The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-23

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Our Demoralized Democracy-The Mystery
ara Its solution.
The terrible disasters which the democracy
have suffered in the late Pennsylvania, Ohio and
Indiana elections will naturally draw the atten-
ton ofour readers throughout the Union to New
York and Illinois, and to the forlorn hopes of
the demoralized party in these two important
States.
The Illinois imbroglio is well understood; but
the causes and instruments which have reduced
the New York democratic party to disorderly
camp of wrangling leaders, cliques and factions,
have been riddle and mystery to the keenest
politicians of other States. Satisfied, however,
that the deep, extensive and extraordinary rami-
fications here of the Douglas conspiracy against
the administration will furnish the "open sesame
to the den of the Forty Thieves, it has become
our duty and our purpose to bring to light and
expose the guilty parties. and the inevitable con-
sequences of their treachery.
In Pennsylvania the Douglas movement has
possessed at least the merit of an open and I'M
disguised rebellion; in Illinois it wears the same
comparatively honest complexion; but the
Douglas movement in New York degenerates
into secret Observation-Disclosures, double
dealing, cunning and INSCRIPTIONS. The insidi-
Gus Douglas resolutions which were passed by
the Tammany majority at Syracuse, the anti
Douglas resolutions which were smothered in
Tammany Hall, and the private dinner to Col
Forney in this city, in honor of his malignant
and venomous speech against Mr.. Buchanan at
Tarrytown, are but some Of the incidents of this
dark conspiracy which have come TO light The
parties here concerned in this desperate plot for
the spells of the next administration have had
too deep interest in the fat Offices and fat con-
tracts ofthe present to show their hands. They
have played the more convenient game of de-
ceivng the administration with false professions.
while using its patronage to undermine it and
supplant it. But their underhanded intrigues
will be none the less efficient in securing the
election of our opposition Morgan State ticket
and a Northern opposition majority in the next
Congress.
The role of Douglas of 1858, though more
complicated, is substantially the same as that of
Van Buren, of ls4s-the destruction Of the de-
mocratic party. ii is singular fact, too. that
the democratic leaders Of the Van Buren, faction
in this State of AS are now among the most
active of the secret managers of this Douglas
conspiracy. There can be no doubt that when
Mr.. Douglas resolved upon his Kansas rebellion
he resolved to push il to the extremity of a CO.
alition with the great anti-slavery movement
of the North for the next Presidency. II was
his only alternative The Fremont vote of 1856
left but small margin in the North to the dis
mantled democracy, which a small democratic
detection would wipe away. Mr.. Douglas has
produced that detection; he inherits the glory
and who shall say that an accommodation with
the republicans i beyond his reach, comprehend
ing Mr.. Seward as the joint stock candidate for
1860. and Mr.. Douglas for 1864?
The readiness Of our Seward managers to enter
into this arrangement can hardly be questioned
To this end they are now using Douglas, and he
is serving them to the best possible advantage in
Illinois: for whether he is successful or defeated
the result there will still facilitate the dissolution
Trumbull. and other republican aspirants, then
stand aside: let our Northern Know Nothings
take their own course, for with an understanding
between Seward and Douglas there will be a
Northern coalition which may defy all hostile
combinations and laugh at the impotency Of the
Charleston Convention.
In this view of the subject, we cease TO won
der at the GOODNESS with which the Seward party
at Syracuse declined the profcrcd assistance of
the Know Nothings upon hafand-half State
ticket Master Weed was content with the more
effective support Of Tammany Hail. In this con-
nection, while we recognise Mr.. Cobb as dill
gent Secretary Of the Treasury. and Mr. Schell as
a competent Collector of the Customs, It is evil
dent that the connving Douglas sachcms OF Tam
many, and their Office holders and Office seekers
have been duping, in the matter Of the treasury
patronage, both the Secretary and his Collector to
their heart $ content Thus Mr. Cobb, who aspires
himself to the cast off shoes Of Mr. Buchanan
and Mr. Schell who dutifully obeys the orders Of
his superior, have both been playing into the
hands Of the Douglas-Seward conspirators.
Since December last this New York Douglas
conspiracy has thus been using the patronage
and alUsnathe confidence Of the administration.
to the prejudice of the party and for the benefit
Of Douglas and Seward. But these late elections
have lifted the curtain, and the game here has
been carried too far TO be covered IN with the
milk and water resolutions Of Tammany Hall,
eytorted a. the eleventh hour. Beginning at Sy-
racus e. every movement Vi the democratic lead
,ss Of the New York democracy betrays dc
nbcfato scheme TO supplant the administration.
10 break up the democratic party and 10 bring
about an overwhelming Northern Seward and
Douglas coalition FOR The spoils and plumber Of
The succession. And whatever may De tn ii'.
mate issue, the November issue in New York