New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-10-29
CLEARING AWAY.

Whatever may be the result of our Election next
week-and we do Lot see how it result other
wise than in triumph of the Republicans-its
declaration will reduce our four cOntending par.
ties substantially to two-the Republicans and the
Nebraska Democracy. The Know-Nothines are
distracted, beaten party-nanifestly, emphatcally
so: and have been compelled to throw overheard
principle after principle until hatred of" Seward
" ism" is the only bond Of unity and breath Of life
left to them. In Virginia. they discard their coun-
cils pass words and all the paraphernaa of secrecy
and my stery; in Louisiana and all the far South,
they have pitched No Popery' overheard and sup
port Catholics as freely others; 10 many quar-
tiers, they profess to have discarded hostility to
Foreigners who are not Catholics just as in the
far South they leer at Catholics wh" are not
Foregners Throughout all the South, they
stand emphatically on their Philadelphia
National Platform Of acquiescence in the Nebraska
bill and reputation of the Missouri Compact; here
they pretend to have rejected that Platform and
adopted instead one that condemns the lnlqulty OF
Douglas and Atchison and seeks the restoration OF
the Missouri lie. And yet the very men who are
irving this dodge to evade the force of public
sentiment boast of their Nationality and csll US
sectional; when they know perfectly well that
their New-York Platform is just as sectional as
ours, being unanimously rejected by the South,
where Know NothiDgs and all insist on acquiescence
in the Nebraska bill as indispensable. thus the
American party" so called, is hOpelessly divided
both lengthwise and crosswise, and its general
triumph would but hasten it's complete dissolution
The Softs,' by the help of Federal patronage
and Liquor influence and money, make show of
strength in this canvass; but it is their last They
have been gradually throwing overheard principle
after principle since they stood proudly on the
Wimot Proyiso and rallied around Van Buren,
ard Adams, until they are now only distinguished
by the bushes lingering on the faces OF few
leaders when Free Soil principles are proclaimed
or the Nebraska outrage denounced from the
'assa,sns of silas Wright" whom they used to
denounce so fiercey and cut SO yenomousiy They
no longer even pretend TO support the principle
that Freedom for AL should be the rule in the
Territories; their latest oracle, Gov. Seymour,
expounds the Democratic gospel OF Do-nOthingas
applicable to Slavery as well as Rum; their only
oean in this city daily proclaims that negroes
we're created expressly for slaves and should never
be anything else-in other words, that the Abo-
iton of Slavery in New-York and other States
was mistake which should be rectifed and their
whole drift is downward to the deepest slough OF
Nebraskasm if they have not already reached it,
Whatever was sincere and hearty in the Radical
Democracy of AZ is DOW cooperating with Abijah
Mann and Preston King in the Republican move
uent; the rest have followed Cochrane, Grover aud
John Van Buren, in their race to get into the Gin
cinnat Convention no matter on what terms Az
the door of that Convention they will be required
TO disayow every trace Of their old distinctive
principles and profess q deeper devotion to the
rule of Slavery than the Hards can pretend TO
and having thus Invested thu Dselyes Of all moral
power they will probably be kicked out, to sneak
home with burning Consciousness that they have
received lust what they deserved. The last /" Soft
will give up the ghost on the steps Of the Cincin-
natl Democratic Convention.
Two parties, then of the four now struggling
for mastery in our State will really survive our
present cOntest-the Republican and the Alamsn
tine Democracy. The others, with all their of;
shoots and suckers-HalfShells Know-Nothing,
Good Liquor, Constitutional, &c.-will fall into
the ranks of one or the other of these, and fight
the Presidential battle under their banners. There
will be no Soft " candidate for President, and
we believe no dstinctively American" The
Levins and Buntlines will 60 to the Pro Slavery
host for which they have strong an affinity
while Thousands Of the nov hoodwinked and mis-
led rank and file will swell the about and In