The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-06-20
INTERESTING CORRESPONDENCE


Vur W asnln8tOn Correspondence.
WAsmsoros, June II, 1851
Movements fl lie Campaign Of 1sS2-Tne Wing Admins,
fyaton CGndtdates Playing or the Nora-the Democrats
for the Souh-7he Philosophy Of these Movements and The
Pro6e1e Consequences.
Father Rchies time is out; 1t expired last Saturday
night in blaze Of glory He lives In snowy cream-colo
red house opposite the Presidents with Lafayette park
bstwetn them; but good marksman might stand on the
threshold Of Father Rchies elegant establishment and
bring down the Irish aniter Of the executive mansion
the first fire The locality Of the Padres residence has
decidedly westendish atmosphere about
foreign ministers and cabinet ministers all around him
and looking the Presidents dead In the eye Such To-
cslty genial rather congenial to Father Richie
who is genial old cock in good society has
always plumed himself upon being of the elite Of the
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sthe printers engaged in the Union office seized the
demonstrations on Saturday night this OCCASION the
printers OF the Union Office having subscribed and got
testms nia of their regard Sc the goblet was
and on the presentation, Father Ritche like Captain
Rice he gin treat and tho company, politically
speaking, was, what Benton would call ncompati.
by heterogeneous copgomeration, something like the
committee Of thirteen, only little more Among the
invited guests present Of the editors the
organs, and one of the Southern Press in add
ton to the President of the United States, the At
and the man that made the goblet They had good
time indeed we may say that 1t very good time;
and that Mr. Clsys grand idea Of concord and har-
the predominant idea 1t the determination of
cesson. State rights consolidation whiggery and de-
mocracy all over the same jug of liquor; and there
moral ut the bottom OF It, which We have undertaken
to fish up
The meeting at Father Rtchies did not present more
heterogeneous elements than the two old parties
If the day, as they exist, rather they now
regetate. They have become herbaceous for like Ne
uchadnezzar they have been turned Craze with
The settlement of the Niger question" With the blast
the trumpet calling up all parties to the scratch in
S52 this harmony in the whg ranks Just now, and this
crufi mil will tnFn Atrfva
likely to be fictitious the harmony and
Father Ritchies festival Then shall that the
meeting OF Father Richie and Mr. Fillmore and General
Armstrong and Major Donelson, and Mr. Crtenden aud
the junior editor Of the Southern Press and the dsn
guished artist who manufactured the goblet
matter OF wine drinking just the reunions of foote
and Seward at the last session. tea parties
Then we shall see the harmony Of scrub Of
guerilla fight Of militia training day. or Of back
woods wedding, or an Irish wake
Anticipating "a devil Of time both the old parties
are already endeavoring to harmonic; aud the
mens Of the active candidates on both sides al
ready show the drift Of the wind There disputing
that the late speeches of Mr. Webster-rom Castle Gar
den BufIalo-especially at BuGalo-and from Buffalo
down to Albany to say nothing Of Dunkirk rci
latory and had more the atmosphere of New York and
the North about them than the odor Of nationality"
IL Is pretty evident upon the face Of them that these
spec ches intended to conciliate the North-the
prudices Of the North and the instructive hereditary
hostility of the North Southern slavery the sam,
time that he incucated good faith to the constitution.
Why is this Where is the necessty--what can be
the Object-of Mr. Websters cancellations to this North
sentiment against slavery to the disparagement Of
his lately acquired respectable standing in the south
We say respectable for politically speaking his reputa
ton hardly respectable in the South before the 7h
Of March, 1850. Regs rded hard sheed aboltionis
in principle he had been discarded long before But
snce that great national and rational speech in the
Senate in which he avowed his Partially for the Ebony
line Of steamers to Africa and for colonization and for
the constitution he has gained upon the good opinion Of
the South TO that degree that he may begin count
upon it. And why at this iuncture turns he his back
same thing in his letter to the Boston committee Mr.
Webster and MIR Fillmore both plead the existence Of
slavery evil and obedience to the constitution
necessty-but though hard necessity still an indis
ensable necessityt the North would continue TO enjoy
the blessings Of this glorious Union And very subsan
tia blessings they the North the extent Of not
less than two hundred millions year, in hard cash,
earned by the slave labor OF the South
But why this tamperng to the anti slavery sentiment
by the President and his Secretary OF State, Will IL
gain either Of them anything in the Sosth Most GER
tanly not but they somewhat anxious TO recover
lost ground In the North single sentence wi explain
the whole thing,
The Philadelphia National whg Convention viii nomi
the national whg candidate and he who gets the
majority Of the Northern votes will get the nomination
The movements Of many Of the original Northern ray
lor and Of the Seward men In favor OF d-n colt
have very naturally awakened the suspicious Of the ad
mnistraton candidates that unless attended to, Gen
will undermine them in the North and la the Phi
ladelpha conyenticle II is we'll enough then TO have
strong anchor to the wndward and to set the ships
nose sgaiust the tide To make the matter worse there
- ma telling whether Georgia Alabama aud Mississippi
will be In the wing convention or not South
Carolina Is certainly out Of the question The wings are
then compelled to make the most OF the North-their
don. to counteract the headway OF Gen Scott In the
North he will carry the wing convention s sure rs fate
even y as we esssy ns on b,' 5rs.sn non com
initial platform, Gen Scott cannot expect the vote OF
any Southern State, excepting Delaware ana we pre-
sumo he will hardly make any concessions Tor the doubt
full states of Georgia and Tennessee he Is thereby TO
lose his chances Of the State Of New York In fact We
NAV reduce the issue between Messrs Webster Fillmore
mi scott to struggle between them for the State OF
New York in the philsoelphis convention
The democr party in different situation ana
ku team a
rhg majority elects but in the democratic
since fhe rule was introduced by Mr. Walker in ~ for
the defeat Of Van Buren, vote Of two thirds mas been
r,our,d 10 make nomination This gives an important
addition of power to the South an the Democratic conFen
ton Furthermore Is expected that the Nortnern u
mocrnsy will harmonsc upon PLATFORM that wlu be
satisfactory the party OF the Southland that " tue
ncnuiston OF Cuba will concatc the southern wing Of
the party they Of the North not even excepting Prince
John and the barnburners, will accede to II.
The operation Of all these mt vemeus however
Il i favor OF scrub race aud tends to throw the cleo
tiop into the House There p.ct to go, and out
Of the House need not expect to come short OF new
guarantees FOG the protection o: the south or snort
times are against any calculations looking to the sue
cess of the whig party Abolition IL too strong an
element in the Northern section Of the party. III
,h. sci of inc.udsrs are to be consulted they
and will be- the south Is lost a. the wings they are
not the North Is sacrificed Tbs democrats nave s,Is
prospect OF coming together North and South upon tue
same general platform, emitting or two States but
upon IN. whole everything about us foreshsdoss that
the House Representatives viii have TO deeid. upon
fhe pr,sident aud his platform and the hfty millions
year.
WASHINGTON, June L. 1851
Gergia Poluics-Ldicr Of Governor McDondh, nc
.sopths. Right. Caririaie-Impradica0s Confi-
from of The South, on The PrssifeniiH Qne'fioH-
Tie Question Of The Right Of Secession brought
into the Fiad.
In a letter yesterday TO the Herald, We attempted
10 show that the game now between the administra-
ton aspirants for the Presidency and General scott
has not the Cancellation Of the South, but the MONT
the hands Of the North. No man can get the vote
Of that convention without the support OF the
North hut any man may get i with every South
ern state in opposition to him, If the North u upon
MS side. Hence the concatory tone towards the
antislayery sentiment in the speeches OF Mr..
Webster in his late New York tour Of observation
and hence the soothing system OF Mr. Fillmore !
letter TO Mr. Brinley, Of the Boston Committee.
The first thing is TO get the nomination, the main
thing is to be elected; but The nomination. the -