The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-04

PAKrr CONTRIBUTORS FOR PRESIDENTIAL PuR-
POSES No NSSD or THEM THIS TuE.-We feel
authorized to announce to the money contrbu-
tors Of all parties and factions concerned, that
they will be acting wisely this time to treat all
applications for money for Presidential purpo-
SEES in this campaign with fat refusal to give
copper. There is no necessity for any such
contributions to the cause Of "Old Abe Lin
cOln," and all moneys bestowed to aid in the
work of electipg either Breckenridge, Bell or
Douglas, are moneys foolishly thrown away.
The result of the election is foregone conclu-
sion. Lincoln will be elected not only so, but
from present appearances he will walk over the
course
How can beleaguered city stand against
formidable outside enemy with the forces of
the garrison divided into hostile parties and
Sighting among themselves The democracy
are involved in the wars of the roses. The
Douglas faction wear the white rose of York,
and the Breckenridge faction sport the red rose
of Lancaster There are also six Richmonds in
the field, exclusive of the Dean Of the Albany
Regency. And with what an JUNCTION do the
Douglas and the Breckinridge factions pitch
into each other. If we may believe the one
side, Breckenridge is disunionist, conspira-
tor secession fre-eatsr, and Mr.. Buchanans
administration is the most corrupt despotism
the world has ever seen; If we may credit the
other side, Douglas is demagogue, traitor.
an abolition incendiary in the fimsy disguise of
squatter sovereignty, and is only playing the
game of Van Buren, Of 184S.
Thus, on the side of Douglas we find bis Or
gans and orators, North and South, East and
West, almost entirely overlooking the existence
Of Lincoln while they are pouring their shot
and shells, grape, canister and musketry, front
and flank, into the Breckenridge democracy.
And the same holds good with the Breckenridge
faction, though not to the same extent. Mean
time, the Bell and Everett pipelayers, confess
ing their weakness before they have made any
trial of their strength, have been bobbing, hob
nobbing around, patching up in one place
trade with the Breckenridge men, selling
out in another place to Douglas on trust;
here seeking to sandwich themselves be-
tween Breckenridge and Douglas, and there
urging on the fight between the two factions,
SO that the Bell and Everett ticket may be slip.
ped in between them.
If there were any positive assurance that
Breckenridge would carry the whole South,
then hundred thousand dollars or so might
turn the tide of battle in Pennsylvania and
save the day; for the politicians and newspa-
pers there may be bought, like anthraci4 coal,
by the ton, although, as compared WI the
coal, those politicians are very poor stuff.
But it now appears that the chances are
against the unity of the South, and so it would
be folly to waste money to rescue Pennsylva-
MIA. The Chevalier Forney, we believe, got
somewhere near q hundred thousand dollars
from New York in 1856 with which to save
Pennsylvania and our glorious Union; and,
though he burnt his vouchers after the election,
it is admitted that he bought up Know Nothings
enough In October to settle the hash for FIRE.
mont. Tom Ford, now Printer to Congress,
was at the same time sent out to Pennsylvania
with purse Of twenty thousand or so; bait 1t
was too light, and, If we are not mistaken,
Toms vouchers Of his disbursements never did
come over five thousand. And so Tom lost the
election in failing to look as literally after the
floating newspapers and politicians of Pennsyl-
vania as Forney with the funds of the New York
committee.
But with the democracy on all sides going to
the dogs, what is the use of money to them in
this campaign! The thing is fixed The repub-
licans have it all their own way, and the docu-
ments from their distributing committee at
Washington, and Greeley's documents, are all
so much waste paper. They might just as well
60 at once to the grocer's at two cents pound,
as to be sent all over the country, numbering
up the mails, and only to be sent at last to the
grocery. In short, while II is folly to waste
money for Breckenridge, Bell or Douglas In
this canvass, upon wandering stumpers and
loafers who can do nothing, 1t is useless to be
throwing money away for Lincoln orators, or
gans, clubs and vagrant minstrels and Gree
ley's documents, when 1t is clear that Lincoln
can do just as well without them. The demo-
cracy have arranged it that he shall be elected,
and the raising of funds for his cause or any
other cause is sheer nonsense.
The ELECTION IN NORTH CARoLNA.-The
election returns from North Carolina, which we