New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-30

knows enough to come in when II rains VINO aoos
not knor that Mr.. Douglas cannot be elected by
the House. Whatever may be the result In that
body, his election there is moral imp0sslbiiity.
Mr.. Bell is scarcely better of there, having (llke
Mr.. Douglas) barely his own State to back him
there, while Li~con has certainly fifteen aud
Breckenridge ten or twelve States. Mr. Lincoln
will, at the worst, 20 into the House with very
large plurality of the Electoral Vote; he will be
supported in the House by at least ll2 out of 237
Members; the fifteen States that vote for him cast
decided majority of the entire Electoral Vote;
and they will have, beside" the moral if not the
actual support of the State of Kansas which has
thus far been most atrociously kept out of the
Union in order to stiAe her vote for Lincoln and
Hamlin, but may be admitted before next Febru-
airy. If the election goes into the House, and
any one is there elected, Lincoln must be the
man. Those who talk Of getting the election into
the House in order to defeat Lincoln, must know
that they cannot succeed. If 10. Lane should be
dent, he will be elected of course; and then i
will rest with the Illinois and Tennessee delegation
in the House to say whether. they prefer Lincoln
or 10. Lane for President. In no pOssb event
can Douglas or johnson be chosen by Congress
either President or Vice. Their real friends mus
see this and refuse to walk into the trap prepared
for them, as their National Committee has done
as their State Conventions in New.Jersey and
Pennsy lvania have likewise done. All that the
Douglas men will or can do is to put some quasi
Bell men on their ticket on an understanding that
they are to vote for Douglas if their votes will do
him any good, and give Hunt, Brooks & Co.
places or other consideration for tOliDg them in.
We say, thep that the Bell men are being inveigled
into the coalition under false pretenses, and appeal
to developments which must sooD be made to suS-
tain our assertion.
III. The Journal Of Commerce says that "a ma
4" Ority of the voters in the Union are unqueston-
" ably opposed to Lincoln. His only hope of an
election is by dividing the strength of his oppo-
"nents." No, Sir! we have not divided anybody.
Washington Hunt and Peter Cagger have
not till. now for twenty years been united.
James Brooks and "Slam, Bang, Ming &
Co." of Tammany Hall are old acquaint-
ances but very new friends. The Republi-
cans have brought but a single candidate
into the field, and going straight along for him.
If there be majority of voters against him-which
we do not admit-there is still larger majority
opposed to any one else If he is likely to win the
race because spawned nags have been entered
against him, the true course is to draw them and
enter one instead who has some run in him. To
try to beat him by inducing voters to support one
candidate under the impression that they are sup
porting another is not among honorable MEANS"
That is not really " combining the majority on
zone ticket" but obtaining votes under false pre-
lenses. The People revolt at it. purely mega
tive party" Anti-Jackson" or whatever-was
never lucky, and an Anti-Lincoln party will do no
better. If you want to combine your piebald
forces, find candidate that they can all vote for.
If that is impossible, you may as well give it up
first as last.