Daily national Democrat., 1860-08-23
1aiIg Wational Democrat.
The Presidential Candidates.

Mr.. Crittenden, in a speech at Louisville,
KY, on the I'd of August, supporting the
claims of Bell and Everett, spoke of Mr..
Lincoln and the party he leads as follows:
"Mr. Lincoln is at the head of the great
anti-savery party, purely sectional party,
which, according 10 all its antecedents,
threatens the existence of slavery everywhere:
and the apprehension which this threat ex-
cites is increased by the fact that although
the leaders and wise men of that party may
not proclaim such sentiments. there are
enough among them in their camp who do
hold and proclaim such abolition doctrine as
must make every man South feel uneasy in
his condition and in his property"
OF Mr.. Douglas he spoke in terms of high
praise. He was, he said, q patriot and lover
of the Union. All that he apprehended
from the election of Mr. Douglas was, that
the Breckinridge men and Republicans
would continue to make war upon him-that t
they would be apt to form an alliance against
him as being the successful rival who had sue
ceeded TO the Presidency. Hence his admin.
istration would be one of continual conflict.
For this reason alone Mr. Crittenden thought
he ought not to be preferred to Bell and Ev-
erett. BY thus expressing the belief that
continued war would be made upon Mr.
Douglas, ty the anti.slavery party and the
seceders, lie paid high compliment to him,
as q man of tirmness, who, in battling for the
right against great odds, had arrayed against
him the whole power of the sectionalists
North and South.
Speaking of Mr.. Breckenridge and the Sc
ceders, Mr.. Crittenden said
should hope that MIR. Breckenridge was
not a disunion man. A Voice-"Yes es he is. "
lie ought not to be. He belongs to a tribe
OF faithful, devoted Union men-ths tribe of
kentuckians. lGreat applause lie must
have been seduced away from the path of his
duty, far from the path in which all the i'm.
pulses of his blood ought to carry him. if he
has become disunionist. But Mr.. Breckin
ridge has made himself the head of a party
He is part and parcel of the present purposes
OF that party and, as in the case of Mr..
Lincoln, we must judge of his public course
by the party that he consents to represent.
Who are they? There is not disunonist
south OF Mason and Dixon's line that know
'oi who does not belong to that party TAP
plause. We have for long time heard
lnutterlDgs of disunon in the South-more
than mutterings-more than the whispering
OF such sentiments. We have seen Conven-
tions assemble for the purpose of promoting
the cause OF disunion We have seen il first
assume the character and the name ofnullif.
catlon-the State claiming the right to annul
the laws passed by the whole people of the
United State, to annul Acts of Congress-and
from that day to this we have seen it assume
one form and another form, one face and
another, by this man and by that man. bv
Conventions assembled for the purpose. hy
open negotiations carried on between the
States, and 10y public declarations that the
movement was postponed because not
enough States in the South could be got to
60 into the enterprise to make it successful
The leaders anticipate overt acts on the part
of the Republicans, 'and want now to effect
revolution in the cotton States, and establish
new Government. These sentiments per
wade the South, and make up the body and
soul OF the party which has nominated our
fellow citizen, Mr. Breckinridge, as its candi-
date for Presidency. Is there no danger that
by electing him you would give new energy
to that destructive impulse, and new power
TO this disunion sentiment and to the cause
of disunion? Mr.. Breckenridge himself fo'~
lows in the lead. He is part and parcel of
the great party. You see this by his nom-
nations and acceptance of it, and can hence
foresee with clearness the disaster that would
follow his success