The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-12-03


but hopefully waiting for a change
The only other measure of Congressional legis-
lation which gives to Nj. Douglas pre- -eminently
conspicuous position is that Kansas Nebraska
bill aud its appendages; and here his position is
prominently that OF a bold and reckless dema-
gogue ard disorganzer. The fearful slavery
agitation of the last four years, the horrid afro
cities and crimes committed in Kansas, the dis
graceful scenes in both houses of Congress, the
bitter spirit of sectional hate and sectional re-
venge, North and South, which has thus been
created, and the sharply defined sectional organi-
cation of our political parties, arc among the
consequences of that Kansas Nebraska expert
this man, the boosted author of all this mischief
after following it up with rebellion against
democratic administration, and with an active
alliance with the' opposition, which has defeated
and well nigh destroyed the democracy in every
Northern State-this man, il is claimed by his
partisans, has suddenly become the only availa-
BILE man for the Charleston Convention.
Contrast the public services and public char
acter OF such a man as Gen. Scott with these two
ephemeral politicians, Seward and Douglas, and
we may well shudder at that disorganizing cor
ruption Of our pr litical party machinery which
does not hesitate to give the imrudcnt and I'M
worthy demagogue the precedence over the mo-
dest but deserving patriot For nearly fifty
years, in all sections of the Union, and in our
foreign wars Gen. Scott has been the defender
of the country and the visible embodiment of law
and order. Let the Canadian frontier, our West
ern and Southern frontiers Florida, Mexico,
Charleston, &c, at different epochs, answer for
him and for the country.
II is in behalf Of this or some such man, whose
public life and services have been better and
higher than the grovelling tricks of dirty dema-
gogues or the schemes of sectional mischief
makers, that We appeal to the American people
for our next President. Let them fix upon Gen.
Scott or some such truly national ard Union
man, and proceed in every city, county, town
and school district Of every State to nominate
him and agitate his claims, and the work Of our
rotten party cancuses and Juggling conventions
will be superseded and defeated. In any event,
we apprehend that the party trumpeters of Sew
aru ana douglas nave commenced 10 dow TOO
soon for 1860, and that in the sequel the late
events upon which they pin their faith will be
the ruin of both. Neither the leading dema-
gogues in the Kansas agitation nor the defunct
issues of the past will avail for the new epoch of
the future, upon the threshold of which VIC stand.
The very machinery upon which the agents
and drummers of Seward and Douglas depend
will inevitably fail them under the new order of
things which is before us. But still the will of
the people, and the man of the people, will con-
time subject to these juggling party conventions
until they are superseded by the independent
action of the people. In regard, then, to this
party machinery, these party caucuses and con-
venton spells gamblers, We fully concur with
Mr.. Crittenden that there should be All end of
all this" The crisis, too, is eminently favorable
for popular revolution. The democratic and
opposition party organizations are demoralized,
crippled disjointcd, and tumbling to pieces
In this condition popular movement against
them in the shape OF little independent clubs
here and there ard everywhere, In behalf Of
some truly national patriot like General Scott,
would accomplish a glorious work of popular
reform. Thus the combined influence of these
popular clubs, by the year 1860, would form a
volume like that of the mighty Mis- 'ssippi, whose
sources are among the little springs Of the ALE
ghanies the little lakessof Minnesota aud the
little rivulets Of the Rocky Mountains.