The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-12-06

from this precaution wOnld be general difu-
sion Of confidence, and cessation of the iDju-
rious doubts which are being freely expressed
in Ger tain quarter.
TIE Know N0THINGs-CURIoUs DOMGs IN
NV YoRK-D DANGER AHEAD.-We poblish to-
day, from one of the Seward organs, docu-
Dept purporting to be an official report OF the
proceedings of the Grand Council (oi the
Know Nothngs) o the State OF New York, on
the 18th OF November last, at l28 Nassau street.
This Z" i, iicisl report" was, mos. likely, sur
reptltous)y obtained by toe Seward organ in
question from some instrument of toe arcb-agi-
tator in the aforesaid Council. However OBJ
tanned, the publication is suggestive of deep
laid plot Oh the part of the Seward coalition to
break I'D the order of tie Know NotbiDgs in this
State by fomentiDg discussions among them.
If this can be accompl shed, there will be but
and branch, the Know Nothings as q national
organization.
We understand that already the order in this
State are suffering from the evils Of incipient
emoralization-that they are already divided
into two factions; and that the Barker faction,
! from some cause or other--we know not what
was repu6iated by the late Grand National
| Council at Cincinnati, and that the opposing
faction was accepted as the legitimate Know
Notbiugs Of New York. Both factions are
| opposed to Seward-both will have their
delega'es at Albany in behalf Of the eiec-
| ton of member Of the order to the
| United States Senate in the place Of
York among themselves, what, in n national
view, wills be the result? Similar, unquestion-
ably, to the result OF the Democratic Bs'timsre
Convention of 1S48. The New York Democrats
sent to that convention two sets of delegates
Van Buren, set and an anti-Van Buren, set.
set would accept no compromise Of this sort.
They returned home, went to Buff,'o, and,
joined by the abOlitionists in the nom n.tion of
Van Buren,, they succeeded in defeating the
Baltimore democratic nominee. From that de-
lection the great democratic party has gone
down rapidly to destruction. The remains of
it, including free sOi,ers and secGssiOnists,
keeping up the show of a national organization,
are the Cabinet coalition at Washington and
their pensioned spoilsmen throughout the
country.
From the same sort Of spirit In the whig
camp, General Scott was defeated in 1852
These warnings should be remembered by the
Know Nothings. Nor should they forget that
New York holds the balance Of power in q ma
tional campaign-and that in q Presidential
contest party divided in New York has al
ways been defeated. In q word, unless this
division and these existing dissensions among
the New York Know Nothings are speedily
healed, the mischief will extend t, other
States, and by the year 1856 the new
party, which, il united, would be irresistible
against all other parties combined, will have
been broken up and irittered away in
miserable seuabbles for precedence in the conn
ellis, in view of the spells. No party can be snc-
cessfnl which quarrels over the plumber before
the battle is foupht Nothing could be more
demoralizing and ruipous than this wrangling
over the spoils in prospective. If there is to
be a dispute for the loaves and fishes among
the Know Nothings, let them follow the ex-
ample of the New York democrats in '52: First
unite TO win the spOils, and then quarrel and
spit up, if necessary, on their distribution. No
thing like the lessons of experience. They are
full Of practical wisdom-e especially in politics,
iull of wisdom.
The Know Nothings, we repeat, can have no
healthy national organization without unity
among themselves in New York. Her they
must unite, OF they will fall to pieces ~ na-
tional party, from their bad example .cce, Of
decentralization. Let them proceed to bo siness
accordingly, for q harmonious reunion in this
State as q solid party. Let them follow the
example of the order in Massachusetts,, in nd
ing to the doctrine of non-intervention on the
slavery question. Let them plant Themselves
in open hostility to the administration and its
spoilsmen--the only general party organization
arrayed against them. But, above all, let them
postpone the division OF the spoils till the spoils
are secured, or they are gone.
Believing that the national programme Of the
Know NothiDgs and their principles, as promul-
gated from Massachusetts,, are eminently calcu-
lated to demolish the projected anti-slavery
crusade against the South, and the corrups
spoilsmen and party hucksters of all the old
broken down parties, we ore disposed to give
this new organization . fair trial. and the ad-
vantage Of the very best advice. We cordially
second their arrangements for the defeat Of
Seward in he Assembly, their hostility to the
administration, and al the old corrupt parties
and factions of the day. But unless these Incl
piept elements Of dissolution among the Know
Nothings in New York arc weeded out-unless
there is harmony among themselves as homo
geneous and consolidated party-the agents Of
Seward will first widen their existing divisions
into regular hard and soft shell split, and
then slip in between them, to the continued
possession of the State, as between the two