The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-26


Upon this splendid beginning for the resus.
citation Of the dead body. Of the old wing par
ty the Convention took a recess. But mark
the upshot Of this experiment-some "ffty ul-
ira Northern members bolted," and set up Sc
cond boilers convention, with Lieutenant Co.
vernon Ford,of Ohio, at their head-one of the
leaders of the boiling party Of last June. He
and his abolitionized brethren bolted then be-
cause of that twelfth section )" but now, that
scarecrow having been taken down, they take
to their heels at the first tap Of the drum for
Millard Fillmore. Anything but Fillmore He
signed the Fugitive Slave law did all that he
could as President to break down w. II. Seward
and his schemers, and made himself altogether
too popular with Southern wing shareholders
to suit such infammable Seward Know No
things as Col. Ford, of Ohio, and his followers.
Read the proceedings Of Col. Ford's boilers
convention. They were ready to unite with
any party for freedom that would not reject
them on account Of "their American princi.
pies" Their line Of action, then, is plain
enough. Seward and his party will accept
them on those terms. They were prepared to
make freedom the paramount question. They
believe that the Pope is undermining our in
stitutions-that the Jesuits are at work among
us-that the Irish Catholics are their instru-
ments, and that unless they are put down,
Popery will ultimately rise upon the ruins Of
our glorious republic. But this Ford party,
while believing oil this, still more strongly be-
lieve that frcedom-nigger freedom-is the
paramount question" What precious set,
to be sure, are these Ford philosophers for
carrying out that great fundamental idea that
Americans excluding the Irish and including
the niggers) shall rule America!"
That first ballot was like the opening of an
immense mine Of hidden treasures, old and
new; but the ominous ascendency OF Fillmore,
live old straight wing, was the signal for the
bolt and the indignation, the CONSERVATION,
and all the interesting scenes which ensued in
both divisions of the Happy Family. There has
been nothing Of the kind in any national con-
vention of any party to compare with this Ford
split, neither before nor since the exit of the
Van Buren, delegates, full of rebellion aud
disasters from the convention which nomi.
mated Gen. Cass. There were courses, not loud,
but Deep by the Webster men at Baltimore
when General Scott was nominated; and there
were plentiful symptoms Of "open treason" at
Philadelphia against that slaughter house
nomination of General Taylor; but the Van
Buren, split of ls4s is the only thing in our
political history which, from the beginning to
the end, is analogous to this Ford bolt from
the national Know Nothing camp; for the one
and the other rest exclusively. upon the "para.
mount question of (nig ger) freedom"
"Like causes produce like effects'-old, but
apropos. In 1s4s the democratic party was
grounded upon this paramount question OF
niger freedom in 1852 the late great WING
party was shattered into fragments among the
same breakers; and the prospect now is wildly
presented of the utter destruction of this new
American party, upon the same perilous shoals,
in its first attempt to put to sea.
The regular Know Nothings, as will be seen
by our telegraphic reports, have placed in no
mination Willard Fillmore aud Andrew Jack
son Donelson. These names are very sugges-
tive, and the subject will receive attention
from us hereafter,
Our DIFFICULTIES WITH ENGLAND-THE FEEL
ING AT TIE OTHER SIDE or THE WATER
We publish to-day two remarkable and
interesting documents history of
the Central American question, taken from