Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-07-25

The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser, an
old and able American organ now support
ing Lincoln and Hamlin, has the fol-
lowing pungent article on the proposed coali-
tion Of Gov. Hunt and the Messrs. Brooks OF
the Express with the Douglas leaders of New
York. Don't fail to read it. The CONNER
cial Advertiser says;
We have the highest regard and respect
for Gov Hunt and that gentleman will not
misinterpret our motives, or accuse US of un-
due personality, if we remind him Of busi-
ness transaction with which he was once
familiar. A gentleman, whom he knows
very well, had built boom across the Cen
nesee river, at Mt Morris, and profited by
the spring fresh to float down several thous-
ands of saw-logs. Other people relied upon
the same boom so many of them in fact,
that the boom went out and the logs of all
parties were carried down the river some of
them fetching up in Lake Ontario. Mr.. --
was making his arrangements to chase up
his vagabond logs when one day he received
a call from a person who was loser by the
boom. The person wanted to make an arrange
ment he had trusted the boom and its inse-
cure construction had occasioned him serious
loss; ergo, Mr. - should make him repair
alton. Whereupon, the following PROPOSE
ton was made; Mr.. -- owned a tract of
land in Scio; $4,000 acres; great many deer
on it. He would give a deer for every saw
log, Mr.. -t to take the logs where he could
find them, the other party to do the same
with the deer
Now it seems to us that the result of the
late Union Convention at Utica is pretty
much after the fashion of this Proposition
The Union men agree to deliver to the Doug
las men some GO, 600 American saw-lOgs,
running down stream like mad in Republic
can freshet The Douglas men pass over to
the Union party something still more intan-
gible, and if ever the Union leaders see any
thing more than the tail of that Douglas ven
ison we shall be astonished. We are tolera-
bly, well posted on the American vote of New
York. 1t is recalcitrant, individualized, in
dependent knows no leaders, and now that
the boom is broken it will float off on the
swift rolling tide of the Lincoln flood beyond
the reach Of bargain and sale. Said a dis
tinguished American-nOt Union-leader, a
few days since, 81 always found it easy
enough to sell out the American vote; the
trouble was to deliver"
We take it for granted that Americans and
Old Wings will shy off from this bargain
for the following very evident reasons:-
Douglas is as far from any resemblance TO
Americanism as can well be conceived. Moth
ing can be gained for principle by electing
bin; and even the Slavery issue will not be
quieted. Douglas is the leading agitator of
the subject. He re-opened the quarrel after
it had been satisfactorily closed by the COM
promise of 1850, and it would be queer poll
cy now TO look to the agitator as a source of
quiet Then again, they know perfectly
well that even should the election 90 to the
House, nothing can be done there as long as
Bell has only one and Douglas one of thirty
three votes; seventeen Of which are required
to elect, what can they expect fiom the Sen
ate The choice then would he between
Lane and Hamlin, and Lane would win.
In this latter fact is the secret OF the Presi-
dental policy. Mr.. Buchanan prefers Lane
to Breckenridge. Lane has been his tool
all the dirty work of his adminis-
tration. If therefore, he can secure a COM
bination which would defeat Lincoln in New
York and can carry the election into the
House, Mr.. Buchanan knows the matter must
finally 60 TO the Senate, and then Lane will
succeed. To this pleasant scheme both Douglas
and Breckenridge object The National Com
mittee Of the latter protest against any union
with their enemies; will have no coalition
of any sort. There is an antagonism ofpoli-
cy between the Committee and the President
While the former denounced coalitions, the
latter through his agent Postmaster Dix,
called a meeting at the house of Watts Sher- !
man, in New York on Friday night last, to
arrange with the Douglas leaders a combina- |
ton to carry this State. Dean Richmond |
was there, and though not the spokesman,
was the soul ofthe negotiation on the part Of |
Mr. Douglas, who, seated at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel himself consented to the programme. |
On the part of Mr.. Douglas all combinations
OF coalitions were rejected. It was no part
Of their plan to carry New York for the ulti- !
mate benefit of Joe Lane. If they could by /
any means carry it at all, they would make a
clean thing of it for Mr.. Douglas. And so
ended the attempt at consolidation; wisely |
we think for both Douglas and Mr.. Brecken-
ridge, but unsatisfactory to Messrs. Buchan-