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The Hillsborough Recorder
Hillsboro, Orange County, North Carolina
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Gen. Leslie Coombs, an old-line Whig, writes from New York that the presidential contest there is between Fremont and Fillmore, with Buchanan having no chance; Democrats are splitting support. This shifts his view from considering Buchanan to favoring Fillmore to defeat Fremont.
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The Louisville Journal says some of the Democratic papers recently announced that Gen. Leslie Coombs was for Buchanan. The Lexington Observer denied it. The Sag Nicht organs reiterated it. Well, the following letter from Gen. Coombs to the editor of the Lexington Observer shows that even if he is for Buchanan, he has no idea that New York is:
Dear Sir:—From every reliable information, the contest in this State will be between Fremont and Free Negroes on one side, and Fillmore on the other. The Hard Democrats will help the latter, the Softs the former. They all say that Buchanan has no chance in New York.
LESLIE COOMBS.
To C. Wickliffe.
The Frankfort (Kentucky) Commonwealth, in republishing this letter, says:
Now this letter is most significant; not merely on account of its statements, but on account of the peculiar position the writer has heretofore held in the present contest. Gen. Coombs, as every body knows, is an old line Whig. When he left Kentucky a few weeks ago, he was, (as we are informed,) under the impression that Mr. Buchanan's chance for an election was better than Mr. Fillmore's; and while he preferred Mr. Fillmore, he was considering whether he ought not to go for Buchanan as the surest way of defeating Fremont. With these views and this prepossession upon his mind, he goes to New York; and there he is soon convinced upon "very reliable information," that the contest in the great empire State, which casts thirty five electoral votes, is not between Buchanan and Fremont, but between Fillmore and Fremont: that "Buchanan has no chance" in that State; and that even the Democrats are giving him up and dividing themselves between the other candidates—the larger National Democrats, going over to Fillmore, and the Softs, or Free soil Democrats, for Fremont.
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buchanan assessed as having no chance in new york; democrats splitting support between fillmore and fremont; coombs shifting preference toward fillmore to defeat fremont.
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Gen. Leslie Coombs, an old-line Whig, writes a letter stating that based on reliable information from New York, the election contest there is between Fremont and Fillmore, with Hard Democrats supporting Fillmore and Softs supporting Fremont, and Buchanan having no chance. The Frankfort Commonwealth notes Coombs' prior consideration of supporting Buchanan but his change of view after visiting New York.