Semi-Weekly Mississippian [Jackson, MS], September 21, 1860
Austin, September 3, 1860.
Editor Mississippian: Our State has achieved a great victory over the Opposition, and the Democracy are wide awake and hard at work for a more important and more glorious triumph in November next. Our ticket, as far as heard from, is seventeen thousand ahead.
The Opposition are busy in getting up a fusion ticket, with Bell and Douglas. A petition to that end is circulating to-day. Numbers who have heretofore voted with them, refuse to sign it. They can home for nothing in Texas. We will beat them at the very lowest twenty thousand votes. All their work and zeal will only mount to a bid for office under Bell or Douglas, should either of them by any possibility be elected.
We have every confidence in the success of Breckinridge and Lane. Our electors are canvassing the State. Besides, in the Western District, Oldham, Potter, Scurrey, Neal, and a host of others, are doing good work on the stump. We will dry them up worse in November than our corn and cotton was dried up in June and July by the drouth . The South will never rebuke Tennessee for rebuking a man with such a record as John Bell. Move on the ball.
Very truly,
Texas.