The Lansing state Republican. [volume] (Lansing, Mich.) 1855-1874, 1860-10-03
Z" War to the Knlss"-H.rd Shell Address.

"War to the KnlSs"-Hard Shell Address.
To the National Democracy of the State of
Ne,c York:
The undersigned. National Democratic State
Committee of the State of New York, are the
regular and only organization for this State, re-
presenting the principles Of the Maryland Insti.
tute platform, authorized to act for the friends of
John c. Breckenridge and Joseph Lane. We
derive our authority from the State Convention
which assembled at Syracuse on the 7th of Au-
gust last, called by direction of the National Ex.
utive Committee of which Gov. Isaac L. Stevens
10 Chairman, Convention unsurpassed for intel.
ligence, enthusiasm, and fidelity to National prin.
ciples.
Our object in add essing you at the present
time Is officially to announce with unfeigned
regret, the final and absolute failure of an at
tempt made BY US in good faith to unite the
opponents of Republicanism In this State against
the election OF Lincoln. Acting in pursuance
OF the urgent personal advice of the President
OF the United States, the members of bis Cabi.
net, and the Breckinridge and Lane National Ex.
ecutive Committee, and impeled BY what appear.
ed to be the desire of large number ef our
constituents, We proposed, if it could be effected
honorably, TO combine with the Douglas party
and its allies upon single ticket for Presidential
Electors and State Officers. By an almost unan-
imous vote of our Committee We went as far as
! self-respect, honor and sound policy would war
rant in an endeavOr to attain this object our
Overtures have been insultingly refused and the
negotiations abruptly brought to an end. For
the last time the opportunity has been given to
the Douglas organization to consolidate in this
State the vote of the opponents Of the Republi.
can party. They have rejected the opportunity
as they rejected it at the Charleston Convention
and At Baltimore, thereby forcing upon us the
painful conviction that they desire the defeat of
the Democracy and the election of Lincoln to
the Presidency for all believe that the Republi.
cans will carry this State, there being two Dem
Ocratic tickets in the field.
The negotiations between our organization
and theirs commenced on the 4th inst. The
Chairman of our State Committee on that day
having been informed through the public press
that q Subcommittee had been named by the
Douglas State Committee, ITO confer with any
other organization opposed to the election of
Lincoln addressed Q note to Mr.. Wood, Chair
man of such Sub. b.Committee, advising that we
would meet at the Astor House, New York, on
| the 7th inst, and would be pleased to consider
any proposition he had to make. In reply We re.
ceived . request for Subcommittee to be ap-
pointed from our body, and We at once appointed
| it. When these two ub-Committees of Confer
, epce met, several suggestions we're made on
both sides. Finally an ultimatum was offered,
viz: the Lieutenant Governor and Canal Com
missioner on the State ticket, and one Elector at
Large and nine District Electors to be designated
| by our State Committee. At first the Douglas
Subcommittee declined this offer, whereupon
our State Committee approved of the proposal
of their SUBJ Committee, and declared it to be
their ultimatum. Negotiations we're thereupon
closed, and the Committee adjourned. The next
day, however, Mr.. Wood caused to be published
in the New York papers a letter addressed to
the Chairman of our Committee, accepting, so
far as he could accept, our ultimate proposal,
and promising to recommend it to his State Com.
mittee. He did SO, at its final meeting in New
York, on the 14th inst, when our proposal was
definitely rejected.
| The door is thus closed forever, by the act of
the Douglas State Committee, against any and
all fusion or coalition between US and them. Our
candidates for Electors and State officers will be
supported by US with all the energy and means
at our command. The old struggle between the
two wings of the Democracy Of this State is
again renewed by the conduct of the preseut AL.
bany Regency. The latter are now allied, how
ever, with the Know-Nothings, and their oppo-
nents are reinforced by some of their former
strong supporters, who have already recognized
the inevitable tendency and final result of the
Squatter Sovereignty doctrine. We therefore
call upon all National Democrats to rally in behalf
of our principles and our candidates. We ask
the more than one hundred thousand old Adam
antine Hard-Shell National Democrats of this
State, will you desert your party new, to follow
Richmond and Cagger, and their Know Nothing
allies, on the road toward the Free Soil Republi-
can camp
An attempt is being made to form Northern
Democratic party, with Free Soil element of
Squatter Sovereignty in it, combined with the
ow.Nothings of the South, and such disaffec
ted and misled Southern Democrats as can be
deluded and deceived by the false hue and cry
Lane Let National Democrats beware, lest
they are betrayed BY the glare of false lights
with which they are surrounded. The Douglas
organization in New York have determined that
this State shall be given to Lincoln. Do not
fatter yourselves, then, that by voting for
Douglas you are in any manner aiding to defeat
Lincoln. A National Democrat. in voting for
Douglas in this State, will but diminish the vote
of our own party-lessen, by so much, the faith
of the country in the nationality of New York
encourage Squtter Sovereignty-and, still fur
ther, imperil the Constitution and the Union.
The Douglas organization, in rejecting the only
/ means Oy WnlCn luis STATE could De prevcntcu
from voting for Lincoln, have reduced the prac.
tical question between Democrats of New York
in the coming election to one of future Organiza-
ton only. In determining upon which of the
two Democratic candidates they will support i.
is necessary for them to decide upon the prnci.
Piles they are prepared to abide by hereafter.
will National Democrats follow Mr.. Douglas,
separate themselves politically from the Deuo.
cratic party of the South, and join with the
Know Nothings in both sections of the country :
or will they rather continue to march under the
old time-hOnOred National Democratic banner,
which has never been lowered before any foe
and which is the same North and South. If you
. have not made up your minds to desert the Ma
, tional Democratic party, be careful how you in.
crease the vote of Douglas. By voting for
Breckinridge and Lane, Nrtional Democrats will
not only sustain the principles Of their party, and
, preserve Q nucleus about which, in the future
will be formed a great National party in thi:
State, but they will encourage their friends al
over the Union, and be received and honored in
the next National Convention of Democrats, in
: stead of being rejected and despised-as they
. | ,,oas eurelv will ha-if they nrosont fhopealvo,