New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-07-25
ELECTORAL TrcrSErs.

New ORLEANS, July Il, 1860.
Ed. Cresce,t-How many State electoral tickets
are there in the field favorable to the election o.
Bell and Everettg And how many for Breckln.
ridge and Lane? BY answering the above yen
viii confer favor upon regular purchaser alie
reader of your paper, and one VINO VIII suPpois
''ie constitutional on''n ueA An OLD DEMOCRAT.
In answer to the inquiries of our correspondent,
we state that electoral tickets are ont for Bell and
Everett in every Southern State except Georgia
and Texas In Georgia a convention Is to be held
on the 18th of August to put ticket before the
people, and movement is on foot in Texas for
the same purpose. We do not count South Caro-
Ina because Che people do not vote in that State,
and neither party has an electoral ticket. The
electors are chosen by the Legislature.
We cannot speak confidently of the Northern
States-but there soon will be Bell and Everett
tickets in most Of them in which they have not al
ready been appointed. In New Jersey conyen-
ton is to be held to-day for that purpose, and in
Illinois convention is to be held on the 10th OF
August. For various reasons arising out of the
unusual complications of political affairs, all parties
were delayed in their organization, and much of
the work of the canvass has yet to be done. Most
of the Northern States which have not yet selected
Bell and Everett electors will do this month or
the nexh We believe they are already in the field
in large number of them.
In regard to Breckenridge and Lane tickets,
there is so much confusion that it is difficult to
arrive at clear understanding of the case. The
electoral tickets were mostly appointed before
the meeting of the Baltimore Convention, and
when ii was not supposed there would he split in
the party. They were unpledged, except to the
nominee Of the Convention but as there were two
nominees, some of them will vote for Breckenridge
and some for Douglas. In the Southern States the
cid electors are, or soon will be, ali for Breekin-
ridge. There were two or three Douglas men on
the ticket in Kentucky, but the Breckenridge men
held State Convention, purged the ticket, and
struck off their names. Lin Virginia there are sew
eral Douglas men the electoral ticket, but there
are to be two conventions held there to see if the
difficulty cannot be adjusted The Breckenridge
men meet at Charlottesville on the 10th of August,
and the Douglas men meet at Stanton on the
same day. THERE'S a Geographic line between the
two towns, and the two conventions may come to
some common understanding, though we think it
doubtful. In several of the Southern States there
are pure Douglas tickets, and in most Of them
pure Breckenridge tickets. Before the day of cleo
ton we think it probable there will be clean tick
cts of both Douglas and Breckenridge electors in
every southern Dtate.
In the Northern States, the Democratic electors
already appointed are, we believe, by large ma
jority for Douglas. Efforts have been made, and
are still making, to run unpledged tickets in those
States, so as to combine the Douglas and Breckin-
ridge men, and then for the electors, if successful
to cast their votes as may seem best. Whether
this will be done we know not. We believe there
are but very few Northern States--if, indeed a
single one-where there are out-and-out Brechin-
ridge tickets. Everything is in confusion there.
If the Douglas men adhere to their determination
to reject all compromise, then there will be cleaA
Breckenridge tickets, no doubt, in most of the |
States Of the North.
1t would be better if all Democrats-North and |
Sonth-would follow the patriotic example of our |
correspondent, repudate both wings of the wrang-
ling and discordant Democracy, and come out for
the national, conservative Constitutional Union
ticket of Bell and Everett This is not only the
best way but the only way Chat is practicable) of
solving the question of Democratic differences.
All prospect of the restoration of Democratic har
mony being now destroyed, and the party hope
lessly divided and disorganized, it remains for the
honest members Of it to unite with the supporters
Of Bell and Everett in saving the country from the
clutches of Black Republieansm.