The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-06

but that she is to place certain contingent
under the orders Of Austria 1t is also said
that che is again endeavoring to negotiate q
peace, the preliminary condition of which is to
be the retirement of the allies from Turkey.
The Anti Nebraska Coalition-CaM OF . state
Convention NJ Saratoga Springs.
The call, which we publish this morning in
vitipg "the people Of this State, without dis
tincton of party, to meet by their delegates in
convention, at Saratoga, on Wednesday, the
10th day of August next, to consider what mea-
sures are necessary and proper for the protec-
ton of the free States from Southern aggres-
sion and Northern treachery," is not an every
day transaction. 1t is an extraordinary pro-
ceeding, and from the parties and the issues in
volvcd in it, may reasonably be expected to
bring about some extraordinary consequences.
1t is the first formal movement towards the
organization Of that great, overwhelming anti
slavery coalition, Of which the organs of
Sewardism and the presses Of the " free demo-
crazy" have been warning us for month or
two 1t will be observed that among the names
Of the Executive Committee are Moses II. Grin
nell, wing; Theodore McNamee, free soiler pro-
per; William Cullen Bryan, free soil Van
Buren, democrat, and others Of the same par
ties respectively. In fact, it was but proper
that the parties to the call should be, like the
convention which they have appointed, a meet
ing without distinction of party" rallying
together under the pretext of the repeal Of
the Missouri Compromise, upon the single,
common principle Of hostility to Southern
slavery. The basis of q fusion has thus
been laid down. State Convention has
been appointed accordingly; the parties con-
cerned are evidently in earnest, and the whip
pers-in of the administration clique, and Of
other fag-ends of the old political organiza-
tions, may Justly be very deeply concerned re-
<pecting the forthcoming anti-slavery Holy Al
lance at Saratoga Springs.
The designation Of the locality itself is sus
picious. II looks as if the prime movers of the
convention were resolved to purge all the re-
mains Of their old party associations from the
minds and the stomachs Of the delegates. 1t
looks as if they were as determined upon driving
Southern visiters from Saratoga, through the agi-
tatiOn of the negro question, as were the people
of Rhode Island in expelling them from Newport
by the Maine Liquor law. If this were an agri-
cultural State fair, or great horse, cattle, or
chicken exhibition; if it were but an ordinary
democratic convention-hard shell or soft she'll;
or wing convention-Seward or anti-Seward;
or an Independent convention Of the free sellers;
or an outand-out abolition or woman's rights
gathering, we might conclude that the hotel
keepers of Saratoga were interested in fixing
the location; for the thing would pay. Southern
visiters would be amused and instructed upon
New York politics, or New York enterprise,
and there would be no occasion for any i'll feel
ing on the subject But convention which is
to embody and organize all men Of all parties
in the State, upon the single issue Of "arrest-
ing the aggressions Of Southern slavery" could
only be called at Saratoga Springs against the
remonstrances Of the hotel keepers, and for the
express purpose Of more directly insulting the
South through its citizens who may be So
journing at Saratoga Springs We presume
that the calculating politicians getting up this
convention counted the prospects Of con-
siderable Southern representation at their
meetings or they would have fallen back upon
Syracuse, or Utica, or some such central posi-
ton, instead Of Saratoga Whatever the rea.
sons for their choice, they have selected an ex-
cellent spot for the dog days; and with the aid
Of the Missouri repeal, the strangers at the
Springs, and the inducements Of the Congress
water to 60 there, we may anticipate large
and noisy convention.
In n political view the Importance of this as
semblage cannot be over. estimated. 1t will
probably determine conclusively the platform
and the plan and purposes Of the proposed
Holy Alliance in regard to the campaign of
1856, but especially in regard to our Con-
greesional elections of November It will pro-
baby indicate how far the administration free
soil party Is to suffer from desertions to the
coalition camp, and whether there will be q yes
tige Of the New York wing party left, of either
faction, to hold fast to the claims of Willard
Fillmore for the succession. This Saratoga
mixed convention win, therefore, be one Of the
most important political assemblages If not
the first in importance, convened in this State
for the last twenty-five years.
We expect very little Of the hard shell con-
vention Of the 18th inst. They have no spoils
in hand or in expectancy--ther principles have
been horribly cut mp by the Nebraska bill, and
they have ceased to possess the power or the
vigor of an independent homogeneous purity.
All that we can hope from the hards is their
continued hostility to the administration on the
issue Of the spoils. II they shall prove them
~lves independent enough and Courageous
enough to approve the repeal Of the Missouri
compromise, they win either bring the admins
ration faction TO the mark or drive them back
again into the free soil ranks. But If the
nards attempt to shuttle Off the great i. sue ia
paltry dodge upon "popular sovereignty, . the,
viii still have TO meet II in the elections.
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