The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1850-08-14

number of years, are each making preparations for
the election which is TO take place next fall. Each
has called its convention 10 nominate candidates,
and each will as usual, enter the contest sanguine
of success The following officers are to be elect.
ed A Governor, a Lieutenant Governor, a Canal
Commissioner, an Inspector of State prisons, and
Clerk of the Court of Appeals. 1t is not as
important an election as many that We have had /;
but il is of consequence enough to draw forth all
the energies of the two parties.
Previous to the day appointed for this election TO
take place, the democrats are determined to heal,
if possible, the schisms aud divisions which have
existed among them for few years past, growing
out of the course which Mr.. Van Buren, pursued,
for the purpose of e. atty his revenge fsr not being
re- nominated at the Baltimore Convention of 1911,
and to purge and purify their party of all abolition
ism and free soil tendencies II has yet TO be proved
whether they will succeed but, az all events, they
appear determined to make the experiment. II the
movement be successful, they will present. next
fall a solid and unbroken phalanx, as in tCsss OF
old, and run the wings very hard, if they do not
elect all their candidates and sweep the State. Mr..
Van Buren, and Mr.. Dix, aud few minor free soil
ers, will, undoubtedly, continue their exertions to
keep the party distracted. If their counselsprevai,
there will, of course be no union, and defeat may
again be their lot. II might be supposed, however,
that the dupes of those designing men would have
recovered their senses long before this.
The democrats having thus determined to heal
their feuds and settle their difficulties, the next
question is what are the whes going TO do, They
ha We an abolition tail trailing after them, as well
the democrats They have got the ''higher law alb
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the democrats, determined upon shaking this en-
cumbrance from them, and going into the contest
Invested Of such unnatural and cumbersome COM
panyl AS yet, We have seen no symptoms OF any
such action If they do not so, it will be in vain
that they will attempt any organization. They
have attached 10 them party of aboGtionists and
ismtes whose support is defeat and death TO any
party and whose connection with them, heretofore,
has injured them vitality. II they do not cut clear
of the Seward clique, and render harmless the poi
son which is daily emitted by the New York tn
b,ene and the clique of Fourierites who surround
that concern, the wing party in New York will rue
il when it will be too late. That celebrated jour
nal even finds fault with the bill recently passed by
the Senate for the settlement of the Texan boun-
Diary dispute, and expresses hope that it will be
tin kered and altered by the House of Representa-
hves, when it comes before them, when il cannot
but be that it receives the appreciation OF the
whole county, and that if il were sent back TO the
Senate, the chances are that il would be defeated,
and the slavery agitation be as wild as ever. With
all its affected desire TO see the country tram
quilted, there is reason to believe that the editor
inwardly desires no settlement of the agitation
which has estranged one section OF the coun-
try from the other. Look, too, at the manner
in which the sentiments delivered by William
II. Seward, the wing Senator, have been re-
ceived throughout the country, and the storm
of honest and patriotic Indignation which they
aroused wherever they were read. The clique
to which MIR Seward belongs, glories ia those
sentiments, which are more characteristic OF
the Boston school Of fanatics, than OF the masses
of the wings Of the State Of New York. Look,
too, at the course pursued by Thurlow Weed, the
special supporter and pufier general Of the same
Seward, during the present session OF Congress,
and the exertons which he used, and is still using,
TO keep alive the slavery agitation, TO excite the
North against the South, and TO keep fostering the
wounds which abolitionism has inflicted on the
body polite The Stewards, the Greeleys, the
Weeds, and their colleagues, would sink and de-
sroy any party; and il the wing party have not the
sagacty to cut loose from such associates, they
will only have themselves to blame il they met the
fate which common sense dictates 10 be inevitable
They ought 10 learn something by experience.
They have seen, within few days, one Of their
strongholds wrested from them in consequt nee OF
their identifying themselves with the reckless
advocates of abolition. We refer TO North Caro-
lima, where they have suffered a most ignominious
defeats where they have been cut down, as IL were,
in the house Of their friends. The cause OF the
success Of the democrats Of that State must
have been great and paramount, to induce men
to forsake the standards uader which they fought
and won 10 many successive victories, and
desert in a body the camp of their opponents,
and fight against those with whom they had
been 30 long associated. Local matters may
have influenced their action, TO certain but slight
extent but the principal reason which induced
them TO take such a step may be attributed, with
good reason, to the course pursued by many Of tn.
leading Northern wings in Congress. in the State
Legislature, in the press AMI at their public meet
ings. North Carolina became frightened, aud the
democratic party Throughout, the country being 10
the man sound on the question Of slavery, they
sought protection from them, in preference to gh,
ING on the same side with Seward and others like
HIM.
II, therefore, the democrats Of this State purify
their party, and Gu, of all excrescsnces between this
and the day Of election, they will present strong
and imposing front when the time for voting comes
around. II the wings do not adopt the same wise
policy, many of their party will seek the ranks Of
their opponents, as was the case recently in North
Carolina, and defeat and disaster await them in
this State. They have not much time to spare,
and " they intend seriously to conmence the good
work, the sooner they do SO the better
THE Loss OF BirE ON rHE SHoRE ~ LoNe j.
IANp.-The lamentable loss Of life which recently
occurred on the Long Island shore. in the wrecsing
sithe ship Elizabeth, calls loudly for the adoption
OF some means to prevent the repetition Of such