The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1851-06-03

tude-to have no connection with q party that
~, IA the public sight stained with sectionalism-
gained ~ them In opposing the election Of Mr.. Sum-
nor Both as matter of interest and as . matter Of
principle, they are called upon to form distinct
organization, and to break down the party now do
minant. Such men as b. L. IIallett, VIM. Par
mentier, Caleb Gushing, James Russell, G. G..
Greene, l. M Parker, and other prominent sold
liners" are not likely to be blind to the immens
advantages that would result to them from heading
q movement that should touch up the connection il
Massachusetts between democracy and free soilism;
that is, in the event of the next national adminstra-
ton being democratic, as it must be if the wings
run Mr.. Webster. 1t is sometimes said that our
bunker democrats will support Mr. Webster.
Don't believe it. They have no more idoa of sup
PORTING him than, they have, Of initiating those
faithful few on Long Island, who, at every pre-
sdentiai election, steadily support Andrew Jackson
and Daniel II. Tompkins. They will do nothing
for Mr.. Webster, because they know that he would
DO nothing for them.
There i YET another class of our lie mocrats who
will probably be heard from, in opposition to the
continuance Of the coalition. | mean all those gen.
temen who have been disappointed in not obtain
ing ofice-luite numerous enough, they and their
immediate friends, to turn the scale in some OF the
nicely balanced counties and towns. | know that
the public arc much more inclined laugh at dis
appointed Office seeker, than they are to listen to
hls advice; but Ialso know that the disappointment
Of ofice-seekers is a formidable element in State
where parties are situated "a they are here. de-
sire Of revenge unbounded vanity, injured interest.
and baftied ambition, these are the things which
make powerful adyersaries Of very ordinary men,
They are 70 them what poison is to the dullest
dagger making its every blow mortal. Now, there
are plenty Of such men here, none Of them persons
Of considerable strength in the political world; and
unhappy for the coalition, there is an abundance
Of material for them to work upon. The coalition
pretty much all the old democrats, thus act
ing, even 80 far back as on the occasion OF
making the original nominations for the Legis-
latuIe, which was the public beginning OF the
yh.fa inc If
was sufficient to damn any man, while prominence
in support Of Mr.. an buren, was mere pass to the
swarm Of nominations and Offices. Democrats were
not allowed TO have their own candidates the Goa
tion tickets, ard yet were compcllodto take what.
ever free soer, we're put forward. Strictly speak
ing, three ths Of those nominal democrat who were
elected to the House and Senate, were much free
sellers a. were the original free sellers themselves.
Seeing how matters were going, the Governor early
gave the cold shoulder to the old democrats and has
himself received the fraternal hug from the free
sellers. The men who were "tabooed' by the FREQ
sellers have been sent to Coventry by his cxcollenoy
This conduct has created considerable discomfort:
and it is upon this feeling that the more viruent OPP
ponents Of the coalition will work, If opposition to
II, Of democratic character, shall be made
These two things combined-namely, hostility to
an abolition alliance, and luminosity arising from
personal disappontmenss-wou be quite sufficient,
could they once be set in motion to break down the
present government. IL they should not take moro
than three thousand democratic votes from the coa-
lition-and, udciousy used, they would take double
that number-in the counties Of Middesex, Essex,
Bristol, Norfolk, Plymouth, franklin, Berkshire,
and Hampton, the coalition would DO killed as dead
a Julius Casar and everybody knows that he was
killed the deadcst Of any man mentioned in history.
Whether they AN be brought to bear thus fatally
upon the coalition, will depend, 10 considerable sx
tent, upon the weight andcharactcr Of the influences
that AZ work in favor ofthat organization. 1t Is
undonahle that thecoaliton has passed more popula
iaws Then there is the State convention for the
reform Of the constitution break up the coalition.
and the whole thing would turn out the yest farce
shat ever men engaged in maintain it, carry the
convention, remodel the constitution in accordance
with the wants Of the age, and the whig party will
be- used up. These ambitious democrats see
that if the coalition should be continued, they can
have at leas, one more chance at "the spoils which
they never can have if it should break down. With
the masses Of the democracy the impression il very
powerful that, IL they bolt from the coalition, the
wings alone will be the gamers. Perhaps, how
ever, that which makes most in behalf Of the coali.
tion is the ;ncurable imbecility of the wings. All
that the whig party here can remind one Of, is
aband Of Bediamtes, under the direction Of leaders
composed in about equal parts Of the ass and the
mule. They have 20 tact, no sense, no ability =
take advantage Of circumstances, no skill to avail
themselves fthe discoptents Of respectable por-
ton of their opponents, and restraint on their
own incorporate evil passions, They are endowed
vita nothing but fanatical bigctry that causes
them to be actuated by spitefI bate Of every
thing that differs in the least from themselves, and
p.ontiful lack Of all the essentials Of groat pc.
ltical organization. They are now waiting to see
inste ad Of going TO work themselv.s and preveat-
ing, through their own exertions, such state OF
Affairs, when the fall campaign shall have opened,
a. would render boiling on The part q the hunksr
democrats, almost an ac. Ct necesst, TO thcn
from Being involved in the apparently approaching
ruin Of the coalition. NO doubt, Il The old lins
democrats should act up fer themselves. the wing
vote wculd b. much inc-sa sed in some Of the 10.
cs.cs already named, under th, prospect ofsuooess
that woald then present itself. Tut 70 what con-
ditic1 mus. the once grca, whig party Of Msssa-
cbuse.ts be reduced, when it must wait upon the
acton OF NJ Hallott and bis friends for the Cha
rseter ofi.s own course
Mr.. RaAtours majority surprised most Of us.
though his election wa fer some days conceded.
before it had become un fan aoccnrti. He re-
eeiyed sorc whis votes, which sweled his whole
number, and partially atored for the loss be Gus
tanned by the action Of the hunkers. This vote
dces not differ materially from the united votes
distric. las, November, while the whg vote fell cf
several hundreds MIR. Urban may be considered
politically sxtiaguishod. Mr.. pafreys defeat, in
the fourth district, may be looked upon As tho
when they found that the coalition democrats were
about 10 abandon their own candidate TO support
the frsesoiler. But for this DEMOCRATIC sia - the
whiys, they would not have Jared much better in
the fourth district than they did in the second. 10
was, indeed the certainty Of thi, aid that caused
the wings @ wake w at the last moment, and 20
to work. They rushed, as towards fight, with
cpik VI oAili FtIhAV tuu Nefv kuo
most surpris. Of nj! parties at the result. The
old democrats, 10 whom Mr.. Pafrey's def at. froa
frsi lc laat,is owing, who kept him out Of the lsa
Congress, n they have prevented him from taxing
a scat IL tho n xt, even norc pleased than the
wings at bis being thoroughly defeated. Their
coocuc., indeed, proves that few energetic mea
Can DC much, and that I Is always within the
resources 81 science to double up" even the great
men cfthis world
The wings are fast getting WetstcriHed here,
AMI In The state generally, the Scott fever having
a moe; itself out, leaving Il. victims in very
debl.atcd conditicu. The Webster men sincerely
believe that they make their leader PrcsidcoS.
az they are about TO "gc in and win"-l they
can. The democrats do all that they can to en-
courage this species of insanity, as they are con-
virctd that Mr.. Wctstsr would be about the
easiest Of all possible whig candidates to bestsnd
they can't afford % have very troy whig in the
field.
There a. r,nors Of a change iu the ownership