New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-14

The failure to form a common Opposition ticket
at Syracuse is not easily comprehended by the
great mass of the voters. They cannot perceive
any adequate reason for their disappointment and
the hazard it involves. That it was an affair not
of principles but of men, they clearly sees but
what men were at the bottom of the difficulty, doth
not so plainly appear. And the American leaders
who have in their ranks quite as many and as
hearty adyersaries of % fusion" as the Republicans
and would have furnished quite many votes
| against il had one been efected-are busily ex
citing their followers by throwing the whole blame
of the failure on the Republicans, and representing
it as the result of deliberate bad faith on the part
of the latter This is unjust, and renders neces-
sary an expose of the secret influences which con-
troed the progress and termination of the Syracuse
diplomacy.
The Americans were generally ready to fuse on
one condition--this namely, that Mr.. Thurlow
Weed should take back seat in the new car We
do not mean that this was specifically demanded,
but it was always implied; and it was this, and
nothing else, that broke up the arrangement.
They had no objection 10 Mr. Morgan per se-they
objected to him only Mr. Weeds friend and choice
They knew Mr.. NJ. had been an early and was still
and earnest advocate of " fusion they did not
doubt that he would regard them kindly and treat
them fairy-ther sole objection to him was his
personal relation to Mr.. Weed This they could
not or would not abide.
On the other hand, Mr.. Weed had been sub.
iected, throughout the past Summer, to series of
unwsey irritating rather than damaging personal
attacks, on the part not only OF American but OF
Republican iournals-attacks calculated to arouse
and animate his hosts of attached and influential
friends. These attacks made him Delegate to
the Republican Convention, with majority sur
rounding him with whom devotion to his interests
and wishes was the paramount consideration.
When it was ascertained that one Convention
made-not specifically but no less realy-his ostra-
cism an indispensable basis of union, while the
other Indignantly repeled the bare idea of it, the
star of fusion" suffered total eclipse. What
followed was essentially inevitable.
| Under other circumstances, Mr.. Weeds mag
nanimity might have been appealed to. He might
/ have been urged to make concessions and accord
/ the CoyerIorship to some one who would be
rouay acceptable to both sides. In view of the
l DynI WHICH Huu Dtcu u!aut n-uiiiSi Hihi, 'hi'
| hardly to be expected The hunter who would
persuade the lion to give half his skin by way OF
compromise and pacihcaton, must make the sus-
gestion before he has missed his shot and broken
his gun; even the prophet Jonah, though ON the
brink of shipwreck, and doubtless so sessick that
the choice between living and dying would not have
been worth much 10 him, did not volunteer to walk
l..4 III l. On
recurring to the Book, we find that Jonah sug
gested this salutary and soothing medicanent, so
that has case would seem 10 make against Our po
stion but if SO il is one of q thousand, for We
confidently assume that the natural human instinct
runs strongly the other way We recolect, in-
deed, that Mrs. Dill in the old song was accus-
toned to summon her aquatic brood TO furnish
forth the daily sacrifice by the rather frank than
allurins invitation,
Como here, you little ducslug come here snd be Killed
but we never could imagine that their alacrty of
approach was really quckened by the tenor of this
admiration however seductive the tones in which
it was uttered. On the whole, then, we Judge
that, if Mr.. Weeds enemies who controlled the
| American Convention, were justified in demanding
his virtual deposition as vital condition precedent
of fusion his friends, who predominsted in the
Republican body, had at least equal right to re.
sst that demand and that al least half the blame OF
the failure rests on the former.
We have endeavored to state the facts with
Judicial impartiaty. We have no desire to heap
blame or censure on either side. We seek rather
TO soothe irritation and remove the obstacles which
have been suddenly nterposed to the election of
snti-Buchsnan Members of Congress from this
end OF the State. Let the whole ease be fairly
stated and generally understood, snd these obsts