Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-11-02

THn EEw YoRx EEIcfioS. The new plat.
form Of he Republican party, laid down few
days since by its Dictator, Senator Seward, At
Rochester, New York, was timed, in Its pro-
mitigation, to meet the emergency of this days
OCCASION That Is to say, to transfer freua Mr.
Gsrrit Smith to Mr.. Morgan, the votes of some
thirty, forty or fifty thousand abolitionists, who
would have thrown their ballots for Smith, for
Governor, had Mr.. Seward failed to lay down
the law for the future aims Of his party, as he
did. Tho now famous speech of Mr.. Corwin on
being nominated for Congress lin Ohio, repu-
dating, to a considerable extent, the anti
slaveryism Of his party, owing to the import
aDce of Mr.. c. as a public man, had caused a
stampede of q large ultra. abolition wing of the
Republican party in all the anti slavery States.
Though Mr.. Corwin soon took back all he had
said offensive to them, to counterfeit the effect
of what Messrs. Seward, Chase, Giddings, ct ai.,
regarded as his indiscretion, it became neces-
sary that Mr.. Seward should lay down the law
of their organization, going bow-shot further
towards unadulterated abolitionism than ever
before. Our information from New York leads
US to believe that the Rochester speech of Mr..
Seward will transfer to Morgan at least thirty
thousand, if no: fifty thousand votes that Smith
would otherwise have received. We also learn
that Mr.. Thurlow Weeds negotiation, for the
transfer of the votes of a large wing of the
American party from Burrows to Morgan, has
been successful. =
Quite half the American party Of NV York
are as essentially abolitionsts as tRs Repub-
lican party. Their leaders are trading men in
politics, and held out against the fusion at the
late meeting of the two opposition conventions
at Syracuse, only in the hope of making a bet
ter bargain flor profits for themselves individ.
ually) later in the campaign. Mr.. Weed has,
doubtless, come to their terms. They want Of
fee, contracts, special legislation, and all that
sort of thing, and have secured satisfactory
promises that they shall have them in case
Morgan succeeds, and a majority of the Con-
gressmen elected, and if the legislature shall
turn up Republicans. Mr.. Weeds skill at
bargaining will, doubtless, secure to Morgan
quite as many late Burrows votes, as Mr. Sew
ards new ultra platform will transfer from
Smith to Morgan. Under these circumstances
we cannot perceive how Parker and the rest of
the Democratic State ticket can possibly tri-
umph to-day; though up to the delivery of the
Rochester speech Of Mr.. Seward we regarded
their success as being highly probable.
The determination of Mr.. Seward that Nor
gan shall be elected means neither more nor
less than his determination to be a candidate
for the presidency in 1860, come what will His
object is to demonstrate to the Republican
party everywhere that under his auspices his
party can carry New York in 1860, beyond per-
adventure-which will defeat the Vaccinations
of some of its members to nominate in his stead
some man of more national pretensions. His
expedient is desperate one, insomuch as, if
he should be elected, it involves the very speedy
destruction of the Government. For the idea
that the South will remain in the Union with
the Government in the hands of statesman
elected upon a pledge to bring about the des-
truction of slavery in all the States of the Con-
federacy is too weak and foolish to need to be
combatted. 1t may be that conservatism at the
North, taking the alarm, will turn the tide
against Mr.. Seward
We trust that such may be the case Yet
it is not to be disguised that the course of
Senator Douglas and his sore-headed Con-
tens of thousands on tens of thousands late
Democratic votes to the Republican party
the votes of men who believing Douglas honest
when he planted himself, in the Senate, on the
Republican platform, have no mind to follow
him as far back as his present postion-of
half-wayism-on the slavery question, now
that the Republicans of illinois having re-
fused to sacrifice Lincoln for him, he judges
it his path of policy to 'crawfsh" for the time
being, in the hope of thus getting national
democratic votes in the current Illinois cleo
ton. Though he just now judges it prudent to
profess to be the defender of the rights Of slave
holders in the States where the institution ex.
lists, his leaders everywhere else at the North,
acting in full concert with him, are by no means
so mealy -mouthed-vids the late speeches of
Forney, Haskin and Clark. These men, who
proclaim that they are but the fingers of his
hand, as it were, freely avow that they and
their Pennsylvania and New York fellow Doug
lasites 90 quite as far in the abolition cause as
the Republican party. Nay, they have one
and all adopted protection" also, as a party
shibboleth; which only serves to show that the
matured policy of their leader is to stand out
under quite as glazing Federalist colors as Mr..
Seward or any other opposition rival may dare
to faunt, in the contest Of 1860. That they act
under the advice and dictation of their chief
Stephen Arnold Douglas-will be plain enough
to all within three months after this Illinois
election-for by that time there will be no
occasion for him to continue to wear his mask
of to-day.
The NIcARAGUAN IsrHMUs.-Itfs said that
DR.. Jerez, the dismissed Nicaraguan Commits
sioner to this Government, has granted a new
charter to tho Nicaraguan isthmus transit to
some Mr. Van Dyke, of New Jersey If there
be truth in the story, the public may rely upon
it that it is simply an expedent on Jerez's
part to "raise the wind" for the time being,
out of somebody. Time and again it has been
shown that even the Government Of Nicaragua
has now no legal right to grant new charter
to run that transit, having vested the right in
an American company who have it IN y0sses-