New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-09-27

FUSION IN NEW YORK.


It is not impossible yet for such combination
to be made by the conservatives Of New York as
win wrest that great State from the sectionalists
who sustain Lincoln. Some trouble has been eX-
perienced, it is true, in arranging the details OF
the fusion-but the action of the great Union
meeting few nights since gives us reason to hope
that in a very short time some understanding may
be arrived at, by which the contest will be mar
rowed down to only two tickets, one sustained by
the adberents Of Lincoln, the other by the solid
combined vote Of all the ether divisions Of the OPP
position.
For this purpose committee of fifteen has been
appointed. consisting of leading citizens and men
of the highest character whose duty it shall be to
suggest such ticket as will command the support,
and concentrate the strength of the entire opposi-
ton to Lincoln. There is no reason why this
should not be done-there is every reason why it
should be. If Lincoln can be defeated in New
York he will be defeated altogether. If he carry
that State, all the probabilities are in favor of his
election. Thus the State of New York becomes
the hinge upon which the whole election turns, in
voiying consequences of the grandest character
either for good or for evil.
At such a time as this, and in the presence of
such a contingency as the triumph of this North
ern party, all minor considerations ought to yield
to the chief and important duty of arresting the
threatened Inauguration of sectional Administra
ton. We cannot permit ourselves to believe that
the politicians of New York, who control the move
ments of parties, will permit their personal anmos-
tiles to interfere with the Accomplishment of a
great national and patriotic undertaking. We
cannot believe they will be so mindful of old dis
putes, or even Of present difficulties, as to permit
minority of the people to cast the vote of New
York for Mr.. Lincoln for President They have it
in their power to defeat him. Let them abandon
their senseless chickering's and their struggles for
personal advantage, and unite in the performance
of an unselfsh and patriotic act. The people of
the South expect this of them--they have almost
q right to demand it. We have an abiding CON
denee that they will respond to the call, and fully
meet the just and reasonable expectations of their
friends in the South.
The provisions of our Federal Constitution are
such that President may be elected by minority
Of the popular vote. If Lincoln be chosen, this
will be the case with himfor he will have no vote
in the States of the South. But, in the Northern
States, twill be an objectionable neglect of duty
to use the mildest termif, by plurality only, he
obtain the electoral votes of those States. It is
tfililng with the peace and security of the nation
it will be criminal avoidance Of grave public
duty-f, through personal jealousies or even ordi-
nary political differences, minority President be
fastened upon the people, and especially one so
obnoxious to the people of one half of the con-
federacy We repeat the hope that wise counsels
will prevail, and that the people of New York will
have no OCCASION if an adverse result Of the cleo
ton should occur, to reproach themselves with the
reflection that the evil could have been ayerted by
the pursuance of different policy