New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-15
NOW, REPUBLICANS |:

Half the intervOlt between the Chicago COnven-
ton and the Presidential Election has passed, yet
we have not, to this hour, been impeled to stimu-
late OF exhort to general organization on the part
of the supporters of Lincoln and Hamln. We
have preferred that the canvass should be quiet
one so that, in the general decay and disruption of
old parties the largest possible number of minds
should be open to the reception of new truths.
Then the past three months cover the busiest
season of the year for our farmers, and we have
wished that devotion to politics should not inter
fere essentially with their Summer labors and the
securing of the magnificent Harvest wherewith a
bounteous Providence has blessed their exertOns
In every point of view, it seemed advisable that
the earlier half of the canvass of 1860 should be
sgnalized, on the part of the Republicans, by this
quiet that springs from conscious strength rather
than the frantic energy Which betrays doubt if not
desperation.
But now the Summer harvest is substaI TALLY
ended, and there is q less urgent call upon the
Farmers, who are the strength aud heart of the Re-
publican cause for incessant bling labor.
The long, hot days are passicg away; the cool,
bright ytnings are coming on. Those who cannOt
give days to the canvass can at least give even
ings; and thtse viii suffice. We would have ne
man neglect MS proper business, nor give to politics
the hours and efforts required 10 do justice to bis
err di,ors aud earn the subsistence of his family.
There is no such conflict between public and pr.
vate duties as such iDfdety to the latter would
imply: and he who deserts his work and his home
to go shoutiIg and singing at mass meetings in the
blind hope that an office, or some lucky accident
will make all right, wi very certainly be dsap-
pointed. The best patriot is he who knows how to
be useful to his country without being unjust to his
wife and children.
There are those who, giving a superficial glance
at the general aspects of the canvass say" The
Republican enthusiasm il dying out; the party
evinces far less energy in 80 than it did in '56"
1t is certainly true that where everything seemed
moving quietly on to certain triumph, our friends
have put forth less strenuous less vehement efforts
this season than they did four years ago. But on
the other hand never was our full strength better
poed out than in Connecticut last April; never
did any party exhibit grander array of intel
lectual and numerical strength than was displayed
u q
more magnificent assemblage of the masses than
that which enveloped Springfield, ILL.,, last week;
never did R.publicanism win by determined energy
noblsr triumph than lie the recent election of
Frank Blair. Twelve thousand votes poDed in the
chief city of the Slave States for prominent and
incorporating Emancipationibt, and the election
of every man on its Legislative ticket firm a
riumph more brilliant and suspicious than any
single achievement of 1856. And We feel conf
dent that Lincoln and Hamlin will receive not one
less than Thirty Thousand Votes next November In
Missouri, where hardly one was cast for Fremont
and Dayton while Ten Thousand more would
be added if those who want TO vote for them in the
Pro-Slavery strongholds could do 30 with entire
immunity from personal harm. As it is, few Re
publicans save those living in cities and large vii
lagos will venture to vote as they would. But the
flag ia planted and will stand; We shall carry Mis-