The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-19
The Knew S0thlngs and tho Ant,-81avery
EnrtsarH-AIsrm OF the seword Organs.

well satisfied with the working OF the spit In |
The Philadelphia Know Nothing Council as
they were the next morning after that transac-
ton. Their enthusiasm has sub.ided, and they
are proceeding to argue the casa Read the
AZ ticles which We give this morning from the
elder and the Junior Seward organ Of this ei ty
upon the subject. The former obviously pleads
for the Northern issue of the restoration OF the
Missouri compromise; the latter insists upon
it that the split at Philadelphia is disruption
Of this new and unfortunate party.
Neither of these organs however, has
word to say upon the position and prospects OF
the American party in New York but we pre-
| sumo that the meeting in the Park last night |
| will have very forcibly called their attention
| TO this branch of the subject. Upon this point
| Il NAV be well enough to admonish the organs
| and Ieaders.of the Seward disuniOn alliance |
| that there is still the basis of q Know Nothing |
strength in the North sufficient, in conjunction |
with the South, upon common candidate. to |
control and carry the next years Presidential |
election.
The speakers, the speeches and the resolu- |
tions of the Pork meeting last evening were
all well enough in their way. They indicate
wonderful improvement in the dogmas, doc
trines, principles and purposes Of the Know
Nothings, chiefly from the lessons inculcated
through the warnings of the independent
press, and the wholesome experience Of the vir-
einia election. Abstractions and resolutions,
however, at this time Of day, are only valuable
according to the positive strength Of the party
enunciating them. With such party as the
Know Nothings in this State, pledged to sup
port each other through thick and thin, the
| question Of platform is certainly matter Of
secondary consideration. Its utility extends
only to the acquisition Of achievements from
other parties; and in this respect we presume
our Know Nothings may reasonably count upon
some additions to their ranks in the interval to
our next fall election.
Take this new party as it stands in this COM
monwealth, and let us see what is the prospect
for November. They have an enrolled force ia
their twelve or thirteen hundred Councils Of
full two hundred thousand electors. Putting
the aggregate popular vote of the State at five
hundred thousand, it thus appears that they
have two-fifths of this vote positively pledged
and secured. The other threeffths are divided
between the Seward anti slavery coalition, the
| democratic hard shells, the democratic soft
| shells, and various little outside isms and fac.
tions. Now, as it is next to impossible that
| there can be any combination OF fusion of these
discordant materials, upon any pretext, or for
any purpose, equal to two hundred thousand
men, we must conclude that the Know
| NothiDgs are good for this State next fall !,
| by plurality as decisive as that Of the
| Seward league over either Of the democratic
factions in any of our State elections since
1848. Possibly the anti-slavery dodge may
carry over Know Nothing member here and
there to the enemy; but all such losses will
probably be more than doubly made up by the
popular reaction throughout the State against
that despotic and odious bill of pains and pc
nalties, known as the Maine Liquor law.
The majority Of the Philadelphia Council
having promulgated platform satisfactory to
| the South, the party in the Southern States
may stand upon it and hold their own before
the Southern people. The bulk Of the North
ern States having repudiated this platform, the
party of the North are free in each State to con-
duct the business before them upon the practi-
cal and local issues Of the day, leaving the
question of national fusion open for year
or SO. In the interval, order may be brought
out Of chaos harmony from apparent discord,
and unity and successfrom imaginary demorali-
cation and disruption. Briefly, the Philadel-
phia Council leaves for another year the Know
Nothings of each State free to act for them
selves, as may best contribute, State by State,
to their success in the intervening local cleo
tons; and with an active capital In New York
| of two hundred thousand enrolled voters to
begin with, this new party here will be very
| apt to make q telling blow in November Let
them carry New York, New Jersey and Penn
sylvania, and the approaching Southern cleo
tions, and we shall have Ia '56 rally Of the
party throughout the Union upon some popu-
lar and acceptable man for new administra-
ton, and new order of things at Washington,
which will be irresistible.
It were absurd to suppose that the American
party of this State, with two hundred thousand
enrolled electors, will be FILTERED to pieces
upon the two Philadelphia platforms They
will do no such thing. They are free to repu-
date both platforms, and to take their own
course upon the living Issues which will enter
into our next fall canvass. This is the policy,
too, which we suppose they will adopt; and if
they manage their cards properly, they may
weed out all the remaining Union wings from
the Seward coalition, and gain over the solid
mass Of the national democracy. The three
parties Of our November election will be the
American party, the democratic spoils demo-
cracy, and the Seward alliance. Between the
two last named, the Know Nothings have now
an overwhelming plurality in the State. They
have only to hold 1t in order to place them
selves before the nation in 1856 in most ia