Year: 1860

The Great lssue-The Duty OF New York


The People Rising.


As the great day Of our Presidential contest
approaches, the spirit of the fight In support of
our conservative elements is everywhere de-
veloping itself among the masses Of the people.
Still, as it is manifest, looking to the East, the
West, the North and the South, that the forlorn


hope of the Union cause rests upon the i'm


perial State Of New York, We might almost


despair, but for the mighty outpouring of the


people to our late great metropolitan Union


mass meeting. This meeting, however, changes
the complexion of the campaign from gloom to


cheerfulness, from dependency to living
faith In the resources and the will among the
people Of New York to turn the tide Of the


battle, like Bragg's battery at Buena Vista, and
TO "save the day


Nor is this all; for not only have we seen In
this great Union gathering that among the op-
p,,nents of the republican party there are the
70 Nes and the resources essential to a glorious
tri umpb, but this meeting has also indicated the
sin pie plan Of operations by which the work
may be done. 1t never can be done
by any log-rolling experiments to har.
moni'ze the personal feuds, intrigues, aspira-
tions, demands and cross purposes which thus
far ha We controlled the several parties, factions
and cl iques concerned. This is the never end.
ing AMI still beginning work of Sysiphus, this
labor OF compounding between Douglas, Breck-
inridge and Bell Everett leaders All ideas of
concessi ons and equivalents among such con.
ficting ngineers as Dickinson, Richmond, Gag
ger, Tue ker, Green and Brooks must be sunk
in the paramount idea Of q cordial coalition
for the de feat Of this sectional d;sunion repub-
lican party.


The mar ses Of the people assembled at the
Cooper Institute Union demonstration, Breck-
inridge men, Douglas men, Bell men, cid line
wings and Americans, Tammany Hall and No.
zart men, in their homogeneous character as a
Union party, In opposition to the republican
disunion party, furnished the example and the
platform for similar combination throughout
the State to wit: common electoral ticket
among all the conservative elements of the
State, in order by saving the State, to save the
country from the Inauguration OF the "irre-
pressibe conflict at Washington.


To do this, Dean Richmond and his clique of
selfish intrigues, Mr.. Dickinson and his per-
sonal grievances, Mr.. John A. Green and his
small calculations, and all such partisan claptrap
as Congressional Intervention, squatter soye-
reignty, regularity, aad all men and all abstrac-
tions standing In the way, must be made secon-
dary to the one grand, all-important and uni
versal idea-the defeat Of Lincoln. In this
view, New York city will do her duty. We
dare cay that from the northern end Of Manhat.
tan Island the Union electoral ticket will start
up the Hudson with majority Of City thousand,
and II will only need corresponding co-opera-
ton among our conservative men throughout
the State to carry this majority safely through
to Dunkirk.


The professions OF the republican party are
smooth and silky. They tell us that they will
preserve the Union, that they will respect the
rights of the States, that they viii maintain the
constitution. and all that: but they also
admonish rs that there shall be no more
slave te-ritory-no more slave States:
that slavery Is sectional, while freedom Is
national; that the two systems Of free labor and
slave labor cannot co-exist under the same
government, but that the one OF the other must
be exterminated from the length and breadth
Of the land, because there Ia an "irrepressible
conflict raging between the two systems which
II is beyond the power of man to arrest They
tell US, too that the federal constitution is an
anti-slavery charter; that II contemplates the
extinction OF slavery, and that the Supreme
Court, prosdtuted to the interests Of the slave
power, must be remodelled on the side of free.
dom They admonish us Of all these things
and Is there no danger In them


We cannot shut our eyes to the fact that this
republican programme means the beginning Of
a war by the federal government against the
Southern institution Of slavery with the in
Of Mr.. Lincoln. which must speedily
be followed by the secession of some of the
Southern States, or the subjugation Of the South
TO the DEGREES OF an active anti.s slavery admi.
We know that the people of
the South will not tamely submit; We
are sure they will resist the federal
authority and the federal forces when directed
TO weaken their present securities and safe
guards against abolition emissaries and servilei \
We may safely predict, too, tho
the republican party, once in power at Wash
Ington, will lose no time In bringing the South
10 settlement-peace or war


Among all conservative Northern men, there
fore, all old party animosities-all the feuds Of
local cliques and rival politicians-are, or
should be, but the dust in the balance, weighed
in the scales with this overwhelming duty of
patriotism, the defeat Of Lincoln. Upon the