New-York daily tribune., 1863-10-27
LABOR IN VAIN.

All over our State, the compatrlots OF Sey-
mour, Fernando Wood and McCunn, are toll
ing and sweating in a canvass that their own
souls tell them is utterly hopeless. They foam
and rage and tear; but the People are immov-
able by all their antics For that people have
learned by sore experience that the trumphs OF
the Opposition are advantageous to the Rebels
alone. Last year, men might have believed
nay: some actually did beicye--that putting
Seymour and his friends in power would stop
the Draft and incline the hoarts Of the Rebels TO
gentler counsols, and open the way to Peace
Now, no man eGaUelieve or honestly pretend II.
For the experiment was fairly tried last year
and proved Oh ignominious failure. Not in one
State only, but in most Of the great Central
States, the People elected the Opposition tickets
as an overture TO the Rebels. They virtually
said: 1--WE do not shrink from taking the first
step: We tell you, Messrs. Coniodcratcsl that
we want restoration Of the amity and frater-
nifty that so long and happily subsisted between
us. We have placed the Democrats in power
in order TO assure you that Confiscation, EmAn.
cipaton &C., are mere bugbears-be at Peace
with us, and we will shield you from them all
But the Rebels rudely repulSed these oyertures,
SAYING We will have no peace that does not So
cure our independence, with such boundaries a.
we deem it. Let US alone if you want Peace
Withdraw your forces from our teritores-
give up the Union-conie1s yourselves beaten
surrender TO us East Tennessee, West Virginia,
.f 3 -, Mart1arl-apH "a %
have Peace; not otherwise. The Opposition
triumphs last Fall were indications Of National
despondency, and were hailed "a such by the
Rebels: the UniOnist victories Of this year
are proofs OF the treasured confidence and
steadfast resolution OF the loyal masses. Ii
vain do our adyeroaries crE Debt Taxa
tom 'Con-cripton = the people, having fully
realized that Pede, cannot be IRON bypnUiianim'iy
hear all with mistaken purpose-with sternest
resolution. They will vote next week precisely
as jeff. Davis & Co. would not have them;
they will vote 80 tina, he cannot blazon the re-
suit to his dupes a. an earnest that the War is
about to close by the surrender OF the North. II
any man doubts il, let bin read the returns
from PENNSYLVANIA, OHIO, INDIANA, Iowa,
&c, and he will doubt no longer. The ball
is rolling on; and no amount Of froth and pala-
yer can stopit.
We rejoice that the Opposition are indus
triously cany0ssing, for we want a full vote,
and this insures it. Our only danger arose from
supineness. With light vote, We should have
lost Pennsylvania and Iowa. On a light vote,
VAL might not have been distanced in Ohio
1t wns the full vote in each that rendered the
Union triumphs not only secure but emphatic.
We beg friends and adyersaries alike to do their
utmost to call out the very last vote.
Our Public Debt is very large. Our Current
Expenditures are appalling. But it can no
longer epretended, even by Seymour, that the
Union arms make no headway. The Mississippi
reopened-Little Rock restored TO the Union-
vicksburg, Port Hudson, Natchez under the old
fag-East Tennessee eXulting in her deliver
ance from Rebel tyranny-CharlestOn totter-
ing to her fall-such arc some of the trophies
Of the last years struggle. The
Rebellion is thoroughly cut in two
it has remained 30 these five
months, without even an effort at reannexa-
tion--and it is now vitality threatened from the
banks Of the Tennessee. The "Peace party"
in our midst is cowed and dumb. 1t drops its
principles and clutches wildly at a modcum Of
the spoils. Friends in every County We hope
to annibilato the Copperhead majority of last
year in this City alone. We pray you to 80 or
ganize, so canvass, so speak, and work, and
vote, that New-York shall stand at least next to
OHIO in the magnitude Of her majority, the
completeness Of her Union triumph!