The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1846-09-04
The Fail MISUNDERSTANDING of the Cam
paign-The First shot n In Cancellation


paign-The First shot n In Cancellation
Hall.
In our paper ofyesterday, we published gra-
phc report ofthe proceedings that took place at
the locofoco meeting at Tammany Hall, on We'd
nesday evening last-when the proceedings were
not conducted with that degree of harmony and
enthusiasm, which this party have invariably laid
claim to. Nike Walsh insisted upon his right to
address the meeting when called upon, and in
spite of good deal OF opposition, and amid much
confusion and disorder, he succeeded, with the
aid of his friends, in obtaining possession of the
speakers stand and holding it until he saw fit TO
withdraw.
The meeting was called ostensbly for the pur-
pose ofcongratulating the party on the passage OF
the Sub Treasury, Tariff, and other democratic
measures in the last Congress; but among tie
resolutions proposed, was one laudatory OF Slas
Wright, which was put forth as a feeer to the
public This resolution Kissed good deal,
and from the tone of those assembled, it was man
iiest that the present executive of the Empire
State, does not possess the united confidence and
respect of the party in this city but of this
We shall see. Whether he will receive the
denomination for that office not, it is impossi-
BILE to say at present II is characteristic of the
democratic party to be disunited and split into
sections and fractions on the of every election
bu. the leaders and re-pulers, who manage
matters in council and conclave, gifted with
the peculiar faculty OF uniting the most discordant
elements, and marching in solid phalanx to the
polls when the real tug of war comes on.
In this respect, the party have an advantage over
their opponents, the whigs-who, of late years.
rival the democrats in the number of sectional
parties into which they are divided.
The whig leaders have not the talent OF quelling
chickering's and sectional animosities, and hence
arises the fact that, with numerical preponder-
ance throughout the country, they rarely sue
cessful in eecting their candidates. A few short
weeks before the last Presidential election, Henry
Clay, twas supposed by all parties, would have
been carried into the Executive chair with n
force equal to that of whirwind. He was no.
minated under much the same circumstances as
Harrison was, and would have been triumphantly
returned, only for the cut-throat policy adopted
by the leaders OF the party, and their organ:
throughout the whole length and breadth of the
land Disunon, want OF confidence, an ngredi-
ent essentially necessary TO success in politica
parties, as well in individuals, followed the con-
sequence of which was, that the timd and
wavering, together with those who lost confidence
in the party, deserted Mr.. Clay, and went tc
carrying Mr.. Polk into the office which his oppo
nent would have occupied beyond question, if the
parry had been united.
The same disastrous influences exist at the pre-
sent time, only in greater degree.
There at present three or four newspaper
assuming TO be the organs of the wings in th
State, yet the doctrines promulgated by each are
totally hostile to and inconsistent with wing prin
cples One undertakes TO engraft on the whie
creed the most lantastical and absurd theories OIL
government and human institutions that ever
emanated from the brain of the widest vision.
airy. Another undertakes tc read this paper out
of the party, and in his efforts to succeed in
his purposes, descends to the lowest and most
abiect means. 1t has used and reused the vo-
cabulary of Billingsgate, and made personal
attacks, and resorted to other means COM
pletely inconsistent with the legitimate office
of journalism in the nineteenth century
As must be expected, disunion and disorder
among the party, chickering's and jealousies among
the editors engaged in personal disputaton, ensue;
the result of all OF which will be, that, unless the
whig party cut adrift those excrescences the loco
focos will, as heretofore, carry the Empire State
at the next election, and control the election.
throughout the rest of the States for an unlimited
time to come. We have repeatedly called the
attention of the respectable and reasonable par
OF the wings TO lhese things and the disasters tha
would follow if they were allowed to continue
but there appears to be fatality in that party
which can never be surmounted. The teaching:
of experience, the lessons learned by severe ant
useful experience, lost, and every year the
same evils allowed to exist
The campaign has been opened, too, by the
wings. At distance hear the rafting o.
musketry, which indicates that their forces are
preparing for general attack. Calls for primary
meetings have been published, soliciting the
people to assemble and elect delegates to repre-
sent them in convention
IL VIII be seen, therefore, that the two great
parties are IN the field for the next election,
armed and equipped as the law drects' The
struggle will be interesting to the calm observer.
and to honest people of all creeds We NAV
expect the usual amount of falsehood, hypocrisy,
unfair dealing, gasconade and humbug, that we
have heretofore witnessed on such occasions and
which, it would appear, are as necessary to car
rying on political campaign, as fuel is necessary
to furnish the steam for prop cling the mammoth
iron steamship Great Britain and her noble
Captain across the "salt says"
NAvAL.---By the Amelia Mulholland, Captain
Dxey, from Rio Janeiro we have dates from tina
place to the 18th of July. The U. S. sloop-of-wa
Dale, Capt Mexican, from this port, arrived OF
the 23d, all well. The frgate Columbia, Commo
dore Rosseau, was the harbor daily expectin
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