The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-08-12

administration" This 10 the language Of Saarle-
VOW Of the A bsny Atas Why, the most casual
reader well knows that the leading men OF both
the main parties in Congress, labored zealously
for those measures; Clay, Cass, Webster, Dick
inson, Crittenden, Foote, and so on, were
the statesmen who discarded party aftnities'
and solemnly united in an effort to arrest the
whirlwind of desolation, and restore peace and
tranquility to the country. What makes the com
promise a wing measure Is there anything that
can make it so Did not large majority Of the Sc
nate vote for those laws! Was that body whigl
Assuredly not Did not the House, by an emphatic
VOTE sanction them also Was the House whig 7
Most certainly not. Then the compromise mea-
sures, as they were presented by the Senate COM
mittee, after much reflection and elaboration,
placed in the hands of a democratic Congress and
both houses, by decided msjorities, adopted them,
and assumed the responsibility A whig President
possessed the veto power, but did not exercise t,
and he signed those bills, as any patriotic Pres-
dent should have DONE Such is the truth, in a
nutshell, and the attempt to carry agitation to
Syracuse, by assuming that the compromise mea'
sures are solely whig doctrines, and thereby pre-
venting the endorsement by the Democratic State
Convention, will be labor in vain, and will prove
unsuccessful
Although the barnburner fac ton in the last state
Convention refused to endorse the resolutions which
were carried Oh that OCCASION still the masses OF
them sustained the State ticket, by which they
succeeded in electing MIR. Church, Lieutenant Go
vernon: Charles s Benton, Clerk Of the Court
of Appeals; and B. F. Angel, State Prison lnspec-
tor-a the candidates of their order upon the tick
et The nominations now to be made are Comp
troler, Secretary of State, Treasurer, Engineer,
Canal Commi ,siorer, A .torney General, and State
Prison Ins pector The first and fifth are the most
important offices, and have the power Of dispensing
more patronage than all the remainder. The desire
of power and lust for efce may induce united sup
port of the ticket, provided the hunkers manifest
beIalty in dividing the candidates equally between
the sections. The barnburners, Insignificant as
they appear possess still sufficient strength to
defeat the ticket.
The barnburner section possess another element
of agitation, which they will thrust in the
ton. That is, the canal enlargement question.
Having taken the lead in opposition to the bill
having induced the twelve Senators to resign
forced new election, and resisted the bill with
all their power, and still declare their intention to
repeal it, while the hunkers have either remained
dormant, or partially favored the bill; it is plain
10 see mat dscord must Pre'ah upon tna' question:
Certaint is, whether the canal law be strictly con-
stituticnal not the party that attempts to lake
issue upon that question in November, will be
beaten by twenty thousand in the State. The
hunkers will avoid making that issue, and will en-
deayer to make nominations Of such men as have
not been at all conspicuous on either side OF the
controversy.
These facts and suggestions We presen. for the
benefit of all concerned.