The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-08-28

msjoriy but allowing that the results in the States
yet to elect will be the Is at the last Congress,
the democrats will have majority OF 81. This
estimate includes the free sellers, seceders, and
Southern rights men Of the North and the South;
but deducting all abes, it is most probable
the democrats win have go,d working majority
upon all great party questions, excepting the ques-
tion of the Proficiency Upon this question, should
the election be thro wn into the House, while the
democratic party will have the power to elect, If
combined, still the balance of power will be COM
pletely in the hands Of the South. The whg party,
Their sfore must depend upon election by the peo-
pie, by hook or by crook, either with or without
National Convention; otherwise, 10 the election by
the House, not only democratic President, but
President Of that party upon rigid Southern plat.
form, will be the man. Once in the House, the
man and the policy of the next ADMINISTRATION can
be and will be dictated by the South.
Here we may account for the course pursue by
the Northern wings in their no ninations in Ohio,
Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, of Gen. S,ott. The
Northern States against the South have over
whelming electoral majority. The Northern and
Southern wings cannot coalesce. What they
of the North to do Suffer the election to 60 by
default, or run a ticket in the North and another
ticket in the South-a Scott ticket, and Fillmore
ticket Either way the result would be the same;
and the wings would be the losers. There is, then,
other visible loophole Of escape for the Northern
wings, than to abandon the South altogether in the
Preside ntial contest, and run Gen. Scott upon
Northern platform, sufficiently broad to accom- no
date the wings proper, and all the free soil and
other pebald factions and fractions OF the whole
North Upon such schedule, making the military
glory Of Gen Scott the nucleus, may be possible
for the wings to carry the election by Northern
votes Ii has been broadly limited that the wings
may not have a national convention. We think
it likely they will not have one, because there is
no prospect of their being able to do anything with
it. 1t is very clear, however, that the policy
ofthe wings is to keep the Presidential election out
of the House. But the interposition of the Cuba
question most palpably threatens 70 make short
work of this Presidential business, and to cast all
pre- existing arrangements overheard, especially
with regard to this or tina. particular individual.
The first apparent effect of the formal introduction
of the Cuba question will be to demolish the air.
built castle, of Gen Scotts Northern friends-ther
hopes of electing him by Northern votes and
Northern States We suspect the democrats Of
Congress- after its re-assembling, will not be long
in deciding which side to take of the Cuba question
With regard to the tariff, il is difficult to conjec
ture upon what theory the advocates Of protection
count upon the slightest relief from the House
of Representatives. Pennsylvania may be secured
without it, or she may be spared. There is but
little hope Of specifics minimums, or of 'protec
ton for the sake of protection" in a House With
democratic majority ranging from twenty to thirty.
The general policy Of the mex; Congress, We pre-
sumo, from its democratic preponderances, will be
antipro ective tariff, anti whig in every thing, per-
tinaciously inquisi'ive concerning those Mexican
claims, and desperately economical in the appro-
priation bills. 1t is quite probable that the affairs
Of Cuba, and the Cuban question, in connection
with the very important subject of the succession,
will occupy the first six months Of the session. after
which, the business of Congress will be but second
AIRY to the grand, absorbing, erwhelming and tre
mendous business of the grand campaign for the
succession The signs of the times portentous
The next Congress will be important in one thing,
if nothing else-it will be Of vast Importance in
giving stem and direction to all parties entering
the field for the fifty millions year. Verify, tais
is the age Of great events.