Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1860-09-21
ELECTORS.
, y DryocRAcY DESPERATE

dition and action of the political parties IN
this count-v is a mere nothing to the picture
If distraction and confusion which the New
York democracy presents at this time \
breakup. a smash-dOwn, trade, cheat
= thimble-rigging, a treachery, confusion,
q chaos, and almost every thing else which
indicates dishonesty, bad luck, helplessness'
desperation, and despair in politics, are all
combined. mixed up, turned over, shaken,
nut together and pulled to pieces again, by
the managers of the Douglas, the Breckln-
ridge and the Bell Everett parties, in the vain
hope-not that they shall hit upon plan
which will elect anybody to the Presidency
but one which will prevent the electoral vote
Of the State of New York from beng gwen
70 Abraham Lincoln. Who else the votes
NAV be given for, they care not, they say
only defeat the election Of Lincoln by the
people (and the loss to him OF the entire y
Y. electoral vote would do that and get the
election of President into Congress, and
they will trust luck OF craft or bribery to
work a result 70 suit themselves.
Such a scandalous, open abandonment OF
principle, was never before seen in this coun-
trv. if indeed it was ever seen in any coun-
try.
All the attempts Of the Hard and Sptt
and Bell Everett leaders, who undertook to
sell out the votes cf the people at large by
bargaining for a mixed electoral ticket, (the
electors claimed for all sides, and with few
exceptions, mum as to which side they
are on) having iailed-lailcd, simply because
each set knows the others to be rascals not
20 be trusted for an hour and therefore 1t will
not accede to any arrangement without beng
fully sure that it retains in its own hands
the means for securing the control of the
cash, and the Off ces, if any shall be at their
disposal when the election is oyer-the
last and most ridiculous movement OF all was
made on Monday night last. a great meeting
was held in \. Y. City-the Bell-E7arctt
men being on hand in great force Fernando
Wood. John Cochrane and other pure minded
patriots or the Hard and Soft order, partici-
pating.
A Mr.. Joshua j. Henry, a merchant
largely engaged in southern trade, was
called to the chair, and a long list Of Wee
Presidents. one from each State Of the mon
(supposed to be present in spirit though not
in body, we presumed was read. In THIS list
we see the name Of Prof. Godfrey OF Nermont'
or. as another account has 1t, Prof.
Wheeler of Vermont. Which account Is
true and who is meant in either case, we 90
not know.
Mr.. denry. on taking the chair, SAID Il
disunion did not follow the election OF LIN
coin. a state of things would follow which
would be about as bad. The Republican
party were chargeable with the John Brown
raid. the murders and house burnings IL
Texas, and with about every evil existing
or hereafter to exist, in the country. Any
one of the other candidates was - ten thou
sand times preferable to Mr.. Lincoln, yet h'
%DulQ De GltGltus hlllGco al VIZ l'11iNA'i
him could be concentrated upon one ticket
Supporters of Douglas, friends of Brecken
ridge, Bell and Everett men, come ouG O
your party, 50 far as will make certain th'
delea, C. Liucoln."
Mayor Wood sad this was not party
business Commerce rules every thing il
our age If the Republican party succeeds
all trade between US and the South will be-
destroyed. Slavery in the Territories ha;
ceased to be political question" The real
question is one of trade and commercial
intercourse. We must forego our party wishes
to save the country.
Mr.. Hilliard of Alabama fell upon Mr.
Seward, pell-mell, and went over the usua
ground of those who assail that stat sman.
Gov. Morehead of Kentucky, went OF
much in the same strain, and appealed to th'
friends of the Union, to unite to prevent th'
Sun of the Union from going down in blood
to be followed by dark night Of anarchy
and despotism.
Letters of encouragement were read from
George Lunt of Boston, Washington liant,
and others.
On stands about the building, other sp akers
addressed those who could not get within the
building, after the same tenor as those did
who spoke on the inside.
The drift Of the resolutions, introduced,
was to this efect-that they should have
nothing to do with Douglas tickets, nor Breck.
inridge tickets, nor Bell tickets-that the
President of the meeting should be author
lied to select fifteen men who should make
up such an electoral ticket as the exigcncies
OF the case and the country required.
The idea Of having one man or fifteen
men, set up ticket of thirty-fve Presidential
electors for the people of the Stateof New York
casting seven or eight hundred thousand
votes, to vote for, without the voters know
ing at all for what candidate electors are to
vote,is new one. Nobody will dispute its or
iginality, or its stupidity, so far as any chance
ofsuccess is to follow its adoption The reo-
pie choose to knor beforehand for lr1ona Their
Presidential electors are 10 cote. The Repub-
bean electors are 10 UOte for LINCOLN and
HANLIN, and for that reason they are sure OF
being elected in New York, in spite of all
fusion and corrupt bargains, and all the
howls of diseord and disunioE. whether they
proceed from Tammany Hall, Mozart Han.
or the rostrum Of a Union Saving Meeting
no matter how large it may be-
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mas ''"a At turns out that il
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