New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-03-10
THE WORK OF 1850,

| We are 10 WIN the great Natl0nal oatao Oh iooo'
Good principles, benefctnt measures, able and
worthy candidates, are all Indispensable; but all
these will not secure triumph If we do not render
them efectual by work. There were good, SUB
stantisl farmers in jersey as late as Septem-
Der, 1856, who did not know that William Day
ton was in nomination for Vice President. There
are One Million Voters in the Union to-day VINO
have no more just conception OF the character ana
aims of the Republican party than boy has of al
zebra. We can only carry the election by disa-
busipq many thousands of these of their preudces,
and winning them over TO our side. And yet very
little metbodical effort has yet been made to this
| end.
For Fremont and Dayton We poDed in 1856 but
| 1,34I 5I4 votes throughout the Union. To sue
coed in 1860 we must poll nearly or quite 100000
| votes We had then but 96, 189 for Fremont in
| Illinois, ard 94375 in Indiana; we must carry
those States now, and to do so, must poll l5O,OOO
! votes in Illinois and 100000 in Indiana. Fremont
| had but la, 1868 votes in Pennsylvania our can
didates this year must carry that State; and to that
| end must poll Fremonts vote and at least 10000
more. We had 28, 1888 for Fremont in New-Jersey,
and must this year just about double the number OF
course there is work to be done in this State, in
Connecticut, in Ohio, in Iowa, for each of these
States might be lost by apathy and heedlessness,
though we trust Dene of them will be. We had
276 OOi votes for Fremont in this State, and must
now poll 325 900 to render it safe. We had but
81. 954 votes for Fremont in Iowa, and must this
year poll IS, 900. All this can be done; but not by
huzzas and professions, and rejoicings over anti
cipated triumphs. The wolf is yet to be caught;
and it is not yet time to quarrel over his skin If
the Federal office.hoders and more insane Pro-
Slavery fanatics shall Overslaugh Douglas at
Charleston-as now seems probable-we shall have
an easy task in the Northwest; but elsewhere the
struggle will still be severe one The new Office
holders cOmbnation-JOhn G. Breckenridge for
President and HoIatiO Seymour for Vice-Presdent,
will poll about the regular party vote in Pennsyga-
MIA and In this State, though will not be so well
adapted to picking up outsiders as would ticket
reading Douglas for President with Stephens Tor
Vice Ia New.Jersey, the difference between the
two tickets will be more serious; but the great
Railroad Monopoly in that State, backed by the
bulk of its Ignorance, intemperance, and vice, and
by the habit which impels some good citizens to
vote any and every ticket labeled Democratic, can
poll nearly half the entire vote for any candidates it
may see fit to favor; and if the platform affirmed
the policy of reopening the African Slave Trade and
reestabllshing Slavery in New-Jersey this vote
would not be materially lessened. New-Jersey
can be carried against this formidable combine
ton, as il has been; but the undertaking involves
an early commencement, with bard work and
plenty of it, to the end of the campaign.
The Triumph we must achieve in 1860 requires
l. Kindly feeling and concatory policy to- !
ward those who have hitherto been separated from
us rather by diverstes of organization, or of per-
sonal preference than byradica antagonsm Of ideas
and purposes;
H. Early and universal Organization, by States, |
Counties, Townships and Villages, or Election Dis |
tricts under the lead Of Of worth and o. work;
III. Prompt, persistent efforts by each organiza-
ton to impel kindred organizations in every neigh
boring county or township, but especially in those
where we have hitherto been weak;
w. The systematic and universal circulation
and diffusion of Republican newspapers and docu-
ments;
" Seasonable and effective precautions against
frauds on the Ballot, Box, especially in districts
where our adyersaIies have an overwhelming pre-
ponderance.
We do not believe our friends generally are yet
fully conscious Of the value Of the best documents
seasoDaby circulated. Take Mr. Grows late
Speech on the proper policy to be pursued with
regard to our Public Lands, demonstrating the
wisdom, benefcence, and true National economy Of
apportioning those Lands in quarter-sectiOAs to
Actual Settlers, and thus preventing their monopoly
BY fOrestallers and spectators: We believe that
Speech, if this day in the hands Of every voter in
the country, would go very far toward securing
Republican triumph next November. Other
Speeches have been made on this subject we pre-
sumo quite as able as this; but the fact that Land
Reform will never be effected nor favored by the
Slavery E1tensiOnists as party, ard that the
tendency of RepubGcanism is essential 10 its tri.
umph was never before made 50 palpable. Three
Millions of that Speech ought to be distributed to
many iresides forthwith; We shall send out some
Three Hundred Thousand of them; bat what of
the rest Six months hence, we can raise the
wherewitha 10 disseminate any number of them;
but then the passions will have been heated, the
voters committed, and hundred copies will not do
so much good as ten would now. We firmly be-
lieve that any Slave State might be carried Repub-
lican, if we could only be allowed free access to
and Free Speech in it, on the Homestead bill
alone.
Our National Committee have probably added
One Hundred Thousand Votes to the Republican