New Orleans daily crescent., 1860-10-08
POLITICAL ITEMS.

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rived in the city on Saturday evening, and vii
leave this evening for the northern parishes o
Louisiana, where his eloquent voice will be heart
from new until the day Of election.
Mr.. BELL-MR. TooaBs.-The honorable Sena
tor from Georgia, says correspondent of the Au
gusta Chronicle and Sentinel is quite bitter in hi
4 denunciations of John Bell. Perhaps the record
to which he appeals, may account for his conduct
In the appendix to the Congressional Globe, Vol
20, LIST Session. 9sd Congress, page 9a4, May 25
1854 MFR. Bell, in reply to Mr.. Toombs. said:
The honorable Senator from Georgia, in the
course of his remarks yesterday, thought proper
i to declare that had become tho ally of the Abo
litionists of the North. have this to say TO the
i Senator in reply--if this honorable Senator means
to say that in voting against the Nebraska BILL in
i company with the Abolitionists, was their ally
4 and to that extent only was their ally; if 1t was
| his object, in making that statement, to let it &c
4 forth to the country for effect among the people
that he had boldly said to my face in this Sen
ate, that had become the ally of the Abo-
litionists, then have to say to him that 1t was an
dd cdptand,tm argument, asuniust to him as it was
to me, and worthy only of the shallowest and low.
est demagogue. If he meant to say that had be-
come the ally of the AbOlitionists OF the North, IN
| sympathy, feeling, or by any concerted arrange
ment. then have to pronounce that he stated what
4 he knew to be false.
4 ST. LouIs, Oct 3.-The Republican publishes q
speech, delivered yesterday by Major jackson,
Governor elect, who recently spoke in the Breck-
inrdge State Convention, and has since been claim
ed by the Breckenridge men as in favor of their
4 candidate. Therefore, committee of Douglas smen
was recently appointed to inquire whether he in
tended to support Douglas or Breckinridge Jack
| sons speech was reply to the interrogatories
1 propounded by the committee. He commenced
i by stating that he was never more anxious to be
| understood and desired the serious attention oil
every one present. a stated emphatcally before
the election that believed Douglas the nominee OF
| the Democratic party. Sc now believe.
4 Mr.. Jackson spoke Of his efforts to secure har.
| monious action between the Democratic Central
| Committee and the Breckenridge Convention, re-
GREETING his failure, and challenging any Breckin-
ridge man present to say that he (Jackson uttered
| any remark in the Convention indicating that he
had changed, or designed supporting Breckenridge
4 and Lane.
He then gave hisreasons for supporting Douglas,
say am for Douglas that it is my duty to support
| him as the nominee of the party. formed my
| opinion that Douglas was the regular nominee from
| the reports in the Baltimore Exchange, Breckin-
ridge paper, and the statements OF General Clark,
who until the last opposed Douglas in the Conven-
4 tion, and if ! live till November will vote for him
and have never said intended doing anything
1 else.n
CHANGES TO BELL.-We learn from cores
4 pondent of the Savannah Republican that at the
4 conclusion of Col. H r. Jacks0ns speech in La
| Grange, three Breckenridge men changed for Bel
| almost solely ON account of Jackson's unfounded
charges of unsoundness against Bell. The honest
people are disgusted with such recklessness on the
| part of Breckinridge's supporters. We hear that
Senator Toombs converted two hundred from
4 Breckinridge by his speech in Savannah last week
but we believe he drives them from Breckenridge
everywhere he goes. Augusta Chronicle.
The Cameron Sentinel is considerably deluded
4 if he thinks everybody is going for Breckenridge.
| We do not know man who was for Houston at
his withdrawal but who is now for the Union
ticket, while upon the other hand, we know num-
| ber of men who were for Breckenridge four weeks
ago that are now for Bell, and large number who
| do not know how they will vote.
[Belton (Texas) Independent
While the Hon. John c. Mason was replying to
Mr.. Breckenridge, last Tuesday, a Mr.. Jas. Young,
hoping to embarrass him put the question to him,
aWho are you for if Douglas goes off the track =
Mason told him that he was ready to answer that
and every other question that he had no conceal
ment from his fellow-ctizens Of his views, and was
bold to announce them, careless Of consequences.
He said, that in such IN unlikely event Douglas
withdrawing, he should be for the next strongest
man to beat Lincoln and, believing that man % be
Bell, he should be for him. louisville Journal.
| IT WAS "TRAp.r-The innocent Lamb, who
put those questions to Mr. Douglas at Norfolk, has
since admitted that it was trap y to catch him.
Here is what he says about it in the paper of which
he is the editor &e
|
and Lane were gloomy in the South, butsince poor
Douglas was caught in the trap we set for him, the
| tide has turned against him.
Norfolk Argus, Friday, Sept. a.
The Petersburg (Va.) Democrat administers TO
Lamb the following terrible rehuke:
Docs Mr.. Lamb dare to insult the people of Vir-
ginia by ayerring that his query to Judge Douglas
was prompted by no desire to clear up an obscure
subject, no desire to open the eyes Of the South,
no desire to arrive at an intelligent resolve as to
his duty and the duty of the people, no desire to
warn us of impending danger-by nothing but
wish to trick Judge Douglas into an admission
prejudicial to his interests-that his act was
TRAP, and his motive only to injure Douglas
Does Mr.. Lamb consider this fair, honorable, up
right, manfu, straightforward! VIII the people
of Virginia sustain it The question we are sure
is needless. Wherever the facts are known,
wherever this paragraph from the Argus is copied,
and we trust it may be everywhere copied,
wherever these words are read to the people, and
we hope they may be rung from every stump in
the State, the frank Virginia character will rise up
In manly reprobation Of tue act, to which no
sharpness of invectiVe could add drop of bitter.
ness. Let it everywhere be told, the hospitable
welcome with which Douglas was met on first
reaching the soil of Old Virginia, was THE TRAP
OF A BRECKENRIDGE ELEGTOR.
THOSE QUEsTI0Ns.-In reply to the question of
Gen Blow at the discussion on Friday night, Mr.
Lamb said that he had fulfilled his promise and
propounded the questions to Mr.. Breckenridge,
which he had put to Judge Douglas in Norfolk,
but that Mr. Breckenridge had declined answering
them. Norfolk (Va) Herald.
Gen. Mson stated in his speech at Sussex
| Court House astweek that he had the happiness
to inform his auditors that the vast majority of the
Democrats of Norfolk city, Norfolk county and
| Portsmouth, were going to vote for Stephen A..
1 Douglas and Herschel " Johnson
Everybody who knows Gen. Millson, will con.
cede that he is one of the most conscientious and
| reliable public men in the country, and would
make no statement at random. We therefore COM
mend his prediction to the Breckinridgers who
affect to believe that Douglas has no strength with
his party in this State. Notwithstanding his reply
to the Norfolk interrogatories- distasteful to
| the Yanceyites--we are informed upon authority
no other than the member of Congress from the
Norfolk District, that he will secure a majority
vote Of his party in the very city where the Lamb
deadfall was set for him. The Breckinridgers
have reckoned without their host, and will find
that they have been sadly deluded.
[Lynchburg Yirginian.
NEW York Cry PoLrTIos.-The Republicans Of
New York city have nominated Judge Edmonds,
the celebrated spiritualist, for Recorder, and j.
Sedgwick for City Judge. Hon. Daniel E. Sickles
declines reelection to Congress. The Republic
cans have nominated A. ]. Williamson, proprietor
of the Sunday Dispatch and who was defeated by
Mr.. sickles last year. Ex-Mayor VIM. Wall, of
Williamsburg, is the Republican nominee for Con-
gress in the Fifth District; A. +. Daw, in the Sey