New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-04
TIE canvass REFORE US.

| THE CANVASS BEFORE as.
| With DO desire to ncite undue confidence, and
with 10 wish to ignore the fact that "we know
g not what day may bring FORTH" we must still
regard the election OF Lincoln and Hamlin as NOR
ally certain. OF course, we realize that the Re-
publicans might throw away the victory so mani
festy within their reach by allowing confidence to
preclude effort but we see 90 evidence on any
side that they propose to spend the next four
months in counting their unmatched chickens, or
in quarreling over thei' appOrtiODment. On the
contrary, we have never known party more
willing to work, at go early stage of the canvass
than the great mass of them row are. Their meet
ings are generally large, and animated by the best
spirit; their organizations are mainly in good
state of forwardness, and their ranks free from Bit
terness or 6isafection That our leading candidates
are able, worthy and popular, is not permitted to
cover the association with them of local candidates
who are otherwise; but in every quarter anxiety
is felt to effect such State and minor nominations
as will strengthen not weaken, our National ticket
And these efforts are very generally crowned with
success.
There are a few points 10 which we would draw
the particular attention of Republicans in every
quarter, in the confident hope that such attention
may be the means Of not merely securing our tr-
umph in November but of making that triumph
complete and enduring. They are briefly these:
/. Improve The opportunayto bring important
truths home to minds hitherto unconscious Of biem.-
There was never before time so favorable as the
present to making wholesome and durable i'm
preston on the minds of our former adversaries
The most ignorant must be aware that the Demo-
cratic party has just been rent in twain by the
pressure upon it Of what its writers and orators
have been accustomed contemptuOusly to charac
teTize as " the Niger question" Hence they
will be compelled, in spite Of their prejudices, to
comprehend that this "Nigger question is not
created nor evoked by the unwarrantable informed
ding of AbOlit onists or Black Republicans"
with the rights of the peace of the South but is
an inevitable element OF our National Politics.
which 10 soothing sirup of Compromise, no emo-
lent Of perpetual Concession, can ever expel. The
interests and aspirations either of Slave.breeding
or of Free Labor must and will be paramount in
our National policy; we do not say that
they are irrecOncilible but it is per
fectly plain that Dogberry's axiom" When
'twO ride horse, one must ride behind"-applies
to their relationship TO each other. Slave.breeding
has had long spell forward; Free Labor is about
to take It's turn: Witness the Free Homestead
and Tariff bills so nearly passed by Congress at its
late session. Democrats of forty years, who have
opered their eyes to the halftruths of Douglasism
who at length realize that the South can ask too
IL. NJ,
ern encroachment and fanatcism-can easily be
induced to open them still wider and see more.
Now is the time to make the whole truth plain to
thousands of minds hitherto obstinately closed
against it; and we entreat those who have long
labOred and hoped for this suspicious day to i'm
prove it to the utmost. Read what your Demo-
cratic neighbOrs have to offer bearingon the present
interesting juncture in our public affairs and ask
them to see how the matter looks from our point of
view. TO this end have few of the best Speeches
and Documents always on hand, and be ready to
give and receive. Thousands may be permanently
enlightened and convinced in any State where
such exchanges shall be generals and the good
effects thus produced will be felt throughout the
next generation.
III. DO all IN your poorer 10 STcHSWe" nc hfP"V
Hcdn phalan1 in the neIt COngrcss.-To this end,
it is eminently desirable that the abest, most ex-
perienced, most effective Members of the present
House be returned if possible We note with con-
Germ that number have already been superseded
or permitted to decline reylection-that Speaker
Pennington hesitates to serve another term-that
three of the four Members from Michigan have
been dropped-and that similar changes are mcdi-
tated in other quarters. Now be far from us
the notion that a Member must be sent back mere
" because he is in the present Congress: we are
quite conscious that there are many there whose
places can be more than made good by new selec-
TONS But this we do say and insist on: Where
Member has proved eminently faithful, upright,
efficient, he must not be set aside merely because
he has been already twice or thrice elected, nor
because some other aspirant is impatient for