Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1858-09-14
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP

eocurdcy oi tnc teiegrdPniC eS0VehS A0ee''SN
from Syracuse, N. Y, on. the 9Th and 9th
insts., we took it for granted that the scheme
to "fuse" the Republican and Ameriean par
ties of the Empire State, to which We more
than once called the attention of the Stars
readers in the course of the last month, was
am Jait aceompH. II however seems that the
dispatches deceivipg US and the public ex-
pressed rather the wishes of their authors, than
q synopsis of actual occurrences between the
two conventions
1t will be remembered that we predicted that
the Seward managers would permit nothing to
triumph iRths Republican Convention likely to
jeopardize the prestige, abroad, of the suprem-
acy of Mr.. Seward and his friends in the az
fairs Of the Republican party in his own State;
as that could not fail to weaken his prospect
for obtaining the Republican party Presiden-
tial nomination in 1860. The failure of the
fusion scheme proves the correctness of the
Stars judgment and information on that point.
The fusion scheme was originated for the ben
eit OF Mr.. Crittenden, or whoever the anti
Seward wing Of the general opposition may see
fit to favor for President in the contest of 1860.
That fact is as clear as the light of the sun
Syracuse-it seing his first appearance as a
member of any political convention, though
VIGOROUSLY the contsoling spirit of the conven-
tisns Of his own party for twenty years past
oily to make it certain that his followers would
not cCaait the blunder Of ssrrendering the
fortunes o. Mr.. Seward into the hands of the
plotters againss his future. Of course he car
ried all his points. Thus, he induced the Amer
lean party Conventiofs to adopt the abolition
ism of the Republicans, and the Republicans
to refuse to adopt any of tie idiosyncracies Of
the American party except thsir plan Of re-
qniring a registry law, and that foreign born
Voters shall be hereafter refused tn. right to
yots Until one year after being natuJaliaed
Having done 50 much, he caused the Convea-
ton of witch he was the life and soul to finish
up their BUSINESS in double quick time, with
as little apparent Hc.ice of the existence of the
American party and lts Cow sntion, as though
neither existed.
As a consequence, the American party Con-
vention which evidently went to Syracuse hot
for ''fusion" upon almost any teYme, had no
other alternative than to reaffirm its own
creed, make nominations, and quit the seM as
speedily as possible, to escape the general laugh
at itself, caused by its being so egregiousy OUT
witted by Thurlow Weed. In fact, it was SOLD
on all sides; not more signally by 1hurlow d
Co. in their use of it, and their subsequent sig
nally contemptous treatment of it, than by
Messrs. Erastus Brooks Co., in their over
eagsrnsss to beat the Democracy; which alone
led them to stultify their party, by making it
swallow the Abolitionism of the Sewardite man.
ayers to no other end than that of finding
themselves humbugged, cheated, and snubbed
The grand result of these Conventions is the
assurance which their action involves of the
triumph Of the Democracy in the approaching
New York State election, and its influence in
favor of the triumph Of the Democratic candi-
dates for Congress.
1t is not to be doubted that the Administra-
ton OF James Buchanan is stronger, much
stronger, with the masses in the State of New
York, than any other Democratic National Ad-
ministration was, that has been in power since
jackson s day. There no longer exists a divi-
sion in the Democratic party of that State
the chronic Barnburners of the last decade
having, long since, transferred their support to
the last phase of New England Federalism
Republican party ism--while the chronic
Hards have transferred theirs to the American
party. We repeat; for the first time since
Jackson's Administration, the New York De-
mocracy are now a unit. That fact will give
them a moral strength which will be worth to
their cause in November, thousands on thou
sands of the floating votes of the State We
have no fear whatever of disagreements in the
New York Democratic State Convention, soon
to assemble, or that its leading spirits will fail
to secure all due advantages that may be
legitimately drawn from the action of the two
opposition Conventions to which we refer above
"THE BRAVE YOUNG SENATOR and his
fellow -tricksters seem to have lost their pres
tige OF success. The people of California have
learned their true characters, and will not
again, either by coaxing or bullying, be in
duced to repose confidence in those who have
onceso shamefully betrayed them, and through
whose treachery alone the shoulder hitting
champion of pot-house political circles became
able to disgrace the Golden State last winter
by his most uniting conduct in the U. s.
Senate. The San Francisco Globe speaks thus
OF their latest attempts to regain positions of
trust and power:
lckites playing over again the old game of '5i
Inc same brilliant success awaits them II will
De remembered that they split on at that time
rom the regular Convention, got up bogus con-
Germ, and had the efffontery to Nominate two
prominent Democrats for Congress Even with
this trick to aid them they were in a hopeless.
minority One would think the sharp expe-
rience OF the past would have prevented a second
experiment Of the kind But we find these men
true to their dsorganizing proclivities, again
seeking TO distract the Democratic party. Obey
Ing the mandates of Broderick, delivered through
MS chief Butler, we them arrayed in factions
opposition to the wishes Of the people.
Several Of the faithiess Representatives who
betrayed their constituents I'm the last Senatorial
election, are conspicuous In this movement or
what force and effect will their plotting and
counter plotting, their mock reso utions and their
mock dignity have with the Democracy, They
are known too we'll to the masses 10 exercise anu
,nnnenee at the ballot box. The people of Cali
| Iornia Will do no more than laugh at the impo-
tent malice OF these boilers They have mo- i'd,
OF following the vaciIlating Ferguson in his cha
Inelion-Ike changes, or being led by that anti
quated set OF wire-workers, McCorkle, CONFESS.
aud Bryan Neither care they to waste time with
Conroh and Hall, and that ilk 1t is In vain for
Frederick to parade his troops for review; in