THE POLITICAL CAMPAIGN; UNIONISM AT THE SOUTH; Fight Between Wide-Awakes and Bell and Everett Men; THE PRINCE AT THE WEST (9/26/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 9/26/1860

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Special Dispatch to the New-York Times. ALBANY, Tuesday, Sept. 25 -- 10 P.M. BRECKINRIDGE had an immense demonstration to-night in front of Congress Hall. Mr. BRADY'S speech is regarded as a death blow to fusion. He denounced DOUGLAS and his doctrines, and gave it as his opinion that he would not carry a single State. He characterized CAGGER and RICHMOND as tricksters. The meeting was a great success. H. Dispatch to the Associated Press. ALBANY, Tuesday, Sept. 25. Hon. JAMES T. BRADY, of New-York, is in this city, on professional business. To-night his party-friends serenaded him at, Congress Hall He made a speech in response, thanking them for the compliment they had done him. He then entered on the subject of the political canvass, declaring that the time for fusion was past, and proclaiming war to the knife against the Douglas Democracy. He declared it his belief that if through the division of the Democratic Party Mr. LINCOLN should be elected, Mr. SEWARD would be his Secretary of State, and Mr. EVARTS would succeed Mr. SEWARD in the Senate of the United States, in which event the Republican Party being in the ascendant, would claim to be the only national party. He said that after this contest STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS would not be heard of again, and that he (DOUGLAS) was now only acting as an aid to the Republicans. He reviewed the action of the two Democratic State Committees, declaring that the responsibility of the defeat the union of the Democratic Party was on the Richmond-Cagger Committee.

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The Political Campaign: Speech of James T. Brady at Albany – 2
Unionism at the South – 2
Fight Between Wide-Awakes and Bell and Everett Men – 2
The Prince at the West: His Adventures while in the Pursuit of Quails, Prairie Chickens and Rabbits – 3
An Exciting Time at Sing Sing Prison – 3
General City News – 3
An Old Man Defrauds a Merchant-A Piteous Tale – 3