The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-27

rhe Presidential Election--A Blast from the
Cabinet Organ-Thc Democratic Party.
The Washington Union has favored Us with
! leader upon the next Presidency, in which
he whole issue is narrowed down to contest
lpon the slavery question, and in which it is
inally declared that the only party of safety
10 the constitution and the Union is, and will |
be, the national democratic party.
Now, as we understand it, the Washington
Union is the anointed organ OF the Pierce ad-
and when it speaks of the nation
al democratic party it means that democratic
party of Northern free sellers and Southern Sc
cessionists set up by Mr.. President Pierce in
the appointment of his Cabinet, his Ministers
abroad, his Custom House officers, and other
subordinates. 1t Is this mixed commission of
spoilsmen, of which the Cabinet is the basis,
that the Washing ton organ is speaking about
when ii tells US that our only reliance is the
democratic patty This being the case, the
question is next suggested, what prospect Is
there for the democratic party entering into
the Presidential contest upon the acts and the
merits Of our present delectable democratic ad-
ministratien? Upon this precise point we pro-
pose briefly to fill up the principal hiatus in
NE twaddling harangue of the. Cabinet organ.
First, then, we undertake to say that
there is general impression, scarcely less
than a universal resolution, as by COM
mon consent, among the masses of the
democracy, North and the South, that Mr..
Pierce his Cabinet and his administration, are
done for--that they are to be ignored and SUI
perseded in the canpaign of $50 by new de-
mocratic shuttle and cut-a new ticket from
the national convention at Cincinnati. This
we verify believe is the general understand
ing among the masses Of the democratic par
ty. Rebellion has broken up the party, and
it continues broken up to this day, upon this
absurd test of fidelity to Mr.. Pierce and his
Cabinet. This detection has gone so far that
even Col. Forney must be aware that the Ty-
lerizing of Mr.. Pierce is the first essential to
the reunion OF the great but scattered demo-
cratic family. We dare say that Mr.. John
Cochrane, who in grateful consideration of
his fat ogice, "carries the President in his
arms" has no more idea of denomination of
Mr.. Pierce, or of the nomination of any mem
Benjamin +. Butler or Preston King, who have
abandoned both the Cabinet and Kitchen Ca
binet and enlisted in the Seward Holy Adolf
ton Alliance.
1t is manifest on every hand that the cam
paign Of $50 will hinge upon the slavery ques-
ton; it is altogether probable that the demo-
cratic party will be reorganized upon con-
SADIE of Seward and the black republicans.
But slavery will not be the sole issue of the
contest. There will be some practical admins
trative questions involved in it, such as the ne
cessity of retrenchment and reform in the dis
bursement of the spells of the Treasury-reform
in our diplomatic appointments, and in our
foreign policy; and a reform embracing some
thing more Of moral courage, consistency and
honesty in our domestic affairs than anything
which has signalizcd the Presidential career Of
the chieftain Of New Hampshire. And as the
democratic party can realize nothing but
dead loss in endorsing the Koszta letter, the
Cuban diplomacy of Mr.. Pierce, or the bonn
bardment Of Greytown; and as the dspensa-
ton of the spoils since the 4th of March, 1858
from the appointment of Marcy and JEFF. Davis
to the dismissal of Reeder, is sore subject,
none Of these things will be available demo-
cratic capital for the succession. They must
all, therefore, be publicly repudiated or quiet
ly ignored at the Cincinnati reunion of the
scattered detachmcnts of the democratic
church.
We close, accordingly with an amendment
to the Presidential manifesto of the Cabinet
organ. 1t says there is but one party that
does or can defend the constitution and the
Union against the anti slavery disunionists,
and that that is the national democratic party.
Our amendment is, that the first essential to
the reunion and success of this party is some
definite reputation of Mr.. Pierce, his Cabinet
and his administration. The party expect it:
the Cincinnati Convention must fulfil this ex-
pectation or be certainly defeated. This il
the great democratic issue. What says the
Washington Union
Mr.. WISE ON HARD SHELLS, Sort SHELLS AND
HALF SHELLs--A MOST LEARNED EXPLANATION
Hon. II. A. Wise Cd Va, electrified the hard
shells at their late Metropolitan ratification,
with long, enthusiastic letter on democra-
tic principles, recognizing the hards and their
Syracuse platform, as embodying the genuine
principles of the true democratic faith. But
the gem of this long and ecstatic letter is a
learned description of the mutations of the
crab from the hard shell to the soft, and yica
rersd. Read il -
You must not wonder that your democratic friends 10
Virginia often confused by AID things in New
Ia 500 N A1 damn fharA a.
old grounds Of Jefferson and jackson. We hear of hard
and SOFT and half shells and the ideas form Of them
can be best illustrated by subject Of natural history
called craba fish, with fins and c'aw at both ends
and II either end foremost Poke at him this
way snd he that-tAatway and he runs this lie
is remarkable geplenen, for his transformations At
one time catch bin aud his claw and his shell il
hard very hard hard CROUCH for barnaces grow upon