New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-11-08
Albany, and carried ihs Albany and Schenectady
Copsrtss Districts agAinstus. wgrnrf E.
TIKI CANVASS.

powerful by virtue Of its discipline than even BY
its numerical strepgth-entered upon Presi'
Dental canvass with two diverse tickets and organ
izatons-nay, with two clearly Incompatible
creeds or platforms as well. We regard tins diviS-
ion a. one main cause of its overthrow. Trle the
country was ripe for changetbe feeling that such
change was needed was very general-and the
u.mber that desired was greater than that oil the
stil formidable array that dreaded it. But the
| Opposition was itself irreconcilably divided-the
prestige of almost uniform success (wthout which
the most extensive political patronage is 8 source
of weakness rather than of strengb) largely con-
tributed to render the Democracy invincible-
while the preponderance of material interests
| rarely more potent than in our day seemed
| TO favor its retention Of power. Had but single
| Democratic ticket been presented, upon common
and generally accepted platform, the chances, would
have been 10 favor Of its election. But-to go no
further back-from the date of the monstrous at
tempt to force the Slave Constitution concocted at
Lecompton upon the protesting People of Kansas
by the strong arm of Federal power, down through
| the elaborate efforts to fasten upon the party
through the Senate an aifirmance as party dogma
of the right Of Slavery in the Territories g. Con-
gressonal protection, to its logical sequence in
| the disruptons at Charleston and Baltimore, the
Democratic machine would seem to have been run
for the express purpose of securing Republican
triumph in 1860. The partial fusion, with the
general and frantic activity of the last two months
of the canvass but meagery atoned for the persls-
-, Of ha fun nrpcadirU
III. The "Wide. Awake and kindred organiza-
tons of 1660-tbat is, the embodying and drilling
of the younger aud more ardent members OF either
party for efficient service in the canvass as well as
at the polls-was another striking popularity Of
the late contest, contributing much to its interest
and its animation. The embodied thousands who
marched in serried ranks and wheeled at the word
of command were not merely auditors at the pub
lie gatherings of their respective parties: they
were consciously part of the attracton-we may
say, of the appeal for sympathy and favor. The
" Wide.Awake" organization has unquestionably
contributed largely to the auspiciOus result.
iii. While the circulation of Speeches, Cam
paign Lives and pamphlet Essays-the whole
usually grouped under the appellation of Docu-
ments-has not been remarkably large, the num-
Der of meetings and oral addresses in this canvass
has been far beyond precedent. We judge that
the number of speeches made during the recent
campaign has been quite equal to that OF oil that
were made in the previous Presidential canyasses
from 1889 to 1859 inclusive. Many of these were
of course quite commonplace; bat the appeals
to name those only who spoke on the Repub.
lican side of Salmon p. Chase, Benjamin f. Wade
Thomas Corwin, Robert G.. Schenck, John Sher-
man. Frederick Hassaurek, and Thomas III. Ford
of Ohio, Thaddeus Stevens, David WImot, An
drew H. Reeder, and Thomas Williams of Penn
sylyania, William L. Dayton, of New-Jersey, Caleb
B. Smith, Henry S. Lane, Oliver p. Morton of In
diana, Lyman Trumbull, Owen LovejOy, Oliver II.
BrowniDg and Daniel Davis, of Illinois, Henry
Wilson and Arson Burlingame of Massachusetts,,
Francis P. Blair, of Missouri, Cassius NJ. Clay Of
Kentucky, Carl Schurz, and Senator DOottle of
Wisconsin, William ii. Seward, David Dudley
Field William NJ. Evarts, Henry b. Stanton,
Erastus d. Culver, William II. Burleigh, and
many others of our State with hundreds of hardly
| inferior speakers, whom we cannot now name,
| were unusually cogent and effective. Hundreds,
we presume, llhe JoscPn hohe, OoulBo W.
| Curtis Daniel Ullmann James A. Briggs, George
| G. Bellows, &C., of our City, have spoken almost
| daily for the last two or three months; many have
| spoken less frequently, but have at all times
stood ready to serve the good cause whenever
| and wherever their aid was demanded Never was
there any approach to parallel to the earnestness
and industry of the canvassju just completed, where
| 10 al No
| estimate that not less than ten thou sand set
| speeches have been made in this State alone, and
probably not LEES than fifty thousand within the
limits of the Union, to persuade their hearers to
help elect or defeat Lincoln for President in 1860.
| As natural consequence, the public mind is pro-
badly far better instructed with regard TO the issues
involved in the contest than il ever was before.
| That there should be large and general increase
in the actual and relative vote of the Republicans,
| we regard as a matter of course. II our adyer-
saIes only dare allow us to canvass the Slave States
as thoroughly as we have just canyassed the Free,
we will confidently undertake to carry the former
also in the next canvass by handsome majority.
". The very general enlistment of the Mercan-
tile and Capitalist classes in the Fusion cause by
shTieks of apprehension that the Union was about
to be dissolved in case of LincOlh's election, was
another salient feature OF the canvass. Nothing
like it has been seen since the Bank controversy Of
1928; and even that did not compare in the in
tensity and unanimity of the commercial Juror
with that whose results we now contemplate
Many Of our merchants must have really believed
that the Slave States where about either 10 break
I'D the Union or (what was regarded az about the