The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-11
The Conserv attves OF the noth-Fne
Bell sad Everett Organization.

lincoln ia the approaching Presidential cleo
ton and that accordingly only thirty-two of
the one hundred and eighty-three electoral
votes of the North are required to defeat him.
There is popular majority against him in
New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island, Penn
sylvania Indiana, Oregon and California; and
to carry all these States over his head it is
only necessary that the conservative forces op,
posed to this disunion sectional republican
party Of the North should combine against it.
But how is this to be done? In the outset,
the defeat of Lincoln to be the
paramount object among the supporters of
Breckenridge, Bell and Douglas, we preached
the plan Of system of fusion electoral tickets
among them. But it was soon apparent that
this scheme Of cooperation was as yet imprac-
tcable. Next, under the impression that the
South would be unit in support of Mr.. Brock
imidge, we advised general rally in the
North to bis standard, as the short
est way to secure the Northern ba-
lance Of power. But the late Southern
elections have dissipated this idea Not yet
disposed to give up the ship, We next recon-.
mended the withdrawal-by an agreement
among themselves of Breckenridge and Lane,
Bell and Everett, Douglas aud johnson, and
the recommendation by them Of joint stock
ticket upon which all their supporters might
combine. But this proposition appears to have
fallen upon the candidates indicated like the
voice of man upon the winds or the angry
waves Of the swelling sea.
With an overwhelming popular vote In the
manufacturing and commercial States of the
North opposed to Lincoln the several parties
in the field to which his defeat is the FIRST neces-
sity appear to have surrendered themselves to
the idea that the case is foreclosed, and that
Lincoln is already elected. We are not yet
disposed to concur in this conclusion. On the
contrary, we believe that Lincoln may still be
defeated. The means are at hand; there is time
enough yet to put them into shape for practical
action, although there is no more time to waste
in beating the empty air.
The late Southern elections show that the
Bell and Everett party in that section has be-
come party of positive power-a great party
for the future, whatever may be the issue of this
election. It has already achieved enough in
the conservative States of the South to recon-
mend ii to the cordial support of the great
Union masses of the conservative States of the
North. Should Lincoln be elected, what will be-
come of the clashing factions of the democracy?
They will most probably be absorbed in other
party organizations, as were the fragments of
the wing party after their crushing defeat of
1852, and as the remains Of the American party
have been absorbed since lS56-their first and
last national battle.
On the other hand, this Bell-Everett party,
founded upon the Union as it is, including the
organic institution Of slavery in the Southern
States, is the natural antagonist of disunionism
in both sections-of the republican party, which
seeks to abolish slavery in the South, and of the
Southern fre-eaters, who make the indefinite
expansion of slavery the test of their submis-
sion to the Union. We have had sufficient
manifestations of the strength of this new con-
stitutional party in the South to satisfy us that
there II will hold; and ii is upon the ticket of
this established nucleus of a great party in the
future that we now call upon the Independent
Union loving men of all parties and classes in
the North to rally.
Our conservative financial, commercial and
manufacturing cities in this movementshould
at once lead the way. Under the immediate ex-
elements resulting from the John Brown foray,
We had numerous Union meetings here, there
and everywhere, to reassure the people of the
South that their Northern brethren were not all
fanatical, cut-throat, abolition revolutionists.
Those demonstrations did no harm; but now
they would do much positive good. Let the
good work, then, be commenced, as usual, in
this commercial metropolis, and upon the basis
Of the Bell and Everett movement, as the most
practical Union foundation Of this crisis, and we
may soon have such response from all sides
As will indicate that Lincoln is by no means al
ready elected
We are gratifed to hear that In this city and
State the Bre ekinridge men are very favorably
disposed to fusion with the Bell and Everett
party. Such fusion has already been consum-
mated in New Jersey. and We expect the same
thing in Pennsylvania. Let the Bell and Everett
party push forward their cause. Thousands of
conservative old line wings. Americans. demo.
Gratis, and republicans, top, may be brought in
by timely and energetic action. who may be
otherwise left out among the waste ammunition
of the campaign. With half the electoral vote
of the South to endorse them. pere is now a
fair chance for the election Of Bell OF Everett as
our next President, by casting the election into
Congre through a system of operations Viii n !
a common cause against comron
enemy. And the Douglas party having fused
with the Bell and Everett party in Georgia, |
Why should they hesitate to do the same thing
IN any Northern State.
CORPORATE PRofIGACY N BRoosLYS.-The
Of Brooklyn seems determined to
vie with tha, Of New York in a reckless dsre-
gard Of public opinion. Within The last month
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