The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-27

perhaps in the democratic party, when it shall
have been reorganized upon Union, national
and homogeneous principles, and th roughly
cleansed of free sellers and free soilism and flu
mgated and made wholesome. Who knows!
Have not those gentlemen indicated acted
hand-in-hand with the constitutional de-
mocrats Of Congress in the passage
of the Nebraska billY And when the purified
democratic party. with or without the admi-
nistration,) shall take its stand before the coun-
try upon the constitutional platform OF the
Nebraska bill, why should not the conserva-
tive wings OF the South unite with this partyy
Are not oil the old issues between the two par
ties settled, and have they not become, like
the national bank, "Obsolete ideas?" The
course is clear. Old things are done away with,
and new order of things is at hand.
We are less concerned about the Southern
wings, however, than about the Northern demo-
Gratis. What are they to do? The existing
fraternity between the national men and those
of the Buffalo Van Buren, platform, except in
the adhesion Of the latter faction to the new
platform of the national party, must be broken
up. Benjamin F. Butler, the right hand man
of Martin Van Buren,, and prominent leader
| Of the administration soft she'll faction, has
| given notice that upon the Nebraska platform
he prefers Seward to Judge Douglas. Many
others OF the same clique no doubt entertain
the same prediction. II becomes, therefore,
an interesting question, under the reconstruc-
| ton Of things decreed by the Nebraska bill, as
| to what policy viii be pursued by the New
| York democracy. The two factions cannot
| stand where they are. The late act Of Congress
| supersedes the organizations at Tammany Hall
| and Stuyvcsant Institute. The revolution at
| Washington requires revolution in New York
and it must follow.
| OF the thirty three votes of New York in the
House, there were only nine for the Nebraska
bill, and they were given by Messrs. Cutting,
| Cumming, Westbrook, Rowe, Taylor, Tweed,
| Walbridge, Walker, and Walsh-some harl
| shells and some soft shells Now if they are
willing to be sacrificed to the anti-slavery fac
tons, they have only to stand still and do
nothing. But if they desire to make good
their position, and to establish the New York
democratic party upon sound national foot
ing, they must act, and act at once. Let them
first write an address to the people of New
York. indicating their course upon this Ne
braska question, and let all those democrats,
hards and softs, DESTROYS of the consolidation
Of the democratic party upon staunch foun-
dation in this city, and throughout the State,
call public meetings, and proceed to reorganize
the party upon the new platform so clearly
indicated by the action Of Congress. In this
way the New York and the Northern demo-
cracy may be saved. Otherwise, every North
thern man who voted for the Nebraska bill will
be ''crushed out,n and the democratic party
in the North will become absolutely powerless
under the pressure OF the anti-slavery Goa
lition.
In this particular view, grave and weighty
responsibility attaches to the administration
From its free soil antecedents, its free soil
coalition Cabinet, and its numerous acts Of free
soil favoritism, the administration is RESPONSE
bic for the disruption of the democratic party
in New York, and its decentralization and re
cent defeats in other States. The great const-
tutional principle involved in the Nebraska
bill, intended to restore to the President the
lost confidence Of the country, cannot be car
ricd out with the mere signing Of the bib. He
must reconstruct his Cabinet, and reform all his
outside free soil appointments accordingly,
or, as far as he is concerned, the Nebraska bill
is but q delusion and mockery to the honest
democrats in Congress that have united to
carry it through. Nay, more: as homogene-
Gus reorganization Of the national democratic
party upon the principle of this bill is now in
evitable, the administration must cooperate in
the movement, or submit to be Tyler'zed and
abandoned before another twelvemoath is over.
The bill of itself will not avail to save the
administration. In word. Gen Pierce "mnst
right about face" turn Marcy adrift and all his
political kith and kin, and begin his work over
again in the right way, or else President, Cab
net, and all concerned, must go down under the
| scorn of all men of national principles, and
with the contempt Of all parties, including the
| free soil chieeholdors themselves. 1t will not
| do to make Nebraska the test of orthodoxy in
| the democratic church, with an exception in
favor Of the Van Buren, free sellers, in Office and
out of office. They must be turned adrift be-
fore there can be any consistency in the new
platform set up by the ministerial organ at
Washington. Marcy and his satellites, great
and small, must be weeded out, OF Gen. Pierce
and his free soil coalition Cabinet had bet
ter join the abolition emigration to Kansas.
Preaching without practice may save the free
soil spoilsmen, but it viii be certain death to
the administration
/.
WAR WITH SPAIN IN NINETY DAys.-One of
our wea'herwse Wall street contemporaries
predcts that the limited States will he enoa ccl