by the people, so as to carry the cleo
! ton to the House of Representatives. con-
! fess do not like an election by the House,
| or any contrivance by which a majority of
the people are deprived of their right to
make their own choice of President. In the
original draft of the Constitution presented
to the Convention, it was proposed that the
1 President should be elected by Congress, but
/ the plan was not adopted. The reason 1t
was not was expressed by Mr.. Gouverneur
| Morris, who said, "If the Legislature elect,
| it will be the work of intrigue, of cabal and
of faction; it will be like the election Of
Pope by conclave of cardinals real merit
will rarely be the title to the appointment.
| And these sentiments exI ress my own
! fears of all such elections. Especially
at this time would an election by the
! House be distasteful to the country.
! Ny own opinion is that the House of Rep
resentatives is composed of a body of as
| honorable men as are to be found in the
! country but the fact cannot be disguised
! that they have themselves done much of late
| years to excite the country against them,
/ and that the public opinion is not favorable
to them as a body. Now, it might well be
feared that an election of any man, with
minority vote by the House, under these cir
cumstances, would greatly add to the ex-
element now existing in the country. Still,
in view of the character of Mr.. Bell, and
his eminent services 10 the country and the
general appreciation of him by all parties,
| l would even agree to such an election if it
were possible, rather than see any mere sec
| tional candidate elected. Bat how is il pos
sible, as the llouse now stands There are
! fifteen Republican States, all of which will
/ vote for Lincoln, thirteen that will vote for
/ Breckenridge, one for Bell, and one for
/ Douglas. Now, I suppose the contest to be
| in the House, and Bell and Douglas should
unite, they win have just hoo Suites !
/ Laughter. If the Breckenridge States,
and those for Bell and Douglas could all
unite, including the three S es that are
! tied, this would elect. But could they unite +?
There is no probability of it unless Bell
should outrun Breckenridge in the South,
when it might be done in order to defeat
/ Lincoln. But if Breckenridge should beat
Bell in the South, although Bell might 20
/ into tho House, no such arrangement could
/ possibly be made, for the plain reason that
in such an event, the Breckenridge men
would defeat the election in order that The
! Senate might elect Gen. Lane, which it
\ would Immediately do if it had the power.
! Now, rather than see this result brought
I Ill I'LL hat I g,
| the election of Mr.. Lincoln.
MORE OF LINooLN's CoNsERy ArIsA. e.
| l say now, what have always said, that
have no fears that Mr.. Lncoln's election
/ will tend to bring about a dissolution of the
| Union. Indeed, l have no fears of such a
result occurring upon either Douglas or
Breckinridge's election. AS for Mr. Bell, l
do not believe anybody can have any fears
! of the Union, growing out of his election,
for all concede that he and his friends will
stand by the Union to the last. TCheers. |
All this stuff about diSSolving the Union,
when any man is elected, is all humbug.
/ TApplause1 If Mr.. Lincoln is elected 70
the Presidency, he will be entitled to the
| respect of every man in the United States.
| His strength consists in his conservatism.
His principles are conservative. | know him
/ we'll. l served in Congress with him. This
Slavery question was then up. | was upon
very intimate terms with him, and | know
just how he felt upon this question ofSlave-
ry. | must say that | feel sometimes Il
good deal indignant when hear his votes
complained of, which he gave along with
me and others in support of Wing princi-
pies. Cheers. During the whole time he
was there, with few exceptions we voted
together always. We voted together espe-
cially upon one question, which created ex-
element in that Congress. | want to refer
to that for a moment, to show you that Mr.
Lincoln and myself could not quarrel much
about this question of Slavery, five were
left to ourselves. l will read a resolution
offered while we were in Congress. 1t is as
| follows:
"Whereas the traffic now prosecuted in
this metropolis of the Republic in human
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