Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-08-29

NEW YORk.-The Uaion and 4Tsere.gs OF
Yesterday. says it wishes there were pros
pect for New York going against Lincoln,
but has no hopes OF its being so. Pray tell
US, neighbOr, why you cannot entertain any
such hopes What evidence have you that
more than a majority Of the Fillmore men
bavs~gone 10 Lincoln: Was it not demon
strated in the elections there last year that
the conservative Opposition, the Bell men,
held the balance of power, and that they
turned the scale by casting their votes Tor
men selected from both the Republican and
Democratic tickets? Was not that the most
warmly contested election III that State since
1856? And is it not true that many Of the
conservative Opposition objected to such
ticket, advocated the running OF u ticket OIL
their own. and actually refused TO vote at all:
But notwithstanding all this the vote which
was cast by them was sufficient to defeat the
candidates of both the parties whose names
were not on their ticket. There Is now no
such differences among the Union party OF
New York, and instead of being weaker now
than in 1856, they are much stronger having
drawn large recruits both from the moderate
Republicans and the Breckenridge party The
Douglas men, who compose the great body Of
the \. Y. Democracy, substantially admitted
this fact when they granted the Union party
nearly one third of the electors On the fusion
ticket. The only error our friends committed
in that arrangement was that they ought TO
have demanded Il greater number Last
yeaa's elections fully demonstrated that =
majority of the people of New York aro op-
posed to the Republicans. The enormous
corruptions by the last Republican Legisla-
ture, which have been thoroughly exposed,
have largely increased that majority against
them. Besides there is great revolution in
public sentiment in progress there against
the airrepressible conflict and the bribery
and corruptions OF the Republican party.
The y. Y. Herald, which, whatever may be
thought of it as a safe political leader OF i'd
wiser on political subjects OF grave concern,
has often shown itself sagaciOus eXpOtent
of public sentiment, states that the Bell.
DOUGLAS ticket will carry the State by from
fifty TO one hundred thousand majority and
that. too, on the basis OF the BELL sentiment.
The Union and 41gsrio17s Is, therefore, very
wide of the mark in dspreeiating Dir. BELLS
strength in the State of New York But while
We trust that the Hsrglds estimate, in this
case. will be approved by the actual result
we eoncede that our neighbor may lave
grounds for his apprehensiOns. though mis-
placed. Knowing that the defeat Of Lincoln
in New York. is his defeat in the Union we,
too. have our aPpEehensiOns. Bat cur mis-
eivings are grounded on the continuance in
the field of a straight Breckenridge electoral
ticket. That party cannot poll vote of
more than forty or fifty thousand in the ag-
gregate popular vote Of about six hundred
thousand-wtich, utterly insignificant in
itself, may still secure the success OF Lincoln.
If our neighbcr is sincerely DESTROYS 10 ac-
eomplish the overthrow of Lincoln III New
York, let him advise his Breckenridge friends
to discharge their electoral ticket, so into
the Bell-Douglas arrangement and thus unite
in solid phalanx the opponents Of LincOin.
aud insure his defeat beyond peradventure.
Would the Union and Amerieqa favor that
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