The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-27

LIST OF CANDIDATES..
NOTHING NOMINATION..
Willard Fillmore, New York. :. Silver Gray Wing.
John NJ. Clayton Delaware. =. Know Nothing whig
Gen. Sam Houston, Texas. Know Nothing Democrat
George Law, New York Know Nothing Democrat.
r. F. Stockton New Jersey Know Nothing Democrat
Garrett Davis, Kentucky Know Nothing Wing
Jacob Broom, Pennsylvania Know Nothing Democrat
Kenneth Rayner, N. Carolina. Know Nothing Wing.
And host of others.
THE BALTIMORE DEMOCRATIC NOMINATION.
Cabinet Candidates.
Franklin PIERCE N Hampshire .spoils Coalitiouist.
w. L. Marcy New York. Anything for the Spells.
JEFF. Davis, Mississippi. 80. .. .secessionist.
Caleb Cushing, Massachusetts, Fnibuster.
Kitchen Cabinet and Ostend Candidates.
James Buchanan, Pennsylvania. War Policy Democrat
Outside Democratic Candidates.
Lewis Cass Michigan ........ National Democrat.
Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois High Pressure Democrat
Thomas J. Rusk, Texas. National Democrat.
Gen. John E. Wool, New York. National Democrat
R. NJ. 7. Hunter, Virginia High Pressure Democrat.
Henry A. Wise, Virginia. .Administratn Democrat.
And others.
FOR THE CHANCES OF BALTIMORE WING CONVENTION.
Millard Fillmore, New York. -. National Wing.
John j. Crittenden, Kentucky. National Wing
John Bell, Tennessee. National Wing.
Edward Everett, Mass Free Soil Wing.
VIM G. Rives, Virginia. .COnserva tive Wing.
And others.
FOR THE NOMINATION OF NORTHERN ANrsLAvKRY coA.-
LTIoN.
Thomas Fl. Benton, Missouri. Independent Outsider
VIM. H. Seward New York. Leader Of the Coalition
s. p. Chase Ohio. Free Soil Democrat.
John Hale, Massachusetts,. Free Soil Democrat
Joshua R. Giddings, Ohio. 80. Wing Abotionist.
LIBERTY PARry-rREE coLoREp woNKS's RIGHTS CAN
DIDArHs.
Gerrit Smith, New York General Reformer.
Frederick Douglass New York. Black Republican.
VIM Lloyd Garrison, Mass. Red Republican.
Rev. Anton. L. Brown, NY. White Republican.
This formidable schedule, comprehendins
candidates Of all parties, all principles, Of all
sections, and of every color and calibre. Pos
sibly the next President may be in this list,
and possibly not. Things are yet in state Of
chaos and effervescence, and whole year must
elapse, and something over, before the political
cauldron is brought to capitalization.
The late revolutionary uprisings of the
people against the electioneering and spoils
corruptions Of the old political parties have
thrown them all into confusion. The only com.
pact, national and homogeneous party now
existing is the new universal, but intangible
and invisible party of the Know No.
things. Notwithstanding this fact, there
are according to our catalogue, believers
in the timely resurrection Of the democratic
party, in and out of the Cabinet, who
are intriguing for its next Baltimore nomina-
tion There are others who think that even
the wing party may be galvanized into life at
cordingly. But the Know Nothings, confident
Of success, are quietly organizing their forces
to sweep the field.
We congratulate the friends of temperance,
honesty, law and order, to begin with, at the
prospect before us of the complete overthrow
of those corruptiDg and demoralizing party
conclaves known as Baltimore National Con-
ventions. Any dispassionate spectator of the
scenes at the convention of 1852 which result
Cd in the nomination of Franklin Pierce at
venture, will hail with qualification the destruc-
ton Of these drunken collections of party
thimble Triggers. There never has, perhaps,
assembled at Baltimore more disgrace
shifters than the ungodly horde OF spoils-
men in attendance upon the last National
Democratic Convention. There were many
honorable. upright, worthy and patriotic men
among the delegates; but there were others
ductible and flexible, free and easy who readily
became the instruments of the lobby. And such
alobbyl REGULATORS and spectators, Galphin
and Gardner claimants, railroad jobbers,
patent spoilsmen, plotters for fat contracts.
subsidies and rich sops from the Treasury in
every shape and form, were there; ana their
reserved corps, bringing up the rear, was
composed of such q coalition of gamblers,
thieves and pickpockets as, we venture to say
were never before concentrated on any occa-
sion, at any point within the United States.
Such were the forces Of the lobby of the last
Baltimore Democratic Convention.
They had their club rooms in every available
hole and corner, into which the delegates were
inveigled by the temptations of free liquor and
Refreshments, q sociabe game of cards, and
| other devices. And under these influences,
free liquor being the prime element, the wran-
glings of the convention by day we're only ex-
ceeded by the bacchanal rejoicings and clamor
which made the night hideous throughout the
city. The GROWING result was the nomination
ofPierce at venture the different delegations
struggling TO be first like a flock of
frightened sheep scrambling through
breach in q stone wall. The work done, presto!
the free liquor rooms were closed, but the
drunken orgies Of that night in Baltimore cap
ped the climax OF the horrid saturnalia
Thus, beginning at Baltimore and extending