The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-08-31

tons against the company for damages. The
Camden and Amboy monopoly is rich it must
be made to pay the price Of blood
The Soft Shell Convention ut Syracuse
Smash up or the Administration In New
York.
AS we anticipated and predicted, the soft
she'll administration branch Of the democracy
are rapidly approaching the end of their rope.
Their convention is a compromise between abo-
ltionism and the Office holders, with a striking
preponderance of the former. Without hay
ing reached the end of their proceedings,
enough is shown to authorize US to say the
administration is literally smashed to pieces.
There is not spark of vitality and power ap-
parent in that peculiar and unfortunate branch
Of the democracy. II is in Syracuse shorn Of
| its strength, derided, spat upon-cOndemned.
! Mr.. J ohm Van Buren, and Mr.. John Coch-
rane, who are the leading administration dele
! gates, and who asked first for whole loaf, arc
| contented, ii would seem from the proceedings
as far as received, to retire with bloody noses
and fallen fortunes They asked that the adj
ministration might be sustained, and this boon
lorsing its foreign policy, the economy Of its
treasury management and the propricty Of
some of Gen. Pierces vetoes!
The Kansas question is not only the bone Of
contention, but it is the rock on which The
convention is likely to split. The New York
men desire that it may be passed over in 81
lence. The convention answers no 1t is then
nra tn al Ia
politics, including he resolutions sustaining
the foreign and economical policy Of the adj
ministratioB: but il il evidey.t that this cannot
be permitted.
The truth is obvious. The abolitionsts seem
to have entire possession Of the convention
The administration has at length got home
it i in the hands Of its friends. The result Of
its poicy--its prescription Of national men
its rewards Of disunionsts--is now returned
not by contemptuous silence, but ny fierce
denunciation.
The proceedings thus FAR indicate that
grand row win be the inevitable result. The
indcmitable soft shells--tbe Tamniauy pat
riots-the gallan. Captain Rynders-ali are
the victims Of = misplaced confidence They
arc too young 10 die We fear too, from the
confident tone Of their organs their ma
tional-their terribly national resolutions, writ
zen in the Carlton House and pas ii all The
wards and all about the country, HAT they are
not prepared. The softs have very fervently,
and almost religiously, hated their brethren.
The hards. The gulf which lays between hem
wa formed BY shat ceaseiess flow 81 de-
nuuciat;on Of the administration by the
lattorit vas personal difficulty only
the bittarest and most relentless Of all. u
was irreconcilabie. Tor The softs loved lie adj
ministraton. How terrible Is their icor,itca-
ticn. then, 10 lind their own precious household
in .furore Ct zeal against the Kansas bill and
everything that sayors of constitutional doc
tFines
And then, again. what gross iai-eh1od i
wa 30 all the Custom House the President
and the Washington Union said--wlen Diclin-
son and Beardsley and Cooley declared that
the men whom the President had taken Ia
himself in New York were at heart abolition
lists, ard would land him high and dry en- the
sands Of q desolate minority, The very first
time their services might be really needed.
What ingratitude The truth is, the Offices did
not hold out--negroism was longer than tie
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