Weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1858-1865, 1860-10-03
Total,
*On the Breckenridge ticket.
mot on the Breckenridge ticket,


1t is understood that this ticket has been approx
ed by the Douglas State Committee. The Mozart
Hall or Wood Democracy have also passed resolu-
tions cordially approving it. ALREADY, therefore"
says the Journal Of Commerce. ait is assented to
by an immense majority of the antiLincoln forces
In the State and the remainder will yet come in, or
be left high and dry on the beach, There is no
time for new arrangements and none will be at
tempted" This ticket is the result of the action of
the Committee of Fifteen appointed by the Union
Meeting held at the Cooper Institute.
We are surprised and mortified to learn, as We do
from the Journal Of Commerce, that the Breckin-
ridge Committee has not yet concurred in this ar
rangement; and that James 7. Brady, the Breckin-
ridge candidate for Governor, is denouncing the
proposed union in the strongest terms. The Journ-
al Of Commerce says:
Whether the Rreckinridge State Committee will
concur, remains to be seem. Individual members
of that Committee have expressed themselves hos
tile to the movement but it is not yet certain that
such ale the views of the majority An any rate,
will guarantee that the great body of the Brock
inrdge men in this part of the State, where they
far numerous than in the interior, will go
for the above ticket Even the Day Book and
Brooklyn Eagle give it their approval"
This union of the conservative forces of New
York against Lincoln has seriously alarmed the
leaders Of the republican party. They know that
without New York Lincoln cannot possibly be elect
ed Thurlow Weed, of the Albany Erening .ourn-
atsays:
"New York is to be 1.-THE battle ground" 1t is
to make it such that the disgraceful combinations
have been formed which will stamp the conspirators
with enduring infamy. It is to make it such that
democracy has made its unnatural allies with
Americanism; that men entaining the most hostile
and conflicting opinions have coalesced; that places
of honor have been put up at auction, and that to
day electorships are hawked about Wall street like
bank stock cotton bales, and offered to whoever
will pay the most money for them. And men will
traffic thus with the hottest trusts known to in
situations will not leave the field without hard
struggle for the mastery.
We are therefore justified in sounding out this
note Of alarm, and of warning our friends against
the neglect any single agency ordinarily and wisely
employed in the most closely contested elections.
For certain victory, in State and nation, will reward
hard work. Defeats only come from neglect"
The Committee of Fifteen, the Bell men, the
Douglas men, the Houston men, and the Wood men
of New York deserve the thanks Of the whole coun-
try for this effort of theirs to defeat Lincoln and
preserve the government from the grasp of the
black Republicans We hope to have it in our
power to announce in our next that the Breckin-
ridge Committee, though in all probability it has
not had justice in this arrangement, has neverthe-
less for the sake of the country agreed to it.
| If this ticket shall succeed in New York, in the
first place Lincoln will be defeated and in the sec.
ond place, there will be 155 Breckenridge Douglas,
and Bell Electors. 152 votes will elect President
and Vice President. What then? Let these 155
Electors assemble at some point, deliberate, and
agree to cast the vote of their respective Colleges
for Breckenridge Douglas, or Bell or, if they find
it impossible to agree upon one of these three, let
them take up and elect some new man. Let the
election, if possible, De kept out of the House of
Representatives With 1876 anti-Lincoln Electors,
and with union among these Electors, Lncoln's de-
feat would be fixed fact; but to throw the cleo
ton into the House under these circumstances,
would be to give Lincoln new chances for success,
and would at the same time expose the House to
excitements and convulsions which might result in
bloodshed and violent dissolution of the govern
ment We say, therefore, let the 155 Electors be
secured and then let them elect the President.
The Constitution contempates this 1t was never
intended that the election should 60 to the House
until all other Constitutional efforts had been made
and failed If these 155 votes should be secured,
and if the course here suggested should be adopted
by the Electors, that candidate who obtains the
most Electoral votes will be most likely to be the
President This fact should stimulate the friends of
Breckenridge to renewed exertions With the 100
votes of the slavehoding States or with even 70 to
100, he would embody and present a moral as well
ss political force before this grand council of Elec.
tors, which it would be impossible to resist
| &eWa invita- the attention of onr readers To the