The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1860-10-20
EVANSVILLE, IND, SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER co. 1860

or set Of political blacklegs like the Ken
lucky Intermediates, would advise or al
tempt such a crazy adventure.
Let US now put the worst possible face O
the matter, and suppose fusion of the en-
: tire anti-Republican forces against Lincoln
Ia this State, if the Douglas, Bell, ant
Breckenridge leaders could patch up join
electoral ticket, we should have to face
possibility of135, 900 votes against our l3o,
900. This we admit, would make rather
dark prospect for the Republicans, If they
should conclude to lose all confidence in th'
better feelings Of human nature, and become
believers in total depravity. Admitting tba
the lion and the lamb may lie down to-
gether; that a boa constructor and goa
may fondle one another; that a Know
Nothing and a foreign-born Catholic may
pagandist and a squatter sovereign free
soiler may lie in the same bed; that Ste
phen A. Douglas, George D. Prentice, and
Jesse D. Bright, who have for years been
at swords points, can domicile in one and
the same political house-admitting all
these things to be possible, and that such a
wonder can come to pass as the formation
! of such q fusion, and that the honest masses
of those parties are capable of endorsing
| the arrangement with their votes, why,
perhaps Lincoln cannot carry Indiana.
But who believes such thorough union
can be made against us? Nobody but a
few affrighted Democrats who see in the
proposed coalition the last resort to defeat
the choice of the people, and thus retain their
ill-gotten, ill-used power. Yes, it is the for
Torn hope of the slavery Democra-
cy; and they only can be benefited by it.
The masses who honestly prefer free terrific
ries for tree men, who believe freedom to be
the rule and slavery the exception, and de-
sire to see a stop put to Governmental cor
ruption, will be the losers in any such ar
rangement. And they would soon find this
out, and refuse to be made cats paws, to
draw pro-slavery Democratic potatoes out of
the fire.
Suppose such fusion attempted Lincoln
would only need to gain 3, 900 votes from the
others to secure the State 20 him. He would
get more than that number from the Bell
Everett ranks alone, not counting any hon
est Democrats especially German Democrats
whatever Thousands of these latter |
would refuse to ratify such an unholy alli- |
ance, made to destroythe freedom they came |
here to enjoy. They would speedily join the
party offreedom and Indignantly condemn
the intriguers. We verify believe that if
general coalition should be made against the
Republican party in Indiana, Lincoln would
get larger majority over the joint ticket
than the plurality he is likely to get over
his highest separate competitor. It is as
serted by authority that this will be the
case in New York, and human nature is the
same here as there, and if anything ga little
more so," because we Hoosiers are quite
in the ways followed by the
trading politicians of that commercial State,
New York
To Republicans-Lincoln men-we say,
be active, be vigilant, be untiring in the
glorious cause we advocate. Our princi-
pies are right, they are just, they are right
eous. They must triumph, sooner or later
we believe that Indiana is sure
or Lincoln in any and all events, and that
le will be our next President, let US not
lake this for granted. Let US consider
solid fusion probable, and let US take steps
to meet it boldly. We can beat our opponents
any way they see proper to come at us, but in
order to ins1re this glorious termination of
our efforts, let us ,oOrk, RK, WORK, till
the last vote is cast, and be acidc aaoahe
until the last vote is counted out, on the
5th of November. If we do this we are
safe. s---