The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-07

OF the Sewn <d PiasGorm-POlAcy of the Com. |
servauve = u Sure Game.
The state Council Of the Know Nothings Of
Per, nsy lvania has declared by q large majority
"A favor Of the restoration of the Missouri Com
State north of that line. Thus the new Ame-
rican party Of Pennsylvania excepting ten sece-
ders out of some two hundred delegates,) have
gone over, hook and line, bob and sinker,"
with General Wilson and his Massachusetts, par
tisans, and with Colonel Ford, and his followers
in Ohio, to the Seward Holy Anti-Slavery AL
lance.
What is to come Of all this Can it be that
the bulk Of the Know Nothings of Pennsylva.
MIA are 80 deeply impregnated with anti-slavery
and free soil sentiments that there Is no safe
middle ground between the Philadelphia ma
tional platform, and the policy of an active
crusade against the South? It strikes us that
the Democratic State Convention at Harris
burg, in ignoring the Nebraska question, the
administration, and all concerned in the repeal
Of the Missouri Compromise, have. acted more
wisely. D0dging occasionally saves q mans
head from cannon ball If the secession
democracy Of the South can be satisfied
with this policy of silence on the part
Of the Pennsylvania democracy, surely the
Union and conservative Southern Know No.
things and wings would have been content
n0n-intervention.
There has evidently been an evil genius act
ing as the ruling spirit of this late Pennsyl-
vania Know Nothing State Convention, and
his foot prints are SO strongly impressed upon
it that there can be no mistake in the man.
It is Ex-Governor johnson. Like Wilson, Of
Massachusetts, he has his own ends to accom-
plish, and doubtless thinks it more expedient
to accept the chances Of promotion as make
| weight to the tall of Stewards antislavery
| league than it would be to risk the loss Of his
free soil partisans by maintaining the c0nstitu-
tional rights Of the South, or by silence upon
that subject. Moreover, the antecedents, in
| stincts and proclivities Of Ex-Governor John
con are all Of the anti-slavery type; and he
has not forgotten that with full knowledge
of their man, the free sellers, by fusion with
the wings in 1S4s, elected him Governor of
Pennsylv ania by some two or three hundred
majority.
We are by no means certain, however, that
Mr.. johnson will be as successful in his pre-
cent movement for the United States Se-
nate. Possibly, those ten seceders from the
State Council may be able to command ruin
GUS diversion against him among the
rank and fle-possibly there may be found
among the masses Of the American party Of
Pennsy lvania sufficient force, who, preferring
the sound Union principles and national popu-
larity of George Lsw to the disunion pro-
gramme Of our arch-agitator, w. II. Seward
may disappoint the expectations of Mr.. John,
son in the October State election. Let it be
clearly understood that the schemes of Mr..
johnson involve the transfer of the Pennsyl-
vania American party, body and breeches,
to the Holy Anti Slavery Alliance, and we
apprehend that he will fall very far short
of his estimates among the people in o.
tober.
Whatever may be the result Of this anti-sla
~ movement Of the Pennsy lvania Know No.
thing State Council, it is manifest that
Northern anti-slavery crusade for the Presi-
dency is no longer questionable contingency.
The thing has assumed shape too positi
and palpable to be doubted. At the same time,
while the Know Nothings Of New England,
Ohio and Pennsylvania are tusing with the
Seward disunion conspirators, the extreme
democracy of the South are taking the back
track to the secession platform of speedy dis
solution of the Union, and an Independent
Southern confederacy In the midst Of this
state of things there is the nucleus Of an
American party, to which the Union and
conservative men Of oil parties and all sec
tions may safely rally. 1t exists in that con-
sentative majority Of the National Council
at Philadelphia which have proclaimed the con-
stitutional policy of non-intervention on the
slavery question as their platform. We have
in the State of New York an enrolled body of
upwards of one hundred and eighty thousand
men, pledged by their authorized delegates at
Philadelphia to this very policy. On the other
hand, the democratic soft shells are beginning
to betray desire for another Buffalo move
ment while the hards, from the unmistakeable
tendencies of their newspaper organs, are shift
ing off farther and farther from Tammany Hall,
and every day nearer to fusion with our anti
Seward, anti administration and national Ame-
rican party.
The anti. slavery platform Of section of the
Pennsy lvania Council may result in splitting
up the party, and in giving the State back to
the democrats in October. The movements of
Wilson and his partisans, and of Ford and his
followers in Ohio, may be followed up by more
intimate Identification with Seward and his
programme; but while the conservative
Know Nothings, wings and democrats, of the
whole South, are supported by the most
powerful party Of the Empire State, there
will yet be scope and verge enough for tri-
umphant national party upon common ma
tional ticket in 1856. The administration at
Washington is resolved that the democratic
party shall stand or fall nnnn the merits of Mr.