The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-02
plea put forth by the Eishman for his religious
credulity-that no one was ever lost by believ-
ing too much.


The Presidential Question-parsies and Cam
Sldates-views or the Newspaper Press.
Our columns are garnishsd to-day with aao-
Their interesting poi po9rri from our Esa"spa-
per exchanges, upon the Presidential question.
We commend it to the attention of our readers
of all parties who desire to be thoroughly
posted up with the party movements OF the
day and the signs of the times around the po-
litical horizon.
This chapter is limited to the discussion OF
the claims of the leading candidates Of the
democratic and national American parties the
black republican organization await.y. o. mean.
time, the stirring of the waters " their behalf
at their general preliminary business conyen-
ton. which is to meet at ,ittsburg (mark the
desecration) on the anniversary of the birth
Of the illustrious y, ashington.
First, 1t VIII be seen that, according to the
Philadelphia Psnnsylvanian, the old Keystone
State Democracy are Is nearly unanimous a.
cap De in favor Of Mr.. Buchanan as the Cinciu
nasi national democratic nominee, first and
last. This fact places that distinguished states
man in very formidable position; for it is
| generally conceded that in order to enter
into the Presidential canvass with any.
| thing like Q reasonable show of success, the
democratic party must have the assurance
to start upon of the vote of at least one OF
the three great States of New York, Ohio, or
Pennsylvania 1t is manifest, from the results
Of the last fall election in Ohio, that she must
ho tod xbo %
factory fusion of the New York democracy by
any means fattering, Judging from present ap.
pearances. Unqnestionably there can be no
fusion of bards and softs in New York upon
Gen. Cass, or Judge Douglas, or Daniel S. Dick
inson, or Marcy, or Cushing, or jeff. Davis, or
General Franklin Pierce. 1t would be about
as easy to bring the Van Burenites to the sup
port of Cass, Douglas, or Dickinson, as to
bring the hards to surrender to Mr.. Pierce, or
any candidate from his Cabinet. But on the
other hand, while the nomination of Mr.. Blu
chanan would give very fair assurance of the
vote of Pennsylvania, his name would probably
be as available as any other as the basis of a
reunion of the adherents of Van Buren,, Pierce
and Marcy, and the unHinching constitutional
1rleDuS OF DaIlel >. DICKINSON.
The position Of Mr.. Buchanan too, in 1856,
on the negro question, though eminently sound
and conservative, is in one important particu-
lar like that Of Gen. Pierce in ls52-he is not
committed to the extremists on either side.
In 1852 Captain Scott, of Virginia, addressed
a letter to some fourteen aspirants for the
democratic nomination, asking an answer from
them respectively to each Of several specific
questions upon slavery. They all replied except
General Franklin Pierce, and they all took the
extreme Southern democratic shoot. General
Pierce, more adroitly, kept perfectly dark, and
thus left an opening in the North which made
him available, in the last extremity, North and
South. The letter of Captain Scott was as fatal
to all the rest as the rife Of his western name
sake was of old to the coons and wildcats of
Kentucky.
In this instance, Pierce, Marcy, Cushing,
Davis, Douglas, Cass and Bright have the bur-
ovu VI the NeprasKa Dill aguin1t s,,vru AIMING
the free soilish Northern democracy. This
branch of the party may endorse the bill; they
may support candidate who endorses the bill
as heartily as Douglas would endorse it; but
man who in any way participated in the pas
sage Of that bill would hardly be the man for
the Northern democracy against the black re
publicans. The party would be relieved of
this burden in the nomination Of Mr.. Buchanan,
while he would answer as well as anybody
else az the democratic standard bearer of the
great doctrine of "squatter sovereignty" Thus
much for the position of Mr.. Buchanan. From
present indications he has the inside track for
the Cincinnati nomination.
1t is worthy Of notice, however, that of late
President Pierce has been brushing up pretty
smartly. The democratic Cincinnati delega-
tions from Massachusetts and Vermont, (the
only two hopelessly anti-democratic States of
the North,) are, we believe, for Mr. Pierce.
South Carolina and Alabama have also, since
his late annual message, declared in n
favor. Possibly one or two more Southern
States may take the same course, upon the
strength Of his Kansas message, which is a
strong bid for their support. But we appre-
bend that when the Sachems Of the party
shall come TO put their heads together in ge-
neral council, they will discover that, although
Mr.. Pierce, like Captain Tyler may have done
'as well as could be expected under the Cir
cumstances," he is for all practical purposes
"a dead cock in the pitt" Re-nominate hi I
and unless there should be a tremendous I
mocratic reaction in Massachusetts, we cannot
seriously promise him solitary Northern
State. We fear, too, that the feebleness of
Mr.. Pierce in the North would paraIyze the
marty in the South: and that bptween black
republicans and South Americans" he would
be limited in the slaveholding States to the in
sufficient vote of South Carolina. 1t is pI oba-
BILE, however, that South Carolina will not be
represented at Cincinnati, and thus Mr.. Pierce
may lose her influence, even in the conyentio 1
See the article from the Charleston Mercury
which proves that these national conventions