Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-07-07

Tie heSency were almost wholly Wltn-
out friends every where in the interior Of
the State, though their leaders had lost
neither their cunning their energy, nor
their perseverance,. They had mounted
the Texas hobby in 1874 only by way of
securing the sympathy of the South, that
that might aid them at home and fol-
lowing out the same line of policy, they
early took ground against the Wilmot
proviso, not because of their honest devo-
ton to the rights of the States as guaran-
teed in the constitution, but, as before
remarked, that they might appear to. be
in full communion with the mass of
their party some arhere, if not at home.
The desire of Mr.. Van Buren's imme-
diate coterie to obtain revenge upon the
friends of General Cass for V. B. s defeat
in 1874, backed by the detestation in
which the radicals held the Regency, in
duced them 1.-THE Radicals) to at once
mount the proviso hobby, it being judged
the sure card in the game they were
playing-that is, of throttling Cass and
the Regency with a single effort. Up to
tkat time they had been emphatically the
free trade and States rights wing of the
party there, insisting on the utmost rigid
ity in constituting the powers of the Gov
eminent, State as we'll as National. In
deed, "John Taylor of Caroline" of old,
was not not more stringent in his reading
of the duty and powers of the National
Government, than were nearly all the
New York Radical Democratic leaders I'D
to very near that time; while old Nat
Macon himself was not a more vehement
stickler for strict economy in all public
expenditures, than were they. Having
taken the first leap towards the abolition
lists in order to obtain the votes of the
latter by way of increasing their show of
strength, they soon found that another
and still other rapid strides in that direc-
ton were necessary to accomplish their
chief purpose of rendering it certain that
Cass should not receive the vote of New
York. . -
Thus, they came to take the lead for
the time being, in abolitionizing the whole
North. They (the radical leaders, realized
that the prestige of connection with the
national Democracy would prove strong
enough to detach from them thousands on
thousands who, up to that time, had
steadily acted with them against the Re-
gency, and conceived that their safety
was in. boldly taking the bull by the
horns. So they turned their batteries
against the national Democracy, who had
saved the Regency for the time being, by
admitting the latter to full communion
with them, though VIGOROUSLY represent
ing small minority of the party in New
York in the Baltimore convention of 1874.
Governor Marcy, Governor Seymour, and
a host of other well known gentlemen,
were among those who refused to follow
the radical leaders into hostility to the
national organization. Their scheme of
defeating Cass in New York succeeded, as
all, the world know, and having effected
this end, they at once set about the work
of renewing their connection with their
national party as quietly as possible.
Governor Marcy, who probably saw
that divided as the party in New York
were in 1848, they could never gain
another victory there, stepped forward to
work a reconciliation, the terms being
that the radicals before that time termed
Barn-burners) should quietly slide off
their anti-slavery platform, and that the
other wing should cease to practically re-
member that they 1.-THE Barn-burners) had
defeated Cass in 1848. The Regency
leaders, who had re-obtained important
positions in the party through the work
ing of the split, strenuously opposed the
reunion. But Marcy carried his point ;;
about eight-tenths of the bunker or ma
tional party rank and file, having en-
dorsed his policy. The Barnburners
kept faith with him in the last presiden-
tial election, giving the vote of the State
to Pierce, by his immense majority there.
Ever since, they have been sliding down
as quietly as possible from the extreme
positions of tie Buffalo platform.
In all their late State conventions the
Regency party, who, out of the city num-
Der no where much more than meagre