New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-10-26

to march, allow Ourselves to be defeated until ON,
petty tyan understand that we win no longer snb,
NIT to them and until the men who consider IL tbsi,
duty to stand by the ticket ghtor wrong arc tsuybf
that the party, whose very name they bliudy adore
must be cleansed of corruption and dictation a,
cease to be party.
Let no honest independent Democrat vote tho
Richmond and Cagger Safe ticket this Fall. II has
good men on it, but there not enough of them 10
save sodom The best of all Of them was cheated
INTO sn acceptance Of nomination in advance bv
the Jafse promises Of the State Committee Jano in
regard 10 the tenor of the PLATFORM and pride after.
ward prevented him from declining. lie will lose
nothing by defeat.
There could not be q more favorable time Tor 70
to resort 10 the inseccrushing policy. II we runs
party ticket we must be hopelessly beaten at tas
best. ii we fight on it, must he beaten on a b,S
because TN equiyocal and unpopular platform. II
we fight Oh tive mast split again, because multitudes
| of true men who have no expectation whatever Of
ultimately abandoning our party will not matter
OF principle, sustain that platform or sustain part.
san nomination by any act or vote. II We draw tho
party lines and treat these men as enemies We force
them to become enemies. II we make no such Issue
with them, we shall again have their votes rhen 20
need hem Some of our best and ablest friends in
other States have refused to run any party ticket in
the present extraordinary junctaTe Of aaain. Ia
States where they have been nominated, several eu
nent Democratic Statesmen have refused their az
ceptance. That very eminent and able gentleman
who presided over the Democratic National CONVEX
ton which nominated Mr.. Douglas to the Presidency
went so far as to run on the Union ticket for Cove.
II. IL INF 10, in
democratic" nominee, and was elected by an over.
whelming majority. Does any one challenge Gov.
TOPS democracy for this? Does even the acrd
! ADaAy Atlas the organ Of our State Committee,
dare to challenge i'll That paper, speaking Oct l9
OF the result in Ohio, says:
| 1--WE lave no right TO obtrude upon the councils
of Democrats in olher Staes aDG cannot a.sume 10
regard any ore not a Democrat who claims TO be
one, especially man so patriotic and national IN
views as we know Gov. Ton 10 be. We should,
therefore claim Democratic majou,y 10 Ohio upon
such vote as this
Ii we place the old Democratic ship tout Of CON.
mission, it is but temporary act. We will nOt
break her up, but We will repair her. We viii
scrape away the barDacles from her bottom, caulf
her seams re6t herupper gear smoke the rerHa'a oa
her hold, ard when che is ready, and we are ready,
we will launch her againl
Am asked when she should again be launebeai
When the public good reqnires it. When PRINCIPE
and expediency again call for partisan organization.
We are bound to support our Government faithfully
and unreseryedy in lawful war. We are bound 70
support il with our money and our blood. But We
are not the responsible majority. The responsible
majority must carry the Government and ewar.
If they fail, we must call them to account II they
divide we must stand by that branch OF them which
we believe to be in the right.
So soon as the pressure of outside opposition Is re.
moved, there are strong reasons to believe smell d.
visions wiil take place. There ere conservative and
lanti-conseryatiye elements among the majority
which must necessarily repel each other, and eaea
will attract its kindred elements from without OGe
/, Of these sections will unite with the Democrats
party, and thus the latter will assume the
rank of a great, if not dominant party.
Are not great questions questions which are likely
to shake the country like an earthquake, already
looming up grimly, and apparently near at bandI
Are not the stars preparing to fight against siseraf
Does Sisera dwell at Washington or st. Louis Bui
apart from all questions which may arise during The
war is not the tremendous question 10 arise, ctts
The car, whether we will restore or RECONSTRUCT
whether we will 90 back TO the constitutional s'ats
quo ante 5ellum or make new and quite different
organic instrument This great political issue vii
inevitably arise. Our people have the fedora
tive feature Of our system assailed on its weakea
side, that is from within. They have seen that a
Federal Government, without standing army, and
with but small navy, cannot protect its properly
flom sudden internal attacks, and crush rebellion in
tho bud, as could consolidated national governments
with armies and fleets at its command. They have
seen the doctrine Of State Rights stretched into srea-
son. and thus rendered odious. They have heard al
Europe sneerng at our "rope of sand, and declar.
ing our half national and half federativo system a
failure. They have not, like their Revolutionary
forefabers felt the infinitely greater evils OF con-
sohda,ed FORM 1t is the natural tendency, too, Of
large class of minds 10 look TO power as the source 81
order to prize governmental energy more than the
large liberty of democracies. Is it strange thea,
that we begin to hear it whispered that our Govern
ment is not strong enOughl" Is 1t strange that
men aud public bodies and newspapers representing
the moderate and intelligent class OF society assume
positions which clearly show that such a belief hss
crept into their minds Is strange that behold
,sp.ites and atheists of all shades and denominations
represented in the person Of Gerrit Smith camorns
in substance for military dictatorship, and not only
like Antony ON the Lupercal, urging Mr.. Lincoln
to trampe on the Constitution and exercise despoic
authority but bitterly reviing him for refusing to DO
80? These men would enslave the white race in Ito
hope Of eniranchising the coored race!
Brethren, the self same questions which divided
our Democratic forefathers and the Federalists viii
soon be upon us for a decision. We shall hsyeA
great OF paltry part to play in the struggle Shall
we, by doing our present duty as men and patriots
Nv conn. cling ourselves with no useless oppostions