The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1860-08-25
From, the Mobile (Ala.) Register.
The County Elections in Alabama.
MORE BRECKENRIDGE pEFEATs.

As if to complete the disaster Of th,
Kentucky election, which later return!
prove even more formidable than at frs
supposed, (the majority of Coombs' being
swelled to % ,OOO) series of defeats and
| Pyrrhean victories have befallen the
Breckenridge party in the county elections
o! this, Yanceys home State. 1t is use
less to say that these elections affords no
test Of national politics. In most cases
the issues were plainly defined and in few
were they local. In Montgomery county,
| where Mr.. Yancey lives and where his in
| tiuence should be greatest, where the de-
fection of the Mail left the Opposition
without an organ, until q few short weeks
ago new paper, the Post, supplied the va
cancy; in Montgomery, where the famous
son, Chiffon, Hooper, and all the others,
except Watts had declared for Brecken-
ridge, and even made an attempt at formal
transfer of their rank and file, in Montgo-
rnery county, We positively know that not
stone was left unturned by the Breck-
enridGe men to carry the county. Their
success was vital necessity, and yet des-
pite Yancey, despite the desertiOn of
Judge, Jackson, Chiffon, Hooper, and the
rest, they defeated in their own county.
1t is useless to say, as the Mail does, that
not more than threefourtbs Of the voters
appeared at the polls This only proves
that great mass of our people are in a
state of uncertainty and hesitancy, and
certainly speaks i'll for the enthusiasm
with which, according to the Seceders'
press, the people embrace the cause of
Breckenridge and Lane.
50 far as heard from, the Breckenridge
men have not carried single county en-
tire, and have been defeated either wholly
or nearly SO il Montgomery, Chambers, Ma
con, Talapoosa, Coosa, Autauga, Russell,
Conecuh, Perry, Tuscaloosa, and, if we are
TO believe rumors which reached the city
Yesterday, also in Clarke and Morengo
We do not claim these defeats as Douglas
triumphs, though some Of them undoubt-
ed!y are, but we do not claim them as
evidences Of Breckenridge's weakness in
this state In many localities the true
Democrats were intmidated by the clam
our of the Seceders, by the detection Of
Fitzpatrick, and were unconscious Of their
own strength. They, therefore, either
staid at home or voted for the Bell candi-
date, compliment which (if we can rely
on the Nail which sperks of a well under
stood Interchange of votes) was reciprocated
II. .other localities where they showed fight
and seemed the stronger We therefore
say, in all sincerity, that while from the
necessities OF the case, these elections have
brought out nearly everywhere the full |
strength of Mr. Breckenridge, they have |
not and could not possibly have brought |
ou: the full strength of Mr.. Douglas. And |
yet we are not without real substantial |
triumphs
In Tallaposa, the Douglas candidate for |
Tax assessor, is elected by between loo to |
l5O majority over straight Breckenridge !
In Autauga, Gov. Fitzpatrick's county,
sy hich was AZ first claimed tor Brecken- !
ridge, and where, therefore the Na1 adj (
niitted that the issue was made, the Doug
las candidate beat his opponents some /.
hundred votes-both the Opposition and 7
the Seceders running tickets.
In Coosa, the Douglas candidate for 4
Sheriff received clear majority, and beat |.
the foremost Breckenridge candidate SOS /