Year: 1860

York the Battle Field.


The coalition movement of the late Sy-
racuse Convention. in connection with the
tremendous popular conservative reaction
which has broken out in the Southern
States. significantly points the way to the
defeat Of g Honest old Abe Lincoln" and
to the prostration Of this misunderstanding
and dangerous slavery agitating Northern
Republican party.


New York is the key to the possession
of the battlefield. Her electoral vote ad-
ded to that of the South will give vote of
l55 against Lincoln. or three more than
the required majority Of 152. And now
the fight begins; for the materials are at
hand. and the plan has been adopted where
by they can be effectively combined for the
re.conquest of the Empire State by the
majority Of her people. In 1886 the popu,
lar vote Of Bnc .anan and Fillmore in this
6tsse sxsesded' chat Of Fremont by some
A. 900. Since that our local elections have
gone by default bat they all show the Re
publican party to be in a fixed minority 81
the popularvote. Last yeai, upon o test
vote OF Secretary of State. the popular ma
Jority against this party was only fourteen
hundred but then there was total defic-
iency of the popular vote, as compared
with that OF 1856, Of some $4,000. The
Republican party fell behind its vote for
Fremont only about %. 900. leaving mar
gin upon fair estimate for an outstanding
majority against the Republicans Of be-
tween forty and fifty thousand.


The bulk OF this anti Black Republican
vote will be brought out upon the Joint
stock Douglas and Bell electoral ticket. A
few thousand scattering votea may now be
counted Sor Breckenridge: but there is good
ground for the belief that his partisans in
this State will come into line ia season to
give the finishing blow to old Abe" IN
November. Let this complete fusion be
made Of the anti Lincoln elements uf New
York, and New Jersey, Pennsylvania, In
diana, Illinois, Rhode Island end Connec-
ticut, will follow her example, whereby
most, if not all. Of these States may be
turned against the Republican ticket.


And why should not the Breckenridge
and the Douglas Democracy coalesce in all
the Northern States with the Bell and Ever
EFT party. The paramount issue between
the intractables OF the two Democratic fac
tions appears to be the whip. hand of tie
Democratic party for 1864. But can they
not see that this old worn out party has
gone the Yay of the old Whig party
ir is I. ld-and that its funeral rites arc
going on, and will be finished with the
burial of the defunct in November WHY,
then. stick to these old party names aud
associations. when the party itself has
ceased to be? The Douglas Democracy
and the Breckinridge Democracy. ar, libcr-
ated ; and having no sympathies with the
Southern, .fre-eating Democracy, and being
equally opposed to the Abolition program
me Of the Republican party, what is there
70 prevent the proposed Northern coalition,
In cooperation with this new and power
full Union movement in the South.


The division of the electoral vote of this
State or that State, among the parties in
terested in the plan of general coalition. is
a secondary matter; the first necessity
among all concerned is Lincoln's defeat
Acting under this common impulse-the
defeat of Lincoln-as their first object, the
disbanded Democracy. in conjunction with
the Bell and Everett party, in New York
alone. can do the work. They have fix
ell majority of the popular vote to begin
with. and they have all the moral advanta-
ges on their side Of the " irrepressible con-
tiict," the John Brown foray and its teach
ings, the sacrifice of Seward, and the man
itold corruptions of the Republican party
at Albany last winter. Thus. through a
generous rivalry in the common cause, and
by proper management among the several
parties opposed to Lincoln in this State. it
may be carried against ham to the extent
Of forty, fifty, yea, sixty thousand ma
jority.


This will do; for this result will be the
end Of Lincoln, and the end of this anti
slavery holy alliance of the North and its
unholy crusade against the institutions Of
the South and the peace of the Union
v. Y Herald