New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-25

deficit of One Hundred Thousand Votes in
the Douglas poll next November. Nom'-
mated in April, Dougas would probably
have carried Indiapa, and closely contested
the entire Northwest Nominated the last
of June. OF the beel Of an intestine party feud OF
tw o months duration, We reckon that he must hght
ard for the vote of single Free State even Cal
iforria IL the Slave States, We trust he VIII beat
the Fire eaters: but the desperate strife between
them is likely to give Maryland, Virginia. North
Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, and perhaps FLOR
ida. 10 Bell and Everett. Delaware is most likely
10 90 for LincOn; Missouri is very uncertain;
Texas threatens to vote for sam Houston: ana
what is there left The probability to-day IS that
the tuo rival Democratic tickets will not both re-
ceive fifty Electoral Votes. Unless their respective
bscktrs can bargain with each other to give ana
take, State for State, they are clearly beaten az
tie start. And if they shall thus bargain, Doug
Lar must lose his precari HIS holden thousands inal
the Free States. He made very Damaging con-
cession last week. in consenting to the following
addition to his Platform:
Re,olred That accordance with the Cincinnati plat
form during existence of Territorial Governments the
measure Of restriction Whatever it be- imposed oy the
Constitution the power of the Territorial
oy The subject of the domestic restions as the same mas oe
or shall hereafter fusy determined by the Supreme court oil
IN, ud States should be respected by all good citizens and
enforced with pronpes- and dy BY every branch oil the
sencrel government"
-Ibls either means nothing at all, or it means
that "all good citizens should unite in repro
batting and putting down any attempt at legislation
ID Territory to uphold the right OF every one
who labors to the fruits of mis- labor-Of every ra-
tiopal. Innocent human being to the ownership of
his own BRAIN, bones and siuews 1t is In effect
surrender of Squatter Sovereignty in favor OF Su-
preme Court Sovereignty. Yet this, while It
ueakens Douglas with those inclined to support
him, will not win him vote among those de-
termined to oppose him. They have hitherto
dreaded him rs AN uusound and dangerous poll
tician; they will how stiguatize him as trimmer
and hypDcriIe, who was willing to distract and
destroy his party for dogma, and now sacrifices
that dogma to desperate hope of attaining the
Presidency.
To the Republicans, the path of duty is now
plain. Our adverSaries are not about to give US
the eleciion-iar from it. Mr.. Douglas and his
hackers have staked their all on this struggle, and
they will prosecute the canvass with an energy
and desperation rarely if ever, before known.
Cutting loose from the expiring Administration,
they will denouDce withoutmedsure It's corruptions,
its imbecility and ITS tyranny, and endeavor to
make capital out of its universal unpopulariiy.
We must net calculate on the boilers ticket poll-
ing many votes in the only States where those
votes would help us; but there are hundreds OF
thousands who have hitherto voted whatever ticket
" as duly labeled "Democratic," without hesita-
ton and almost without thought. Now, these
men uW think-they cannot help it-and tens OF
thousands of them will hear us with abated preju-
dice, and will discover that doctrines and
purposes are not what they have supposed
them. We can carry every Free State but Cali
fo,nia, with Delaware to balance her, if We only
strive as we ought to place our views and our
standardbearers fully and fairly before the whole
American People. This is our duty and our proper
work: if we do il, we need not ask care which
OF the Baltimore tickets is running best in the
Slave States, nor how many thousand votes can be
polled for the boilers ticket in this or that Free
State. Let us show ourselves competent to govern
the country by systematic effort to en'ighten and
convince it, aud We shall not merely carry the Flee
ton overwhelmingly, but achieve an ascendency
which 10 future coalition of the beaten factions
will be able to oyerturn.