The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1853-08-19
PARTIES IN NEW YORK.

PARTIES IN NEW YORK.
The New York Herald Of thelOth thus
closes an article upon the prospects Of par.
ties in the Empire State:
We have our fears that storm is brewing
which will end in the destruction of the in
vincibe and overwhelming New York demo.
cracy of 1852. The bitter hostilties exist
ing between the Argus and the At!a as are omi-
nous of a deadly feud. The same thing is
betrayed in the amusing ferocity Of the two
democratic Dromios of this city, and we ap-
prehenG that any attempt to sink there quar-.
rel by sinking them in new democratic or.
gan, will be failure melancholy failure
The spells have been divided, and they have
not gone all round. Worse than this-.he
"Old Guard" the old hunkers, the old stand
bys of the party, who expected the lions
share, have been unceremoniously cut short
ut a side table, with the small pckings of the
jackal. There's the danger. If Gen. Pierce
had fifty millions more Of public plumber he
might keep the party together But he hasn't
got it, and he can't do it. And it is rule in
commerce that where the demand exceeds the
supply the huckstcrs will rule the market,
and honest men will be cheated.
In word, the old national branch of the
democratic party of New York, under the
belief that they have been superseded in the
confidence and favors of the administration
by the scditious abolition Buffalo party of
1913, are mcditating open rebellion, and the
Albany Atlas warns the party that Il bolt may
be regarded as fixed fact. What Them
The Democratic State Convention meets ut
Syracuse on the 18th of September. They
may fail to harmOnize upon State ticket
the scccders may go off to Utica or some 9th
er place, and nominate another ticket
and that will bring US back to the split OF
1913. Such is the gloomy prospect before
us, in advance of the first annual message OF
Gen. Pierce, before he has proposed a single
measure Of public policy to either house Of
Congress.
The disorganized and apparently utter help
less condition of the wing party Of this State
will probably contribute to hasten this demo
cratic dissolution, rather than to encourage
the hards and sOfts to reconciliation. Be
tween the Fillmore and the Seward divisions
of the late wing association there has been rs
yet no approach to compromise. Master
Greeley gives up the party us absolutely de
funct; and on all sides there is tact acquics
cepce in this judgment, MS far as New York
is concerned. The appointment Of Whig
State Convention is yet to be made. A fin,
opening is offered for new organization, up
ON a new platform, which will take root and
flourish, and extend all over the Union. But
the remains of the late wing party are 81
strongly saturated with abominablc isms OF
Seward and his organs, that we fear major.
anil frnn anti
rent, woman's rights, land reform, Maine IL
quOr law, and protective tariff platform, OF
something of that sort. But then there will
be an opportunity for an independent move
ment of the Fillmore and Webster constitu
tional Union compromise wings; and the cx
pedient of a junction between them and the
hard shells has already in various quarters, rs
we are informed, been discussed.
Thus, then, from review of the present
condition Of the discordant elements of boti
the old parties in New York, there is not on
ly the danger to be consulted Of another
split among the democracy, but there is also
the possible contingency to be looked after
or the revival of the Seward branch of thu
late wing party on bona .fde abolition and
revolutionary platform, and the fusion of thu
Fillmore and Webster portion with the dc
mocrttic hard shells, or Old Guard into ar
independent national Union party; otherwise
the New York result this fall will probably
be mn easy triumph Of the Albany Atlas anC
Van Buren, wing of tho democracy, leaving
disatfccted and communicated hard shells
and all the factions Of the late wing party
scattered over the field, MS the loose materials
of dsorganized opposition, powerless from
its divisions, though in the aggregate reprc