The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1860-11-01

COMMUNICATED.
MEssRs EDIroRs:-I read with great pleasure
your leader of this morning, as to the duty of Ma
ryland in the present political crisis, and desire,
simply by the presentation of a few statistics, to
confirm the views you have so ably presented. In
the Electoral College there 303 votes, of which
152 are, consequently, majority. of these, the
Northern States give 1873, and the Southern States
40 votes. The State of New Y ork polls 35 Electo.
raj votes which, added to the 100 votes of the
South, are majority of the whole number, and if
given to a candidate presented by a united South,
would secure his triumphant election over the IA
natical Lincoln.
How, then, stands the fight at this time? Della
ware, North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina Mississippi, Arkansas and Texas, have
gone deeisively for the Breckenridge candidates in
recent State contests, showing Enthusiastically that
the great mass of the Southern States will array
themselves the side of Breckenridge. Virginia
aso in certain local elections, has shown popular
gain for Breckenridge, as compared with the last
contested election in that State, and her vote for
the Democratic candidate can confidently be re-
lied on. In every State where elections have been
held, the Douglas candidates have been badly de-
feated, and the "Little Giant may be fairly
"counted out'' of the fight In fact, his friends
claim nothing for him. Bell and Everett have
chances merely III but three States viz Mary
land Kentucky and Missouri; and it rests upon them
to determine whether they will throw away their
elected
or vote for Breckenridge and thus unite the South
and give efficacy to the vote of New York should
it be carried by the conservatives.
From Missouri and Kentucky the accounts re-
Gently received indicate that a great change has
occurred there since the August elections and that
in November they will go for Breckenridge Should
this be the case, leaving out of the count California
and Oregon, Breckenridge would have liz votes
The understanding when the fusion ticket was
formed in New York was that if it was successful,
the vote of the State should be given en- masse to
that candidate opposed to lincoln rhom 1t arould
elect. If, by so casting it, they could not elect,
then each eectOr to vote according to his ind-
viaual preferences, and the election would thus be
thrown into the House of Representatives Now,
the 80 votes of New York added to the ll2 conf
IDENTIFY calculated upon for Breckenridge would not
elect him, but if Maryland will swell by her votes
the Breckenridge vote to 120 New York can then
elect with three votes to spare), Lincoln will be
defeated, and prOtracted contest in the House,
dangerous to the stability of the Union, and threat
enng to all the business interests of the country,
will be avoided.
The friends OF Mr. Bell must see that their candi-
date has no earthly prospect of success. In Phla-
dephia the Bell candidates received only 5000
out of 50, 900 votes. In Ohio they polled not half
the number of votes received by Fillmore in 1856.
In Delaware they were emphatically nowhere.
In Kentucky alone have they made a respectable
show of numbers and there only in local election,
with very popular candidate, a reduced poll
and when assisted by the friends of Douglas. Why
then pursue a useless contest-why vote so as to
neutralize the efforts of the conservatives in New
York, should those efforts prove successful-why
vote to throw the election into the House, which
could only endanger the most important interests
of the country-why vote indirectly to aid the
Black Republicans and enable them to keep up an
excitement already carried to threatening point
why place the city and the State in position of
hostility to the South and Southwest, with whom
we are seeking to establish business relations, and
with whose interests are in great measure
identified?
These are the questions which the voters of
Maryland have to answer at the polls on Tues
day next, and upon their response may depend the
issue of the Presidential contest and the fate of the
Union. CONSERVATIVE.