The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-08-20

y safe that the VIII
Guiding the gr s party of the North. In
NO rom, IAN State of Ne Y York, has virtu-
-'nms-ted an alliance, offensive and de-
ys, or.on the basis Of the N braska question,
wan al tie abolition and free soil cliques, Co
eries and factions Of the day. We expect that
the Wing State Convention at Syracuse win
ratify this alliance. They will be compelled to
do it, with the second anti-slavery coali ion
convention appointed to inspect, revise, APP
prove, or condemn their proceedings
We also believe that the wings at Syracuse
win take especial pains in their platform, and
in their nomination for Governor, to secure
"the good will and fixtures OF the State Tenn
peraDce Alliance. And why not? After the
veto of the prohibitory liquor bill of last session.
by democratic Governor, it will not be diff
6cult task to bring even the Maine law forces
en- masse to the support Of the wing anti-sla-
very alliance. With such q combination of
forces and resources, it would be manifestly the
policy of the Seward leaders to put forward
their Presidential champion for Governor, wits
fair prospect that his election would be so
triumphant as to place him beyond the reach of
his anti-slavery and free soil competitors for
the Northern wing abolition coalition nomina-
ton in 1856.
But there is an insurmounteble obstacle In
the way. 1t has suddenly sprung up in the
mysterious but terrible order of the Know
Nothings. They have shown in New Orleans,
Mobile, Norfolk, Washington, Philadelphia, Sa-
lem, st. Louis and other places, that they hold
formidable balance Of power, and that al
though they strike without notice, they strike
with astonishing effect. Enough is ascertained
of them to know that if W. II. Seward is run 70 :
Governor they will swamp him. He has be- "
too long in whcedling the Irish Catholics nd
Archbishop Hughes to make any sa ks-
factory repentance so late in the Inv
Hence, he has recently, in the u ited
States Senate, adopted the virtue OF con-
sistency, and has denounced the Know No
things as secret body Of conspirato 20 ,un-
worthy the public confidence. Seward, there
fore, cannot be the wing candidate tsr Go
vernon He is not available, although he man
Of all men in the slavery anti-Nebras ksissue.
He must be laid by for . while until t lis Know
Nothing excitement blows over, AMI the con-
spiracy is exploded What the viii Is wll.do
to supply his place in our fall electio we shah
presently inquire
The democratic hard shells, it is understood,
will still stick to Judge Bronson. he his re-
considered his declension, and has Agreed to be
Governor, if they can elect hi n. Some OF
them think it may be done. Th' ~ count upon
a large desertion Of Webster an Fillmore sill
yer grays from the wing camp, and the Know
Notlings, it is thought will br ing up an over
body of reserves 0 the support of
the Judge. But we fear that t he hardls in these
estimates, will fnS themselve mistaken. The
and aatecedents # the native Ame-
rican party are rather out of place amongst
the bunker democracy. Ju dge Bronson, how.
ever. is the proper man for. the hards. He is
the embodiment OF the ruptn with the admin
istjation; and in the contest between him and
the Cabinst-tpoils faction the hards will at
least achieve decisive victory, and do much
to establish the hasis of the reorganization o
the national democracy for the Presidential
campaign.
We have heard it suggested that the tree soil
soft shells, at their State convention on the
18th September. will struggle desperately to
avoid a betrayal of their weakness in a sepa-
rate fight, and will do every thing but getdo
upon their knees in humble prayer to effect a
reconciliation with the hards. We have heard
that to this end they will attempt a fusion
ticket, with Seymour as their candidate for
Governor, and General Aaron Ward for Lieu
tenant Governor; or with Ward as their cand-
date for Governor, and some flexible soft she'll
for his lieutenant. But we apprehend that
there will be no fusion, and that, should the
bards and soits strike hands and ooalesce for the
spoils, the reunion win come too late. ljoited
or divided, the spells policy of the administra-
tion, and its vain epdeavors to clear its skirts
Of free soilism, have 80 crippled, demoralized
and scattered the democratic party Of this
State, that there is no living chance for them
until the administration itself is utterly ignor-
ed and abandoned.
The coalition wing candidate for Governor of
New York, 1t is thought then, will be elected
Wepresume, in settling upon this conclusion,
THAT they will choose such candidate as win be
available with the temperance party, satisfac-
tory to the Saratoga alliance, and acceptable
to tie Know Nothings. We suspect that they
will, consulting the same combination OF forces.
carry most, If not all, Of the tMrty-three MEM
beers Of Congress to be chosen; but in view Of
the question of re- electing Seward to the United
States Senate, 1t would not be very surprising
should an anti Seward Legislature be elected,
Though the mysterious agescy Of the new M
tive American societies.
The Know Nothing party, the Irish Catholic
party, the lager bier party, and the Saratoga
party, are outside parties, making no State
nominations of their own, but fixing upon their
selections and reflections from the whig, the hard
or the soft shell democratic tickets, as the case
may be. The TEMPERANCE nartY AZ their State