The New York herald., 1851-11-22


natural that the party which has to congratulate
itself on the first these oceurrences should inter
| pret 1t - placing beyond question the result of
next year. election for the Presidency of the repub
lie; and, although there are circumstances which
prevent our regarding their success as matter of
absolute certainty, there cannot be doubt that
the chances have shifted largely 10 the side of the
semocrss since the signal and unexpected trump phs
which they have just achieved. At the electoral
convention which Is to be held in the beginning OF
lsS2-with the view Of concentrating the sufrages
OF the entire party upon a single candidate-it is
reported that three gentlemen will submit their
claims to the arbitration of the popular delegates
These are, General Cass, Mr.. Buchanan, and Mr..
Douglas, of Illinois. II We are to believe the
nent politicians will require the convention to
take into account pretensons of q very pecu-
liar, although of very Ineligible character.
We are told that General Cass-who is best
known among rs from his unAagging efforts
to popularize in America the Gallicaa ideas
attached to the phrase perfde Albion-will offer,
in the event of his election, to expel the English
and their troublesome Consul, Mr.. Chat6eld, from
the Bay of Honduras and the Mosquito shore Mr.
Buchanan, who was Secretary of State in President
Polk's administration, will engage to recommends
of the Mexican republic adjoining the ne Wy guar
anteed border line. And we see that paragraph
has just made its appearance simultaneously in
great number of American journals, to the effect
that Mr.. Douglas, the candidate of the young Wes-
tern democracy. will redeem himself In the eyes of
the South, by pledging his future government to
the conquest of Cuba, as a sort of couaterpoise to
the free soil tendencies of which he is suspected. In
this race of immortality the confidence of the demo-
cratic party is to be the Tn; and it is at least
probable that whoever gains that onhisnce, will
be the next President of the American re public
Ihe revolt of Northern Mexico against the GEN.
tral power, would not, by ITSELF possess that color
OF Importance which seems at first sight to attend
it, Lorg before the loosely jointed society Of the
ranged by the with the United States, it is well
asce ertained that entire regions occasionally
IN state of virtual insured ion-the power
of taxation, and all the attributes of sove-
reignty, having passed, for the time, to some
hand of guerillas or to individual adven.urers,
who would for moaths exercise absolute rule over
the districts they had overrun till detachment Of
regular troops destroyed or dslodged them IL Is
probable that disturbances like the present assume
proportions, in the columns Of merican newspa-
pers which do not belong to them on the field of
action, the reason being simply that the phenomena
of Mexican politics are more narrowly observed
and more faithfully reported than they used to be.
Still, there cannot be question that the proofs Of
weakness exhibited by the Mexican Executive in
the recent contest, must have ateriay diminished
that measure Of authority which it once possessed
over TIE more distant and worse governed portions
ofits dominions while, at the same time, chara,-
ter OF extreme gravity is incidentally communicat-
ed to the outbreak which has been announced, by
its occurring just at the moment when that party in
the United States which ostentatiously disregards
International obligations appears on the eve of
turning to power Very slender pretexts will serve
-.
We perceive that their journals are reslv eager TO
establish first of all! the excessive unpopula ty Of
the Mexican government with the higher and
wealthier classes in the Northern provinces, and,
next. leaning towards anne xatioz on the part of
the Roman Catholic clergy II is Just possible that
men Of substance in Northern Mexico may be de-
srous OF exchanging the insecurity of insufficient
protection for the energetic operation Of Anglo
Saxon institutions; but the sentiment attributed
to the priests, if the story has any claim at all
70 credio,iity, can only be explained by prefer.
ence for the perfect religious freedom of the United
States over that chronic conflict between the eccle
siastical and secular powers which seems to be the
normal condition Of societies in which Rom IN Ca
thoicism Is established. Time Is wasted, however,
IN examining assertions which, If true are irrele-
want. The popularity Of an aggressive policy
would be the true apology for Intervention, IL il
we're attempted and Mexicos best chance of escape
nom outrage lies, either in the failure of the san
gune anticipations entertained by the democr attic
narty, or in the prompt suppression Of the revolt
This last Is rendered more difficult, unfortunately
oy the tenn mptations which the disturbed provinces
bold out TO the swarms of wild Adventures which
the energy Of the Spanish authorities has frghteu-
cd away from Cuba. Large numbers Of dsbanded !
Ft6tsfa's have recently enlisted With one or other
Of the miserable little republics which are tearing
themselves to pieces in Central America There |
8 great reason TO fear that the recent news will |
tempt them to take ship i'm medately FOR a more |
brilliant and lucrative feld.
We have already hinted cur impression that the |
defea. Of the democratic candidate for the Prcsi.
dency although 70. very probable, is not beyond
the bounds Of possibility. The successes in Ohio
ard Pennsylvania, while they secure for the demo-
Gratis an ascendancy in the central Legislature
which can hardly be disturbed for years to come
DO not neeesssrly put them in possession Of the
executive Their majori.ies in the middle States
have been obtained by q comprise between the
tro great sections Of the party, the "hunkers,"
or old democrats, and the " barpburners," or fres
soil men ard IL must be remem be red that lust in
proportion TO the soldity Of the alliance eemented
between the disunted locofoeos their candidate for
tne Prssdency must lose credit md influence with
the Southern States No democrat, rs such, will
receive the support OF the South, where the old
to be entirely superseded by the new aud sisnia.
cant oppellatsyes secessionist and co-operatoaigt
We doubt whether a hundred electors can be
discovered below Mason and Dixons line who
would vote for candidate with the faintes.
taint Of antislavery principles and yet nei-
ther Cas- nor Buchanan will find it easy to
unite the entire Northern democracy In his
favor without a concession Of some sort to the
free soil creed Under these circumstsnces-a
especially since Il has been shown that in all
the electoral contests throughout the South the ad
yantage remains with the corporations. or mo.
.erate party there is room for hope that Daniel
" ebster, now fairly started ss candidate sor the
Pr sidency, may be a. length elevated TO the high
position IRON which nothing but jealousy Of bis
great powers has excluded him hitherto. Mr.
w ebster bas borne the whole braat Of the unpopu-
ari,y attending the execution Of the Fugitive
slave lar, and has thus gained the confidence Of
The Southern States, without aleniatjng any cons-
terable fraction oe his natural partisans in the
North-the Conservative wings The sense Of jus
.ice exhibited By the administration viii ,h be ut
present conducts is an adequate guarantee that.
Ser his Presidency none Of the grosser outragrs on
pubic law ard International morality will te per
nitted; and the faint alloy, which might, perhaps
have otherwise Mingled with satisfaction az his
prom otion, Is now removed By the knowledge that
s altogether out Of bis power to derange the fsc
policy embodied in the present American tariff
7" hsteyer elseShe recent elections establish, they
prove tha. the Union is now irrevocably on the ca
-ser OF free trade. When even the prstecsiouist
Psnnsylvaniaps return Governor who supeortsthe
Existing system. LIBERAL modiAcation Of IL IL not
FAR distant On questions Of trade and fnaas,, Il
/ ust be recolle.ted that the two houses are om-
1ipotent and the President porerless. The houses
re now democratic aud free trading. BIZ an i'm
nense majority; and though. by mentioning its do
sires with reference to America, an English news