The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-13
TAs lGsst,ns .. wednesday.

4s1O0 VOAvD AZ 4OOs
TAs Meeting ea "wednesday.
The democratic ratification meeting on We'd
neslay was % full Of noise and smoke and tur.
huience - any that New York ever witnessed.
The assembly was large, the weather being
very favorable; music was abundant; flags
bristled; and Wall street shrewdly seized the
opportunity to advertise q new coal company
on the strength of the Vice President. OF the
speakers, perhaps the less said the better. One
cannot see Statesmen Of the calibre of Douglas
and Cobb lowering themselves to the level
of ward politicians and pouring out frothy
commonplaces by the half hour, without feel
ing of very sincere regret When Capt Ryn-
ders mounts the rostrum one prepares for
buncombe, and makes ready for nonsense; but
something slightly different is expected of
United States Senator and the author Of the
Nebraska law.
Nor can we read without great regret the
announcement by Senator Douglas that his op.
ponents intend to restore the Missouri com
promise, to repeal the Fugitive Slave law, to
abolish slavery in the District Of Columbia,
and SO on. He evidently desired to leave on
the minds Of the people who heard him an i'm
preston that in the event of the defeat of
the democratic candidate, these various
measures and others of similar character
would be at once proposed and carried out
in the teeth of the South and in
spite Of all risk and opposition. This was
not honest. Senator Douglas is we'll aware
that under no circumstance would the
defeat of the democratic candidate, and the
election Of his rival, lead either to the serious
proposal, or, much less, to the triumph Of all
or any Of these measures. There are, no
doubt, a few crazy niger worshippers in the
North who would desire to see the war carried
into Africa, and the peace Of the country dis
turbed, in order to crafty their own fanatical
prejudices just as there are some niger
drivers in the democratic camp who advocate
the beating of every Congressman and Senator
who does not agree with them with sticks on
the head. But neither Of these exceptional
varieties can be honestly regarded as types Of
the party with which they are affiliated.
Should the opposition candidate triumph,
Slave law, nor the institutions of the District
of Columbia will be likely to be asssiled. The
former are regarded as finality by all reason
able men; they will not be disturbed unless
Senator Douglas friends themselves disturb
them; abolition in the District of Columbia no
one demands.
The true ground on which the opposition to
the regular democratic candidates rests is that
they are in fact mere continuance Of the
Pierce dynasty. The country is satisfied that
that dynasty is bad. People unanimously
acknowledge that Pierce has governed the
country badly; that he has awakened
dissension given rise to civil war by
appointing, under the advice Of Forney,
a free State speculator to govern Kansas
brought the national name into contempt
abroad, and dragged us to the verge Of war
with the two greatest Powers Of Europe. And
when they perceive that the men who surround
and influence Pierce will surround and influ-
ence Buchanan; when they see that Forney,
who was the evil genius of the one, will be the
evil genius of the other; when they notice that
Pierce has already intimated to the govern
ment officials that in the event Of Mr.. Blu
chanan's success they may hope to retain their
offices; lastly, when they perceive how com
pletely the Cincinnati platform connects Bu-
chanan to the policy of Pierce, and how the
Ostend Conference carries him even nearer
than Pierce to rupture with foreign States
they will certainly decide upon trying some
new dynasty, if they can find one that Pro
nises well.
This is the issue on which the battle will be
fought; as Senator Douglas, we cannot help
repeating, must surely know perfectly well.
The slavery question will not be touched.
Your noisy DISCLAIMERS about slavery will be
very good conservatives in office; they will
have neither the power nor the will to do mis-
chief. But they may put an end to the sicken-
ing scenes Of corruption and imbecility and
falsehood and folly which have marked the
administration of Franklin Pierce; and that,
we are quite satisfied, could not be effected by
a Buchanan administration. Buchanan, res
pectable and amiable man as he undoubtedly
is, could not help being mere Pierce under
another name, with the same Forney at his
elbow, and no doubt the same Reeder as his
Governor of Kansas. If Senator Douglas
wants to induce people to vote for him, he
must prove that this would be for the public
good.
BAD News FROM Observation-Disclosures
Of an alarming character was received yester-
day from San Francisco, by way of New Or
leans. The telegraphic accounts ar meagre,
but every dot is stained with blood. It appears
that Mr.. James King of William has been shot
BY man Of the name Of Casey-thst the Vigi-
lance Committee has been revived-that they