The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-07-06

The contumacious heretics in question out Of
the pale Of the church,
We have not assumed to speak by authority on
this subject, nor do we suppose any authority could
be necessary In case which was already 80 fully and
distinctly covered by the foreign policy OF the ad-
and Republic place their opposition to these views
distinctly on abolition grounds, and for this reason
we deem any further notice Of their position unne-
cessary. We wash our hands Of all further associa-
them standing as clearly without the pale Of the
democratic party as the New York Tribune or the
National Era.
There. Let the party bear in mind that the
Erening Post and the Buffalo Republic are
accommodated; that the Washington organ
Gf it be the organ) washes its hands Of all fur
Their association or party connection with them,
and that to this extent the heresies of free soil
are to be repudiated by the democratic party.
But what will this avail? Nothing-of itself
nothing. The New York Tribune and W. Il.
Seward have been over and over again repu-
dated by the national wings and their organs;
but the arch agitator and his faithful squire
continue as infexibly among the leaders of the
wing party as they do the champions OF free
soil and "the higher law"
No. no. These irreclaimable disciples of the
Buffalo ticket of 1S48 must be made to feel the
displeasure Of the administration, before they
can be brought either to respect its declared
policy or to repent Of their reasonable here
sizes. They will laugh at the impotent mani
festoes by the Washington Union, whether ut
tered upon its own responsibility, or by Execu-
tive authority, as long as the lions share Of
the Executive favors falls into their hands. In
Withholding the spoils, or in giving the obnox-
ious heretics, wherever good example may be
made of them. a wholesome touch Of proscrip-
ton, they can only be reached; or touch them
with the point Of the Fugitive Slave law, and
they are transformed like the evil spirit under
the spear Of Ithuriel, into their true shape.
Witness the late proceedings at Albany. Yet
we repeat, as our deliberate opinion that those
twenty-eight democratic deserters on the test
question are among the most enthusiastic
admirers of the administration, while they
who stood the fire like true men are undis-
guised in their dissatisfaction with the policy
which has marked the appointments Of the Pre-
sdent and his cabinet. Herein lies the true
secret Of the effrontery of the free sellers, in
thus openly proclaiming, at this early stage OF
the administration, their unmitigated contempt
for the compromise flummery Of the Baltimore
resolutions. Like the New York Tribune,
while they know that their influence is courted
by the anointed chief Of the party they feel.
perhaps, that with equal impunity they may
"execrate and spit upon" the great principles
which he has sworn to sustain.
In this view of the question, it may be well
that the issue between the compromise and free
soil wings of the party is thus early brought to
the threshold of a settlement There may yet
be scope and verge enough for restoring the ad-
ministration to the full confidence of the " Old
Guard A few months later and the breach
might have become too wide to heal. AS it is,
the manifesto of the Union will be Ineffective
unless seconded by executive action. We have
arrived at that point in which a doubt has been
raised in the minds Of large and all powerful de-
tachment of the democratic party ofthe exact in
tentions of the administration doubt whether
the "Old Guard" are to be included or ex-
cluded in the reorganization Of the party for
the campaign of $50. Many are mortified that
the occasion for such doubt should exist
many are offended at the repeated apparently
invidious determinations which have been made
against them: and not few are brooding al
ready upon the ways and means for decisive
retaliation at the next Baltimore convention.
For the sake of the administration, we think,
it is well that the differences upon principle
between the democratic compromise men and
democratic freesoilers and outsiders of all fac
items should thus early be hurried up for adjust
ment. Gen. Pierce may yet so shape the ge-
neral schedule Of his measures appointments.
and instructions, as to recover the ground which
be has lost. But there can be no national party
without rigid adhesion to national platform
There can be no safety in compromising, with
this or that faction the vital fundamental prin-
ciples of the constitution And our northern
democratic freesolers should be made to under
stand it. But while such disorganizing freesoil
and abolition organs as the Erening Post are
fattered with the favors of the administration,
they may be expected to treat with cool derision
or silent contempt such unmeaning bulls of ex-
communication as this flaming but harmless
pronunciamento of the Washington Union.
Who comes next?
THANK GoD FOR THE THUNDER Such. we
think, must have been the almost invol-
untary exclamation on Sunday evening
of many a tired denizen of New York who
had been kept awake the night previous, and
to whom the incessant racket of fire-crack-
ers, torpedoes, and other pyrotechnic de-
vices promised another sleepless night, when
these internal noises were drowned by the
loud long peals Of thunder Thank God for
the thunder
"He giveth His beloved sleep.
Down came the rain. suddenly, in torrents.
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