The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1860-10-30
THE PROSPECT.

ToF pennsylvania against Lincoln. The pros
pect is that all the Southern States will go
for Breckenridge. If the Southern States go for
Breckenridge, and the fusion ticket in New York is
successful he will be elected for he would certainly
be entitled to the vote of the whole fusion electoral
ticket. If the democrats carry North Carolina
(Which We think they will do, certainly and her
vote will not elect Breckenridge, we are entirely
willing for it to be cast for the man whom it will
elect over Lincoln. The friends of Breckenridge
and Lane for the Consultation and the Union
therefore they believe it all important that they
should triumph liz the State in order to show the
North that the whole South is united ia demand
for Equal Rights, and does not evade the issue. r
WASHINGTON Oct 2s.-Great changes are going on
in Kentucky. The Bell and Douglas speakers have
finished their canvass and the leaders and are
going over from Douglas and Bell to Breckenridge
Breckenridge will surely carry Kentucky. There is
little doubt of Missouri We shall have united South
Coon NEWS FROM NEW YoRK.-An extract
from letter to the Petersburg Express, says:
"The Anti-Lincoln Torchlight procession last
night (Tuesday) numbered from 10000 to 81 900
men, and was fully ten miles long. The greatest
enthusiasm prevailed We think there is hope
for New York State, but if there is not, we know
that there is minority strong enough to check
mate Republican wrong doings.
BRECKINRIDGE TIcKETs-We caution our
Democratic brethren against spurious election
tickets Let every voter see that the names on the
ticket at the head Of our editorial columns are on
the ticket he votes. Discard any ticket not having
the names of the Electors headed by A NJ. Scales
and 4. G. Haywood. A correspondent of the
Standard says that the Bell men will have supply
of Douglas tickets to offer unsuspecting democrats
On the day of election. Watch out for such tricks.
ASKING QUEsTloNs.-The opposition papers
are trying to make great noise about Mr. Brock
ridge and democratic speakers not answering ques-
tons They should remember that John Bell is
mum and has not deigned to give his views on
any question since being nominated. The prac-
tlce of asking Southern men-democratic speakers
in our own state-what they will do if Lincoln is
elected, and about holding Office under him, is all
wrong and calculated to result in evil Mr. McRac
commenced it at Raleigh, Che was quieted by
Clingman,) and the Bell and Douglas men have
been following his example ever since If the
Bell and Douglas men want Office under Lincoln,
let them take it if they can get one, but we are
gratifed to say that no democrat in North Caro-
lima has expressed willingness to take office un-
der him. If the opposition take Office under Lin
coin. let them settle it with their own feelings
we shall not abuse them for doing so-they may
be their own judges in the matter-but they
might we'll stop trying to get democrats into
the same awkward and imprudent predcament in
which they have placed themselves.
current (says the Raleigh Press) that the Hon.
Jesse D. Bright of Indiana, had left Breckenridge
and gone to the support of Lincoln we telegraphed
to Washington City to the Hon. [. I. Stevens to
know if such was fact, and received the follow
ing reply:
WASHINGTON, Oct. %.
Gents:-The rumor that Senator Bright has
declared for Lincoln is utterly false
pa- The most that the enemies of the democratic
party and of Breckenridge and Lane are able to do
in the way of argument, is to charge that Yancey
is disunionist and that Yancey is for Breckin-
ridge. They seem to forget that Yancey is not
candidate for anything, and that be even refused
a place on the Douglas ticket. Yes, some of the
yerv men who are now denouncing the democratic
party because Dir Yancey supports it, were willing
to put him on the ticket with Douglas; and if
he (Yancey) had consented, it would have been
Douglas & Yancey instead of Douglas & johnson
T See the evidence in another column. All the
talk of the Douglas and Bell men about Yancey is
a miserable subterfuge to deceive and brighten the
people.
FLAG DowN.-We learn from the Newbern
Enquirer that some Douglas men in Carteret coun-
ty hoisted Flag with the names of Douglas and
Johnson; but on reflection, and not wishing to aid
the opposition party, they took it down and put up
the names of Breckenridge and Lane. That was
right is the honest course.
nas- The Bell party profess to be the "Union,
the Constitution and the enforcement of the Laws
party, but in the three States of Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana, they did not elect a single
member of Congress. How can they save the
Union or enforce the laws?
Bas- The Salisbury Bell and Everett Mass
Meeting was not such big affair after ALL as ap-
pears by the following from tie Wilmington Jour
nal:
1--WE learn upon, undoubted authority, that en-
curry made at tie railroad Offices at Salisbury,
showed that the whole arrivals there by railroad,
on the two days of the big opposition mass meet
iny were less than fire hundred. This includes
those coming to Salisbury from the North and from
the South on the N C. Railroad and from the
est on the Western extension; with the excep-
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