The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-02-27

me Late Know Hsthaag Csavsntsen-TAe
WING Party Galvanlxed.
The labors of the late National Know No
thing Nominating Convention have resulted in
the formal dissolut on of the American party,
and are to be followed up with systematic aud
desperate attempt to galvanize into active life
again the stifened remains of the old whig
dynasty. A few words touching the compost
ton Of this extraordinary convention, and its
results, will enable our readers Of all parties
to comprehend at glance the meaning and
the " manifest destiny" Of Mr.. Fillmore's nomi-
nation.
There were three parties Of Americans in this
nominating convention, to witt
lst Old wings, chiefly Of conservative
stripe, turned Know Nothings under protests,
and mostly from the Southern States
I'd. Regular Know Nothings, in favor of
making the American party an entirely new
party, upon new principles and new man
whose antecedents have had little or nothing
to do with either of the old parties of the
country.
Sd. Seward Know Nothings. joining the Order
expressly to direct its action, or to betray it
into the hands of the Seward coalition.
The first set Of this classification were nearly
all Fillmore men--old wings, we repeat, anxious
to set aside the forms, ceremonals aud or
ganization of this new Order, tor the more
ancient and more agreeable principles and
organization Of the old whig party. 10
fact, the Southern whig party, having dis
covered in the recent Southern State cleo
tions that they had gained nothing by
dropping in behind " Sam" and his dark Ian
tern, have been laboring somewhat quietly, but
very earnestly, ever since, to supersede him,
and throw him back in the rear.
The second set, or regular Know Notbings,
have been working quit as earnestly to main
tain Sam" in the ascendency, as new, indie
pendent and homogeneous power in the Land,
upon exclusively Know Nothing principles, and
to sink all the wing or democratic antecedents
of the brethren in the superior principles Of
the Order. Hence the leaders of this class were
chiefly in favor of Live Oak George Law as
their Presidential candidate.
The third set have illustrated their objects
and principles very clearly in Colonel Ford's
Boilers Convention at which it is said there
were sixty-seven delegates in attendance from
the national gathering Of o few hours before.
But at this boilers meeting both the George
Law and the Seward Know Nothings were pre-
sent, and the objects of each were very frankly
set forth. For instance, the Ohio boilers de.
clsred that they were opposed to another Anne
rican nomination or convention, believing"
as they do, " that the North ought to unite in
a common organization to resist the aggres.
siops of slavery; that is, the antislavery Know
Noshings should 60 over, without further cere
mony, into the ranks Of the Seward Holy AL
lance, the farce of their adhesion to Know
nottingham having been played out.
On the other hand, Mr.. Hammond, Of the
Albany State Register, Irregular conservative
George Law Know Nothing,) declared, at this
boilers meeting, that che considered the nomi-
nation of Mr.. Fillmore the most violent be-
trayal of the principles of their Order ever
put upon any party in this country. He is
not member of the Order--reports to the
contrary Notwithstanding. 1t isa whig ticket,
and nothing else. Mr.. II. accordingly pledged
New York for thirty-6ve delegates to the Ounce
Nominating Convention. He was opposed to
any union with the republican party. He had
no objection to that party going up with their
kite, bat it must be on the tail of it," Toe
results of the Convention, then, are simply
these
First. The old Southern whig element has
triumphed-the remains Of the old wing party
take the precedence, and straight out whg,
having no connection with the Order, secures
the nomination. The majority OF the Conven-
ton thus decree formal reputation Of Know
nottingham, and the substitution Of the pres
tige and principles of the old whig psrty in
its place.
Second The Northern Know Nothing bolt
ers (including the George Law mea) call TO-
another Nominating Convention on the 12t6
of June, in the city of New York, upon the
principle of the restoration of the Missouri
compromise and they repudiate the proceed
ings Of the Fillmore Convention, because Of
its admission of the Roman Catholic delegates
from Louisiana, hostility to : RomanismN
being a cardinal feature Of the American
organization.
Third. The speedy fusion will necessarily
follow of the seeding ultra anti-slayerg
Know Nothings with the Seward Abolition
Holy Alliance, including the mass Of that class
of Northern Know Nothings represented Ia
Congress by the Know Nothing support ~
of Nj. Banks, and his Seward abolition pro-
gramme.
Such being the triaugulation Of the late
Know Nothing party, the question recurs-
what is the prospect before Us? We thiuE it
may be briefly summed no. Mr.. Fillmore will
probably carry the three States Of Delaware
Maryland and Kentucky. We conclude from
the results of the late Southern elections, and
their dnmoraliZinp effects unon the beaten