Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1860-09-27
The Fusion in New York.

The Fusion Committee fulfilled its
mission yesterday, and made up a new
electoral ticket. All that this action
amounts to thus far, however, is that
fifteen gentlemen, all Of them Anti-Repub-
licanS, and nearly all Democrats have
nominated list of electors which they
hope the three political parties will con
sent to vote for instead of their own.-
This list comprises l8 Douglas men, 10
Bell-Everctt men and7 Breckenridge men,
the Douglas men having thus majority
of one over both the others. We do not
understand that thus far either Of the two
Democratic organizations has asscnted to
the arrangement. The ticket is simply
one that has been put in nomination by
private party of l5,-who have no hope
of electiug any President of their own and
who concentrate their energies, therefore,
on the task of defeating their principal
opponent.
1t will probably be several days before
we shall know whether the authorized COM
mitteeS of the regular parties surrender to
this corps Of volunteers. The Bell Everett
men will of course do so, us they have
from the beginning no other wish than to
! tra'ernize with any party and anybody
who would help them defeat the Repubi-
cans. The Douglas men are, to n very
great degree, since the Cntangling alliance
which they formed at Syracuse, in the
power of their colleagues, and will very
probably be compelled to assent to the
coalition, which they eau do with the bet
ter grace as they have majority of the
whole ticket. But it is not very easy 10
| say what motive the Breckenridge men
have to join this junto, unless it lie that,
as they have nothing to hope in any case,
! so they have nothing to lose in. this
They profess, however, devotion to a def
mite political principle, and the most ab-
solWte hatred and contempt for the princi-
/ ple of Popular Sovereignty, which is the
! sole stock in trade OF their proposed Rsso-
ciutes. They are in position, certainly,
to obtain credit for consistency and politi-
/ cal principle if they dceem it worth while.
They will probably, however, yield to the
clamor for Fusion, withdraw their ticket,
and vote as they please.
We do not think the Republicans have
anything to fear from fusion ticket If
/! the issue from the outset had been distinct-
ly between Congressional prohibition of
/ slavery and Popular Sovereignty in the
| Territories, we do not feel crrtain that the
| former would have triumphed. But the
/ issue has not been made. The opportuni-
| ty for making it has been thrown away
i 1t is not possible now to achieve any re-
! suit which can be claimed as victory for
that principle. If the fusion ticket were
to be elected, half the men upon it would
deuouncc the pretext that it WAS to he con-
sidered a Douglas triumph. aud still less
could it be claimed by those who hold
! what is styled the national Democratic
principle, that slave property in the Terri
tories may claim protection of the Federal
Government. Both the Douglas and the
Bell men upon the ticket would repel such
an. intimation with the utmost Indignation.
The fact is, this fusion ticket ,0ll repre-
sent no Politic1l principle lshate6tr. f Jap
peats to no liked optnions-it rests UPON
no settled convictions of the people cor