The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1860-08-04
COUNCIL IOWA, A. 1860. -



AZ OLD AMERICAN ORGAN ON raE pso-
sPOSED COALITION IxNEw YoRK
We bare the highest regard and re<rec.
for Cor. Hunt, and s5a: gsnGenAs ~ b net
n,isin.erpre: our motires. or accuse d oi
undue personality, If we remfau nm Of .
business trAnsaetian vilha which be vas
once familiar. A gentleman. whom he
Throws very well, kad built boom across
,5e Genesse river, Al NJ. Norris, and prosr-
ed By the spring f.eshes TO soat down sever
al .taoussnGs Of sav-togs. Other people
relied upon the sans. boom 50 many Of
them. in fact. that the boom wen, uu. ard
the logs ofsA ps.sies &ens es~n the river.
some Of them fetching up 10 Lake Ua,srio
Mr.-was making bis arrangements 10
chase up bis vagabond !o.-, when one aay
be received call from a psrsou wha VA,
loser By the boon. Person wan,ra 10
make an arrangement; he had trusted she
boom, and its insecure coustruc. ioa had
occasloned him serious los; ergo Ar
should make him repara,ian. sthereuuon
the following proposition was mad: VI
owned tract of land IN Seio; 1850
acres; great many deer Oh il. He would
give deer for every saw-iog, Mr.-.o
take the logs where be could find them,
the other party 10 DO thd same with ,he
deer. G aA
Now il seems to US that the rssult. OF ,he
Union Convsntfon nt Utica il pretty mueh
after the fashion Of this proposition. The
Union msn agree to deliver 10 the Dausia-
men some 81, 600 American sawloss; running
down stream like mad in a Rspu liean
freshet. Tbs Douglas men pass over To the
Union party something still more intangible
and if ever the Union leaders see ANYTHING
more than the tail of that Douglas venison
We shall be astonished. We are tolerably
well posted ON the American vote of New
York. IL is recaleitrant, indiyidualized,
independent, knows 10 leaders. and DOW
that the boom is broken it will hoat off an
the swift rolling tide of the Lincoln iiood.
beyond the reach Of bargain and sale. Said
distinguished American--no, Union lead
er, few days, 81 always found il easy
enough to sell out the American ro,a; the
trouble was to deliver.o
We take it for granted tha, Americans
and old Wings will shy off from tins ba, gam
for the following very evident reasons
Douglas is as far from any resemblance TO
Americanism or Whigism as can well be
conceived. Nothing can be gained for
principle by elec,ing him: and even the
slavery question will not quiet. Douglas
is the leading agi,ator of the question. He
reopened the quarrel after it had been sat
isfac,orily closed by the compromise Of
1850, and it would be queer policy to look
60 the agitator as the source Of quiet
Then again, they know perfectly We'll that
even should the election 60 to the House.
nothing can be done there as long ts Bell
has only ono and Douglas one Of thirty
three votes, seventeensof v Aich are req auired
to elect. And the House failing TO elect,
what can they expect or the SenateY The
choice then would be between Lane and
Hamln, and Lane uonld win. Rs g a
In this latter fact 10 the secret Of the
Presidential poliey.f Mr.. Buchanan prefers
Lane to Breekinridge. Laue has been his
tool throughout all the dirty work Of h,s
administration. If, therefore, he can Sc.
cure combination which would dsfea,
Lincoln 10 New York aud carry the lection
into the House, Mr.. buchanan knows sthe
matter must finally 60 to the Senate, and
then Lane will succeed. To this PHEASANT
scheme both Douglas aud Brecklnrldge OBJ
iect. The National Committee Of the latter
protest against any union with their cnemie>;
will have no coalition of any sort. There
san antugonism of policy between the
Committee and the President. While the
former denounced coalitions, the latter
through his agent, Postmaster Dix, called
a meeting at the house of Watts Sherman,
in New York, on Friday night las. to arrange
with the Douglas leaders Il combination to
carry this State. Dean Richmond was
there, and though not the spokesman, was
the soul Of the negotiation on the part
of Mr.. Douglas, who, seated at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel himself, consented to the
programme. On the part of Mr.. Douglas,
all combinations or coalitions were rejected.
lt was no part of their plan to carry New
York for the ultimate benefit of Joe. Lane.
If they could by any means carry 1t at all.
they would make clean thing Of 1t for Mr.
Douglas. And so ended the attempt at
consolidation wisely We think for both
Mr.. Douglas and Mr.. Brccklpriige, but
unsatisfactory to Messrs. Buchanan aud
Lane,