New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-09-20
KENT,s COMMENTARY.

The Hon. William Kent, who Is an ElectOr on
the Csgger. Brooks ticket, and who is stOutly
claimed CD the one hand as for Bell, on the other
as for Douglas, s of course the reporter of the col
loqu, admiriDgy narrated in the following anecdote,
which we find embalmed in The Post:
A LIGHr FAR AREAD-FIRsT ANswEE or BELL
AND EVERETT EIECroE in the question propounded
on the cars few days by nqave attorney as to how
he intended TO 70 the Electoral College Judge Kent said be
would adopt the words Of S Robert Peel when .niar In
ouy w,s put 20 him. When that question ], mads TO ne at
proper time proper place, under proper QUALIFICATIONS and
with proper motives, will hesitate long before refuse 70
take t into consideration" Pretty good for Duchess
County decemyr!
Let MS look little further into this:
Judge Kent 10 candidate, with bis own free
consent, for Eleetor of President In other words,
be offers to bear TO Albany and there record the
verdict with reference to the Presidency of Three
Hundred Thousand citizens who do not find it con.
yenient to 90 there personally in the performance
of this great public duty. So far, all is right and
proper. But suppose an expressman (not of the
Bro ks patterD) were tOcal at bis or and inquire,
" Any letters OF packages to-day ?'-wOuld it not
be most natural for the Judge to query in turn
WHITTIER are you bound! Tell me whether you
4" are bound to New-York, to Albany, or to Bing-
" hsmton and will say at once whether have
" anything TO send by you or nCt." Would not
this requirement be perfectly reasonable and peril
nentl
{" But" iDterposes Judge Kent in spirit, I" those
"who ask will not support me anyhow" This
IS not true. Mr.. Ottendorfer asks, and obtains no
IT spouse; so he gets off the Fusion ticket. He
does not care that part Of his colleagues are old
ire Wbiss and KnO S-NOthngs; but he does insist
that they shall be for Douglas, as he lie, and will
not be party TO giving Electoral Votes for Bell or
Breckenridge Has he not right to know 80 ne
thing of The company assigned him Have not the
tells of thousands of Adopted Cit lens who are
Democrats aud not Fusion lists, unless the Fusion
be made on Douglas, right to know for whom
Judge Kent and his ten cOnpatIiOts will vote if
elected They are assured by their organs that
The whole ticket is for Douglas; The Express and
its echoes assure their followers that Judge Kent
and nine others upon it are for Bell In this juno
ture, Judge Kent is appealed to. He is asked to
dispe all doubt by simply declaring for whom, If
ch, sen ElectOr, he will cast his portion of the
eight of New YoIk-and he refuses to answer I!
II he should be chosen ne iutmates he Will then
col slder for whom to cast his Electoral Note--Or
will consider the propriety of letting others know
for whom he will cast il Perhaps that is the fair
manly ways but Il Irish and Dutch Democrats do
not think 80 Their Electoral ballots will be hard
TO canvass if this mystery be not dlly cleared up
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Mr.. Joshua j. Henry of uenrys, Smith 4
Townsend, in the dry goods Southern trade, an
bounced yesterday afternoon the following gentle
nen as composing the Committee OF Fifteen, which
he was authorized to appoint by the great Union
meeting held in the Cooper Institute on Monday
evening, for the purpose of forming Fusion elect
oral ticket:
Cn.sIEs o'c9yos. Epw,s CHosSErt,
CHAElEs BurHsw"ETn, CuALE, SsooA,
WILSON O. HrsT, SAMUEL TnpEN
DANIEL r. TgN,SS, PgrEG b. SwEENN,
ANDREW MOUNT, jams MONROE
HESN bRISSELL, Jo.HuA 4. HEsRN,
DASIRL DEvLrS, : L NJ BARLow,
JsmIL h2tD.
Far be- from us the presumption of Offering adj
vice TO a Committee 50 distinguished, but we feel
ourselves bound in duty TO warn them not to allow
their deliberations TO be too much influenced by a
jud ce which one Of their number may entertain
against Messrs. Dean Richmond, Peter Cagger,
aud the other managers of the Douglas, Bell party
We refer to Mr. Joshua }. Henry. That gentle
MAJ has, We believe, unfortunately been yictimized
by Richmond aud Caggor, in the form of contri-
button to the Douglas fund to the tune of some
tbiI Ike ten thousand dollars which no generous.
y gave, IN the belief and expectation that those
Ylrtuous patriots would aid in communicating the
fusion for which ha NOW chiehv lives Wa do,'t
wish to DO understood as differing from Mr. Henry
IN the opinion which he entertons concerning his
quondam fIicndsi but what we insist on is that
whether Richmond and Cagger are or arc not in.
ierns rascals, is question that ought not to con-
troll the action Of this Committee. The necessi.
ties OF craftsmanship sometimes compel the iguor-
ing 'fmoral considerations; and this truth the Com
nittco Of Fifteen ought strenuOusy boar il mind.