Daily national Democrat., 1860-09-22
Doleful Times for the Breckinridgers.

Inc news lIt'tN tNtAN H"'' w VI AiiN Ntult7
trv has been 50 dshcartening to the Breckin-
ridsers that they have been driven to their
wits end as to how TO counteract its fearful
effects upon their party. Driven to the wall,
they can only say the intelligence is false
! the Pony can't be relied on and the telegraph
| lies Yet, it is marvellous to see with what
alacrity they swallow down every report
/ favorable to their side They wouldn't be
/ lieye that the regular Breckinridee candidate
/ for Governor had been defeated in Arkansas
until the thing was crammed into them past
remedy. They couldn't realize at all that
Missouri had Knocked their party in the head
with the sledge hao mcr of destruction.
They couldn't at all entertain the idea that
Breckiurilge'> own town, county, district
and State had gone against him on test vote
10y an overwhelming and fearfully disheart-
euins majority. nor that Alabama had spok-
en- in all her county elections, in a voice Of
thunder. against Secession and Disuuion.
They couldn't believe for moment that the
Governor Of Virginia, John Letcher, had de.
clared for Douglas ami johnson as the regu-
lar nominees Of the party. As to stephens,
OF Georgia, being for Douglas, it was stu
Ipcudous humbugl As for so many Of the
leading papers of the South declaring for
him, it was impossible, it wasa sheer fAbr-
cation. They could almost have wished the
Pony curtailed short off behind the ears for
bringing such damnaLlc Intelligence. still the
news came in, in spite Of the Breckinriige
howers and spite of Old Winnemucca, the
Pah Ute counterpart of the senior Senator
= from California, who was wnylaying the
Pony. Fast upon the heels of former news
came the r,nHor that Senator Hunter Of Nir-
u ginia, was stumping that State for Douglas.
The Breckinrdgers stood aghast. But the
> rumor was corrected through the same chan
mel in which it came, and great was the con.
+. ISOLATION of the afflicted who had well nigh
concluded to stop their ears that they light
! hear 10 more, for they begun to think that
D Burnum wood was indeed coming to Dunsi-
. ter was after all not for Douglas, was green
> oasis in the desert of their desoate and des-
s pairing thoughts Much did they harp upon
it, and loudly did they cite it as precedent
6 for not believing any intelligence at all that
. was not favorable to Breckinridge and Lane.
] Next comes the news that Chief Justice
: Taney, Of the Supreme Court, had declared
; for Douglas. Indignantly did they pounc,
Z upon it as base fabrication of the enemy
= Still the news was not only uncontradicte(
"A 10y the eastern papers, but pretty well con
,,SS firmed, and again ana again they Che Breek
II nridgers) denied that there could be any
\ truth in the statement. 1t was too over
i whelming a blow upon their naked heads fol
them to stand it, 1t couldn't be that the
very author Of the Dred Scott Decision, him
self was for Douglas And they are now
waiting in anxious suspense to hear the state.
meut contr1dicted by the Washington press.
Fast upon this comes the Intelligence that
Justice Nelson who concurred with the Chief
Justice in that decision, has also declared for
Douglas. Another base fabrication Of the
e enemy cry out the astounded Breckinridgers,
F. while their eyes roll upward in dire dismay
And so the news continues TO come in.
That Pony will have to be killed and those
teegraphic wires torn down, or the Brecll-
III inridge stumpers and editor viii actually die
Il with rage and yexation of spirit 1t is en-
! tirely too bad, and eve feel to sympl,hize
with their afflicted condition.
, A PoINrLEss SNEER-The Express affects
, to rdicue M Crowell, on account of his
communication to this paper, over his own
signature, wherein he pretty distinctly de
fines his political position. Mr.. Crowell has
the right to express his opinions, we pre-.
sumo, either anonymously or over his own
proper name, if he Gees fit. We see no i'm
proprety in it. Probably, if Mr.. Crowell
had written a communication to the Express,
proclaiming himself for Breckenridge, that
paper would have considered him a marvel
lousy proper man. Be that as it may, it
will not do to sneer at such men as Mr..
Crowell The people recognize him as man
of education and ability, and those who
know him best respect him most.
The occasion which called Mr.. Crowen
forth was one which fully justified him in
appearing over his own signature, and he is
not at all amenable, under the circumstances
to a charge of undaly or egotistically thrust
ing himself forward
He SPEAKs-The Sacramento Union furn-
ishes to the Boilers the speech of j. c. Breck.
inridge, delivered at Ashland, KY, on the
5th Of September, in defence of his present
| position. 1t is, for the most part very poor
attempt at repelling the charges of disuuion
against the party with which he is acting
He asks the people if they ever heard of his
ayowing disunion sentiments. OF course they
never had, but they had otter heard VIM. L.
Yancey and his tribe do it, and still heard
numerous papers that support Breckenridge
avow that they supported him on the ground