The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-05-20

tree soil affiliations: The same rule reversed
applies exactly to the softs and hards Of Mis-
souri,. But in order to give the best possible
showing for Buchanan, let us assume that both
sets las in lS4S) from New York are admitted
and the same with Missouri. Let us.further
assume that the vote OF New York will be
given for Buchanan, which would increase his
strength to l26 votes, and that the vote OF
Missouri will be thrown for Pierce, swelling
his vote to ll6, there will still remain, COM
biniDg the vote of Pierce, Douglas and the
scattering, a majority of forty against Bu-
chanan.
Now for the estimates of the iugglers
Pierce's strength in the Convention is not
bona tide, but fictitious and movable; but
though not adapted for his nomination, it mag
be used by him to defeat his adversaries, espe.
cially Buchanan. The strength of Douglas Is
in the Northwest; but he may perhaps pick up
handsomely in the East and South by first
straDgling Buchanan, and secondly by chok-
ing off Pierce. Thus we see that with both
Pierce and Douglas the first object Is the bow
string to Buchanan. Pierce forms the horizon
tai line, Douglas the perpendicular, and HUI
ter the hypothenuse to the triangle, thus clos.
ing up perfect mathematical figure. Next
come in the little side Issues and contingent
calculations. For instance, the Pierce or
Douglas men whisper to Howell Cobb, 'Go for
us, and Georgia will be very apt to get the
Vice Presidents" and they may work upon
old Virginia or Tennessee by the same
tempting bait of a prospect, by a
little playing off and on, of the Pre-
sidential nomination itself. In this COZ
nection, Neasrs. Hunter and Mason, of vir-
ginia. would doubtless consent to the execu-
ton Of "Old Buck" without remorse; and per.
haps ven Aaron V. Brown and Andrew john
son, OF Tennessee, to say nothing of General
Pillow, would submit to the reputation Of
"Pennsylvania's favorite son" without she'd
ding tear.
In the outset the opposition to Buchanan
have decided majority in the Convention, al
lowing for all possible mistakes in our esti-
mates. A majority adopt the rules. 1t is the
interest of this majority and its various parts
first to get Buchanan out of the way. They
will do this, we apprehend, after the old
faabion-f first, by the adoption of the two-thirds
rule; and secondly, by prolonged DO nbard
ment against Buchanan, which will ultimately
result in bringing over some of his ishy sup
porters, at high price, to some new and mar
vellously proper man. The two-thirds rule has
never been used by these democratic conven-
tions to elevate anybody-but always as a
bludgeon with which to knock some trouble
some fellow in the head. In 1882 it was adopt
ed, not for the purpose of securing the reno
mination of Jackson, but to kill off Calhoun as
Vice President; in 1886 it was adopted as the
only expedient for getting Col. Dick johnson
and his wife and family out of the house,
but it failed; in 1910, in order to make sure
work of Col. johnson, the cunning democracy
declined making any nomination for Vice Pre-.
aident; but here the people would have saved
them any trouble on account of COL johnson,
as was illustrated in the whirlwind election of
Old Tippecanos and Tyler too.
In 1874, the Van Burenites, after working
this two-thirds rule for twelve years, con-
cluded to dispense with it; but at the
Baltimore Convention Of that year the
enemies of the Little Magician" applied his
guillotine to the inventor, and took off his
head. In ls4S it was adopted again to keep
up appearances; aud yet the result in the cleo
ton was that the Van Burenites Strengthened
out the two. third nominee stiff and cold, with
about one.fourth Of the popular vote Of New
York.
In 1852, all the old hold-over White House
aspirants, and all the new ones, rallied upon
method for killing off his rivals and clearing
the way for himself; and all of them were sent
adritt 1t was not until thirty-fve ballots had
been cast, and one man had positively refused
the nomination, that the real man for the crisis
was discovered to be nobody else than Franklin
Pierce, of New Hampshire. Daniel S. Dickin-
son made Franklin Pierce President in that re
fusal Of the democratic nomination; and now,
if Dickinson delegate gets into the Cincin-
natl Convention it will be because he will
have lodged the vigilance of Mr.. Pierce
against all such heretics aud outlaws
So much for the two-third rule. 1t will be
applied again. When we consider that with a
handsome majority in his support at the Con-
vention of '44, Van Buren, was subjected to the
twO-third rule by majority voting against
him for it's adoption, what else can be antici-
pated in 1856 but the same rule against Bucha-
nan, with decided majority combined against
him, in addition to all the plumber of the ad-
ministration?. Finally, when we look at the
disgraceful trickery Of the jugglers at Balh-
more in 1852, at the labors of the mountain and
at the nibbling of the mouse of which it was
delivered, what else can we expect at Cincin-
natl but the rejection of Buchanan and all other
candidates standing in the way Of each other.
and the proclamation of another discovery of
another great man in some obscure and inof-
fenaive backwood's county court lawyers Our
prediction then, is, that the enemies Of Bucha.
nan will frat combine to destroy him; that hav-