The national era. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1847-1860, 1855-10-04

For some months past, the various factions
in New York State have been trying to organ
ize in such a way as to secure political ascend
ency. The "Hards," as they are called, took
the field at an early period, denounced the Ad-
minstration, and planted themselves on Pro-
Slavery ground. Their great object is, to crush
out the Softs." This faction followed in or
der, held Convention controlled by Office
holders and office expectants, warmly eulogized
the Administration, and plainly indicated de-
termination to acquiesce in any dirty work that
might be imposed by the Slave Interest. Next
came the Know Nothings. prating of the Union,
and hating Seward, rampant against foreigners,
servile to Slavery. Of course, none Of these
factions represented the people of New York
but all had the audacity to attempt to battle
the expression of the real sentiment and will of
that State.
Thank God the People of New York have
at last spoken. The Wing and Republican
Conventions, which met last week at SYRIA
cuse, have organized movement, as sound in
its principles, as it is noble in its objects.
Read the proceedings on our fourth page. New
York has at last Party to which honest men
may give their support, without dissent from
its doctrines, or displeasure at its nominations.
Four of the candidates were formerly Wings
four, Democrats one was o Free Soiler, dis
tinctvely but all are true, intelligent, inAexible
Anti-Slavery men, with known qualifications
for the Offices to which they are nominated,
and some of them were lately leaders in their
respective Parties. When such men as Preston
King and w. II. Seward, and such papers as
the Tribune, Times, and Post, Of New York,
unite in sustaining one Party, we may well pre-
dict for it the highest success, as the Party of
the People.
The following admirable editorial, from the
New York Erening Post, will be read with
great interest:
THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION.
There is no doubt that in the resolutions
adopted by the late Republican and Wing Con-
ventions, in regard to Slavery, the candidates of
their Joint nomination have an element of
strength which no other ticket will possess.
They express distinctly, unequivocaly, and ear
nestiv. the sentiment Of at least threefourths of
the people of this State, in regard to the Admin
istraton policy in Kansas; and that has been
done by no other Convention. In the selection
of candidates, an equally distinct issue is made
with the Kansas Nebraska party. Not a man
is named, about whose views any doubt can be
entertained; not a man with single excep-
ton, perhaps who is not prepared to make
the nationality of Freedom and the sectionality
of Slavery paramount to every other political
question in the present canvass.
Among them will be recognised some whose
names have been identified with the most
memorable triumphs of the Democratic party
during the last quarter of a century-men who
in various public capacities have served their
country with distinguished ability and fidelity !;
men who have been exposed to such tempta-
tons as are rarely resisted, and who have come
from them like gold from the refner's fire,
more pure and more deservedly valued. They
have been constrained to form new, and, to
some extent, perhaps uncongenial associations,
by the course pursued by their old friends, and
to take upon themselves the responsibility of
commencing the dissolution of an organization
which has ceased to serve the cause of Freedom
and Justice.
We cannot announce this result without emo.
ton. We cannot look with Indifference upon
old personal and political friends, whose joys
have been our joys, and whose sorrows have
been our sorrows-men whose honor and pa
each other, with their swords crossed, and ready,
we had almost said, to spill fraternal blood
And who is responsible for this painful
spectacle But one answer can be given.
The delegates who composed the Syracuse Con-
vention of the 29th of August, who, instead of
rejecting the sentiments of their constituents,
chose to take their law of action from Wash
ington who, instead of letting New York be
ruled by New Workers., have taken counsel from
the Washington Union, the Richmond Enquirer,
and Caleb Cushing; they are responsible.
Rather than break their relations with such
creatures as direct the Slavery policy of Presi-
dent Pierce, they have consented to ALLEVIATE
| from their organization Democrats like Preston
King and Abijah Mann, either of whom is more
valuable to whatever party they connect them
selves than a wilderness of such men as the
Accident of an Accident, who now dispenses
the patronage of this Government at Wash.
ington.
One by one, the leading Democrats of the
nation, who have given to the party its fame
and to Democratic principles their popularity,
have been driven from public life by the pro.
scriptive influence of Slavery.
Messrs. Mann and King have concluded that
this course has been pursued about long enough,
and that the party which bears the name of
Democracy should feed upon something beside
its tradtionary merits; that all its value should
not be like that of the potato, under the ground,