The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-07
The Prospect or Liucolns Electiou--Ths
Duty OF the OppOsiDE Candidates.

The election of Abraham Lincoln as our next
President is now generally conceded to be in
evitable. To be sure, the republican party,
which cannot command an electoral vote in the
| Southern States, is minority party in the
Northern States, and with the concentration Of
the forces opposed to it, this party could easily
| be driven from the field. But while il is united
| like Macedonian phalanx, the superior num-
bers of the opposition are divided into several
hostile camps, apparently more intent upon the
destruction of each other than upon the defeat
| Of the common enemy.
The Douglas organs and orators right and
left, are denouncing the Breckenridge ticket as
the disunion ticket, the party supporting 1t as
the Southern disunion party, and Mr.. Buchanan
is charged with being mere instrument Of mis-
chief in the hands of the Southern fre-eaters.
On the other hand, the organs and ora
tors Of the Breckenridge faction repudiate
and eemi-abolitonist, playing away his
hopes, his fortunes and his followers, into the
receiving basket Of the republican church. Mr..
Douglas, meantime, r. on his travels, here speak
Tag to boisterous company of serenaders, there
to the curious population of country village,
and next at q Yankee clambake, and every
where, on oil occasions, and for all diseases Of
the body polite. advertising and recommend
ing his patent medicine Of popular or squatter
sovereignty to the people.
| Next, there is the Bell Everett, or 'the old
| gentlemen's party" very conservative party
cutting in and cutting out, combining with or
opposing Douglas or Breckinridge or both, as
the occasion may seem to demand. In this place,
that place, and the other. They would be
thankful, too, for the support Of the republi-
cans, where such support would be useful-that
| is, in The border slave States-and they doubt
less expect to get it here and there, In default
Of O republican electoral ticket.
Now, with these three parties or factions in
the feld, dividing the forces opposed to the
republicans into three separate armies, ex-
hausting their ammunition against each other,
or foolishly negotiating impossible combina-
tons, there Is nothing In the world to prevent
the republicans cutting them all to pieces, as
the first Napoleon cut up the divided forces OF
the Austrians at Rivoli 1t Is sheer nonsense
| to talk Of any other result with the present d.
visions and dispositions of the anti-repubu-
| can forces. We cannot believe that there are
| ten men In hundred thousand who can read
newspaper who, under the circumstances
and party movements Of the day, anticipate
any other result than Lincoln's election.
With the union or cooperation of the popu-
lar elements opposed TO him, be could be de
feated: and In view Of this union OF co-opera-
ton, we have thrown cut the suggestion Of a
dependent conservative people, without dis
tinction of party. But such large bodies move
slowly. This Convention woald take time. even
II undertaken at all, and time is precious.
There II q shorter and more practical method
for accomplishing the end In view. It is the
withdrawal Of the three tickets Of Breckenridge
and Lane, Douglas and johnson, aud Bell and
Everett, from the field, and the adoption Of
single ticket uroa which these three parties
may unite.
Bat how is this TO lie done? Not by
party caucuses or conferences. No. II left
to the respective friends Of Breckinridge,
Douglas and Bell, no arrangement OF this kind
4 Nuuiu DC uiauc, IA Alc eltctous loi tuch uCNom-
mediation, were postponed for ten years But
there Ia G way whereby this scheme Of fusion
may be co1summated, and II Il very simple.
Let Messrs. Breckenridge aud Lane, Douglas
and johnson, Bell and Everett, meet together
In little convention Of six, or, If they would
rather have It, seven; let them take In General
Houston, and let them agree among themselves
To withdraw from this canvass, and recommend
joint stock ticket to the people, including q
candidate from each Of the two great sections
OF the Union, and Lincoln may be defeated.
We assume that with each Of the seven
men aforesaid party Is nothing; personal dis
appointments, prejudices and sacrifices are
nothi.g and the empty husks Of party alb
stractioas are nothing, weighed In the balance
against the Union. We take II for granted that
they ere patriotic men, and have sense enough
10 see and TO know that the election of Lincoln
will put the Union in jeopardy at once, and
may speedily destroy it. They oil know that
the fixed purpose, the lone idea,' Of the repub-
lican party Is TO root out slavery not only from
the Territories, but from the United States. The
seven distinguished candidates aforesaid know
that Mr.. Lincoln Is pledged to this programme;
that lie believes In Il; that he Is an honest man.
and q resolate man, and viii not be diverted
from what he believes To be his duty, until the