Sugar planter. [volume] (West Baton Rouge [i.e. Port Allen, West Baton Rouge Parish, La.]) 1856-1925, 1860-10-27
New Yerk.--Thc Prospect.

From this time forth most Of the interest
Of the Presidential contest will be conferred
in the Empire State. Beyond a doubt, an
earnest, persevering, and powerful effort will
be made for the defeat of Lincoln. The
more impartial journals do not, by any means,
consider the prospect hopeless. The New
York World, which, though leaning towards
the Republican party, is a tolerably fair
paper, says that discouragins as the Pcnnsyl-
wanna new is for the fusionists, they will
make a vigorous resistance, like a beleasuer-
ed garrison that has been driven to it's last
citadel. In the Southern States one hundred
and twenty votes are certain against Mr..
Lincoln, and If the thirty FIVE votes Of New
York can be added to these, he is defeated.
This, says the World, is the last hope Of his
opponents, and they are likely to cling TO it
with the energy Of n drowning MAJ clutch
ing at the last fragment Of a wreck. All the
interest Of the campaign now concentrates in
New York.
The Louisville Journal of. the 18th has an
intereSting and encouraging article on the
subject, from which we extract the fol
, lowing:
We have the most gratifying intelligence
OF the progress Of the anti Republican fusion
In the Empire State, and we look to its per-
feet organization with anxious solicitude. If
the extreme friends Of MIR. Breckenridge
vii! JOIN the movement heartily and in good
faith, Lincoln's defeat can certainly be &C
complished. We have already had the
pleasure Of stating that by the recent COM
b'ned action of independent, wealthy and in
huential citizens of the metropolis aud other
parts OF the State, comprising Bell, Douglas
ana breckenridge men, a new Union ticket
has been formed, which consists Of eighteen
Douglas, ten Bell, and seven Breckenridge
electors, and this was ratified with great en-
thus'a'm On Monday evening last, at a mon
ster meeting held in and around the Cooper
Institute. Mr.. Butterworth, Of the Assay
Office. has issued a card to the effect that the
Administration has yielded its assent to the
fusion and the ticket is formed. Under these
auspices, our friends feel confident Of carry
ing the State they differ as to the majority.
but 10000 is the number which has been
mentioned IN several of our letters, assuming
that Mr.. Green, the Chairman of the Breck-
inridge State Committee, and Mr.. Brady,
the nominee fnr Governor, also acquiesce in
the ticket. Some slight difference existed
with them Is to the names OF the Breckin-
ridge electors, which were not taken from
their State ticket, but there seems to be no
doubt that this has been arranged in 4 salts
factory manner. We have no fears except
from this quarter, and our reason for this is,
that it is notorious that the Breckenridge
NOR Of indiana .to1oo%nJ IIn.l:.J. - n.
day, and lent al! their influence, directly or
indirectly, to the success of Lane, the Re-
publ can candidate for Governor. If they do
not play us false in New York, a conserva-
tive triumph is certain.
The Losrnal thinks, from information re-
ceived, that the American vote for the fusion
will not be lessened 5000 by detection,
which will be more than counte balanced nv
accessions from the Republican ranks, for
causes, with many, Of disgust, and an unwil.
l'ngness longer to keep up strife and with
others who voted for Fremont because Of bis
being a Democrat, now having determined
t ogo for Douglas. This is 50 especially in
tho Western part Of the State, and their
losses from these csuses may be estimated at
$4,000, including the vote of Gerfit Smith,
which is from 5000 to 5000.
The article then continues as follows:
1t is thought by the best Judges that Lin
coin Will not poll the vote that Fremont did.
lhe most influential Republicans are friends
of William H. Seward, and a wet blanket
appears to cover them they are not on the
stump or doing anything more than they are
actually obliged to do. The State will poll
Q 1000 and probably 10000 votes of these
liberal estimates give Lincoln 275,OOO, and
the remainder will be the Union vote. Bell
and Everett will poll at least $4,000 Of
course we mean strict friends Of the National
Union candidates, though we shall not proba-
oily be able to distinguish the Bell and Ever
ett vote IN consequence Of the fusion. New
York city will give 10000 majority. Long
Island VII! add 10000, and when this impulse
reaches Herkimer, near the centre Of the
state, the $4,000 vii! still be maintained. II
IS hoped, and no one fears that it will be re.
duced 10 10000. The Republicans are defiant
ana o%oastfoI, but they give no data and the
knowing ones OF the party feel rathe, dubious
Of me result, and say if the fusion is com
Piete tney Will have to work for the State il
they get IT. Thus stand the prospects in New
=" o.u o6"'' Tic 'otate OF Henry Clay OPP
pe.als to the conservatives of the great En-
pre- State to lay aside all mere party preiu.
dlces, and join this fusion, anti.Republican
movement as the only sure way to preserve
the supremacy Of the Union, the Constitu-
ton, and the Enforcement Of the Laws, by
rendering the election of Abraham Lincoln
impossible.
Al Appeal AEafnse Disunion.
We are impelled by an irresistible impulse
OF duty to address our masonic brethren at
large upon the present threatening asnect Of