The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-08
Opinions al the Press
from the New Yo;k Trihuua (Whig-&ewara--s ott)
June IL
THE NEW SLAUGHTER HOUSE.

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THE NEW SLAUGHTER HOUSE.
We do trust that the year 1852 witnesses tho u At
as5enblagcs OF certain active politicians Of our
! try III rival national conventions 10 nominate can
! didatcs for President and Wee President If tho
i United States We believe the unpreadiccd good
sense OF the couniry utterly conla these gather.
/ ings regarding them as exceedingly dangerous in
| their aspects opening = door 10 The grossest cor
rupions, and continually tending % the defeat Of
| tic popular VIII. five did not know that q strict
cohstructicnst isaways little looser in consruing
1 TIC constitution than anybody else, where bis own
interests or preiudees require such liberality, We
| should expect tho State rights men to denounce
/ these asSemblages tending toward consolidation
and The practical absorption Of all power by self
constituted conventions unllnown to the constitu-
| ton and laws.
\ a national convention az We have already ex-
planned, is under very strong temDtaton 80 make Il
candidate for President, instead of merely present.
| ira one whom the people have already fixed npla;
4 sce IN the former case the candidates obligation
70 me delegates IS tar greater, ana his gratitule
will probably he pcopostionate. Il i anoj certain
/ to SCI aside all candidates who have any positive
! character, any notable history, any defnto idefs,
ard propose instead some negative, half anl.h If,
1 siua'l-ninded parsonage, who has never been Of
sufficient Consequences 10 offend, o. excite jealousy,
and who never Lad any dea bey oud the pale OF his
party catechsm We have fallen upon great times
| for little men, and this wretcLed machinery OF
national conventions is ono potent cause Of IT,
We do rot mean that General Pierce affords any
special illustration Of these truths We ID not ut
all imply that his party will not cordially support
nor that thoy may not elect him, We believe he
has sufficient ability to make Irresponsible President
after the pattern Of Saa Barren OF Polk Bat this
ne 90 mean, and call all to witness that " the
party never sent its delegates to Baltimore 10
nominate Frank Pierce for President. There were
rot two hundred men ont of New Hampsnre VIII,
desired his nomination, and hardly 50 many any,
| where who expected it.. lie owes whatever good
fortune he may have. not 70 he people. but to the
delegates, ana few schcming outsiders, and he
must bestow his gratitndc accordingly
\ Three or four weeks ago, General Gideon j. Pill
low, ofTennesscc. reached city. from the South
kept on TO Connecticut, ard held eonfib with
| Governor Seymour, thence mp TO Concord, Y. II !,
u cal, On Frank Pierce. and to Caleb Cushing
all these have been, with him, off .ers in the M,x-
can war. We knew al once that there was u Pge-
Dental game aloat, but just what it did beco ne
/ Us ~ inquire, and could not have learned if wo
4 had Now the milk in the cocoanut is accounted
| for. and we shall Be greatly disappointed if General
Pillow don't of the flftcst bert,ls ualor
/ General Pcfce-providcd Pierce gets elected This
| is q world wherein many things happen apparently
BY chance, because some long head has plenac and
/ fixed them before hand.
| We have good many who talk in favor Of giving
the election Of President directly to the people, but
| who will do something. No amendment OF the
constitution is really needed; and the abolition Of orr
1 present electoral machinery would net forgartl the
matter one straw. What odds hethar there are
electors Or rot, 50 long each party mus. have one
io:e-ordained candidate, aad every voter must
support the regular nomination." throw
away his vote? What is needed il simply IA
| agreement that each voter may endorse (by
writing or in prnl his personal preference for
/ PRESIDENT and Vice President his ballat-that
such Endorsements ahan be duly counted AMI re-
turued-and that ali the electors of each pa rty shall
vote for the candidates whose names found in
corsed ON the largest number OF the ballots Of their
party throug bout the Union. This Mt once obvates
all national conventions special nominations it
restores to every voter his natural right say whom
he prefers for President, of which he deprived
being obliged to vote the national convention nomi-
/ throw Mt thn die.
cussion of the merits of The rival dates shall be
| wholly unconstrnined and may be prosecuted up to
the day OF election; and il candidate should prove
| unworthy, each voter may vote for some one else
without dctriment to the principles he deems vital
! and wishes to uphold. Under this system, strong
ard positive men would generally be chosen while
at present they stand little chance; and statesman
might well feel honored by the suarages of several
thousands of his countrymen, although he should
not be elected, since he would know that this ex-
| preston ofther confidence was wholly unconstraned,
! and in no manner pered the success Of his party.
Statesmen OF all parties! why not unite in giving
the people real voice in the choice of their Pres-
dents! People ofall parties why not unite in de-
| handing it?
From the New York National Dem ocrat, June7l
THE DEMOCRACY AND vIcToRY-THE NOMINATION.
The long and intense agony is over. The repre-
sentatives Of the democracy of the several States
| have spoken in decisive manner Mt last. Alter
| five dogs of severe labor, they have named their
| standard bearers, on whom the united democracy
will rally in the approaching campaign. These
standard bearers are General Franklin Pierce, of
| Now Hampshire, for President, and William Rufus
| King, Of Alabama, for Vice President.
These are the nominations Of the democratic party
for the two highest Offices in the gift of free poo
rle They now before the country; und we hest
tate not to declare, in the most emphatic manner,
that the democratic nominees will be triumphanuy
elected In our Judgment, it is perfectly mnatorial
whom the wings may nominate; the country is so
| overwhelmingly democratic that the defeat of eur
nominees is not within the range Of a reasonable
| probability.
The democracy will be perfectly united in their
support OF our candidates. Not whisper can truly
be uttered against their capacity or democracy.
The entire democracy of the nation can, with pro-
| priety, rally unit in their support
| The struggle of the friends Of the several most
prominent candidates, Lewis Cass, Buchanan, and
Douglas, was desperate; but the animosty existing
between the respective supporters of these gentle
men was too great to permit them to render any es
scntial aid to each other. Cass evidently tho ia
vorite Of the masses at Baltimore, as we'll as of those
who attended the convention as spectators from
other States, and of the democracy Of tho city Of
| Baltimore and the State of Maryland There was
more genuine enthusiasm for Cass than for all the
other candidates The manifestations in his favor
| were heartfelt and devoted and he was laid on the
acrfcia altar with reluctance on the part Of his
friends that has been exceeded in the case Of
any other defeated candidate.
But with all this popularity of Gen. Cass, the
convention was 20 constituted that his nomination
was impossible, according to all the we'll known
laws that govern organized bodies in their action
The real supporters of Cass only numbered about
one-third Of the convention. Another third was
100 great number to win over by any kind Of pos
sible management ON the part Of his friends. The
opponents Of Cass were well skilled in all the dex-
ferrous movements of politics rs wore his friends.
Many OF them had been educated in the Van Buren,
.chool-an institution in which the cASf professors
N Maneuvring have never been sxoelIed. Undeg