The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-27
The NEXT Presadency-T The Increasang Agits.
tion-Inseyesting Views ana specuiatsons Of
the Party Press.

the Party Press
We surrender large portion of our a,oaila- |
BILE space this morning to a curious miscel-
laneous chapter on Presidential politics, !
from our newspaper contemporaries of both Sec
tions of the Union, representing the various
active parties in the field for '.he succession.
These extracts trough afIording nothing de-
finite concerning the general issues aad pros
poets before us, are still valuable and instruc-
tive, for they are like fragments Of drifswosd
scattered upon the surface of the agitased
waters, indicating the singular cross currents,
eddies aud ground swells of the rising tide.
In this batch Of speculative and suggestive
extracts there are several features worthy Of
special notice, and the most remarkable is that
which betrays the general dissatisfaction of the
Democracy with Mr.. Pierce's administration,
and their Reputation of his pretensions for
another Presidential term. The Cabinet organ
at Washington, upon this subject, delivers
.pompous and mock heroic lecture to an Ark
ansas brother in the church for daring to ques-
ton the availability OF Mr.. Pierce and the out
standing old fogies of the day. On the other
hand, the article which follows from staunch
Pennsylvania democratic paper, gives the pipe
layers for Mr.. Pierce and all concerned with him
at Washington, very clearly to understand that
he and they mast move of the track; that they
have been weighed and found wanting, and
| must now make way for the old whselhorse OF
the Pennsylvania democracy, James Bucha-
nan. The tone and temper of this article show
distinctly enough that Pennsylvania has con-
L al - l. .:l -, h.
stand it--having in 1840, IA, AS and '52
agreed to forego his claims and to wait q little
longer, in Difference to the will Of the party.
Patience is patience but the life of man is
limited, and the Pennsylvanians are now in
earnest They will very likely make the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Buchanan an issue at Cincinnati
involving the gain of large majority or the
probable loss OF his State in the election.
1t will next be observed that the Virginians
are serious regarding the availability of Mr.
Wise; that the Cabinet organ, par excellence mo.
dest]y seconds the motion, while the Georgia
Know Nothings are of the opinion that the terri
BILE and impetuous champion of Accomac would
"drive the country to the devil in less than
six months" There is also an ominous silence
among the Van Buren, democratic organs of
the State of New York touching Mr.. Wise
They have not forgotten his Punic wars ia
Congress against the pet bank and Custom
House officials of the second term Of Old
Hickory, and the disastrous administration of
the "Littie Magician" Before nominating Mr..
Wise, should he be considered at Cincinnati as
the man for the crisis, it would then be we'll to
souLd the leaders Of our Van Buren, faction, to
see il they can overlook the past, forget and
forgive, and for the sake of democratic con-
cord and the "spoils," rally to the support of
the redoubtable and fearless Henry A. Wise.
AS matters stand, however, there is here, 10 the
avaiiabilities OF Mr.. Wise, q hitch, which places
him in the rear Of Mr.. Buchanan.
In the third place, the extracts we republish
from the Seward organ at Buffalo, betray an
extraordinary quickness of vascillation con-
corning the Presiden tial aspirations aud quail
fcations of" Live Oak George Law" On the
goth OF the month our Buffalo contemporary
substantially pronounces "Live Oak George"
a whole team, a host in himself, and very for
midable candidate. On the 22d, the same paper
hopes that the farce (of Live Oak George) is
played out" pronounces him rough steamboat
specnlator and thinks that there are one or
two steamboat men 10 Buffalo equally accepta
BILE. But as Live Oak George" has cast his
fortunes into the hands Of the American party,
and as his name, popularity and influence have
done much, as the Seward organs themselves
admit, to give the Know Nothings the supre-
macy in this commonwealth we incline to the
opinion that I" the farce, has not been played
out, and may possibly not be played out till
November, 1856.
Next, we have two democratic estimates of
the campaign-a philosophical and an arthme-
teal estimate-bOth worthy Of notice. The
| philosophical estimate is from q Texas paper
and warns the people of the South against the
danger of being humbugged by an equivocal
Know Nothing platform on the everlasting
niger question: because, according to our
Texas friend, the Know Nothings have their
strength in the North among the free soil OPP
position ranks, and can't sacrifice them. On
the other hand, as they will want a Southern
State or two to give them any chance of sue
cess, our Texas philosopher is quite sure they
| will patch up plausible dodge on the great
slavery issue, calculated to avoid any serious
alarm to Northern free soilers while it shall
secure satisfactory Southern Interpretation.
This is an old trick, but as it has never paid
expenses we presume that the National Ameri-
can party will adopt the palmer constitutional
platform Of non-intervention. When the time
| comes we shall zee.
The aritbmetical democratic estimate of the
chances of the party, based upon the results OF
the late State elections, is from the Cincinnati
Enquirer. II will be observed that the stats
tician in this instance proposes to dispense
with New York, and still elect the democratic
nominee. The Baltimore Cass Convention of
1s4s tried this experiment, and the result
then and the results which have followad yr;ll