The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-09-22


bbls prime, deliverable all this year, sellers option,
sold OF sls. Beef WIS somewhat fr1er Freights
were more active, with pretty free engagements at
firmer rases.
Massachusetts Anti-slavery Fusion Convcn-
tken-Gowernor Gardner Superseded.
The State Convention of the anti-slavery
fusiorists of Massachusetts,, held at Worcester
on Thursday, is represented as having been at
tended by a thousand delegates, including
several cxwhig members Of Congress, several
Know Nothing Congressman, Senator Wilson,
and many of the rank and file of the late whig,
free soil and Know Nothing parties. Accord
ing, therefore, to this representation, the fusion
of the negro worshippers of the Old Bay State
is complete, and, Frustrated by the infamy of
the late Hiss Legislature, the Massachusetts,
bogus Know Nothings have been swallowed up
by THE Holy Anti-Slavery Alliance.
The most striking incident of this Worcester
conglomeration was the superseding of Gov
erpor Gardner, and the nomination over his
head, for the Office which he now holds, of Hon.
Julius Rockwell, who within year has be-
come one of the shining lights of the anti-sla-
very coalition. Gov. Gardner was elected by
the American party last year. over wings,
democrats and free sellers, separately and col
lectively, by & majority absolutely astounding,
and for some time really incomprehensible.
But his majority last year was scarcely more
| remarkable than is now his rejection at Wor-
cester, although we may account for it very
satisfactorily.
| When the Know Nothing Legislature, elected
| with the Governor, went over to the seditious
work of the abOlitonsts and free soilers, in
their proceedings against Judge Loring the
| Fugitive Slave law, &C.. it was manifest
that the new party Of Massachusetts had
cut themselves aloof from the general Ameri-
can organization as q great national party.
| Governor Gardner was seized with this
idea and partly, no doubt, through the
suggestions of the Independent conserva-
tive press outside of Massachusetts, and partly,
it is said, through the humane counsels of ex-
President Fillmore, who took the trouble to
go to Boston upon that particular business
and from hope that national party might
be formed out of the constitutional elements
of the American order in the State-he (the
parture. He resolved to initiate Mr.. Webster.
by ignoring the narrow limits of Massachu-
sets, and by spreading himself over the broad
| and ample area of the constitution and the
Union.
His debut was full of promise. He refused to
obey the order of the Hiss Legislature for the
removal of Judge Loring; he vetoed their sedi-
ious bill repeating the Fugitive Slave law,
and though they subsequently passed it over
his protest, the merit of that protest was none
the less on that account. But the mischevous
work of an overwhelming bogus Know Nothing
Legislature fell with a crushing effect upon
he orthodox American party in Virginia
Governor Gardner became dsheartened-he
could see no prospect for a new conservative
American party in his meridian, and so he
quietly surrendered to the predominant
anti-slavery pressure around him. At the
National American Convention at Phila-
delphia his conservative backbone was
broken. He had undertaken task too great
for his strength, and he succumbed but
in struggle which crushed Webster we may
perhaps excuse the capitulation of Gardner.
party he seeded under the protection of Sena-
tor Wilson, and became fusionist of the Ceve.
land Convertible, and of the type of Hale.
Giddings, Wilson, Seward, Webb and John
Jay.
The Worcester Convention finishes the Gov
ernor His retractation of conservative princ-
pies was too late, too sudden; too violent to
I,x ~. A.
dispense with his services for the future, and
they ungratefully thrust him aside We are
sorry for the Governor--sorry that he did not
persevere, in the face of all obstacles, in the
path indicated by his resistance to the sedi-
tious acts of disorganizing Assembly. In
this good old path, though he might not have
secured the renewal of his office, he would have
achieved solid national reputation. Now. his
political consistency and his Office are gone toge
Their. His indignant ant-slavery Know Nothing
friends may advise and resolve upon resistance
to the Worcester decree; bat it will avail them
nothing. Inside or outside the anti-slayery
alliance there is now no alternative for Gov
ernor Gardner than trial of faith by proba-
ton, or an absolute retirement from the dirty
arena OF party politics, and all concerned.
Consider, "Oh ye of little faith the rise and
fall of Governor Gardner.
MEXICAN ADMINISTRATORS FOR THE
PREsIpENcY.-Ou files Of journals from Mexi-
co have come to hand. They bring us infor-
nation from the capital up to the LIST of
September. The capital and country at large
were in a more deplorably unsettled condition
than while the revolution was in full blast.
Now that Santa Anna has taken himself-and
two Of the national steamers-oif, the revo-
lutionary elements seem disposed to initiate
the action of the famous Kilkenny cats. and
devour each other. There are at present no