Indiana State Guard, Volume 1, Number 29, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 September 1860 — Page 2

Hampshire. This is a question left to every State to decide for itself; and it we mean to keep the States together, we must leave to every State this power of deciding for itself. ' I think I never wrote you a word before on politics. I shall not do it again. . ' I only say, love your whole country, and when men attempt to persuade you to get into a quarrel with the laws of other States, tell them 'that you mean to mind your own business,' and advise them to mind theirs. John Taylor, you are a free man ; you possess good principles ; you have a large familv to rear and provide for by your labor. Be thankful to the Government that does not oppress you, which does not bear you down by excessive taxation, but which holds out to you ami yours the ho' of all the blessings which liberty, industry and sectlrity may give. John Tavlor, thank God morning and evening,

that you were born in such a country. .John layior, never write me another word upon politics. Give my kindest remembrance to your wife and children ; and when you look from your eastern window upon the graves of my family, remember that he who is the au-. thor of this letter' must soon follow them to another world. DANIEL WEBSTER. T II E OLD L I X E G IT A 11 D. A. . B. CARLTON, . WILLIAM CUI.LEY, EDITORS. SATUBDAY, . SEPTEMBER 22. National Democratic Ticket. FOR PRESIDENT, . JOHN C. BREGKINR1 DGE, OF KENTUCKY. FOR VICE PRESIDENT, .10 si: I'll lam:, ; ,: OF OREGON. ELECTORS FOR THE STATE AT LARGE: James Morrison, of Marion. Delana R. Eckels, of Putnam. DISTRICT ELECTORS. Is District Dr. G. G. Barton, of Daviess county.

Dr. William F. Sherrod, of Orange. David Sheeks, of Monroe. Ethelbert C. Hibben, of Rush. Samuel Orr, of Delaware. Franklin Hardin, of Johnson. James A. Scott, of Putnam. Col. William M. .Tenners, of Tippecanoe. James Bradley, of Laporte. Robert Breckinridge, jr., of Allen. John It. Coffroth, of Huntington. STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEE. 1st District J. B. Gardner, 2.1 3d 4th 5th 6th Levi Sparks, Geo. IL Kvle. Dr. B. F. Mullen, Alex. White, John R. Elder, . James M. Tomlinson, Julius Nu-olai, James Johnson, James M. Oliver, Tliouias Wood, Thomas D. Lemon, G. F. R. Wadleigh, Dr. E. B. Thomas. W. II. TALBOTT, Chairman. 7th 8th Oth 10 th 11th FOR CONGRESS, SEVEXTII DISTRICT, ' . JAMES A. SCOTT, of Putn.ira. Judge D. E. Eckels, The Breckinridge and Lank Elector for the State a! large : and ':.' ; Jamos A, Scott, The Breckinridge and'LANE candidate for Congress in the 7th District, will address their fellow-citizens as .follows : At Bowling Green, Clay county,' Tuesday, Sept. 25. Hartford, Vigo county, Wednesday, Sept. 2(5. Sullivan, Sullivan county, Thursday, Sept. 27. Gaston's Store, Green county, Friday, Sept. 23. Joiicsborough, Green count .-, Saturday, Sept, 29. Spencer, Owen county, Monday, Oct. 1. Gosport, Owen county, Monday night, Oct. 1. Speaking to commence at 2 o'clock P. M., each dav. Douglas still Opposing Union in Pennsylvania and New York. Wo learn that Mr. Douglas is now directing his whole energies to the defeat of the union ticket in Pennsylvania, and to the prevention of union in New York. In the latter attempt he will certainly be defeated, because the Douglas party in that State feel and act quite independently of him, and apparently do not mean to let themselves bo transferred over to Lincoln if they can help it, Mr. Douglas lias no such tools as Forney in New York ; and we are told that he has been several times mortified by the indifference with which the New York party leaders have treated his expressed wishes. He supposed them to be devoted to his personal fortunes, and willing to go with the '. Forney it es for Lincoln, rathe r than let Mr. Breckinridge be elected ; but he has found that the mass of his New York friends care nothing about him jiersonally, and are only anxious for the suece.-s of his principles. Another Speech from Henry S. Fitch. We invite attention to another speech fiom Henry S. Fitch, Esq., (son of Senator Fitch,) which was delivered at Logansport, in this State, ou the 8th inst. Like the one at Chicago, which we published a short time since, this production will be found a rich treat to our readers. For originality, humor, eloquence, sarcasm and effect, it cannot be surpassed. It will prove a caustic prescription to the Little Sucker. Scarcely equalled as the young author is now, as an orator, a splendid future r-urcly awaits him. Good Reason. The Richmond (Va.) Anzeiger, a daily paper, published in the German language, has hoisted the Breckinridge and Lane ticket. It gives as reason for its course, that it finds in the Breckinridge ranks "Henry A. Wise, the defender of our rights and liberties, the declared enemy of Know Nothings, and the friend of naturalized citizens ; in its ranks we find all the foremost Democrats of our State, who have bithe.'io been faithful lo the rights of naturalized citizensGratiiule itself requires that we should attach ourselves to this and no other party, for a tried friend is doubly to be cherished, and ingratitude is a stranger to the German charae'er." Mississippi. .- In the late Mississippi Douglas State Convention, onlvsaven counties were represented. An Electoral ticket was put in nomination, but it is doubtful if the nominees will accept. John Calhoun was nominated for Elector in the Fourth District, but it apars that jio person of that name lives in the District The nominee for the Fifth District announces in a card that I.c ii for Bkeckinkidge. This is the oijd attempt of the wpjAtters of tlwt State to get up an Electoral rk-k.'t.

2d " 3d " 4th " oth " 6tl : " 7th " " 8th " 9th - 10th " 11th "

The Breckinridge Committee and the State Ticket, The " friends of Breckinridge and Lane " held a meeting in this city on Monday last, and adopted the following resolutions : Resolved, That it would be inexpedient at this time, to place a National Democratic State ticket in the field for State, officers. , Resolved, That in view of the conciliatory overtures which have, from time to time, been made to the friends of Mr. Douglas in this State, and rejected by them, if the present State ticket be defeated, they, and they alone, will be responsible for the result. These resolutions are signed by AV. II. Talbott and John It. Elder, as Chairman and Secretary, and are published 1S an otlicial expression of the sentiments of the Breckinridge State Central Committee, and the Breckinridge State and District Electors. Both of these individuals were members of the Democratic State Convention of the 11th of January last, and the candidates upon the Democratic State ticket were their choice and received their cordial support. By au unanimous vote the Stale Convention pledged itself to sustain the candidates which it had nominated. No " conciliatory overtures," as charged by the resolutions of the Breckinridge Committee, have been rejected by " the friends of Mr. Douglas in this State." Instead of " conciliatory overtures" being made, the Democratic State Central Committee issued a circular on the 4th inst., urging ution the Democracy an united-support of the State

' ticket, and pledging "the friends of Mr. Douglas," in case ot its suceesss, not to claim it as a I'ougias triumph, but as the triumph of the Democratic party as au old-fashioned Democratic victory over Black Republicanism. The ticket stands just as it was nominated by a regularly constituted State Convention of the party, and as endorsed by the conventions of the party inevery county in the Slate. There have been no " overtures" to change the ticket, and the Democratic State Central Committee have no power to change it, unless vacancies should occur by resignation, death or abandonment of the party. Neither has the Committee any right to demand of the candidates pledges different from the expression of the Convention which nominated them. State Sentinel. We copy the above passages from an article in the Douglas organ of Thursday last. We give the substance of the article, without its numerous tautologies. It certainly is one of the coolert ebullitions, to say the least, that we ever read. The only truth in the Sentinel's remarks is, that the State Convention of January last, which nominated candidates for Presidential electors and State officers, "pledged itself to sustain the candidates which it had nominated." Well, who first violated this pledge ? -Why, the Douglas members of the Slate Central Committee appointed' by this Convention. They struck off the name of William Shevrod, one of the candidates for Presidential electors rtgulurly nominated by that Convention. "Why did they do this? Because he was a friend of Breckinridge and Lane. Where did they get the "power" and "right" to do so? The Sentinel says they "have no power", to change the ticket for State officers. Who invested them with power, then, to "change" the name of the Presidential elector for the Second District? If they had " power ." to make one change, they had "power" to make other changes. But the Breckinridge Committee have not asked the Douglas Committee to make any alterations on the Slate ticket. They have simply asked them to give assurances that the election of the State ticket shall not be claimed as a Douglas victory, if they vote for it. They authorized, on Monday last, three friends of Breckinridge, to 'solicit such assurances from the Douglas Committee ; and these friends of Breckinridge called upon several members of the Douglas Committee and submitted the matter to them. They waited till midnight for au answer. The Douglas Committee may not have "rejected" this "overture" this peace-offering; but they certainly treated it with 'silent contempt. No answer was received at 1 o'clock on Tuesday morning; and then their patience, as well as their conciliatory spirit, was exhausted then they became convinced that they had nothing to expect from the Douglas Committee but contempt, if not insult; and then they passed the above resolutions by an unanimous vote. What does the last resolution say? Why, "that in view of the conciliatory overtures which have, from time to time, been made to the friends of Mr. Douglas in this State, and rejected by them, if the present State ticket be defeated, they, and they alone, will be responsible for the result." Is not this true ? If you strike out the words, " rejected by them," and substitute the words " treated with contempt by them," will it not be as true as Gospel ? Bearing in mind the " overture " made by the Breckinridge Committee, to the Douglas Committee for uniting on one electoral ticket, as well as this "overture" in relation to the State ticket, we answer, most certainly. If the State ticket be defeated, who, then, but the friends of Douglas, can be held "responsible for the result ? " All that the friends of Breckinridge asked, in relation to the State ticket, was, that if they voted it, and it should be elected, the friends of Douglas should not claim it as their.triuniph. Yet this poor boon, we repeat, was treated with contempt treated in the same manner, by the Douglas Committee, as they did the proposition of the Breckinridge Committee for the union of both sections of the party upon one Electoral ticket. And had not the latter Committee a right to anticipate from the Douglas men an exclusive monopo'y of all the credit of a State victory ? Did not the friends of Douglas in Missouri claim all the credit of the election of Governor of that State, because he happened to be a personal friend of Douglas ? Did they not claim all the credit, notwithstanding the Governor was nominated in that Stale before the split ia the Democratic party occurred at Baltimore? Did not the Douglas editors bring out their cannon and their roosters, and proclaim it everywhere as a Doug las triumph, although the Douglas party in Missouri ' does not comprise one-fourth of the Democracy of that I State. And will not the Sentinel, and all the other ! Douglas papers in Indiana, do likewise, if the State ticket should succeed in Indiana through the help of the Breckinridge men? Certainly. Will not their shouts of triumph not only be rung at home, but echoed and re-echoed by their coadjutors 'rorcrf. Will not these shouts have a most damaging effect upon the prospeets and hopes of Breckinridge and Lane at ! the Presidential election, not only in Indiana, but in every other State of the Union? Certainly. The Breckinridge Committee of Indiana were right, then, in calling for a clear and explicit understanding in relation to this matter ; and the silent contempt with which their "overture" was treated by the Douglas Committee, convinces every rational mind that the friends of the Little Sucker intend to play the same game here, as hs followers did in Missouri, if the State ticket should succeed. But if it should not if, on the contrary, it should be defeated why, then, instead of monopolizing all the credit, instead of having all the shouts, they should have all the "respontibJiiy." The Sentinel says, however, tlvat the Douglas Committee "tissued a circular on the 6th inst., urging upon the Democracy a united suprt of the State ticket, and pledging " the friends of Ttouglas, in cac of its uccesti, not to claim it a Douglas triumph." A circular wa then issued, it is true, by that Committee,

"urding" such a support; but it contained no such " pl'Lge." Had it embraced a "pledge" to this effect in plain and unequivocal language, the Breckinridge Committed would not have thought it necessary to make the "6Wture" they did on Monday last. They would not liavesubjeeted themselves to the risk and mortification of receiving any additional contumely from that Committee, after the treatment they had endured from it in relation to their proposition for an "united support" oPone Electoral ticket. Nothing but a desire on their jjart to act in good faith in relation to the State ticket, could have induced them to make another ovorture, especially alter the outrage committed by the Douglas Committee upon one of the regularly nominated candidates for Elector (Dr. Sherrod.) In striking his naiuo from that ticket, after every Douglas man in the January State Convention had "pledged" himself to "sustain tho candidates which it then nominated" tho Douglas Committee not only violated their "pledge," so far as these candidates were concerned, but they struck a blow against the nominees for President and Vice President, Breckinridge and Lane, whom he. supports, and who were

just as regularly nominated by the Democracy as Douglas and Johnson. In striking down bhorrocl, they aimed to strike down all the true Democrats in the State who support the principles of Breckinridge and Lane. Let us, then, hear no more from the Sentinel about the Breckinridge Committee violating any "pledge," on their part. If they did anything wrong, it was in going too far, in our humble opinion, to conciliate men who could not appreciate their courtesy, liberality and forbearance. WhiU they could not (to use the language of one of the resolutions authorizing the proposition which the Breckinridge Committee made to the Douglas Committee for union upon one Electoral ticket) "whilst they could not approve of the platform upon which Mr. Douglas is now a candidate, they still regarded it as less objectionable than that on which Mr. Lincoln is placed." For this reason, alone, they went farther than we, ! individually, would have done for we can see no great difference between the platforms of Lincoln and Douglas. The former maintains the power of Congress to divest nearly one-half of the States of their constitutional rights ; and the latter gives the power to the creatures of Congress, the Territorial Legislatureswhile the platform of Breckinridge and Lane denies the power of either Congress or the Territorial Legislatures to violate the rights of any of the States, aad contends for Equality and Justice to all, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution, and the decision of the Supreme Court. Here, then, there is as much ground for separation between tho friends of Breckinridge and Douglas, as there is between those of the former and those of Lincoln. The friends of Breckinridge and Lane have now taken a stand upon the true platform of the Constitution, and we believe they mean to keep it. They are absolved from all allegiance to any and every political organization, which does not support their fundamental principles. And not having nominated any State ticket of their own, since their new organization, they are, of course, free to vote as they choose, in reference to the State ticket nominated in January, now before the people. In the future, they will nominate candidates for all offices, from the highest to the lowest; but at present they have no candidates in the field but those for President and Vice President, Breckinridge and Lane. Monster Union Meeting in New York City. The Breckinridge Committee of New York having proposed to the Douglas Committee a "Union for the sake of the. Union," by uniting upon one Electoral ticket, as the Breckinridge Committee of Indiana did to the Douglas Committee here, and that proposition having been rejected, the people of the Empire City have taken the matter in their own hands. On Monday evening last, there was the largest Union meeting in and around the Cooper Institute, that ever assembled in this country. It resembled in numbers some of the monster meetings gotten up by O'C'onnell in Ireland with this difference, that whilst the followers of the great Irishman were all for tho repeal of the Union between England and Ireland, the New Yorkers who assembled on this occasion were all zealously and devotedly in favor of the preservation of the Union between the American States. As early as half-past seven, before the time of the meeting had arrived, the great Hall of the Institute was filled to its utmost capacity ; every standing place was occupied ; thousands were unable to squeeze in ; and the outsiders were numerous enough to form four separate and immense assemblages in the streets, not only in and front of the Institute, but extending to Clinton Hall the Third Avenue. All these vast and dense masses of people had congregated together to set their seal of disapprobation upon the conduct of the Do uglas managers, who had refused to unite with the friends of tho great Kentucky statesman upon one anti-Liii' coin electoral ticket, and to listen to the Union sentiments of the ora'ora who had been invited to address them. The crowds were obliged to part at intervals to admit some Union organization which came upon the ground jubilant with music, flags, banners, torchlights and lanterns. k they arrived, their lanterns, banners, &c., were grouped about the platform, after a very picturesque fashion. The out.side meetings, like the inside one, were characterized by the best of order and the liveliest enthusiasm. The Hall was appropriately and beautifully decorated for the occa-iion. The Chairman's table, occupying the front ot the stage, was covered with the American flag, and underneath was the motto "Justice and Fraternity." Overhead was tho quotation, from Washington's farewell address " Indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every alftmpt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts." The rear of the stage was draped with American ensigns, attached to which was the appropriate mottoi " The triumphant emblem of union and fraternity, prosperity and power." Upon each side of the platform were tlie inscriptions, " The Union, the Constitution, and the enforcement of the laws," and " The Union must and shall be preserved." Jackson. Handsomely entwined with flags at the farther end of the room was the inscription "I shall stand by the Union, and those who stand by it." About eight o'clock, Gen. F. S. Tallmadge call.d the meeting to order, and proposed Joshua J. Henry as Chairman. His nomination was approved with tremendous cheers. There were a large nmnlcr of Vice President, embracing Gen. Scott and one representative from each State of the Union excepting three, whose representatives were unable to attend. A number of eloquent orators addrecd the several assemblages, and made heart-stirring appeals in btEalf of union, and a tingle electoral ticket; but the master spirit ttf the night was IL Y. Ilillisrd, of Alabama,

whose eloquence and patriotism, as expressed on this occasion, havo not been surpassed since the days of Patrick Henry. The following resolutions were passed, with loud cheers, and without a dissenting voice : Resolved, That the citizens of tho United States here assembled now declure their reverence for the Constitution and their unalterable attachment to the National Union, and they proclaim their fixed determination to do all in their power to preserve it for themselves and their posterity. They announce no other principles; establish no other platform; but content themselves with broadly resting where their forefathers have rested, upon the Constitution of these United States, wishing no safer guide, no higher law. Applause.

Mesolred, That the Lrovernment ot inese unneu States was formed by conjoining in political "unity," wide-spread geographical sections; materially and no - eessarily differing not only in climate, products, and mode of industry, but in social and domestic institu tions; and any cause that shall permanently array these, sections in political hostility, and establish parties founded only on geographical distinctions, must inevnamy mssoive me American union. j Kesowea, x uat m sucn an exigency, we may aim must disregard any subordinate questions ot adminis tration in exercisin: the constitutional powers of the Government. It is enough for us now to know that the stability of the Union is imperiled by the princiPies aiiu proeueuiiiLja ui me ntuiiuumu ija.iy, hiwui4- j ii ii e .Vint f.i,, ,,. tested by the nomination of candidates openly tavorin and advocating a constant and irrepressible conflict between geographical sections, the continuance of which must inevitably subvert our national Government, and we pledge ourselves to use all proper and constitutional means to defeat their election. Applause. Resolved, That, as our common English tongue, our common ancestry, our common laws, our common interests, tho common sacrifice of our great fathers, from Bunker Hill to Savannah, our common rivers and bays linking and interlinking us as one people, the j very cnains oi mountains uiai rivet us uy eienmi rocks, as if by Almighty hands, each and all proclaim such a " conflict" false, it is our duty, one and all, to sacrifice all past prejudices', or past passions, upon the altar of our common country, m order to demon strate That there is no internal conflict in our beloved country, wmtjn wuum uaiiiiuv. u.uu, twii.ii iu,v i i. .:j. t :,i ,i.:.i. i,, m'i country cannot repress, and that instead ot being en emies in peace even, or in a state of " conflict," or war, we are friends, brethren, countrymen, working in harmony lor a common good and a common glory. Applause. That in the words of Webster, we have " one country, one constitution, one destiny." Applause. And in tho words of Jackson, the " union must and shall re treserved!" Applause. in all the compacts, concessions and compromises bequeathed to us by our Fathers. Resolved, That tho President of this meeting be authorized to select a Committee of fifteen gentlemen, vested with full powers to adopt such an electoral ticket as the crisis and the country now demand. Enthusiastic applause. Resolved, That we decidedly disapprove the pending amendment to the. Constitution of the . State of New York, proposed by the Republican party, for establishing the equality of negro suffrage. Applause. The vast concourse then adjourned, and dispersed peaceably ami in good order deeply impressed with the conviction that they had done their duty, if the Douglas managers had not, to bring out a single electoral ticket in opposition to Lincoln. The Committee appointed to nominate the ticket has not yet reported. The Douglas Committee, it will be borne in mind, agreed to unite, and did unite with the Bell men, but refused to unite with the friends of Breckinridge. Whether they will all be brought to acquiesce in this "reat movement of the people remains to be seen There will probablv be a similar movement of the people of Pennsylvania, to take the reins out of the hands of the politicians. Why not in Indiana t Progress of the Campaign, Chicago, Sept 18. Tho Breckinridge State Convention at St. Paul, on Thursday, nominated a full Electoral ticket. Senator Rice was present and made a speech against Douglas. The Convention was harmonious. Philadelphia, Sept. 16. Resolutions were unanimously adopted at the Douglas meeting last night denouncing the Cresson fusion, and ratifying the straight Douglas ticket. New York, Sept. 1 7. The sub-committee of the Douglas State organization have, it is said, marked out their programme for a compromise, and are to offer to the Breckenridge party six electors and perhaps one of the State candidates. It is reported that this ticket will be announ ced at the Union meeting to-night . What! make such an offer to a party which you have denounced as "disunionists!" Even sol What consistent politicians these Douglas men are! It W. Thompson, the distinguished, leader of the American party in Indiana, still maintains his ground against a fusion with the followers of the little Sucker. He, of course, prefers Bell over the other candidates for the President ; but next to Bell, favors Lincoln. He also prefers H. S. Lane to Hendricks for Govern or, and dissents with George D. Prentice, and other "friends in Iventucky," who have advised the Americans on this side of the river to go for the latter. He spoke at Bedford on the 14th instant, to a very large and attentive audience, and gave his views at considerable length. We extract the following paragraphs from the sketch of his speech, published in tho Bedford Independent of the 10th. Mr. Thompson said: " He was in favor of the election of John Bell, but he had no fears of a dissolution of the Union if Lincoln was elected President of the United States. Lincoln was a conservative man, and if elected, would appoint conservative men to office, and discard those abolitionists that were working with the Republican party he had no doubt but that Mr. Lincoln would inaugurate a genuine old Whig Administration. ,IIe had but little objection to the Republican platform, or the party, but had objections to the ultra views of some men who belonged to the party. " He said he had been urged by gentlemen of Kentucky to give his influence to T. A. Hendricks for Governor of this State, whose election would probably enable Mr. Douglas to carry the State in November, and thus throw the election of President into the House. He entertained great reseet for his Kentucky friends, but he could not accede to their wishes. He had said to the friends of Henry S. Lane that if they would nominate the Colonel he would support him the -Colonel was nominated, and he should certainly vote for him. He could see nothing to be gained by throwing the election into the House. He preferred au election by the people." PENNSYLVANIA. A large and enthusiastic meeting of the friends of Breckinridge, Lane and Foster, was held in Philadelphia on Monday evening. Secches were delivered by John Milton Mays, Arthur M. Burton, and Edward J. B. Thomas, Esqs., condemning .the late effort made by Judge Douglas to disorganize the Democracy in Pennsylvania. A Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Ptnnsyluanian says : "The few Douglasites hero who were wild enough to believe that Douglas would carry the North, have been struck with consternation and reduced to despair by the news from Maine. They cannot find a scintilla of conolation in the circumstances attending the election, Mr. Douglas having assiduously stumped the State, and the Breckinridge men having also agisted to bent the Black Republicans. The fact, after all this, that there should be a Black Republican gain, tCTUshin.?, and destroys the hopes of the most sanguine DiHigla-n'c. It i apparent now that bt eaunot receive

an electoral vote in the Union, unless through the success of union tickets, as in Pennsylvania."

TENNESSEE. - We had the pleasure of being present at tho meeting of the Democracy at Columbia on Monday last. It was a glorious meeting an outpouring of the people such as gives assurance that the bone and sinew of the land are aroused, animated with the true republican spirit, and determined, so far at least as Tennessee is concerned, to maintain the doctrine of the equality of the States equality of the people the preservation of the Constitution, and thereby the value and permanency of the Union. Nashville Union. LOUISIANA. Every day, says the Bayou Sara Ledger, .the political atmosphere in Louisiana grows brighter and brighter for the. "gallant young Kenluckian the stan- , dard-bearur of the Constitutional rights of the South, . , ,,; ,)arishes of Jackson, Claiborne. Winn. Bossier. Caddo, Rapides, Ouachita, Natchitoches, and others in the Northwest, we have cheering accounts, and the lo- ! cal papers from each claim the tallest kind of majorities for Breckinridge and Lane. In Jackson parish there are but two Douglas men, and one of them is in jail ! In Avoyelles, Pointe Coupee, St. Landry, Calcasieu, Vermillion, and the other French parishes, Breckinridge will get more than i , , ,. . . . , , , 'the usual Democratic vote, as is evidenced bv the aci . tion of many ot their planters who have always been against us, but who are now with us, because they say now is the time for every Southern man to show his hands. As for the Florida parishes, (the Ledger adds,) we havo to say they are all right, and will give unprecedented majorities for our candidates. To sum up, wo now think that the State will vote as follows in November: First District for Bell, by 1,500 over Breckinridge. Second District for Breckinridge, by 500 over Bell. Third District Breckinridge 3,000 over Bell. Fourth District for Breckinridge, by G,000 over Bell. Total Breckinridge pluralities, 9,500 ; Bell 1,500 leaving the State to i tjwiti vinnn hv R 000 votes. nv(lr Bell. Donolas - ,i ' o will get less than 5,000 votes in the State. NORTH CAROLINA. A prominent North Carolinian states that what little Douglasism has heretofore existed in that State is fast dying out, and that in the populous town of Wilmington, ho does not know of but one Douglas man' arid he has not recently been seen in public. Georgia. The New Haven Register contains the following extract from a private letter received by a gentleman in that city from a friend in Georgia: " Let me assure you that Georgia will send her ten electoral votes to Washington m favor of Breckinridge and Lane. But you ask, why are you so sure of that result, under the' present division of the Democratic party? The Constitution of Georgia provides that the electors chosen must have a majority of the votes cast, and if the Breckinridge electors should not get a majority over both Douglas and Bell, the Legislature will have to choose them, which is already elected, and is Isrgely for Breckinridge. Don't be deluded about the strength of Douglas South ; I assure you he will not get 5,000 votes in this State, and that "with the influence of Johnson, the Vice President on the Douglas ticket. Governor Johnson has lost all confidence among his party. He was not expected to accept a second-hand nomination which Governor Fitzpatrick of our neighboring Stale, Alabama, refused from first hands. The Bell party is deserting their chief everywhere. A Political Perfectionist. It is very proper that politicians should avoid contamination and shun heresy, and particularly those who have become suspected, even if they fail to acquire political strength. Occasionally, a man like Mr. Douglas carries his ideas of perfection so far as to awaken suspicion as to his motives. Mr. Douglas and his friends, in every State in the Union where it could be clone, have formed coalitions with Mr. Bell and his friends, they being known to be Whigs, KnowNot hings, and other kinds of opposition to the Democracy. At the South, Bell's friends condemn squatter sovereignty, and all Mr. Douglas' principles Mr. Douglas takes to his bosom Mr, Johnson, of Georgia, who is at sword's points with him on those questions, and who is au open and avowed secessionist. He readily coalesces with all sorts of opposition who disavow his political creed. But when it is proposed 4o unite with true Democrats, he promptly refuses and defeats the union. Mr. Johnson, and the leading friend of Bell, Mr. Crittenden, both deny his doctrine of squatter sovereignty, and both adopt that of Mr. Breckinridge, and his friends, State equality, and the equal rights of the people, North and South. Still, after joining hands with these men, ho forbids a union with the Constitutional Democracy, on the ground that their political theories were heretical, and that they were not sufficiently perfect to associate with him. He embraces Johnson, Crittenden, and hundreds of others, with all their errors, and spurns Breckinridge because he is a political sinner, disagreeing on one point with him. The reason for all this is palpable. He wishes to defeat Breckinridge, and for that purpose will coalesce with anybody. In NewYork and Pennsylvania, and in other States, Mr. Douglas has defeated every arrangement tendered by the Democrats to defeat Lincoln, while he readily unites with the enemies of the Democracy, under the pretence of a wish to prevent his election. If he were sincere, he would most gladly embrace tho offers made. But his resentments arc stronger than his attachments to Democratic principles, and therefore he refuses all arrangements calculated to defeat the common enemy. Such is Douglas' present Democracy. He loves his enemies better than his friends, and embraces the former and strikes the latter where they do not recognize his political perfection, and his claims to the Presidency. Absent from the Polls and Dodging Votes. Twelve years ago, after having made speeches in favor of Gen. Cass for the Presidency. Mr. Breckinridge 'paired off" with seven Whigs, and being in the wilderness pursuing game, did not go home to vote. It would Fccin to be a good arrangement to have his one vote offset against seven Opposition votes. Mr. Douglas makes this absence a serious charge, although it has nothing to do with the principles involved in the present controversy; and boasts that he was never absent from the polls. But he cannot deny that he has often been absent from the Senate and " dodged votes" that involved responsibility. The records of the Senate will show many snch many dodges, where his vote cither way might influence tuture votes for the Presidency. Probably no political aspirant has ever dodged so many. Gen. Shields out for BrecL and Lane, The Napa (California) Times says that this gallant officer, who distinguished himself so highly in the Mexican war, and who is now in California, has. like General Pierce, and other hailing officers, who took part in that great contost against the enemies of their country, come out ia favor of hi old comrades in arms, BRECKINRIDGE and LANK.