The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-06-07

up n tie maintenance OF peace.
Upon matters Of domestic policy, Mr. Ba.ha.
nan was opposed TO the re- peal Of the Missouri
compromise but nov that the repeal is the
law Of the land, he is for giving it fair trial,
and for carrying odt faithfully the doctrine OF
"squatter sovereignty" as dimly defined at
Cincinnati Let us hope that, should the duty
Of seeing the laws faithfully exscu ted fall
upon his shoulders, its performance will be
attended with happier results thao the dread
ful feuds between abolitionists ano "border
rutlians," excited BY the vscillatia9, criminal
ard bloody NAL administration OF Pierce, Ma,
cy and JEFF. Davis We hope SO, though not
without cur nlisgivings in viev Of that iutense
secession ultraism OF the Southern uigger
drivers, which has infused itself into ell the
veins and arteries, the tissues, nerves and bones
Of the demoralizad modera democracy.
The main question is, what are the prospects
Of the campaign: We anticipate one of the most
exciting, tuEultuous and revolutionary politl
cal contests in ali the history Of the repuOtis.
Many Of our hopeful democratic fellow-citizens
affect to believe that there will hardly be q
hght-that Mr.. Buchanan, with scarcslya sho.
OF resistance, will walk over the course.
We have only to say, looking calmly
ever the whole field that for all such as enter
tain the belief that there will be no struggle,
the doors OF some lunatic asylum had better be
opened at once. We hare no doubt Of The. fact that
a uast majority Of tie 44meracan people, in the pre-
sent distracted condition Of the country, are opposed to
the democratic party, as debauclld and dem0ralize?
under tile malign influences Of this Pierce adn,inis
hation; and ace Jelieue that there uou1a still exist a
majority Of the american peQple opposed 10 the ratsf
cation Of the debaucheries Of THIS corrupted party
erea if they should nominate as tier representative
an ongel from heaUen. This is our conviction
and our belief Grant that as On honest man
On statesman, Mr.. Buchanan is fair nomi
nation, and that he is UNNECESSARILY superior
to men OF such small calibre and paltry expo
dents as Pierce and his Forney Kitchen Cabi-
net, the impressive evidences are yet all
around US Of an impending revolution. Louis
the Sixteenth was an amia5ls, respectable aul
worthy man, and sincerely labored for the
good Of his people; yet in the terrible storm
raised by his imbecile and corrupt predeces.
thing 80 frightful in this enlightened day; yet
we say that Pierce has rsised storm which
even Buchanan cannot peremptorily command
to be still. It is drifting to a great popular
revolution. We shall have a revolution-we
must have revolution; for sweeping revo-
luton is as necessary at times to purify the
political atmosphere as is a summer thunder
gust to clear away the miasma and corrupting
exhalations Of long sickly siege of the dog
days.
We say that there is majority Of the Anne
rican people throughout the Union opposed to
the democratic party, as demoralized under the
wicked and imbecile administration of Mr..
Pierce. Whether the various and homogeneous
elements, active and passive, which enter into
the composition of this majority, can be fused
into practical shape for political action at
this time, remains to be seen. The Northern
anti-Fillmore Know Nothing Convention which
meets here on the 18th instant, and the Seward
coalition anti slavery Cow ention which meets
at Philadelphia on the 18th, will have, for this
contest, the solution of the problem in their
hands. Alarmed at the selfevident weakness
of pure niger worshipping experiment, the
leading organ of W. Fl. Seward has come out,
and, fatty setting him aside, advocates the no.
mination of a man possessing the essentials for
an earnest battle with the demoralized but
still formidable democracy. This Seward or
gan wants new man, fresh and full of daring
exploits and romantic achievements in the
Rocky Mountains-a man, too, whose birth and
rudiments Of political education belong to
South Carolina. Brilliant idea, that, of run
ming South Carolinian as the anti-slavery
candidate for the Presidency. But upon him,
it is believed, the mass Of the anti-democratic
elements OF the North, free soil and Know
Nothing and conservative, may be fused.
We await the results of the two con ven
tions that are to settle the question.
Meantime Mr.. Fillmore, with all his respec-
table antecedents and fair character floating
about him like the white garments Of some
believing saint awaiting the coming of the
New Jerusalem, will contest the disputed States
of the South against Mr.. Buchanan Let the
two Northern conventions we have indicated
concentrate their forces upon some fresh and
fanism one way or the other, nor with the
niger drivers or niger neutrality-suspicious.
such freah and generally popular name, in a
word, as will fuse into solid mass the foating
opposition materials OF the North-aad we
should not be surprised to see Mr.. Buchanan
reduced to the ordeal Of the most severely
contested, exciting and doubtful struggle of
the last fifty years.
When the hostile forces shall have taken
their positions in the field, we shall be better
enabled to Judge OF the issues of the battle
In the interval, it were absurd to suppose that
an easy victory is secured for the Cincinnati
nominee, before either the plans the leaders
or the forces of the enemy are ascertained.
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