The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-10-28

run the risk of breaking down their party in the
State while the nations fate was still in doubt
II was as we'll to get the boat in case the ship
fer the belief in their estm aton that the nation
will fall into the hands of their party at the next
election. The great national pear is to be ripe By
| November, ieoz, and they expect to have nothing
to do but to let 1t fall into their mouths which are
watering at the mere thought Of sucha fine specimen
OF fruit from the political garden. The idea which
predominates in their mind is, that the greatest
the next administration, will be the fact OF mans
| opposition t. all opponents of the compromises;
and they are DESTROYS Of proving that they were
the creme De la creme Of compromisers in Massa
chusetts. They will find it rather difficult matter
to establish their purity, for it so happens that
among them were men who had tried hard to get en-
the Senatorial tickets, both last year and this
year, before it was known that Pennsylvania and
| Ohio had been doubling up" the wings of those
States Others have been applicants for State
offices under the present administration, and were
disappointed. 1t will be rather awkward if their
protestations of loyalty to the Fugitive Slave law
should come to be contrasted with their support of
! the men who aided in the election of Mr.. Sumner.
| The coalition democrats, while they do not-and
indeed they OannotIsifect to deny the ina portanoe
still ready with reply to them. They say that it
is folly to suppose that the next democratic admins
| tration will trouble itself about what men have
is no such thing as past, but there is a present,
ard future. The question THAT great party
leaders ask u.s. not what have you done, but, what
| can you do? Gratitude has been defined as being
lively sense OF favors to come, aud this defni-
tion is particularly applicable to political gratitude,
| which never locks backward, but has mighty
| powerful gaze ahead The idea that Mr. Douglas,
| or any other prominent democrat who may be
elected President, should trou BILE himself about the
| opinions which Mr. Shocks OF Mr.. Slow, of Ma,sa.
chusetts, held in 1851, concerning the coalition is
thought to be rather rich. Presidents of the
United States are more concerned about what is to
| happen, than what has happened; and charity to
| ward erring brethren, provided always that their
position is the right one at the time being, is a
prominent viz tue in the statesman who has some
thing to accomplish. The coalition democrats also
say, that if the rule is to be set up that all who
have taken part in breaking down the wings are to
be prescribed because they are not ready to swear
will be democratic President to prescribe or ap-
point any one; for there barnburners enough in
New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio, to say nothing
other who have no sa. for being put
1913 may occur again, and the intended proscriber
may make I'M beau ,natim, and find himself the
chief of the prescribed AS against General Scott,
in particular, they say that divided democratic
party can bave no hope of success. If they are
minded that the recent defeats of the wings we're
defeats of the Scott party in particular, and that
promptly reply, that the wing party is not more
PROSTATE now than 1t was twelve years ago this
time. In the autumn Of 1889, it seemed as if the
whig party was dead and buried. 1t had been
to drink Of the Marah-,up of humiiaton-the
democratic party electng Judge Morton, Cover
nor. DIR. Van Buren's re- election the next year,
seemed to be q mere matter Of course. Yet, this
state Of things was on the very eve of mighty po
litica struggle, in which the democratic, party sus
tanned the greatest defeat that befe any party
in the worlds history-a defeat in which both
President and party were overthrow in a way that
astonished even the vc,ors themselves. Is it not
possible tina. all this may happen again, and that
the laughter and ridicule which are directed
against General Scott may turn out bitter jests
as those which had General Harrison for their
object!
lfyou notice the coalition papers, you must have
been struck with the difference that there is be-
tween them in one important respect. You cannot
find in the democratic papers any notices Of meet
ings; in the tree soil papers you will find them by
the score. The only democrat of note who b IS
been advertised to speak, thus far, is Mr.. Banks;
Wilson, Burlngam Russell, Reyes, Weston,
Allen, and half dozen others. The whole work
of the campaign, on the coalition side, is done by
the freeisoiers. Perhaps the most correct state:
ment of the present condition Of the contest would
be to say, that the fate of the State is in the hands
of the free sell party. If that partys vote shall be
out in nythng like an approach to its full num-
Der, the coalition will be successfully if it shall not.
then we shall have a wing restoration. The free
soil vote Of 1913 was upwards of 80 000 Since that
time, it has never poed quite 80 900 votes but the
whg vote has not on any occasion since 1913, been
increased; and the democratic vote but once, aud
then not largely. The inference would seem to be
fair one, that the fire., soil party here is as strong
as it ever was, and that it ha, only to get out its
voters to place Mr.. Palfrey hard alongside Of Go
vernon Boutwell, If they &C ,om plish anything in
proportion to their labors, their candidate ought
be ahead of the democratic-but that is not to b
expected.
get up bunker Senatorial ticket in the thirty
eighth, If | am rightly informed. The mover in
the affair s Mr.. Lord, junior counsel inthe Fugi-
tive Slave cases. The wings hope much
fror but ha Ia dac In hat
make, at tho most, difference of above 300 votes.
They had majority in Essex, Of us last year,
over the whig and scattering vote They calculate
upon 900 increase this year, which will be almost
If not quite, equaed by the increase Of the whiy
vote, it is reasonable to suppose. There will be
close shave in Essex, from present appearances;
and yet it is the battle ground of the campaign,
now that Norfolk has been lost to the coali-
ton, as it is held to DO, by most observers
of the world of politics.; and that Hamp.
den is in the same condition, except that
that county never elected coalition Senators, though
much stronger in the popular vote against the wings
than even Norfolk was The coaltionists seem dis
pos, in the main, to take the Norfolk affair very
Philosophicaly If, say they, there had been no
boiling in that county, it is certain that enough Of
the boilers, headed by Bradford, Ststson and Co,
would have availed themselves Of the secret vote
law to support the wing candidates for Senators,
and probably have elected the whole whig ticket;
but it is, having ticket Of their in the field,
tho boilers were bound in honor and interest TO get
as large vote for it as possible. This is drawing
sunshine from clouds in very edifying manner;
but am far from being convinced that the idea Is
well founded. If the gentlemen who head the bolt
really in earnest in their desire to defeat the
coalition, because regarding its success as much
greater evil than the return of the wings TO power
and seeing in the latter event the only means Of
preventing the occurrence Of that mach greater
evil, why should they not support the wing cand
dates on the day of election, and thus do something
and that net little, toward replacing the wings In
power / should not be ut ali surprised IL their
votes were mostly given to the whig Senatorial
candidates There is q story in circulation which
should seem to confirm this view Of the mat
ter. II is said that Mr.. Winthrop was approach
ed-whether by one of their own number, or
by wing in their behalf 1. is not said-in the name
Of the Norfolk boilers, to see what he would
do in return should their movements result in max.
Jog bin Governor but that he peremp.orily re-
fused to hold any conversation on the subject. lie
would have nothing to say on subject disgrace
full. liz the people should elect him. he would ha