Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-08-13
inc PresidentIaI ELECTION.

Win all Tue paCrOnaSt dI HIS Coiiihahu,
millions of which have been lavished in
New York city, ABRAHAM LINCOLN can
command but one of the great journals OF
the metropolis. The New York Times
whose editor, Mr.. RAYMOND, is to be the
Minister to France in case of LINCoLN's re-
election-is the only influential paper at
tached to the Presidents personal 70 tunes,
and uses its columns for his personal bene-
at. The Times cannot avoid seeing the
strong symptoms of disintegration in the
abolition party, and the necessity of putting
a stop to the flood of disaffection which
promises to sweep away all popular sup
port OF its candidate. Itvirtually comedies
that LINCOLN will be defeated in the COM
ing election. and it already begins to be-
rate and abuse the disaffected abolition
leaders for their responsibility in producing
that result. From the leading editorial of
that paper of the 10th inst, we take the fol-
lowing important confession:
"The Democrats everywhere are very
confident of victory in the pending Presi-
DENTAL canvass. Their exultation may be
premature, but it is sincere. They evident
ly believe they are going to win. And
they base their expectations of success
mainly, If not entirely, on the dissensions
which prevail in the Union ranks. They
point to the fact that whole classes of pro-
fessed Union men feel under no obligation
to support the Union ticket. One denounces
Mr.. Lincoln because he did not abolish
slavery soon enough--another because he as
sumed to touch it all. One refuses to vote
for. him because he keeps Mr.. Blair in the
Cabinet--another because he keeps some
body or anybody else. Fremont runs
against him because he disregards the Con-
stitution, and Wendell Phillips speaks
against him because he recognizes that in
strument at all. Some censure his lenient
method of treating the people of the South
ern States-others his barbarous and inhu-
man mode Of carrying on the war. One set
of politicians vilify him for not admitting
the Southern States at once into the Union,
and Wade and Davis, with equal malig-
nifty, brand him as a usurper for pro-
posing to admit them at all. Every un-
successful applicant for office-every volun-
teer adviser whose counsels have betn re-
jected,-every wiseacre who fancies he was
created to conduct the Government, and
who finds Mr.. Lincoln indisposed to accept
his dictation,-the whole of that countless
brood of political seers who knew from the
beginning how ''this thing" was coming
cut, and who found the President incredi-
bly, and idiotically deaf to their warnings
and their threats,-are all now combined to
vindicate their prescience and gratify their
resentments by voting against him. And
upon this concurrence Of disappointed and
underrated malignants, the Democrats base
their hopes of party success. In this they
are right"
This candid admission will be recognized
as perfectly correct and in accordance with
facts. The statement of the grounds for
the dissensions prevailing among the Abo-
lition leaders is also correct; but The Times
is mistaken in supposing that the leaders
in these schisms are influencing the people
the truth is the people are governing the
leadesr. The organ of Mr.. LINCOLN lays
the flattering unction to its soul that the
wide spread dissatisfaction is not owing to
what LINCOLN has done or not done, but to
the caprice of the party leaders; but No
vember will demonstrate how egregious
an error this is. .
The feeling against LINCOLN, which The
Tines admits win accomplish his defeat,
may be traced to other and more formida-
BILE causes than the caprice Of leaders
That cause consists in the universal belief
that LINCOLN Is disastrous failure, and
that his continuance in Office is the pos
tive and inevitable destruction of the Gov
ornment. It Is the belief that he is faith
less, wicked and dangerous; that he has
perverted the war to the bascst purposes; !;
that be cannot conduct war and will not
conclude peace; that he is blundering in
competent anda fanatic; that he contem-
plates the usurpation of all the functions of
the Government which do not belong to
him; that he meditates the elevation of a
servile race to an unnatural and revolving
equality with the white race; that he in
tends to change the Republican form ofgov-
ernmant into an autocracy and make him
self the head; that he has no regard for the
inferests Of white men, no sympathy with
the suherings Of the people.no respect for his
oath, no conception OF his moral Or official
responsibilities. It Is the belief in these
propositions, only too. well supported by
his past'histofy and administration, which
occasions the wide spread revulsion against
LrNcoLx SO astounding to his few remaining
followers p II a the knowledge Of this rev.
olution in public opinion which causes the
hitherto hoDored and trusted friends Of
LancoLN to desert his fortunes and spurn
him. They are one foam that rides the top
Of the wave, not the wsveitself. With or
without them, the liood win lfeach It's desti-