The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-29
The Next Presidency-Thc Politicians VI. the
People.


The caucus and convention jugglers. and the
Presidential aspirants Of the various cliques,
factions. parties and sections of the country In
every direction, are actively plotting and coun-
terplotting, scheming and intriguing for the
spoils and plumber Of the next Presidency. The
curious complications Of our late elections, their
astonishing results the late remarkable speeches,
North, South East and West, of some of our
leading political aspirants, orators and philoso-
piers. democratic and republcan--the unsettled,
confused and conflicting views and opinions of
the party press slavery and anti-slavery, and the
intcnsc anxiety which evidently exists among
all parties in reference to the Presidents annual
message, and the Developments Of the approach
ing session Of Congress- furnish schedule OF
causes, events and circumstances which very
clearly indicate for good or evil, new epoch
in our political history.
OF all this, the scheming politicians and ra-
pacious spolsmcn Of the country are fully aware;
and with all their ingenious devices to cover
IN their tracks, We have discovered enough
on all sides to satisfy us that their plans
and purposes are wholly directed to the
spos, and utterly regardless Of the peace
and harmony Of the Union. For example.
IL now requires but limited intellect
to understand that the original Kansas ebraska
bill was nothing hut desperate Southern game
Of Douglas and Pierce for the Cincinnati nomi-
nation Of 1856. and that the subsequent anti
Lecompton rebellion Of Douglas was an equal
" desperate experiment on his part for the
Northern democratic balance Of power in the
Charleston Convention Of 1860. Nor less trans
parent l. the motive Of the late Rochester mani
festo Of w. IT, Seward. or the movements Of the
slave trade asitators and the Walker fibus-
tiers of the South. On both sides Of the slavery
line among these party ultras, the paramount
object Is sectional division Of parties, and a
sectional agitation for the benefit Of the section
al domagogue leaders concerned, who have little
to expect from the reign of law and order, and
nothing TO lose. though they should drive the
country into the chaos Of revolution, disunion
and civil war.
Against these reckless sectional conspirators
and party spoilsinen we would solemnly invoke
the attention and resistance Of the loyal and in
dcpendcrf masses Of the American people They
have the power, and theirs II the right and the
duty Of electing our next President, in defiance
and in contempt Of all sectional organizations, or
party juntas, or caucuses, or conventions We
know that all the evils and mischievous consc-
qucnces which the country has suffered from the
slavery agitation may be justly charged to tha'
infamous caucus machinery which has made our
existing political parties to "stink in the nos.
trils Of the people" We know that our only
source Of relief II in reaction and revolution
from the people Themselves; and, from recent
events and the signs of she times we can all per.
ceivc that the public mind is ripe and ready for
this grand and wholesome work Of reform.
AT the last session Of Congress with power
ful numerical majority in both houses, the de-
mocracy from their intestine decentralization,
upon ono prctcxt aud another were reduced to o