The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-04

the prospect Of sop of the spoils!
Equally disorganizing and revolutionary, and
infinitely more disgusting than the party despo-
tism Of Southern Niger drivers are the incon-
gruous denominations of our Northern niger
worshippers. Butthese Northern spoilsmen aud
coDspirators for political power, with their
niger philanthropy, niger fanaticism, niger
equality, niger and white amaigamation, and
their women's rights and socialist vulgarities,
their pulpit abolitionism, their shocking and
open. moutied iDhdelity, their unblushing trea-
son against all laws and all the usages of CT
vilized society, are as much derlored by the
masses Of our sober and thinking Northern
people, as are the excuses of the niger
drivers by the more quiet and conservative ma
jority Of the South. With these conservative
law and order men, North and South, COM
bined, there would be no trouble in crushing
into the dust the last vestiges of this rotten
Pierce administration, the last remnants of
this niger drivers party, which has grown
out of the follies and crimes of Pierce's policy,
and the last remains of Sewardism and the di !:
union denominations of his coalition of grovel-
ling niger worshippers.
But how is this to be done? Here in the
North the active opposition to the niger
drivers is divided into three or four distinct
and discordant factions, and chiefly on Niger
ism. Here are the niger driving Know
Nothipgs with their ticket of Fillmore and
Dcnelson-the niger worshipping Know No
things, who are to hold sort of national con-
vention in this city ON the 18th inst and the
niger worshippers proper, who meet in gene
raj convention at Philadelphia on the 18th. In
vain do We look to either Of these peddling
factions for any practical issues, or any def
mite action, adapted either to the inte-
rests or the wishes of the bulk Of the peo-
pie, North or South. Yet we repeat
there is solid majority of the Anne.
rican people, in both sections, ready tc
seize the opportunity for crushing OUT mig
ger drivers, niger worshippers and Kuc7
Nothings, and for re-establishiug lie admins
tration Of the government upon the true prii-
ciples of the constitution aud the fathers Of
the republic. And yet, undsciplined and Ia
organized, and Indifferent to the spoils, this
solid majority of the "bone and sinew of the
country" is powerless amidst the trained bands
of its plumber seeking enemies.
Is the great idea of popular government,
after all, only delusion and snare? The
test is upon us. The present is dark, confuied,
gloomy and bloody. The crisis of this viruhnt
disease Of niggerism has come in its most COM
plicated and malignant symptoms. Perhaps
there yet may be way Of escape left open,
clear of all the disorganizing parties of the
day. We await the issue of these June cor
ventions before determining how we shall wei
come the coming fourth of July.
TERRIBLE BLOW TO THE PROSPECTS OF FIJI.
MORE AND DoNEIsoN.-The exclusive organ of
the Know Nothing Philadelphia Convention,
(Which nominated Fillmore and Donelsor,
and then exploded), begins to acknowledge
that the prospects of his ticket, though highly
encouraging at first, have become, all Of a
sudden, decidedly gloomy and depressing. We
are sorry for this because we have high re-
gard individually for both Fillmore and Do
nelson. Mr.. Fillmore has always borne himself
as respectable gentleman among the scurvy
politicians of the day. In fact, he may be
Justly classed as one of the few statesmen of
the old school left among U.s. Besides this, he
is one Of the handsomest specimens of Ameri
can production in the way of man, and as
such he was unanimously endorsed in the
most fattering terms at all his public recep.
TONS by all the ladies, from Paris to Naples
and especially at Rome. Major Donelson
is also solid specimen of Young America in
full vigor, with hundred well fed niggers at
his back; and he contributed vast amount OF
Old Hickory stock to the Philadelphia Know
Nothing ticket.
Unfortunately, however, at this unhappy
crisis Of blood and murder the exclusive or.
gan of Fillmore and Donelson announces that
an event has taken place which sinks the
prospects of the proslavery Know Nothing
ticket into utter oblivion, or the next thing to
it. What is this terrible calamity? What can
it be? Nothing more nor less than the trans
fer or TRANSLATION of parcel Of old bones from
the catacombs of Rome to the catacombs of q
holy Catholic church at Hoboken, under the
auspices of that arch-Jesut, Archbishop
Hughes. This Catholic traffic in old
bones, it is discovered, has been entered
into for the purpose Of raising q fund with
which to "break the spine of Know Nothing
ism,' in the defeat of the Fillmore Americans
in the Presidential election. Mr.. Fillmore
may, therefore, postpone indefinitely his re-
turn to the United States, for by the bones Of
st. Quietus his quietus has been given him,
ard he can't be elected. The Catholic bone
business fixes him and defeats him, certain and
sure.
Gcriously, howovo-, this hnn and cry against
the Inauguration Of q lot of harmless dry bones
in Catholic church, is very absurd. The ce-
remonies over these old bones may to our Pro-
testant brethren appear extremely ridiculous,
and there may be treason in it in the eyes of
our Know Nothing wiseacres; but there are
come peculiarities in oil churches which to
outsiders are equally foolish. What do we