The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-18

duty Of every voter of this legislativeIy dis
graced State to attend to nominations for As
sembiy They owe it to themselves, the State,
nation and common honesty.
The New Union Movermsnt--New York
the Battle Field.
The coalition movement of the late SYRIA
cuse Convention, in connection with the tre-
mendous popular conservative reaction which
has broken out In the Southern States, signid-
canty points the way to the defeat of "Houest
Old Abe Lincoln" and to the prostration. of this
misunderstanding and dangerous slavery agi-
tating Northern republican party.
New York is the key to the possession Of the
battle feld Her electoral vote, added to the
vote of the South, will give an electoral vote
of l55 against Lincoln, or three more than the
required majority vote of l52. And now the
6ght begins; for the materials are at hand, and
the plan has been adopted whereby they be
effectively combined for the reconquest of the
Empire State by the majority Of her people. In
1856 the popular vote Of Buchanan and Fill
more in this State exceeded that of Fremont by
some $4,000. Since that our local elections have
gone by default; but they all show the republi-
can party to be in fixed minority of the popu-
lar vote. Last year, upon the test vote of Sec
rotary Of State, the popular majority against
this party was only fourteen hundred;
but then there was total deficiency in the po-
pular vote, as compared with that of 1856, Of
some $4,000. The republican party fell behind
its vote for Fremont only about $4,000, leaving
margin upon fair estimate for an outstand-
ing majority against the republicans of between
forty and fifty thousand.
The bulk of this ant-black republican vote
will be brought out upon the joint stock Doug
Las and Bell electoral ticket. A few thousand
scattering votes may now be counted for
Breckinridge; but there is good ground for the
belief that bis partisans in this State will come
into line in season to give the finishing blow to
"Oid Abe" in November. Let this complete
fusion be made Of the anti-Lincoln elements Of
New York, and New Jersey, Pennsylvania, ID
diana, Illinois, Rhode Island aud Connecticut
will follow her example, whereby most, If not
all, of these States may be turned against the
republican ticket.
And why should not the Breckenridge and
the Douglas democracy coaIesce in all the
Northern States. with the Bell and Everett
party. The paramount issue between the
intractables of the two democratic fac
tons appears to be the whip-hand of the demo-
cratic party for 1864. But can they not see that
this old, WORKOUT party has gone the way Of
the old wing party-that it is dead-and that
its funeral rites are now going on, and will be
finished with the burial of the defunct In No
vemberf Why, then, stick to these old party
names and associations, when the party itself
has ceased to be? The Douglas democracy and
the Breckenridge democracy are liberated and
having no sympathies with the Southern fire.
eating democracy, and being equally opposed
to the abolition programme of the republican
party, what Is there to prevent the proposed
Northern coalition, in cooperation with this
new and powerful Union movement in the
South?
or that State, among the parties interested in
this plan Of a general coalition, is secondary
matter: the first necessity among all concerned
is Lincoln's defeat Acting under this common
impulse-the defeat Of Lincoln-as their first
object the disbsnded democracy, in conjunction
with the Bell and Everett party in New York
alone, can do the work. They have fixed ma.
jority of the popular vote of this State to begin
with, and they have all the moral advantages
on their side, Of the irrepressible conflict
the John Brown foray aud its teachings, the sac.
rifoe Of Seward, and the manifold eorruptons
Of the republican party at Albany last win.
ter. Thus, through a generous rivalry in the
common cause, and by proper management
among the several parties opposed to Lincoln
in this State, it may be carried against him to
the extent of forty, ffty, yea, sixty thousand,
majority.
This will do; for this result will be the end of
Lincoln, aud the cod Of this anti slavery holy
alliance Of the North and its unholy crusade
against the institutions Of the South and the
peace Of the Union.