The Union and journal. [volume] (Biddeford, Me.) 1858-1882, 1860-10-26

honorable n position towards the people VINO
elected IL" We note this not TO take sides In
the family jar. but rather to say that sensible
men among the democracy who have been thus
cheated twice, are placing themselves beyond
the reach Of being again cheated by going for
Lincoln. There is no doubt Of the correctness
OF what the Democrat alleges in reference to
the administration but intelligent men will
remember, that the sentiment which has and
will control the Democratic party lies In the
South. and whatever has been done by the
Administration Democracy Is in harmony with
the sentiment which controls the party. and
which has male the Northern Democracy offrec
soil tendencies Of no account whatever in the
councils OF the party. Finch from il as our
neighbour and those who think with him may.
the heart of the Democracy is in the South
its leaders there its policy originates there,
. its power in the Electoral College is there, and
should il be successful either by popular
election, or by Congressional action. the line
ofpOlicy it would adopt would have its Orisint
in the South, and be made for the purpose OF
aiding the sectional interest Of slavery.
There is now, II is true. little reason to fear
its success, but il strikes US there is great
want Of consistency on the part Of the Douglas
Democracy in c. nsenting TO fuse with the
Breckenridge men in the support of mixed
electoral tickets. Take the DenOerGt for IL
lustration-ani its utterances have been SINH
lar to those made by other Douglas presses. IL
has denounced the Breckenridge Democracy
with even more yirulenee than il has the Re-
publicans. has exhausted Itself in Stamping the
Breckenridge men Of the sonth as disunionists,
friends OF the slave codes and enemies OF popu-
lar sovereignty but now eyinees wiling
ness to fuse with men upon whom 1t has
poured its torrents of inyectiye and abuse
in the Empire State saying thatthc fusion must
be shorn OF much of its force, for the Douglas
men twill be called upon to defeat one Sec
tional party, 1.-THE Republican, that they may
indirectly better the chances Of another 1.-THE
Breckenridge sectional party"
Our neighbour secs very clearly, II strikes us
that the Douglas Democracy can in no event
reap any advantages from this fusion, and that
its only effect will be to give the Breckenridge
Democracy the ghost Of chance OF success;
yet he is willing that the Douglas men in New
York should surrender their principles and
support ticket which, If elected, would only
carry the Election Of President into the house,
where the "hero Of Popular Sovereignty"
stands nc. chance whatever Of success.
NJ - s.., In Ma
distinctly in hosting the fusion ticket tina, ~
the Empire State is carried for anybody except
Abraham Lincoln, Joseph Lane Is surely the
next President CT the United States, and in
voting for the Dell and Douglas Electors they
are crushing them: they say
=" IL they are willing to be used, We are vii.
ling 10 use them We will vote the Union tick.
CT entire, and hope our fellow Democrats Will
do the same, without scratching. Look out
that the Douglas-Bell men swallow their own
dose To the National Democracy II is HARM
less TO the Douglas and Bell interest Il is q
swim poison. Having defined our position,
we leave the question To the people. Swallow
the mixture, and make those who prepared II
swallow il. for it will kill them politically for
ever after."
This is the language Of the Sehsneetedy
Reflector. IBrcckenridgel and other papers
make quite similar statements. Ii is apparent
the Democrat sees the matter in similar light,
or ii would not speak of defeating one sect
ional party TO better the chances Of another
sectional party" Yet still holding to the idea
that the breckenridge democracy is for disunion.
aud denouncing il in no measured terms, II
supports. family II is is true, the idea Of fusion
in the Empire State.
In our view, this readiness of the Douglas
men to fuse has injured their chiei. and has
very much diminished the public respect for
the principle whiSh it is alleged he supports.
There could have been no fusion without sur
render Of principle. This is certain, IL there
was principle at all among the Douglas men.
We cannot close this article better than By
quoting the following from the Providence
Journal on fusion and Its effect on the fortunes
Of Douglas The Journal is one OF the ablcst
papers in New England. 1t says
"There was something respectable and dig
niied when the Douglas men stood out, claim
inc the regular nomination and the legitimate
succession. and refusing any alliance with 1.-THE
secelers," or even recognition OF them This
attitude, could not have, indeed, secured
the election Of their candidate but IL would
have probably secured him the control of the
party. In the general crash he would have
fallen at the top (; and men would have said,
hal Douglas been nominated with the general
acluiesencc Of the party, he would have been
elected. All his prestige has been lost, and his
friends stand before the country stained with
the confessed willingness to fuse with those
whom they declared TO be enemies Of the con-
stitutiOn, and at the same time without the adj
yantagcs of q successful wrong. IL was an iu-
mense mistake. Mr.. Douglas evidently saw
that IL was, in the beginning, and steadily OPP
posed il, but his friends thought they saw in
fusion an opportunity to secure local Offices for
themselves, and they could not resist tbs temp
tation. They sacrificed the interests OF their
chief to their own petty advantage. The at
tempted flsions with the Bell men have been
ofthe same character. They have been ar
ranged by leaders for their own benefit, and
they contemplated the regular sale Of the rank
and file to swell the votes for Congressman and
local officers, with no prospect Of any adyan-
tage to the Presidential candidates. The real
friends of Bell have been naturally Disguised ut
the trade, which beside beng very bad in itself.
has failed. An accession to the votes OF Lin.
coin will be the result.