New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-11-19


90 On. At Last the longeEpected, an1iOasy await
cd moment csme-when 10 the deepest, desdest
silence that had ever been known or imagined
EVERYBODY Listened to hear the awful roar-oobOdy
lent voice 10 make or EWell t-that il, noBe but
one deaf and dumb old woman who was goaded
BIZ the excitement Of the occasion into uncouth,
inarnculate CITY. In short, there was never a more
disastrous failure PRIOR TO the entrance upon the
political arena of the Fifth Avenue Hotel Commit
tee.
The moral Of this legend presses irresis;bIs upon
o. in view Of the Presidential contest just before u.s.
The almost universal expectation presages q Re
publican National triumph in November, 1860.
Thousands assume such triumph a. fixed fact,
and some, doubtless, are already specializing as to
their personal status in the new dispensatiOn at
hand. But that very ardent and even desperate
struggle to precede the triumph 50 sangunely al
tcipated--that the wolf is 10 be caught before bis
skin can safely be sold-that seems to be very gen.
orally discredited or UNDECIDED.
Nearly siI months ago, we believe, the Repubh-
can National Committee appealed to the prominent
and able supporters Of the cause to place it in
funds not for the contest Of 1860 but for the proper
enlightenment Of the People in view Of that contest
and with especial reference to the preliminary State
skrmishes Of 1859. We understand that not
d zen persons took any sort Of notice Of that sP-
peal and not even thousand dollars was contrib
uted in response to it.
Name or ten months ago, number Of earnest and
active Republicans Of this city united in an appeal
to their fellow Republicans for aid in an effort to
print aud circulate One Hundred thousand copies
Of Mr. ii. K. Helpers admirable Impending
Crisis of the South "a work which exhibits more
clearly and forcbly the economical and social evils
of Slavery-its demoralzing and destructive inau-
ences on the communities which cherish Titan
any other in existence. The usual cavil against
Anti-Savery works that the author " talks OF what
be knows nothing about" is wholly inapplicable to
this-Mr. Helper being a SOuthrOn by birth and
breeding As this edition Of his work Is to be sold
for the bare cost of materials and pnnting-Sl6
per hundred copies Of book largely sold for dol
lar--and as each subscriber of $50 or over to the
fund may claim and receive the number Of copies
that bis money pays for, to be disseminated as he
shall see ft-the matter ought to have been closed
in month and the copies long since in the hands of
a million readers. Eight or ten months hence, We
presume twice or thrice the number contemplated
would be subscribed and paid for; but it viii then
be too late TO do much good in the contest of 1860
Yet, up to this hour, hardly more than hundred
persons have contributed to this effort and not q
third Of the required sum has been gwen. Yet
we're One Million copies Of Mr.. Helpers work
properly circulated, we do not believe another
Slavery Propaganda would ever be chosen Presi-
dent Of the United States What is the cost Of
such distribution in view of its effect
Four years ago to-day, it was entirely within the
power of the Republicans to win the Presidential
Election Of 1856. Indeed, had the men whom the
majestic Free-State uprising of 1884 threw into
Congress been uniformly equal to the requirements
Of their position, it hardly possible then to lose
il. Had Pennsylvania, Eew-Jersey, Indiana,
Illinois, been thoroughly, systematically supplied
through 1856 with documents and journals explain
ing the principles and grounds of the Republican
no practicable no conceivable amount
of fraud could have defeated US at the Presidential
Election Of that year. But nearly half our MEN,
beTs of Congress had been dabbing in the foolery
of ACKNOWLEDGMENT and acted as if they did not
know that to be one Of the bubbles which form,
and break, and pass away like the bubbles on
a brawling stream They withheld from their con-
sttuents the information which alone could have re-
elected them, and found, when too late, that they
were trying to ride fog which the morning sun
could not help dissipatng. They threw away the
golden moment, and threw away the election of
1856.
That blunder cannot be repeated; but the danger
of Incidence and inaciion based on overwhelming
confidence Of success is imminent to-day. II must
be ayerted BY instant and energetic effort.
Republicans of every State We tell you that the
result of the Election Of 1860 is not yet decided
that il will be adverse to your hopes and e1pecta-
tons if you do not work. Do you imagine that
those who control andlargely profit by the expend-
itlire of the Federal Governments Sixty Millions OF
Revenue per annum viii surrender them without
struggle more Determined and trying than any you
have ever knswnl They can richly afford to spend
many dollars TO your one; they niH do it in 1860,
as they did in '56, when Pennsylvania, fully pre-
pared, only fortnight before the eyentful day, to
give Ten Thousand for US at her October State Elec
ton, was made to give, or seem to give, Two
Thousand against us on tAat day. Money, sub0rn-
ing Fraud, did this; and Money will do the Ike
again unless you begin now to create public senti-
meut which will render Money useless and Fraud
hopeless in the final stages Of the contest Your
hundreds of dollars can only oyerbear your adver-
saries' thousands By being wisely applied now
What is urgently needed to-day is substantially
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