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

SARATOGA SPRINGS, August II, 1854.
.dnti-.Nsbr0ska Convention escard Wings
in the .ascendant-7H The .d6ol,tionists No
scAere-No Ticket-But all to Vote the
Wing Ticket.
AS oil other things occupy brief hour, and
then pass into faturity, SO with the Saratoga
anti-Nehraska State convention; it has had its
day, and has become simply matter Of histo.
~. 1t will be recollected that the project was
first conceived Of holding such meeting, by
few individuals in the city of Albany, on the
Esd Of March last. 1t was there proposed to
hold the convention in that city. On confer
ring with the executive committee of the city
of New York." the place was altered to Sara
toga Springs, and the time, the middle of Au-
gust, agreed upon. The intense excite
ment which then existed in relation
to the action of Congress, in pass
ing law establishing the Territories Of
Nebraska and Kansas, awakened the people.
1t was q god-send to all the abolitionists, free
soilers, and sectionalists in the entire North,
whose occupation" was almost gone," on
account Of the absence or settlement Of all ele-
ments incident to their propensity for mischief
For while the abolitionists guided the affair
as they wished, and being banded with the
free sellers, began to make preparations, and
confer together as to the course to be pursued
which would most likely enure to their benefit
at the Saratoga gathering. They declared
themselves absolved from all the old party
ties and obligations, as both and wMg and
democrat had tamely succumbed to the die
tates of the slave power-the one whose Presi-
dent had approved and signed the Fugitive
Slave law, Of 1850, the other, who endorsed
the Nebraska outrage including the uncondi-
tional repeal ofthe Missouri compromise Of 1920;
therefore necessity existed, and the time had
fully arrived for the formation of new party,
and the nomination Of a State ticket, to be COM
posed Of men Of all present parties who SYM
ralhised in this Northern feeling. And as the
Saratoga convention was called for the ire
covery Of the rights Of the free States as an in
teeral part of the Union,' and for the ''rescue
Of the general government from the control Of
the slave power" it was proper and opportune
that new party should be formed to correct
those and other evils, which neither of the pre-
sent parties would ever accomplish. The fact
that ticket was to be formed at Saratoga,
created no alarm amongst any but the woody
Seward wings. The bunkers had their candi-
dates early in the field; the softs holding Office
under the national administration, knew they
were secure until 1857, and neither seemed to
be at all nettied concerning the action at Sara
toga. The silver grays kept entirely aloof,
and only declared the wing party Of tue State
and nation scattered and demolished If ticket
was made by the anti-Nebraska gathering. Up
to the moment the question was taken upon the
subject, the abolitonists, free sellers, and
frsionists possessed the greatest confidence in
. the assurance that a State ticket would be
adopted on the 10Th or 18th days of August.
Yesterday, at two O'Clock, large number Of
delegates, some two hundred and fifty out of
fifteen hundred chosen assembled. They were
mostly fresh from their constituents and brought
sentiments in favor of nomination. The meet
ing was called to order by Joseph Blunt,a Seward
whig, who placed in the chair John A. King,
another Seward whig and son Of the cele-
hrattd Rufus King Rensselaer, Havens, Sew
ard whg and aholitionist hoped the proceed
iDes would be opened with prayer; james A.
Sackett, Seward whig, moved committee on
permanent organization, and Horace Greeley
one on resolutions. The aboltioDists and tree
sellers, who came in good faith from the rural dis
tricts, were struck completely dumb founded at
ibis lead, thus taken by the strongest party men
10 the State, and those, too, Of the Seward sec
ton. Joshua Leavitt Gen. Ballard, ex-senator
Johnson OK Senator Williams, Mr.. John Snow,
Of Madison, Mr.. Pierce Of Oneida, Professor