The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-07-04


leading article against the Koow Nosaings
from the Washington Union, and another from
the Richmond Eram,nsr, in opposition to the
views of The NEw YonK HERALD, touching the
present and prospective party ORGANIZATIONS
Of the country for the campaiga OF 1856 Y,
The Cabinet organ at Washington builds its
jeremiad upon recent article in Que ed soriaf
columns in reference to the expected deveio0e-
men's OF pr nciples and PURPOSES II the Know
Mornings at Pblade pha, at the time Assem-
bled there in National Council. In this afore-
said article fro m the iigh.s tbea before as, as
furnished by our Philadelphia correspondent,
we shadow,d form probable course OF action
between the Know Nothipgs of the Two se,-
.ions which in he event OF failure TO reach
a compromise nron slavery in Congress aad N
! NaiioDa, Convention, would comprehend the
uitimatum % a peaceable separa'ioo Of tue COG.
| federacy Upon chs hint tue Cabinet 0esau
says, "such was the scheme largely favored by
The Southern leaders and their Nor,hern bro.
| Tiers ia the KuoS Nothing Convention" and
that II has beeo practically put iato operation
by distinct platform for the Know N0.hings
! Of the 3 nth and another for the Order ia the
North pro slavery the O'ber antisiavery,
but both working harmoniou,ly together for
the Presidency
In reply to all this, it is only necessary to
cay that the disnDionsts Of the Kaow Nothing
Council at Philadelphia were Senator Wilson,
Gardiner, johnson x Co.; that their paas were
defeated; that their principles and doctrines
were rejected and that upon the adoption, by
the majority Of the Council, Of a SQUAD consti
tutional platform upon slavery, winch even
Gen Cass has approved, Senator Wilson and
his gang seeded from the convention, aud thus
left it, az national party, purged and purified
Of its former seditious anti slavery affiliations
The Cabinet organ, too, is wen aware that this
national conservative Know Nothing party is
not limited to the South; out that it vas
unanimously supported in the Couacii by the
New York delegation, and by delegates from
Peunsy ivaDia and New Jersey, and that, subse-
quent]y, even in Massachusetts, there has been
a diversion in the camp in favor Of the national
Philadep hja platform.
Thus the startling proposition Of the
Know NothiDgs for dissoiving the Union as
our Cabinet organ calls it, dipso'ves into moon
shine. The conspirators Implicated in the
scheme have been weeded from the Know No
thing camp; and the p.rty thus purified forms
q nucleus on the question OF slavery. upon
which all patriotic and conservative men Of all
sections may readily unit. The idea that w.
II. Seward could ia any way, or for any pur-
pose, be at the bottom Of such a movement as
this, so utterly absurd as to deserve no fur
Their notice, Gen. Cass is not the man to ap
prove the principles of any party contemala;-
ing the elevation OF Seward 70 the Presidency
Thus much for the jeremiad and mock beroics
Of the Cabinet organ.
The article OF the Richmond Examiner ad-
dresst itself to the same general sui i in
another shape. We have lately undertaken to
show that there are now forming, and will be
| fully developed in 1885, three great separate
| aud antaeonstc parties for the Presidency
| the spois democracy, the Seward anti slavery
| party, and the national American party. But
| we are fatty Informed by our Richmond Co
| temporary that there never was greater de-
| lusion;' thai there are now but two great
| parties in the United States" and that "tbere
have always been but two" Our opinion Of
three parties Is pronounced "a singular
cr0tchet." Not 80 very singular, we should
suppose, If our Richmond philosopher viii bat
turn to the record Of our Presidential elections,
from THAT Of Col. Polk down TO that Of Gen.
Pierce In every one of these, from IA to 80,
there have been at least three parties in the
field, the anti slavery party gradually but
steadily gaining strength, as the other two
have been corrupted and demoralized oy their
abolition affiliations, till finally broken to
pieces
Nor can We permit the preposterous dogma
Of our Richmond contemporary that there are
no v hut two parties--"the democracy on the
one side, )" and "thc rabble Of isms on the other"
TO pass without remark The democracy
Who are the democracy? What are they?
Where are they? Are the New York VA Buren,
Buffalo free solers Of the soft shell admiaistra-
tion type, the democracy or are the hostile hard
she'll Dickinson menY or the JEFF Davis seces-
siobists? or the Southern conservatives of the
Cobb school OF Georgia. Are those old demo.
Gratis in both sections opposed TO this rotten
administration, the democracy or are che few
dishcartened and demoralized spoilsmen that
s,l cling to the public pluuder the real gcnl-
inc democratic partyg When our Richmond
contemporary has found the democracy, we shall
be enabled to prove to his entire satisfaction
that there are two other great parties" the
rabble Of isms," with Seward as their champion,
and his disunion programme as their platform,
and the or, at national American party, formed
ofsome of the best materials Of both the old
| wbig and democratic parties
We discover where the shoe pinches our
Richmond democratic philosopher only in the
last paragraph ofhis rambling rigmarole. Live
Oak George" is the appari,ion that frightens
him. But it is perfectly Idle to at
tempt to weaken the force Of the conser-
vative people Of all sections rallying to thi
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