Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1855-09-12
New York Politics.

Three Of the political parties in New York
the Hardshells, Soitshells, and Americans-have
held State Conventions, and laid down their plat
forms. OF these parties the Hardshells alone
have come out on the slavery question in man
ner satisfactory to the South; the Softshels and
Americans appear to agree pretty well so far as
that subject is concerned. The Softshells, 1t will
be remembered, are the peculiar friends Of the Ad-
ministration, and the Government organ is obliv-
ious to their course, while it finds time and space
to denounce the resolution passed by the Ameri-
can party. Tho Richmond Enquirer, however ia
forced to say that the Sotss "have cut themselves
off from an aft liation with the National Democ-
racy." Having supported the Administrators its
policy of prescribing the Hards for the benefit of
the Softs, and thus rcpudated the former, it will
be difficult now for the Enquirer to find ''ihe Ma
in the North. While the platform Of the Hard
shells is unexceptonabe, its practical value to
the South may be inferred from the fact that the
President of the Convention has refused to lend his
professional services, as lawyer, to citizen Of
Virginia, TO recover his fugitive slave.
The Hardshsll Democrats, as we'll as the A
msricaus, having denounced the Administration,
the Softs, as in duty bound, undertook to endorse
it but they did it after fashion that might we'll
cause the President TO exclaim, Ell tn Brute! The
New York Post, Democratic Freesoil paper,
witty says:-
"The political world are making themselves
merry over the resolution passed yesterday at Sy-
racuse, in approval of the Administration of Mr.
Pierce The Convention have selected here and
there an act of the Executive, and give it their
unqualified commeudation, leaving us to infer
that they wish they could speak as highly of the
rest.
"'Here is capital kernal, they say, shat we
have found in this bushel of chafT, and there is
another, and another, yet fourth, and fifth
Observe how full the grain, how bright the col
cor you shall acknowledge that no field in the
Country ever produced finer or handsomer.' 'Ah,
'but, interrupts some cynical Director, consider
'the mass of dirty chaff out of which you have
picked the kernels that you are exhibiting so
'pompously.' 'Chaff,' my dear Sir is the re-
'joinder, let us not talk of chaff when we have
such beautiful specimens of wheat before u.s.
we will confne the discourse to the wheat, if
lyon please; it is by far the most agreeable topic.
"'The manner in which The Convention treated
the Presidents Administration reminds US of
those adrot criticisms on books which we some
time. find in newspapers, in which the typogra-
ply is pronounced excellent, the paper white and
beautiful, and the binding splendid, but nothing is
said of their literary contents very decent eu-
logy might have been made over the grave Of
Monroe Edwards, the famous swindler and forger,
on the same system. He was geDtlemanly man,
Of pleasing address and oblgng manners, wrote a
good hand, and was always unexceptionably
dressed. If the character Of Monroe Edwards had
been matter before the Convention, a very plau
sible resolution might have been passed, dwelling
on his gentle manners and humane disposition, to
the great consolation of his surviving friends"