The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-08-05

A. V. Brown, our present efficient Postm
General, each representing the conservative de-
mocracy Of conservative Southern State. Very
good. Either of these able ard conservative
men would answer but for the extraordinary
drawback Of the Charleston Convention. But
The locality Of that Convention would give to
lie most conservative nominee q prestige of null
LITIGATION and secession which it will be ex-
tremely difficult to carry across Mason and
Dixon's line.
The locating Of the Democratic Nominating
Convention Of 1860 at Charleston was
euicidaI act. South Carolina is q rank disunion
State. She remains in the Union only under
compulsion. For years past che has been in
dusriously sowing the seeds of her discomfort
among the other ''cotton States;" and abe is
ready at any moment when they shall be ready,
TO proclaim q separate Southern confederacy,
and prepare for war. The assemblage, there
fore, Of the National Convention of the demo-
cracy within her borders, and in her principal
city, will be very apt to be regarded in the
North as an insuaerable concession to the South
Carolina disunionists, coupled with the nomi-
nation of any Southern man. This opinion had
il weight in the committee charged with the
subject at the Cincinnati Convention; and it
was only after long debate in committee and
by msjority Of one-sixteen to ffteen-that
Charleston secured it over New York. BY all
odds, the majority should have been the other
way.
But as the Convention is to meet among the
South Carolina disunionists, the bad political
odor of that State may prove to be too strong
for the nerves of any Southern candidate, con-
sideriDg the pro-slavery follies and disasters
carried by that Kansas-Nebraska bill
In this extremity, the Convention may be
compelled to fall back upon Mr.. Buchanan as
the only alternative for the balance of power in
the North. He is not candidate but against
his wishes and his expectations he may be COM
PEELED again to stand in the breach to save his
party from absolute destruction.
Next, with regard to the opposition nominee
Failing to unite upon Fremont, Seward, Banks,
Crittenden, Bell, Cameron, and every other can
didate, the opposition sections and factions, for
the sake Of union and the balance Of power in
the South, may be compelled to fall back upon
Gen. Scott. And why not His name, his
fame and his services would render him avail
able everywhere and after the terrible results
of the great mistake which we all committed
in the election of that miserable nincompoop,
Pierce, we should make it point to rectify that
blunder. 1t was Seward aud his abominable
associations and principles that defeated Scott
in 1852 but n 1860 Seward will no longer be
the incubus to break him down. Furthermore,
with nothing but the Presidency can the great
debt due to Gen. Scott from the country be paid.
1t can be paid in 1860, if he should live; and it
should be paid We have named Gen. Cameron
as a good man for the opposition; but they
do not seem to like him. What, then, do they
think Of Gen. Scott?
With Buchanan and Scott for $780, we should
have a clear national fight, upon great national
Union principles on both sides and perfect Sc
curity with the election of the one or the other.
But otherwise, we see nothing before us but
terrible fight of factions aud sections, with no
thing but niggers and disunion frebrands on
all sides.