The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-14
perhaps quatsr Of century to come And
what are the prc specs W tn these rev and ex-


raordinsry oil ical organic ations?
Can O Presi ent al tex t ne slec'e uoon
the anti-sl .ver, co l ZION Il union or, ranne
oil Seward and co fede tee NJ; becarse,
to 90 no Their, b lane OF p wer held
against him n tie Nor i by tie Know No
, things is gu sufficient to dsiei hm n
ticket upon h narrow. sec aran. intoler 1t
anti-American ilatform OF tn Kn N hngs
succeed? 30; for without crossing Ma on aui
Dixon's line, the no-P perry candi !. e woa d
be checkmatei by the Seg.rl aati- livery
Goa ition. As between the Know Nothing
and the anti slavery alliance, John X ely
ton and William II. Seward neus slize each
other in the Norta, while tie Soutb
win un5oubted strike out dltfre It course
from either. Can Presidential candidate be
expected to weather the strong cross currents
of the election up the narrov pl,rk Of the
Maine liquor law? No; The absurdity of the
proposition answer, itself.
Eut Wide il is thus manifest that neither
Seward coaiitionist, nor a Know Nothing, nor
Maine law candidate, can possibly succeed
upon an abolition crusade agaipst the South, or
in a rclig Gus crusade against the Catholics, OF
upon u despotic law oil prediction against
liquor selling, wholesale or retail, may not
these parties and their principles be combined
in Joint stock ticket for the Presidency!
Never; for although there has been fusion OF
these parties to very great extent in Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, in the late cleo
ions il amounts to nothing. In those State
the Know No.hings combined with the Seward
league to "crush out" the administration bW
they were playing their own game, as is abnn-
dainty proved by their separate State ticket in
New York. This was the test ; and from the
deadly hostility betrayed between the Sc
ward ccaltionists and the Know Nothings
In this election, ii is very clear that
In no contingency can there be a juno
ton of the new order Of natives with
the ant slavery league for the Preslden-
cy. In fact, the Know Mornings, contemplating
q run In all sections OF the Union, are IA acr
conservative than otherwise upon the slavery
question. In the late speech OF Mr.. Clay ton, in
Delaware. be expresses the conviction that the
Know Nofhings, upon the vital issue between
The North and South, are destiael to b. the
From these observations let US take our bear
ings cur latitude and longitude the point of
the wind, the course OF the ship and the drift OF
the tide. Tie Know Nothings, as an indeeen-
dent party, are In the fcld-the Seward anti
slavery coalition are al.o upon the course, in
GLIDING the hulk OF the temperance party; for
singularly enough, The INST Incorporate lana-
tics upon slavery are the most inveteratc advo
GATES OF cold water. We shsll have, then,
Know Nothing ticke. upon the native Ameri-
can and anti-Cathoiic platform, and Seward
ticket for the Presidency upon the new coali-
ton platform. And we shall probably have
third-an administration ticket; for, though
despoiled Of the great democratic party, the
administration has still large body Of organ
lied oficeholders aud their dependents through
out the Cnien. The conservative wings aud
democrats throughout the country, who stand by
the constitution and the Union upon the slavery
question, and upon all religious and moral
questions, and who are disguised with the
miserable spoils policy Of an inefficient and
miscbievous administration. will still! be al
large and without ticket for thss ga 1 h how
Nothings, or the Seward coalition, or the
Cabinet sroiisnen.
But there Is a saving alternative very plainly
suggested. What has brought upon us this
weeping destructi Of the old democrat
party, and this gu "a n uprising and inter
mingling OF wings anu democrats. in these d.
organizing and revolutionary parties ahica
hold possession OF the North The spoiis co..
lition Of free 10 lers AMI secesionsls aud the
wretcbed domestic and fo:.ign policy OF the
l.nbscile DIN n s.raiion IA Washington. Pro-
missing rctrenchment II has increa ed the OK
yepses OF our Teace establishment FROM fifty t.
seventy-fye mi lions ~ dollars prolisirz
reform, II has was'ed the public revenues upon
Gadsden treaties and sPoils ioeting specula
or. ID castfully proaisinE the protection or
American oitiz n-hlp aud American rights
abroad II has given n some ridiculous circu
lars on diplomatic costume, Koszta letter.
recantatlon OF the Koszta letter the fazle Of
the Black Warrior Gaze aud the bsmbardment
Of Grcyiown. Refused the benefit Of q war
with SpGn by vote u Congress, this desperate
administration has vensurci upon On act OF war
without authority, and In violation o. The con-
stitudon. which rendc. II subject 70 i'm each
ment Aud, a. last resort through the fol-
lies Of a Glibusicrng French refugee. appoint
cd 10 Madrid, IL has brought us, not the acqui-
sition Of Cuba, with hundred millions In oae
hand. and war liz the Other /" but the question
Of rupture Of cur peaceful relations with
France.
And yet, an administration, TINS tried aud
condemned assumes viii H. iegions o. once
holders to bc the head q the grea, democratic
party In This assumed character u will pro-
baby take tie Gellsn ls5e, and from packed
CONVENTION. enter the campaign with Pierce,
Marcy, Cushing or Dsvis. - did Van Barren in
1910. The true policy, then, Of the masses Of