New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-07-11
WHAT OF OUR STATE,

mat the State OF New-I0rk, II the PRESIDENTIAL
Election were to be held next week, would give an
overwhelming majority for Lincoln and Hamlin,
no one pretends to doubt. There are not ten Of
her sixty Counties in which they would not re-
ceive more votes than all that would be poled
against them. The popular heart lie entirely with
them, and the universal judgment regards their
success as matter Of course We believe that
not less than Three Hundred Thousand registered
electors stand ready and eager TO vote for them,
while there are not Two Hundred thousand pre-
pared to vote for any opposing candidate.
Yet We are not justified in concluding that the
State is to be carried without a struggle. There
are within il the elements of formidable combi-
nation adverse to the Republicans, and skillfdl
managers are hard at work to form such coali-
ton. 1t is quite true that the adverse factions
hate each other more than they do us; but then
they love power and place than they hate any
thing. Between triumphing and ruling together
on the one hand ndbeipg + ducedto insignfcance
on the other, they will choose the former. We
mutt expect, then, eformation-ultimately if not
directy-of by brid, tes.eaed, three-legged anti
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hostile factions will be concentrated.
In view of this probability, we insist that the
action of the Republicans of the Empire State is
not such as the e1igency demands. Ofenthusiasm,
there ia abundance; of confidence too much; of
zeal suficiency; but of quiet systematic effort,
there is far too little. We do not know of single
county in which the requisite provision has been
made for placing the best Republican documents
in the hands of every voter who will read them;
yet this is a duty which should have been per-
formed at least month ago. We can, and do
have large, enthusiastic meetings; but these are
necessarily composed in the main of our best Re-
publicans, and include very few of those whose
votes were doubtful from the first. To influence
the decision of the Fifty Thousand electors who
have not yet determined how to vote-or even to
vote at all-less has been done, and less is now
doing, than at similar stage Of almost any former
Presidential contest.
We entreat that this state of blind security,
of needless trust in luck, be not allowed to con-
tinue another week. Admit that it could not haz-
ard the Electoral Vote, its inevitable effect must
be to saddle the next Administration with Con-
greSs hostile TO its principles jealous of its popu
larty, and determined to cripple and battle its
every effort. A Republican Administration con-
fronted by such Congress could hardly be other
than failure.
Our State Committee, we believe, meets next
week for action. We trust il will call our State
Convention for a very early day-not later than
the goth of August and not reduce even if it does
not decide to increase, the number of Delegates to
which each Assembly District has hitherto been en-
titled. Let us have full and strong State Con-
vention, and meantime let us have our County and
District Conventions promptly held as preliminary
thereto. Our own choice would be TO have every
Republican nominee for Congress in the field by
the first week in September and our County and
District candidates very soon thereafter. We feel
sure that our cause must gain by the fullest and
most searching discussion, and we want to know
that at least one Republican address will be made
in every township before the middle of October.
We truit the pestilent habit of choosing one
Eector of Pres dent from each Congressional Dis
trict will this year be Oyerrued, and ticket made
up of the very abest and strongest men that can
be found Let us have Electors able and willing TO
take leading part in the canvass-men widely
known and generally esteemed. We might have
ticket that would in itself be presage Of victory;
but to this end we must turn deaf ear to " the
% shrieks of locality" and inquire, not where this
or that man lives, but who he is, what he can do
and what is thought of him.
Above all, it must be distinctly set forth and
that the Republican party is sternly
opposed to the jobbery and bribery which has dis
graced the recent legislative history of our State
That legislation is justly stencil in the public
nostrils, and the Republican party, though COM
PEELED to hold its nose, cannot be constrained to
hold it's tongue. Unjust and will speak out through
its approaching State Convention; and if few
score public plunderers should thereby be driven
from its ranks, it will be not merely purified but
by the operation. Let us have Free
Speech on that subject, well as on others.