The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-07
rife than at present in France and Germany.
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rne Soft shen State Osnvs
Of = smash among sns Crocksry.
The preliminary caucus proceedings among
the delegate. of the soft she'll democracy gath
cred together at S,racu.e, go very far to con
firm our worst apprebensions upon the subject
The great difficulty upon principles threatens
to r. suit in another split upon the spoils
There are, it appears, three parties upon the
Nebraska questionable outand out admins
tration Nebraska party, headed by Captain
Rynders and Benjamin WEIGH; the other genu-
inc Buffalo free soil party, headed by Peter
Cagger and Preston King; and the party Of
the modeYados, whose great object is to concil-
late the city spoismen and the county dele
gates, by clever dodge of the Nebraska bill,
and the slavery issues connected with it. This
party is very properly headed by John Coch-
rane, who proposes to put the Nebraska bill
in his breeches pocket. like the scarlet letter,
and to say not q solitary syllable more upon
the subject than is absolutely necessary to give
q sort of quasi endorsement of the abstract
question Of squatter sovereignty.
Captain Rynders and Benjamin WEIGH have
the advantage, on their side, of frank, full
and efficient adoption Of the precise Nebraska
platform laid down by the administration; but
The question arises, did the administration in
tend that this platform should be the test in
New York? There Is some doubt upon this
point. Captain Rynders has very likely per-
mitted his zeal to outrun his discretion. Mr..
John Cochrane, more intimately in the conf
dence of the White House, appears to under
stand his cards much better. The enthusiastic
Captain Rynders has been egregiously hum
plugged. Nebraska is q test south of the Po-
tomac, but is not test Of democracy at SYRIA
cuse. All moonshine, Captain-all moonshine
-as perhaps you may be informed in season,
from Washington direct by telegraph. John
Cochrane knows what he is doing He is, we
suspect. authorized to conciliate the faithful
at Syracuse upon a dodge. Can there be q
doubt of It? We think not. All that the ad-
ministration expect Of the Buffalo party-all
that can be asked Of them in State conventions
lis that they let down the administration as
softly as possible on the Nebraska bill; give
it a rousing puff on the veto Of the River and
Harbor bill, and the Lunatic Asylum Land
bill, and "back it up strong" on the Gadsden
treaty and the bombardment of Greytown, and
the President, the Cabinet and Col. Forney will
be Satisfactorily let there be union among
the small fragment Of the New York democracy
that remains to them; only let there be har-
mony-just enough to keep mp appearances
will do till something better can be brought
about.
The Irresistible New York democracy Of 1862
were cut in half by the offensive, insulting, and
vulgar spoils policy Of Guthrie in 1853. Now,
in 1864, from the difficulty Of agreeing with the
administration upon various things, and from
the greater difficulty Of understanding the
ground it really wishes its New York free soil
ers to take upon the Nebraska bill, there is q
prospect that the cabinet half Of the New York
democratic party will be subdivided into two
or three little separate oliques as violently OPP
posed to each other as Captain Rynders and
Fred Douglass. Cochrane is working like a
beaver to avert this catastrophe. The result is
yet doubtful, for the elements Of discord and
disruption have already boiled to the top at
Syracuse. Is there no virtue in solar salt ?
Can't the country delegates be convinced that
the Buffalo platform is not among the Balti-
more resolutions? Can't the Tammany spoils-
men satisfy them that principles are all gam
mon, and that true democracy sticks to the
plumber, whether Tyler or Pierce be President?
Where is Mr.. Purdy?
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