The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-06-08
Cur Washington Correspondence.


WAsHiNGroN, June 7, 1852.
p,r,,,s efias Itmceraiic Coareation- The DiEcuR-
ttes ame,yr The old FogaS-Ihe Conspiracy
against Young -AnaericaNomination If Gene
raj Pierce Tie Democratic PlatJo,n.--P Prospects
# Sscfioaat r0ndst--T ae Hasfy Plate of
.stap--1de NGtice Ameican Letter, &C., Sc.
Having been deliberate spectator throughout Of
tic late proceedings Of the National Democratic
Convention nlatter-of fact impartial review of It's
proceedings, and its results may not be uninterest-
irg 10 the readers of the New York HERALD.
On the first assembling ofthe delegates in BLti-
more, it was manifest that Cass and Buchanan would
destroy each other The origin OF the trouble goes
back to 1874; but the more direct cause of the in
exorabc split between tho Cass and Buchanan fac
tons is tracenble 20 the Compromise question Mr..
buchanan, in 1880, was anxious to unite the de-
mocratc party IN both houses OF Congress upon ne
Missouri lire. He cama TO Washington, with Mr..
Folks cabinet in q body. to effect thai object.
Hence the tenaeity With which Cue States Of Virgil
,ia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, aul
Mississippi stuck TO him ia thu eolyeatiol DE
Gen Cas- opposed the Missouri Conpro Mise line,
probably Under a correct suspicion that II hr
Buchanan and Folks cnbinet succeeded il thsi-
plan, ia would result to Bu,a.Gnun's advantage
Gtu. Cass and Gen. Footc, and Cobb, Clemens,
Y ombs, and Stephens, are. therefore, consdscI il
tire kenate as having defeated the south oa5
vi ner just moety Of California. Nor WI
there more unconditional Determination II
Any branch OF the Convention, than among tn
Southern state rights delegates TO defeat { - u a
hazards, for bis connection with Clay, WebstAf,
EoOtc, Clemens, fo0mhs and stephens, II Wrestling
fem The South .her proportion, nor rlgatGl ana
itssl proportion Of tho acquisitions Of tn Mexican
war.
III The North ard tie West the friends Of Cen
Cas- were equally determined to put down tho s.
ccasicniss aud the fact that Nj BlchllLn 6heir
fist choice from the North, mate it necessity to
put him down at any cost. Thee vas thus an i'm
Ia n k.Ar. ~
q Cass aud Buchanan il the Convention
his iaeconeiable hostility made il quita ap
ra-ent chat it. IS last resort, the foaas . Gas
should unite upon Douglas, they might possibly
push him through H. is ren bykable thtr. n,sviti-
standing the un'ncasurcd abuse by the DsR1npic
Rertem of Gen. Cas- and the old fogics, that tie
Cas- delegates should prefer going over to Douglas
rather than contribute. any terms. the sa:csss
OF Mr.. Buchanan. But the Cas- and Douglas ds.e-H
gates did change about from to the othet,
solved, if they beat, TINT Buchanan should
days baotting it thus became evident that
unless some extraordinary bargain should be
struck, Cas-, Buchanan, and Douglas w,all
all sink together. Al discovery, fatal to Doug
las ofitself, made about this time, by the South
delegates not before in the secret. Some Of tho
old foges (wbo had sworn never to eat noat till
they were revenged upon George Sanders, Cory,
Marshall, Of California, and all the other break acc
leaders Of Young Amsrica), made known the coty;-
vial habits OF Douglas, reducing him III their
descriptions to the mean level OF IN ordinary pot
hou;e politician. As this news became diTa.ca
among the delegates, the fate of Young Douglas
was scaled, not only for this campa "a, but most
likely for several campaigns yet to come, uati he
shall have become steady and digniied old ~.
There was yet, however, chance the 10th
ballot for the old fogics. The State Of New Y rl
at that crisis had the game in her hands May
his views and policy during Folks administration,
ho would have been acceptable TO tho South. Their
votes proofto this point Virginia Ia least her
vote, after leaving NJ. Buchanan, for Pierce, b.
cause New York remained divided, and Iii
Nirginiaps did not wish to east their vote away
The New Workers went out to consult, and had
they. on coming bncb. cast the thirty-iiv3 voCs
Of New York FOR Marcy, Virginia would htv
followed with fifteen. and that some ballot,
the next, would have carried Marcy through
with the same hurrah with which, the forty-nnth
ballot, the convention rushed to the rescue OF Gea
Pierce But there were Cass and Dickinson
who determined to defeat Marcy, because tie
twenty-four Marcy men had shown no disposition
Of good will in single vote for Cass or Don,'aa.
How far Mr. Dickinson was party to this Obstinate
split in the New York delegation, we do not know,
hut we do believe that word from him il favor Of
Marcy, to tho convention, would have settled the
question at once in the nomination Of Marcy. Ii
was Saturday, the members of the convention were
FESTIVE, impatient and irritable, they were deter
mined nominate somebody, and the solid vote of
New York for Marcy would have been received ~
an omen too good and tos auspicious OF harmony il
New York, to be rejected. We say that Virginia
was waiting for New York, and that Pennsylvania
was ready TO follow Virginia, we have reason to
enter ain The shadow of n doubt.
The result of the forty-ninth ballot shows that
there was no deliberation in the choice of Pierce;
that it was done upon q venture. upon a rush, and
In tho teeth of deliberate vote against him but two
minutes before Here is the forty-eighth ballot until
IL reached Mississippi, which, changing from Marcy
to Pierce. brought the whole convention tumoling
down like a falling hous, about his ears