The New York herald., 1851-10-16
Our Washington Correspondence.


P1ptsrtng Condition Of Parties IN the South Curl
o~s situation Of the Union Parsy-Plan of U.it-
ing the Northern and Southerw Democrats on the
Cuba Qaestion-Aot soork cat out for the Admit
istraii0n.
The Union party have triumphed in Georgia
Cobb is elected, Toombs and Stephens are returned
to Congress. Georgia rejoices in tho compromises.
Senator Berrien s left high and dry in refusing to
rejoice. Mississippi will follow in the track of
Georgia and Alabama The South. the ultra
South, the cotton States of the South, will have
thus, every one of them, submitted to the adjust
ment for the sake Of the Union-except South
Carolina. What will South Carolina do! From
the latest indications from that quarter she is
divided within herself, and cannot even Cooperate
within her borders in the act of secession. She
must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity of wait
ing little lenger.
This hypothesis relieves US of the late apprehen-
sions of secession for sometime to come, and thus
opens the whole South to the Presidential contest
Perhaps South Carolina may keep aloof-or throw
Ser vote away; but the whole Of tho other Southern
States will be open for the sweepstakes of '52.
VIA, Whst is to De @ done? What is to become Of this
this Union party Of xhss and dsmoorssss VIII
they remain united' If they do, they can neither
go into the whg, nor yet into the democratic ma
tiohai cohVentio1 Mr Ioomos gives both the
old parties Of the North the cut direct.
AS q leader Of the Union party OF the South he
says that neither the Northern wings nor the
Northern democracy are to be trusted; for while
tho former have coaeeced with all the fag ends of
abolition, in6deiity and fanatic in New York and
Pennsylvania, the democrats have made Just as re-
voting bargain with the free soilers Of Massa-
chuset's The Union party, then, of Georgia, Ala
bama and Mississippi, cannot meet either party
Of the North in q national convention. The
Southern rights party Of the said States will, of
course, keep aloof There is no other eft fer
the Southern Union coalition, ifthey intend 70 stick
together, than an independent ticket of their own
for the Presidency. They have yet another al
Tentative. They may dissolve co-par rtnership, and
leave the wings and democrats TO look up once
more their old party associations, if they can 6nd
them. But the moment that is done, the seces-
sionsts will hold the balance of po wer.
viewed in any light, the position of arties in the
cotton States is full of difficulties apparently insu
EeIable to either of the old parties of the North
But there is question upon which tho whole South
will join the Northern democrats. It is the Cuba
question. Ioonbs and Stephens will lead the Union
men, and Mcdonald and Quitma will rally the
State rights men to 90 altogether for Cuba if that
is made the question; for Tombs and Stephens, and
Cobb, are not the men to stand upon ceremony in
they are init:
The politicians of the South may rely upon it
that Cuba will be made the paramount question by
the South in 1852 Very soou after the meeting Of
Congress, resolutions of an exciting character will
be offered in the House-probably In both Houses
against the administration, its agents, and the
course they have pursued on the Cuba question. A
long and exciting debate may be expected, the eff
feet Of which will be to rally the whigs to the de-
fence Of the administration, and the democrats to
opposition, all over the country. The subje,t will
60 into the Baltimore Convention. They will make
the democrats North and South. Little Douglas is
ready 70 adopt that platform, tho young democracy
OF the North are ready to support hiu upon it, and
the result may be anticipated Ten thousand vic
tories in Mexico to av are not worth tha island of
Cuba. Scott and glory will bo no match for Dou-
glas and Cuba.