The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-06-02
The Presidency-I Important Political Move.

A public meeting of the friends of Gen Tav-
lor, took place last evening at Lafayette Hall. 1t
was attended by the usual number, and the speeches
were made up of the usual matter and went off IN
the ordinary style meeting of the friends of
Mr.. Clay will be held the site of Niblo's Garden
tonight. A number of orators have been engaged
for the occasion, andno doubt will be got up in the
usualway of such meetings. In this city, and proba
bly, in the interior of the State the of the wing
party are decidedly in favor Of Mr.. Clay; but this
meeting at the near approach of the wing conven-
ton, amounts to nothing. For any practical pur-
pose, it resembles the fellow who, during an erup
ton of Mount Vesuvius, took kitchen bellows TO
blow up and increase that eruption.
report of the Taylor meeting will be found in
our columns to-day. A report of the Clay meeting
will be found in the same columns tomorrow
Thus far the wings. The democracy, of both
schools, are not idle. The regular democratic
committee at Tammany Hall, in which there is n
majority of hunkers, have passed resolution, ap-
proving OF the nominations at Baltimore, and call
ing meeting in the Park, on Monday, the
twelfth instant. The barnburners who were de-
feated in regular committee have organiseda COM
mittee of their own, composed of the oldest and
most respectable of the democracy, at the head of
which we find Stephen Allen, of blessed memory,
who have also called mass meeting in the Park
in anticipation of the hunkers, on Tuesday of next
week. There is, therefore, regular breach be-
tween the two sections of the democracy but
judging from a survey of the whole chess board OF
rather from look the prairie of politics an
public robbery, the barnburners occupy very
narrow passage TO the spoils and to glory,
and the least mls-step may precipitate them into
the gulf of oblivion below Their position re-
minds us of a visit we once made to the beautiful
scenery of Trenton Falls, near Utica. These
falls are formed by deep gulf in rock of second
airy formation, for two or three miles in length in
which torrent falls from ledge to ledge, at dis
lance of fifty or hundred feet from the surface Of
the water TO the top of the PERCEPTIONS rocks
There is passage up the dreadful ravine, which
vslters take but II is extremely narrow and dan
gerous to those who are not careful of their foot
steps. Every one visiting this beautiful scenery
walked up this difficult ravine on the occasion re-
terred TO, until beautiful young lady, in the ex-
citement of the moment missed her footing and
tumbed down into the foamlng gulf below.
The barnburners, on their political platform,
have only the breadth of a negro's broad bottom
which to travel through the ravine of politics.
during the next.election. The slightest miss-stcp
will precp;ate them into the gulf below, as
the false step hurled the amiable young woman to
whom we referred, to her final home, when she at.
tempted TO travel through the ravine of Trenton
Falls.
The position of parties, men, and principles, at
this moment, is different from what it has been for
twenty years; but il resembles in some respects the
condition of political affairs when General ac son
first became candidate for the Presidency in 1921.
There is not single organized party in this country
that has a majority Of the popular rote. This was
the case, too at the last election but it is more so
now. The following may be cast as an estimate
of the vote then taken, giving South Carolina,
which elects by Legislature, with her nine votes, the
same popular vote which Alabama had, with an
equal number -
POPULAR VorE ~ 1874
Whlgs--Clay.. l30O 600
DENOMINATIONS. .''.'s... ...,.. $50 900
Abolitionists-Birney. ................... co 900
274ooo0
Making allowance for the increase of popula-
tion and taking every element into consideration,
we have formed the following estimate of the po-
puar vote and the condition of parties at the pre-
-ent time;-
EsTiNsrE OF INA PoPuLAR VoTE IN 1sis.
wings .......... .......... i 100000
Democrats. Observation-Disclosures. T. 100000
Nunhers,. .................. 100000
Barnburners Observation-Disclosures. 100000
Abolltionlsts ................... 100000
Natives. ...................... 5000
1926 900
II will be seen from this, that distinct party,
organized as party, has a majority of the popular
vote al this moment. In an election for President,
therefore, whatever the conventions OF the States
may do in the way Of nomination. an election by
the people must be produced by the union of two
or more parties, in order TO get the electoral votes
al some Of the principal States.
Tbe first great question involved in political cal