New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-08-25
THE CHEAT CONFESSED.

We copy on another page the heightened plea
which Che so-called Union State Committee have
seen ct to put forth as an apology for selling out
their party to the Dougasites. 1t is for
the most part q repetition of the same
old speech of Governor Hunt, and evinces all
his facility 10 talking much and saying litte' as
well as his habitual timidity Of temperament
and his accustomed effort to be on both sides TO the
last While 1t goes over again with tedious
verbosity his familiar argument against the eiec'on
of the pext President by the People In the conSu-
tutiopal way, and while it labors TO convince
the supporters of Bell and Everett that they
ought to conquer their prejudices, aud
nrove their devotion to their principles
and their candidates by voting squarely against
Them it yet fears TO say in plain English that the
ten so.caIed Union men on the Douglas Electoral
ticket are pledged in every event to vote for Doug
las and johnson, and for them only. One who did
not know the Hon. w. Hunt might have supposed
that after all the discussion of this very point
which has rung through the country for the past
week, and the contradictory assertions on both
sides, he would at last have had the manliness to
tate clearly whether these ten Electors are put up
to vote for Bell and Everett for the candidates
of the Squatter Sovereign Democracy. But in.
stead of frank honest statement, here is the cir
cumlocutory iIvolution of phraseology in which
the truth of the matter is vailed in this Address:
awe ere not numerous enough to give the whole Electoral
Vote OF the state TO Bell aud Eytrtt Whstovsr votes
may obtain by union many votes gained to our csnd
dates But hi. all they gain every Electoral Vote given
10 In
Of the contest It undenisbe Mr. Lincoln the can idste
who has the best chnce Of but by sectional vote
the vets OF EewYk Is taksn from him. h' defeat Is certain
Bell Douglas and Lincoln will in that case, pr 'baby be ~
turned TO the House Hsmn and Everett to the Senate II
1. our firm belief that that John Bell not John
Bell then cerny Edsard Everett viii be President OF tue
Unet States We frankly declare that this 10 our hrst ooec
the end which sm and TO attain which, we ado sns
appear TO u the most practical ard effective But we
declare with TIE frsnknes Ia this frat wish
we shall be darp ined Douglas and not Bell sha become
President we will welcome that result greatly preferable to
the success Of sectional candidates"
A persistent and careful study of this passage
enables us to aver with some approach TO comb
dence, that Mr.. De Peyster Ogden, MIR. William
Kent, ard the other gentlemen associated with
them are bound in the event Of their election to cast
their votes for Douglas and Johnson alone, and
that dty ,riH not under any circumstances hare the
rigM 10 cote for any other candidates. In other
words Mr.. Otteudorfer and Mr.. McMaster are
right, ard The Express, The Troy Wing, and the
other American" advocates of this intrigue are
engaged in an attempt to deceive their read
ers This attempt is still maintained in the Address
itself, as well ss in the list of Electoral candidates
sent to us by TIE Express on the same proofsliP'
In the Address, as well as in this list, the gentlemen
in question are designated as "Bel and Everett
Electors"-meanDg to the initiated that they are
Bell and Everett men who have agreed to merge
themselves in the Douglas party; while the I'm.
preston is to be conveyed to the unsus-
pectiDg that they are, bona fde, to give
their votes, if elected, for the candidates
of the Union party. Such, too, is doubtless the
intention of the ambiguous, palteritg statement of
the Address itself. For it is not merely from
shame that the authors of this nasty intrigue dare
not openly confess it; they still hope by partial con-
ceolmcnt Of the truth and by dupcity OF language,
to beguile some col fdng voters to the support of
their desperate scheme.
But we warn them that it will not work. Old
Wings and Americans will net be entrapped by de-
vices so shallow and false preenses gross, into
giving their sufrages to the demagOgue who re.
peaed the Missouri Compromise. They will turn
from this revolving proposition to join the ranks
that follow the standard Of ABRAHAM LINCOLN,
man who still holds firmly to tho principles of
Henry Clay, and wbose personal history and char
acter make him more truly aRepresentative Amer
lean than any other whom we know of.