THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN: GREAT FUSION DEMONSTRATION; WESTERN POLITICS-True Results of the October Elections (10/24/1860)

New York Times - Times Machine ^ | 10/24/1860

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The Fusion demonstration in this City, last evening, was undoubtedly a success, in regard to the extent of the procession, and the general display throughout the almost interminable line. In fact, it was all that those who created it had promised, in point of numbers and variety of embellishments. At an early hour in the evening the various Douglas, Breckinridge and Bell and Everett delegations from Kings County, Queens County and Richmond County; from Jersey City, Hoboken, Patterson, New-Brunswick, Perth Amboy, Newark, Philadelphia, and elsewhere, began to pour into the City, and make their way to their several rendezvous; and soon afterwards the Ward Associations of the City were under way, carrying banners with strange devices, and most of them preceded by at least a fife and drum. At 9 o'clock the City was ablaze with burning torches, and the air was burdened with rockets, Roman candles, lamp-smoke, and "I wish I was in Dixy." There were in the several divisions at this time, probably, about 25,000 persons -- some arrayed in red shirts, some in white, some in uniform coats, many in their every-day apparel, and all, together with their banners, transparencies, temples of Liberty, boats on wheels, and torches in hand, forming an exciting spectacle. The procession, however, though immense and imposing, showed none of the marks of discipline, such as regularity of step and line, which marked the parade of their better drilled opponents, the Wide-Awakes, on the occasion of their recent evening display. The gathering of the people upon the sidewalks, and at the doors and windows, along the line of the procession, was very great -- it could not well have been greater -- and the enthusiasm with which the companies were received, as they passed along, was all that could have been desired.

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Free Republic University, Department of History presents U.S. History, 1855-1860: Seminar and Discussion Forum
Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott, Lincoln-Douglas, Harper’s Ferry, the election of 1860, secession – all the events leading up to the Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The Presidential Campaign: Great Fusion Demonstration – 2-3
Western Politics: True Result of the October Elections– 4
Editorial: Mr. Yancey on Matters of Fact-The North and the Slave Trade – 4-5
Editorial: The Policy of the South– 5-6
Editorial: The Demonstration last Night – 6
News from New-Mexico – 6
Naval Intelligence: Condition of Affairs at the Navy-Yards – 6
The Last Fright: The New-Yorkers in South Carolina-Their Fate Not Yet Decided – 6-7
The Slave-Trade: The United States vs. the Slave-Brig Delicia – 7
A Youth Kills His Stepfather – 7
Flora Temple and George M. Patchen – 7
Robbery on the Plains – 7
The Lindall Hotel – 7
Boiler Explosion in New Orleans – 7
Editorial: A Popular Nuisance – 7