The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-08

livery, sellers option between the LIST Of January and LIST
OF April; prime at Sl3 u.s. Sugars firm, with
sales Of about $50 hhds at rates given another column
Coffee firm, but quiet Freight engagements were
light, 'and rates were unchanged
w, II. Seward for Is60-The Drawbacks Of
His Rochester Platform.
We submit to our political readers this morn
ing an interesting chapter of newspaper extracts
in reference to the late Rochester abolition pro
arac,o,a'cn'o of W. II. Seward the late elections,
and the next Presidency
First of all it will be observed that the Che
Waller Webb emphatcally assures US in regard
to our late State election, that so far as New
York is concerned, this contest has determined
who shall be our standard bearer in 1860" and
that William II. Seward now stands pre-emi
nent among those worthy of shis great trust
And again, Seward and republicanism have
now become one and inseparable, and the voice
Of the Empire State has been proclaimed in a
manner and under circumstances which leave no
doubt of what she desires, and where she will be
found in the great struggle of 1860" Next, the
National Ant-Slarery Standard, radical abolition
organ in noticing its publication of this Roches-
ter speech says, ave believe this address was
intended to strike the key note of the coming
contest. We have reason to believe, moreover.
that il was designed TO arrest and counterfeit the
movements Of those members of the republican
party who are cunningly attempting to allay the
antislavery agitation. and revive in some form
the dead issues Of the past
Next, on the same side of the question. the
Cincinnati Gazette, while admitting that Seward
chances for the Presidential nomination NAV
" have been improved by the late republican
triumph in his own State nevertheless declares
that had Douglas been defeated in Illinois.
Stewards prospects would have been more bril-
liant than they appear to Us at present" We
presume that the meaning Of this declaration il
that the success of Douglas in Illinois will enable
him to steal good share of Seward santi-slavery
thunder in 1860, either as democratic candi-
date. or "a an independent one. d Ia Van Buren,
PROFESSIONALLY the success of Douglas some
what complexities Che issue on all sides but il
will be impossible to estimate the weight Of the
/" Little Giant on any side. until he shall have
defined his position either within or without the
lines of the regular national democracy.
From the south side Of Mason and Dixon we
have as yet received only few scattering
shots in response to Mr.. Stewards new anti
slavery platform. or these We make an extract
each from the leading virginian and the
leading South Carolinian organ Of the fire
caters. The former treats this new movement of
Seward as a case Of 'roguery overreaching it.
self" while the latter promptly accepts il as a
sectional issue from which there IL no escape. in
asmuch as hcnccforth .'thc two sections will have
to face each other in the Union, and the South
will have to leave il, or be overmastered and pro-
vincialized by the superior power Of the
North
With our text thus furnished in the several
points enumerated, the intelligent reader will at
once comprehend something Of the difficulties Of
Mr.. Stewards new position, and Of the confused.
unsettled and revolutionary state of things pre-
vailng in the camps of both the democracy and
the opposition. North and South. First, IL APP
pears that henceiorward Seward and republi-
canism are one aud inseparabe = and IL this I've
80. we shall. perhaps, before the expiration of
another year. witness the concentration Of the
Northern anti-Seward wing Of the opposition
forces upon man whose name and principles
will serve TO reorganize the present disorganized
but abundant antidcmocratic materials Of the
South In a national opposition movement. Other
wise all the political spoils Of every Southern
State will be carried Off by the democracy. in
volvng losses to which the opposition leaders Of
the South will never submit 80 long as they can
be avcrtod. We anticipate. however, that the
first result in the South Of Stewards new rcpub-
licsn policy will be clean sweep Of every South
ern State by their democracy in the elections yet
TO come OH for the next Congress; and that the
next result will h. reaction among the con-
sentative men of the opposition camps of the
North. which will cast Mr. Seward overheard and
reorganize the whole Of the opposition forces for
1860 upon national man and upon national
and practical issues, leaving slavery In the back
ground, after the fashion Of the brilliant and
overwhelming opposition campaign Of 1910.
The adhesion Of the republican party to Seward
and bis pestilential anti-slavery hercsics must