Daily Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1860-1862, 1860-10-16

The Empire SGa1e--IenHsylV2nI &c.
The Pennsylvania politicians tell us-..we
have elected Curtin, and there fore Lincoln is
elected President of the United States
We do not exactly soc into all that, unless
Pennsylvania is the United S,ates.-wI4ile The
fact Is, Pennsylvania is not even New York.
The Empire State j. here. nos there. Empire
is in our hands. not theirs. The policy Of
this Government is shaped by New York,
not by Pennsylvania We -Gictaie laws 10,
not receive laws from Pennsylvania.
When The Constitution OF the United States
was su6mitt,d 10 the States, the battle was
here, 10: in Peuasy When our State
Convention assembled in PougL keep,ie and
adopted the Federal Compact. we turned the
point. and TIE Constitution was established.
The pivot of Government l. here, and more
here in the Empire City OF the Empire State,
than even in Washington ITSELF
New York, it Is fancigd. will cover. and
knuekl-, and yield before the storm resulting
from disoreai.ized Democracy IN Pennsylva-
MIA aud IudiaHa,-as il we were some runy
STATE, without the power To rescue the couu-
try from he crisis Impending if n,crr
Nortbern Government l. sub-tliutcdf.r the
Federal Government which We have been
living under IFiug seventy years.
But New York knows her strength. and
her plriotic men iii arouse ana drveiope
it now NrH Ya5k has TIE power to turn
the tide. and N.w YORK EsilI try. and = Gees
fully try. If every Conservative man nov
CO. 20 work New York Is well uam, d tie
Enp-rr State. not only because ofrbe nlagnf-
tn Ie If her population. but bctus- Of the
mag ii'ude Of her re-Ources, and 81 The great
81 Ike >he has in the welfare Of the Union.
y - York CANNOT ofTrrd TO b. Sectional. or
t rleet s ctiuuai P esd.ut New York
etnn'i, VIE nos, cut b. rs-if loose from the
5 l'berI STATES Of The Union. New York
WI not peril her trad, her cuuHeTcs. her
P - ion, by any ssseh false sI-p- The com
m rcill metropolis must continue to 5e tie
m poIi~ OF the CaryI.aaz. As Will as Of
HamP-bire and NJ zine.
Tn Pennsy aBi Indiana results are
not -'pablic opigioH.' iui ID. results OF
disOFgau zed. conflicting D-mecracy in thss;.
-f - .-'tt ~ III rtlll~A ava
Ma aud Indiana has bora cat up n tie intes-
tine fight between Douglas and Brecs,in mi ipe.
TIE Democracy there have become mems
men. aud ceased 10 BE- Democratic or Demo-
Gratis, and hence the defeat IL the Deroc-
racy Of Pennsylvania had been undivided.
Fosters majority would have been 5O0Ot,
stron.-but When parties are split as they
are there, a smaller force naturally stps in.
and seems triumphant. Fortunately for Us,
the B-n-Eyerett party and the Democratic
party of the Empire State are in no discord
s-bnt are EaTchiug together, step by step.
and shoulder 10 shoulder-tO victory, we feel
sure II the city arOuses, a. il Is doing. and
invokes the State, oar majorjties here in the
city. and all along the Hudson, will be i'm
mense- Let us spread these majorities, as We
can. by an eifert worthy OF our power. 1t
was New York City that in 1878 saved the |
Federal Constitution, enacted 1t, and carried |
IL through the doubtful. hesiiating States. /
New YORK City can now save the Union of /
the States,-and save that Union We must
~. 7. Express.