Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1860-08-25
A United south for Breckenridge & Lane.
THE LATE CONTEST IN KENTUCKY.

In former article we exposed the shall
lowness of the basis on which the Opposi-
ton affect to claim North Carolina
founding their fragile protensions upon the
diminished vote given for Gov. Ellis
while by all well.informed persons his
success in carrying any majority cannot
fail to be received as the most decisive ev-
ideuce of the popularity of Breckenridge
and Lane in the Old North State.
Equally groundless are the hopes of the
Opposition, as inspired by the late elec-
ton in Kentucky. 1t would hardly be
believed in any other country than ours,
that the choice of man to fill the very
subordinate though pecuniarily profitable
place Of Clerk Of Court, would be seized
upon by any really powerful political COM
bination to make an empty vaunt of an
ticipated victory in the contest for the
Chief Magistracy of the nation. We arc
quite sure that General Leslie Coombs,
in his better days, would have laughed to
s,orn any such pretencc, if it had been
set up by the opponents of his lifelong
friend, Henry Clay, in any of his nu-
meroua conflicts for the Presidency
The idea is really ridiculous. Here is n
fine old Kentucky gentleman, all of the
olden time" as the song says, who, by
bountiful living, ran through his estate,
but kept still strong hold on the hearts
of the people. They put him up for
Clerk of a Court in order to give him a
chance for life, and vote for him " without
respect to party" 1t is a matter of COM
passion and good-fellowship, not of pol
itics. How absurd to infer from such a
manifestation of personal and social feel
ing towards an individual any political
preference whatever
1t is true the leaders of Douglasism took
advantage of this kindly disposition among
the masses towards an old and genial gen.
tcman, that had so often dispensed an
overfowing hospitality, and induced thous
ands to vote ont of the Democratic party
organization of the State. But the ranl
and file will return when they see the use
that is made of their course by their trait
orous guides and BIZ the Opposition gener
ally. As to the leadcrs-let them co.
The Democratic party in Kentucky is wei
rid OF them, as here in Pennsylvania W,
are happily relieved of the incubus 0
Hickman, Forney, and their trcacherou
confederatcs. .-.....
But no man acquainted with the innel
life of Kentucky, and with the motives ant
, characters which control public events ther
needs to be told that john c. Brcckinridg
will, in November, obtain thousands o
votes from the truest and most intelligen
men hitherto classed with the Southern
Opposition, many of whom may have votes
for CooMBs out of compassion, and oil
associations, and private feelings. These
too, will be reliable and permanent sup
, porters of his Administration, because thei
attachment is founded on principle.
We say to our friends, then, not in tn
spirit of boasting, but with that deliberat
courage which springs from access to til
best information that can come from rel
able sources-the South will present I'm
ted Front for Breckenridge and Lane
Advance, then, Pennsylvania, with alacrit
. to the contest, where victory awaits you
Morning Iennsyuanian.