New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-21
FUSION.

The Hon. Daniel T.. SlcKles IaVOTs US, oh yer!
slight proyOcatiOn, with letter from Washington,
in whch-cOntradictingt report that he has urged
general prescription of the Douglas men-he as
serts that be has cOunseled the removal of those
only who had treated the President with personal
disrespect; While he favo,s almost any sort of
fusion by which Lincoln may be defeated. Mem.
Mr. Sickles, to the surprise of almost everybody
else, would like to be reelected to Congress-
There are good many having like him) personal
axes to grind, who would like to see coalition of
the three adverse factions against Lincoln; but the
thing cannot be. There will be bargains enough
to enrich all Jewry, and all manner of combins-
tons and xiDgs, but, after all, the three antlRe-
publican factions will not be fused, because they
cannot afford to be. Each of them would like to
succeed; but next to its own success the best that
can happen for it, is the triumph of Lincon hence
Lincoln is bound to be elected Just consider
moment:
Suppose Breckenridge could be elected, where
would the Douglas men be? Out Of Office, out OF
power, out of the Democratic party, and worse
hated by it than either of the adverse parties
they being regarded as foes, while the Douglas
men would be accounted vanquisbed rebels, ar
rested traitors. If to prevent this result, the
Douglas men would have to vote directly for Lin.
coin, thousands of them would do it.
So in the opposite case. Suppose Douglas
elected, where would the Breckenridge faction be
Utterly PROSTATE and crushed. Can you imagine
that they will contribute to such resultl
Let Lincoln be elected, and the two defeated
Democratic factions can and viii meet as equals
as brothers who have been alienated, but whom
mutoa disasters have reunited. They will COM
bine on Breckenridge platform with supporter
of Douglas-say II. V. johnson or Pierre Soul6-
for President, and, in desperate struggle for res
tOratiOn TO power, forget that they had ever diff
fered.
But may they not unite to elect Bell by the
HOusel
No, they cannot. This is to put Wing at the
head of the Government by Democratic votes.
What would be their attitude toward the Admins
tration thus created Could they oppose him for
recommending and urging the passage of just such
measures as they knew, when they elected him, he
would aud must recommend Could they elect
him to-day, ard organize an opposition to him to-
morrow One such uictOry would shatter the
Democratic party worse than score of discomft'
ures. To support his Administration would be to
divest their party of all its distinguishing charac-
teristlcs TO oppose it would be to compel him to
seek Republican support, and necessarily incline
toward Republican ideas and measures. That
would be first to render themselves responsible for
the Administration, aud then to throw it virtually
into the hands of the Republicans
Doubtless, the Breckenridge men would like to
beat LiDcoln-,cih Breckenridge; as the Douglas
men would with Douglas, the Bell men with Bell.
But the friends of each anti Republican candidate,
if unable to carry their own man, must prefer as
as the alternative the success of Lincoln. And
Lincoln will be elt cted, if anybody is even though
the election should 90 to the House, simply be-
two of the three adverse parties must prefer
that result to any pract cable alternative. The
pretense of fusion is humbug-the men who
are now making themselves ridiculous by Bell
ringing about the streets, have simply joined the
Democratic party and are trying to toll in some of
their late compatriots. That is all.