The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-19

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Van Rurcp.
For the information Of our. reade Of all
parties, We lay before thcrn in this PAPER an
interesting chapter of extracts in reference to
the policy and the ticket of the dem ,cratic
party for the approaching grand campaign OF
1856.
At the head Of this chapter we place the cali
for the meeting by the National Executive
Committee at Washington, on the eighth of
January next, for the purpose of appointing
the day for the opening of the National Con
vention at Cincinnati. We give this prece-
dence to this call because of the time and
place selected for the consultation of this
Executive Committee. One would think that
Baltimore, Philadelphia, or New York, or
Albany, or Harrisburg, or any other place
would answer well enough for the mere settle
ment Of the day for the meeting Of the Cincin-
natl assemblage and that it could be as we'll
determined upon at once as on the eighth of
January. But upon little reflection, it will
be seen that there is something more in this
call than the last Thursday in May or the first
Monday in June. This Executive Committee
at Washington will have the benefit Of the
cOunsels of the democratic members Of Con-
gress from all sections Of the Union, ito say
nothing of the Kitchen Cabinet,) and thus they
will not only be perfectly posted up as to the
best time for the grand pow-wow at Cincinnati;
but they will be enabled to lay their plans for
packing the convention, and for cutting out
and drying all the work of the ticket and
platform of the party. In this light, the
meeting of this Executive Committee will
probably be more important to NE hope.
full democracy than their National Conven-
ton itself, which, very likely, may have no
thing more to do than to ratify the ticket and
the resolutions by those twenty or thirty pa
triotic committeeman at Washington.
Next, we give powerful blast from a Vir-
ginia democrat, through the medium of the
Richmond Enquirer, in favor of Henry A. Wise
for the succession, against the field. Accord
ing to The plea Of this earnest writer, it is ma
Difest that Mr.. Pierce is utterly unavailable,
and Cass, Douglas, Marcy and Buchanan
That, in fact, even Daniel S. Dickinson himself
is cut of the question, because, considering the
present exigencies OF the South, no Northern
man whatever will suit. The reason, too, is
honestly given. The Know Nothings, it is
supposed, will run candidate in both Sec
lions, and will take care that their Southern
man is n thorough going fire-eater on the
slavery question, which is to be the absorbing
and solitary issue in the South. If, then, the
democratic nominee shall be Northern man,
how could the party hope to carry him in the
South against a Southern STAKEHOLDER, pledged
in his nearest and dearest interests and social
relations, to Southern rights and Southern in
situations even to secession, if necessary? Ac-
cordingly, the democratic candidate must be
from the South, to hedge off the Southern
Know Nothing ticket, and Henry A. Wise as
great fre-eater as the best Of them, is the
man of all men for the crisis. Thus much for
the significant appeal and argument adopted
and promulgated by the Richmond Enquirer,
he central organ Of the Virginia democracy.
Virginia gave the North their candidate in
| 1s52-pieked him ont and secured his nomina-
tion-sn can the North deny her demand in
1856! A nice question.
| From another extract in our miscellaneous
chapter aforesaid, it will be seen that the
leading democratic organ of South Carolina,
the Charleston Mercury, is dead set against the
representation of that State among the spoils-
men at Cincinnati. The Palmetto chivalry
must keep clear of that mercenary horde, and
stand aloof, free to act as exigeneies may re-
quire. This is certainly the true policy OF
South Carolina; for her absence from the Gin
cinDati Sanhedrim will do more to bring our
Northern soft she'll spoils democracy to the
line than would the presence and influence Of
all her General Commanders and General
Quattlebums put together.
Next it appears, from the Philadelphia Penn
sylronian, that with few exceptions for Dallas
the Keystone democracy are universally ant
enthusiastically devoted to Mr.. Buchanan, and
will not take "no" for an answer. At tn,
convention at Baltimore Of '52, when Penn
sylvania was called upon from morning till
night, and from day to day, until that memo
rable Saturday afternoon when Virginia led
of in the stampede for Franklin Pierce, the
inevitable response to the call for the vote OF
Pennsylvania was "James Buchanan, twenty
seven votes!" But what could Pennsylvania
do, when there was a rush. all of sudden be-
tween Cass men and Douglas men, Marcy
men and Dickinson men, to sec which could be
first after Henry A. Wise, of Virginia, in
throwing up their caps for Franklin Pierce
So now, we apprehend, that if Virginia insists
upon 1t, as sine qua non, Pennsyl vania must
go for Wise, and leave Mr.. Buchanan to culti-
vate his health and his hopes for four years
longer.
The Eastern (Maine) Argus is good enough to
inform the democracy that Mr.. Pierce is not
engaged in manGuvring or pipe-laying for the
succession; but says that If the convention
cannot do better, he is ready to accept its suf-
frages and serve another term An old demo-
cratic Senator, on the occasion Of the veto of
Mr.. Clay's bank bills, was asked by q colleague,
"What shall we do with Captain Tyler ~
Recognize him, and do the best we can for
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