The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-06-11

~, ~Aor tns spoiS' SuA'o
the revere The N braska bill has divided
each wing u the late happy family" into two
divisions 20 t at there are now four factions
Of the glorious democracy" There are the
hard shells, headed by John Wheeler, Maurice,
Peckham, and others, opposed to the admins
tration, the Nebraska bill, and Judge Douglas;
and there are the hards, headed by Mike Walsh.
opposed to the administration, 1ct warm sup
porters of Douglas and Nebraska There are
the free soil soft shells, under the lead Of
Walker, Captain Rynders, and John Cochrane,
in favor Of the spoils, the administration,
Douglas, and the obliteration of the black
line Of SO So There are the soft shell free
sellers, upder the lead of Gilbert Dean, Benja-
min +. Butler, John Van Buren,, and such
worthy administration organs as the New York
Evening Post and the Albany ATLAS, perfectly
enthusiastic in their support of the administra-
ton, the Cabinet, the inaugural, and the spoils
policy which has demoralized and destroyed
the party, but so utterly hostile to the Ne
brasaa bill that they would prefer Seward for
the Presidency to Douglas
| Such are the leading discrepancies among
= the fierce democracie" But they are not all
The little morning penny trumpet Of the soft
shells, printed in this city, has GENE out more
violent frebrand against Michael Doheny and
the Irish Catholics than Parsons or the Angel
Gabriel himself, for the True National Demo
crat, so called, says that ''we speak from the
experience of years when we say that, at home
or abroad, in Europe and America, the Irish
are always 'deceitful, always ungrateful, al
ways arrogant, always irsolent, and the Irish
Catholics always anti-republcan." And this
is the language of an organ of the admnstra-
ton, while the organ at Washington is playing
upon the other key. OF the meaning of this
harsh discord we know nothing. Perhaps
| this violent assault is feeler, thrown out
! to the anti-Catholic party, while the Wash
| ington organ assumes to keep all smooth with
| the Irish. Can it he possible that the admins
tration is thus preparing to sen out its right,
title and interest in the Irish-Catholic votes to
the Know Nothings, thus early in the day? Or
is this merely a move of the New York soft
shells against the hard shells, who happen to
have the bulk of the patriotic Hibcrnians on
their side? The matter calls for some eyplaRa-
| tons from the Washington Union, for if its
Cabinet satellites can thus wantonly abuse the
Irish Catholics with impunity, we shall be left
to no other inference than that it is done by and
with the advice and consent Of the authorities
at Washington.
The question is onr next Governor? We
have been endeavoring to define the present.
position of our divided and sub-divided de-
mocracy IT is all confusion, worse COMPOUNDED
than the whigs-a great deal worse. The favor
| lite of the hard shells for Governor is Judge
| Bronson. But under the new. excitements OF
the hour he has fallen into the untroubled retire
| ment of honest John Tyler. We hear nothing
ofhim. Perhaps he may turn up at the hard
she'll State convention of the 18th July, perhaps
not. The great lion of the free-soil admnistra-
ton soft shells is Governor Seymour, and his
veto Of the late prohibitory liquor law has
made him the lion also Of the rum selling ana
lager bier party. If he runs, he must run
upon that issue. But it is doubtful
whether he win venture thus to risk an
open fight with the tetotallers, the Womens
State Temperance Alliance included. We sus-
pect that the soft shells will have to look IN
John Van Buren as anybody else. John is elias
tic, yet John is iirm-John will do to be defeat
ed upon as well as Seymour John is firm rs n
rock upon principles yet plant to the usages
Of the party-infexible against the Nebraska
Dill, but ready to sink or swim for any division
Of the party, or all united, just as the conven
tons at Syracuse, Rome, or Utica may elect
for or against Nebraska. He can agree to al
most anything except Gen. Glass;
The prevailing fog smoke, "nose and con-
fusion, among the disorganzed democracy are.
however, such as to defy all estimates and all
conjcctures. 1t is evident that three great mar
ties will take the field in our next November
elections-the temperance party, the iree SOL
anti-Nebraska bill party, and the Know
Nothings The late elections in New Orleans.
Washington, Philadelphia, and other cities aud
towns, show these Know Noihings to be wide
spread and formidable party; and they also
show that this party will be very likely to Goa
lescc with the New York wings in November If
they are agreed The democratic factions
promise neither union nor harmony, nor any
nxed programme of principles or line of action
The chances. therefore, are that the outside elc.
mehls OF free soil, temperance, and natvism.
in conjunction with the wings, will sweep the
commonwealth leaving the administration to
moralize over the scattered fragments of the
broken democracy, and the causes of their dis
astrous dissolution, while factious fanaticism
and intolerance ride into power hand in haai.
But the question cannot DC answered for m ,nths
vet to come-"WhO il IN bn our noxt Coca
nor?''
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