Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-17
Giving up the defeat of Lincoln.

The Baltimore Patriot has been known as
the most ardent and able of all Mr.. Bells
Southern supporters. 1t is also known as
one of the NEST candid, fair-minded, honor
able journals in the whole Union. But it
has become satisfied, at last that there is no
shadow of a chance for Bell and Everett,
partly, perhaps, through the folly and dishon-
esty of their followers in New York and else
where, and in the full conviction that the
aPreadential election is already settled in
favor of Lincoln, and has pulled down the
names of Bell and Everett from the head Of
its columns and Withdrawn from the contest.
This is most significant and and important
Southern paper.
The Baltimore Patriot also publishes the
following extract from the letter of a cor
respondent dated New York, Sept. 9Th, 1860.
It will repay perusal:
az see that our Maryland
friends are counting largely on New York
going against Lincoln. Don't be deceived.
There is no possible hope for so desirable an
issue. Differing widely from you upon the
question OF coalitions, deeming them to be
legitimate political weapons, whenever they
can be used to effect an object that cannot be
effected without them, and not considering
any moral question TO be involved, went
into the plan of uniting the Opposition to
Lincoln, in this State, heart a1d soul, but
alas the voters did not and they will not be
transferred. The devil, or something else
has gotinto them. Why, what do you think ?
The Lincoln men have the names of $1,000 of
the Usry men lDho Uoted for Fillmore in 1856,
inscribed on their poll Rsts for LincoLp-not
put there By guess, but By actual, VeritabLe,
personal inquiry of each man as to his colrsel
When l came to know this, l saw that all
was up. But this is not half the story. The
Douglas and Breckenridge men, being Demo
cru:s, and having hankering after the flesh
pots Of Egypt, are breaking their ranks and
rushing to Lincoln with perfect stampede
Besides this, the Bell men are also taking the
same chute every day. The primary cause
of all this is the persuasion that Lincoln is
the coming man, and the secondary, which is
almost as powerful, is the revulsion of feel
ing amongst the honest voters, at being re-
quIred to cast their sutfrages for and with par
ties, against which their prejudices are so
strong.
We politicians you know, have little
qualms of conscience in seizing at every
plank that will save US from drowning; not
so with the people, who arc not in quest OF
place and power. And this prejudice is
famed into an inordinate fury by the Lin
coin press. Nothing has done the cause of
the coalition so much harm as the course of
Depeyster Ogden, Huntington and Carroll,
who were put on the Douglas-Bell ticket as
Bell men. Their kick up has overset our
bucket. And there is the bull-headed obsti-
macy of 0ttendorf and McMasters that has
driven off the mass of the Irish and Dutch
votes. Added to this, is the unwise attempt
of Messrs. Hunt, Brooks, Ketchum, and 9TH
ers, to break the force of these delinquoncies,
by Drawing public opinion. There may pos
sibly be a fusion with the Breckenridge men,
but it is doubtful after Breckenridge's Lex
ington speech. BUTT matters little now what
they dol regard the game as up. New
York is irretrievably for Lincoln, and shall
return home, and try to save old Maryland
from the grasp of the Breckenridge party"