The weekly Mississippian. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1859-1864, 1860-08-15
Il 4 Fs0ns tie New IorE HyGld.
The Presidential Campaign -Breckin-
ridge the cniy Hope against Lincoln.

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here am four organized parties and six
einerent candidates in the field for the PreG-
ssncy, and yet it must be apparent to every
that for practical purposes The contest is to-day
narrowed down to Lincoln or Breckinridee.-
were the Presidential election to come of to-
MORROW, y is morally certain that LoncoIn
Mo11 carFy every Northern State,
nom Maine to Minnesota. thus giving him
A'o electoral votes, or twenty-five more than
n9l ollty OF the whole electoral vote Of the
Such is clearly the commanding pos;t;on of
the minority republican party TODAY Int TIE
elements. Of the great popular majority on,'o.
ed to it have still the important item Of tbree
months and more 81 valuable time Within
which to arrange their forces for the decisiye
battle. Nor is there any longer shadow Of =
doubt as to the course they should pursue
| A few figures viii make the case as plain As a
| pikestaff: @ as2T
The whole electoral vote OftheU Union is. .3os
And Of this vote required to elect is .l52
| The Northern electoral vote Is. l73
And the Southern electoral vote Is. 49,. 100
Thus It will be seen that in addition to tbs
whole Southern electoral vote, the parties
opposed to Lincoln must carry northern States
enough to coyof thiity-two electoral votes in
order 10 defeat him. How is this to be dons7
Let. us see. The whole electoral vote Of the
South will surely be cast against Lincoln
This gives us 120. Add California, four, and
Oregon. three, and we have 127 votes to start
with. Add Pennsylvania, twenty -seyen, and
the sum will be 154, or q clean majority Of
five of the whole electoral vote.
The vote of Pennsylvania in short viii de-
eide the election; and how stands Pennsylva-
via In. the campaign Of 1856 her Presiden-
tial vote was :--- IS I1
For Mr.. Buchanan, democrat. -, 23o772
For Col. Fremont republican. ..... 1895
For Mr.. Fillmore; Ainefican.. ss... S2,2O2
{ The plurality Of Mr.. Buchanan oyer the
republican vote was over 1000, and his ma
jority Oyer borh wings of the opposition
united was COZ. Since that day, or rather
since the State contest Of 1857, the local cleo
tons of Pennsylvania have gone against the
democracy by default. The republican party
there has been merged in mongrel combina-
ton called the peoples party; but the Chicago
ticket requires its supporters everywhere to
range themselves under the republican flag
Thus the opposition elements Of ofPennsylvania
which have been working together since 1857,
are again divided into two camps, the Lincoln
camp and the Bell camp. Taking the vote Of
1855 as our guide, and allowing that half the
Fillmore vote of that year has gone over to
the republicans, and, in round numbers,
The vote for Lincoln will be, say. 100000
Add democratic anti Lecompton
deserters, say. ........ 10000
And Lincoln's vote will be. .21OOO0
Reduce the democratic Vote to. 100000
And there is still democratic plurality Of
10000. Thus, allowing the old line wings
and Americans free course for their ticket
of Bell and Everett, and making liberal allow
ances for American and democratic deserters,
we see that it is only necessary for the two
wings of the democracy to unite in order to
carry Pennsylvania by plurality Of at least
ten thousand over Lincoln. Es
Let the democracy of Pennsylvania, and of
every other Northern, State, unite upon
common electoral ticket, and Lincoln may be
handsomely defeated. The South will vote
solid for Breckenridge California and Oregon
will follow suit The vote of Pennsylvania,
then will only be required to settle the ques-
ton against Lincoln and there is every rea-
SON among patriotic men for every sacrifice of
party or personal preferences to accomplish
this result The factious instructions of sour
ed and reckless party managers should be
and the masses Of the Democra-
cy should make the defeat Of Lincoln their
irst duty and their paramount object
Put this republican party into the White
House, and before it can be ousted it may
compass the control Of every department Of
he federal government. Then, the republi-
an doctrine Of negro equality would be apt to
assume shape so revolving Is to ''precipitate
he South into areyolution,' p the terrible con-
sequences of which, would defy all human
And so, for the sake Of the
Union, and the peace ofthe q UniOn; the suffrages
Of all Northern men devoted to the Union
should be cast in the way best adapted to
defeat Lincoln, whose election will bean anti
slavery triumph which may drive the South
out of the Union.
In this view, as the friends OF Mr.. Douglas
an do nothing in any event for their cham
oion, they should cordially resolve to do the
best they can to save themselves and theirpar
y, which they can only do by defeating the
republican ticket.