New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1860-10-13
THE LaTE ELEcrnoNs.

There seems to be no longer any doubt OF the
result of the recent elections in pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana and Iowa. The Bla, TX Republicans
have swept everything before 8 aen They have
gained-and it is as useless tr deny the fact as it
Ii painful to contemplate it, decisive and over
whelming victory in each o. lie Of the above-named
States.
Nor Is II worth while to inquire into the causes
which have produced the disastrous result 1t is
enough to say that he division and disruption Of
the Democratic part y at Charleston is the prin-
cipal one. That Pr .rty was the strongest element
OF opposition to Slack Republicanism in all the
Northern States and if they were powerless,
when thoroughly united, to control the elections,
stu less couie they be expected to do it after
beng broker to pieces, demoralEed and dis
organised at Charleston.
TINS gene raj explanation will suffice to explain
the late efeats in the Northern States 1t is a
waste OF time to hunt up the dereliction or the
apostaey Of any party any division Of any party
1t IS the part Of wisdom to look at things as they
are, ar ID to deal with events that before ns,
| and hat are likely to occur. And the most pro-
mine mt Of these events is the certainty Of Lncons
| elee ;tion unless steps be Immediately taken to
concentrate the entire opposition to him upon one
4 til cket in the Empire State of New York.
We say New York, because New York is now
our only reliance. 1t is useless to talk about
I Pennsylvania, Indiana and Illinois. Pennsylvania,
which gave a popular majority of one hundred
and sixty-five thousand against Fremont in 1856,
now goes for the representative of the prin-
ciples by majority Of over thirty thousand. In
diana, which gave nearly fifty thousand against
4 Fremont, reyerses her position and declares for
sectionalism by fifteen thousand. We must now
Il look to New York, whose electoral vote is sutfi-
cient Of itself to turn the SCALE to throw herself
into the BREACH and avert the dire calamity to the
i South and the Union of the triumph of party
Justly obnoxious to the people Of one.half of the
Confederacy.
i viii New York prove herself equal to the occa-
sion? VIII she now come forward, as the largest
i and most powerful State of the Union, and save us
! (and herselD from the consequences social, poll
teal and commercial-o of LincoIn's election2 viii
her chief city, built up to colossal proportions by
i the commerce Of the whole Union, permit that
Union to be endangered, if not destroyed, by the
/ fanatical folly and madness of her own people !?
Are there not enough conservative men in the city
| and State, if they will only postpone their petty
disputes and combine in solid mass, to save the
/ State from the grasp Of that party whose triumph
will still further embtter the Sonth-already fear
fully exasperated- against the continuance Of our
Federal Union
i Whether this ia SO or not, one thing is certain
4 that New York is now our only hope of escape
! from the dangers that environ and the evils that
1 threaten us. To New York alone the South now
looks for effective resistance to the sectional foe
We undertake to say in behalf Of the people of the
South of all parties, that New York is the only re-
manning hope of our people for deliverance from
4 the evils that are impending over US.
| So far as the South is concerned, we differ only
| in regard to candidates. Upon the common ground
of hostility to Lincoln, there is no disagreement of
opinion. We may vote for Mr.. Bell for Mr.. Breck-
inridge or Mr.. Douglas-but the solid vote of the
South will be against Lincoln. If Lincoln be elect
cd, then, it will be by sectional party and Sec
tional vote and by sectional party having as the
basis of its organization sentiment of hostility to
q domestic institution of the South which in no
respect concerns them. We will not undertake to
say what will be the consequences of Lincoln's
election. That the very mildest result would be
to make the Union more Objectionable, and to in
crease the number of positive and unconditional
| disaaioaists, no one will deny. New York has it
in her power to avert that result As the greatest
member of the Gonfederacy, she can now strength
en- or impair it as she may decide Upon the great
Empire State, alone, we repeat, the hopes of the
South now rest for the preservation of the peace,
the security, and it may be, the Union of the
States