The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1860-10-26

vastly increased majorities. The disgust
iDgly corrupt scheme of fusion which was
entered into, partially in Ohio and Indiana,
and completely in Pennsylvania, has been
repudiated by the people of those States,
emphatically and justly. 1t cannot be as
sumed that the people of other States in
which the canvass has been made up accor-
ding to the fusion programme, will act
with any less honesty and intelligence, when
the time comes for them to vote. We think
therefore, that New York will follow in the
wake of her sister Middle States, with
majority of from one to two hundred thou
sand against the fusion outrage; and we
think further, that the people of that State
will vindicate their reputation for moral
honesty and political decency by such
vote. And, inasmuch as the poisonous in.
fluence of this Fusion Upas has been ex
tended beyond the States in which it was
planted, demoralizing the Democracy, des-
troyiug their hopes, and paralyzing their
efforts, we cannot believe otherwise than
that the whole North will 60 for LINCOLN
rendering the vote of the Free States, for
the first time in our history, purely sectional
in its character.
In the second place, we think the inAu-
ence of the elections of the Ninth will be to
sectionalise the vote of the South. The
South must view the results in Pennsylvania.
Ohio, and Indiana, as determining the cleo
ton of LINCOLN. The natural impulse of
the Southern mind will be to meet Northern
radicalism with the radicalism of it's own
section. There is not time enough left to
organize new conservative movement in
the South of sufficient strength to combat
and conquer the sectional passions, which
already excited, will be inAamed to madness
by the elections of the Ninth. The friends
of DOUGLAS will not work there with any
heart, because they cannot look for North
ern response in solitary electoral vote.
The South cannot unite on BELL, because,
running on no distinctive platform, support
of him would mean nothing and determine
nothing. We may, therefore, look to see
every Slave State 60 for BREcK1NR1DaE.
If these premises are correct, DOUGLAS,
and the principles which be represents, are,
practically speaking, no longer at issue in
this campaign. The canvass is reduced, by
indications which are prophetic both in their
tenor and force, to contest between LIN
COLIN and Free Code on the one hand, and
BREcKINRIDaE and Slave Code on the
other. This is result which all who cher
ish the peace and harmony of the Union
must deplore; but, deplorable or not, it is
plain fact, which cannot be gainsaid or OBJ
liberated, and which should, therefore, be
looked at and acted upon as such, frankly
and manfully. And being fact, the voice
of the North, in the expression of its senti>
ments at the polls, will neither be feeble nor
uncertain. A million majority will show
the fidelity of the Northern masses to the
instincts of their section, when these are
appealed to by an issue which cannot be
avoided or delayed.
The Northern Democracy are not re-
sponsible for the sectional character which
the canvass has assumed. 1t has been pre-
cipitated by the ultraists of the South.
Taking its birth in the jealousies of South.
ern politicians against the manifest states.
man of our times, the movement has grown
up from its ignoble beginnings in personal
hate to its present proportions of warfare
upon civilization and of treason against the
State. They who have thus sown the wind
must reap the whirlwind. The ultraists of
the South must be extirpated. Until this
is done there can be neither national peace
nor national prosperity. We had hoped
this might be achieved through the agency
Of DOUGLAS, in the present campaign. That
hope has vanished. Yet, regarding it as
the first great act needful to be done, we
shall greet its accomplishment with salts
faction through any agency that Providence
may appoint.
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