St. Paul weekly Minnesotian. (St. Paul) 1860-1861, 1860-11-09


| DETROIT, Oct 29th. 1860.
| IL the Devil had taken the Douglas managers
! into MS unhoy Keeping, at the commencement
| IF tins canvass he could no. have whispered
( in their ears a more banefui word than "Fu
| sion"
| Fusion has not merely beaten Douglas; i,
will be fortunate Il IT does not disgrace HIM
| In New York, where Fusion had Its birth, It's
! total support will fall short of the legitimate
! Douglas strength. Our intelligent friends al
| say that the Dry Goods mongre ticket viii pol
| fewer votes in that State than the straight
! Douglas ticket would, if 1t mad been firmly and
! honestly adhered TO.
! Thousands of Douglas men will vote directly
| for Lincoln; other thousands will remain dis
! gu,ted al their homes.
| II was bad enough that the cause of Douglas
! should have suffered IN this way through IL,
| reckless management of politicians, beyond hi:
| control, and whose interests are bound up II
| local success II is worst, and past endurance
! that the dishonest scheme should receive Tho
! sanction and support Of his associate on thu
| Presidential! ticket.
! Yet this last humiliation and disgrace has
| been pat upon us by Herschel V. Johnson.
/ You will have seen tia, he was announced IL
| speak AZ Union meeting in New York, OF
| the 2lth Sandwlched in between Gen
| CoonhS, an American, and Col. Helm, Breck
| lite. CUUmhs and johnson spoke, and both en-
dorsed Fusion Helm was probably, and for
! tunaieiy, sober, and So, saved himself from
! disgrace By declining to act the part assigned
/ him IN the programme.
| If johnson has ever been editorially compl
mcntcd as man of nerve and honor, want tc
! take 1t back without reserve,
! The lcnnsyiyaniaus II possible, have out
fusioued the New lorkers
| It's understood IN New York, that, while
| seven OF the electoral candidates favor Breck.
| inr,dge, their votes are to be cast for Douglas,
! If that number will elect him.
| Bat, IN Pennsylvania, the Douglas mana gers
| have Withdrawn the straight Douglas ticket, and
| urge the support of the original one, which
| has on it a number Of Breckites, who have pub
! licy announced, in print that will never vote
! for Douglas under any circumstances whatever.
SO, the tens of thousands III the keystone
| State, who love Douglas and his principles, are
! deprived, by the action of Douglas friends, OF
the privilege OF casting even fractional vote
| for him, unless they stuitify themselves at the
| same time by voting for his svoru enemies
Whereupon, u large fraction Of those thou,
sands will not vote al all, or else they will vote
for Lincolp--a bitter but an inevitable alteTna-
tive,
States.
1t would be fortunate if its influence could be
confined within the localities where its policy
has been adopted. But this cannot be done.
! The canvass is not one of separate, detached
fights bat Jingle, national conflict; and be-
, ing such, its tone is given by the great States
whose influence is controlling III politics, as in
everything else.
Hence Fusion has iemoralized the Douglas
movement TO the EXTREMIST borders of tue
Union
We feel it in Minnesota, though guiItless of
It's crimes, and IT'S plumbers, which are worse
than crimes.
~ ~. ~
IN extent that will Justify ''cusSln" in chris
,iau; for We shall be cast into IL minority by it
! of from FIVE to ten Thousand votes.
r5All the accounts from the South Justify the
predictions which were made by the It0aear Il.
Democrat following the elections in Pennsylva
MA, Ohio, and Indiana.
The vote O: the South viii be purely sectional,
and for its EXTREMIST candidate Breckenridge
This is shown not merely by accessiuns which
are made day 10y day to his support, but b. the
sudden growth and manifestations OF DsuniOn-
ism on which the whole Breckenridge movement
is based.
When The old friends and supporters of
Douglas ia the South state Without reserve
that the election Of Lincoln would in itself JUS
tity secession. they have travelled about as far
i0lgadS DSunon as they can without reaching
1t. single step viii take them into the Brech-
inridge ranks, and that step sill be taken on
election day.
For one, inasmuch as il must he SO. | am
not sorry TO see this canvass assuming a sec
tional phase.
| ain getting little curious to ascertain the
strength of the Union and whether it has any
cohesive power in it or not.
I'm little curious, too, TO have the quality
of Southern ch;valric blood fairly tried, and 10
see if it is really a dangerous explosive fluid.
I've notion, Just at the present, that it s
rather watery and thin.
70 have this question Of Union or Disunion
decided---to so shape the Canvass that the
Southern ultras viii be brought directly up to
the rack, and be made to face their own music,
this is about the ouly point left in this can
vass for the friends Of Douglas to consider.
These Southern uitras have forced the con-
test into its sectional shape.
The first duty Of Northern men is to rebuke
them by their votes.
If this rebuke can be best administered
through Douglas, let his friends stand by him
it il cGn be done only through Lincoln, why let
ii be done, any how.
The end will justify The means.
Z. s. G.