The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-15

From the Richmond Enquirer
THE NEW YORK HERALD JOKING.
The great industry and energy of the proprietor OF
he NEW Yoxx HERALD has made that paper second
suly 70 the London Tunes and but nt.lf Inferior "a
even The Great Thunderer" in all N ssentals 81
. hrst rate newspaper. But indnstry md energy
"a quality for faeetious joking often 'gess off some
q the best quixes Of any paper with W loa we ex-
change The issue of the HERALD OF the ~ Instant
pcrpetrates several that are really good " ne defeat
Of Blair in Missouri" and Review Of IN Field
for the next Presidency, is the theme ct ne He
RAIDS last political joke. The defeat OF Blair,
through 1.-THE Intervention of another opposition can
didatem the HsRALD considers good Drognosslc OF
the inevitable defeat Of the opposition in 1860 from
the rreconcable divisions which exist In toe ranks
OF the opposition. The HERALD regards land We
agree with the HSRALp) that this defeat of Blair IN
Missouri and the first returns from the Kentucky
elections as 1.-The turning OF the tide" But that
propensity for joking, which sometimes seizes the
HFsALp-that itching for popular quizes wnicn
pulled into Importance George Law, and almost
elected Fremontwhich ventilated so lately the con-
trsdictory qualifications OF Simon Cameron Twas mis
again perpetrated several very good jokes Inc
appears 70 be generally unaer.,ood that the sst
three democratic Presidential nominaloos-S4s f,erce
sSd Bocbanan--were from the Norm the pes' son,nes
man, mu DE given 10 the SOU a. bl' wSero ~
me South can we md The available mar Not Virginia;
for If take either Wire Or 6uowr, or any other man
shan Wire from that State there viii be ep't among the
Virginia chivalry, snG rhs will % by she board
Now, the HsEALp has too much experience not "a
know that there never was "a sp''t among sne viz
Eina chivalry because OF the nomination Of any
man; and hence tine HERALD is merely joking when
il says Virginia will 90 by the board" Here IL
the first in the series of jokes in the sRALD OF the
5th.
Bat The LOCALITY Of that convention (Chsresson) gives
~ most conservative nominees prestige Of pua,scn su'
secession which will DO extremely dim Jul, 70 carry
Sesoss Mason and Duops line.
The locating OF the Democratic Nominating Cooveutton
81 1850 ct Charleston ~as suicidal act seutn CAroina
d q rank disnnou State. she in Ma Union only
upder oOmpuislon. For years nAa oe@u tntu9
~tosy sowing the sesns Of her discrosent soons The
other cotton States' and she ready, II any moment
when they shan be ready TO procsi ,srsts southern
ocu'eceracy, end prepar for var Tho aseemo'sse
therefore, Of the Naons Convention Of the democracy
asnn her borders, sni Ia her pgocos citv vii be very
apt TO De regarded IN the North an ps1s soe concss
pn TO the south Carolina osunopws c1rpsd sitn ths no
the comutI-e charged sh the gu 3ct al the cnciu-
naa Convention; ana il DOLLY after long deose IN
committee aud by majority OF oos-stxteen IN dftsen-
Nat Chsrieston sscured IL over New York By all odds
The majority should have been the other way.
nps dsuriop q The bss eolc. order Of tha safe may
prove 70 be too strong for the nerves OF any southern
eanddste considering the pro slavery oes and disasters
INTO which the csmceracy have bsea csrssei oy thai
Kansas Nebraka bl. Ia this extremity the corveptou
may be compelled 10 fs bscx Nc sacosoan a. the
only alternative for The ba arce OF poFer 10 the North
BE s not candidate but against bis wishes aud bis cx
pectAtiops he may be compelled again to stand 10 the
breach, 10 gave his party from absolute dsstru 'oo
Now that Joke is a good one. Because man is
nominated in Charleston he must, from that fact,
be disuDionist-so a man born in a stable must
necessarily be morse, OF one whose ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
was accidentally in bake oven turns out vertable
biscuit.
The HERALD intimates that Mr.. Buchanan may be
reluctantly compelled, against his wishes and MS
expectations to stand in the breach to his party
from absolute destruction" The HsEALD. in the
Rame issue states that only "the suicidal Fremont
and Fillmore division of 1856" caused Mr.. Bnchanans
election, and il has already shown that for twenty
years the democracy have been In a minority, aud
have only succeeded in consequence of the divisions
Of the opposition. If, in the HERALD's view of the
powers Of parties, we submit whether even Mr.. Bu-
chanan could effectually "stand in the breach"
against the united and combined forces of the oppos
tion-f the nomination by the Charleston Convention
would metamorphOse "its most conservative nomf
nee into a South Carolina disuniooist," which It
would "be extremely difficult To carry across Mason
and Dxon's liuen-how could Mr.. Buchanan stand
M the breach when placed there 10y the Charleston
Convention? But if the nomination Of Mr.. Blu ;hanan
by the Charleston Convention would not be regarded
"as an insuiierable concession to the South Carolina
disunionists,n why should such disastrous conse-
qnences follow the nomination OF auy other truly
conservative mani And IL sit appears to be gene
rally understood that 1.-THE next nominee, If new
man, must be given TO the South" through the
Charleston Convention, by what process OF ratio
cination can the HERALD predicate such unfortunate
consequences to attend the action OF that conyen-
tom Surely the mere fact of nominating the
didate in Charleston will not make him disunionst.
And, since the very conservative tone OF Senator
Hammond's late speech, may we not hope thai an
era of genuine conservatism has dawned upon the
gallant State OF South Carolina and that such sad
consequences viii not attend the nomination Of any
Southern man" at Charleston But as the HssAID is
merely ventating good joke. consequence Of the
hot weather and the glorious result OF the ST. Louis
election, must not put too much importance upon
the vaticinati0n Of our joking contemporary OF New
York.
This propensity reaches climax 10 the following
Ntxt, uth regard 70 TIE opposition nominee Failog
- unite u2en Fremont seward Backs, Osttenien Bell,
Cameron, apd every other candidate the opposition
tons and factions, for the Of union and the balance
power the south, may be 90 npeed TO fall back upon
Gen. Scott And Shy notY
And we ask why notTr That little matter Of
defeat by Pierce will be forgoton those Irish
brogue' and sweet German accent speeches w,1ld
well please the Know Nothing element Of the oppo-
ritson force-they would rally with singular nnanni-
~ upon the stump speaking candidate and his love
for the foreignersl The "absminabe associations
and principles Of Seward" defeated Scott IN 1852
but in 1850 Seward will be longer the incubus
break him down" IL u this singular Intern xtare
Of truth and fiction that gives serious air 10 the
jokes u the "HsEALD" that sometimes misead the
unwary.
The HERALD" will commit itself permanently n
no man as yet-tis merely ven'ilating certain men
"feelersn 20 public sentiment. Lately Cameron
paraded duly apparailed in principles that suited
every taste and did violence 10 no latitude But tue
opposition do not seem to like him" and the n q
PtLD asks, bv way Of testing pubic sentiment
Whist, then, do they think Of Gen. Scottr