The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-01-10

against the honest and impregnabIe policy of
the President? We answer that the spoils and
plumber Of the administration and the game of
the democratic leaders aud factions for the sue
cession underlie oil these rebellious movements
in the camp
With the election OF Mr.. Buchanan the
various Presidential aspirants and cliques i'm
mediately set themselves to work to secure the
control Of his administration. The Southern
freeaters upon this point made his Cabinet the
test question, and when the fact was brought to
light that Mr.. Buchanan had appointed his own
Cabinet, and would himself be the head aud
front and master of his administration, the work
Of rebellion began. The Southern fre-eaters,
from Richmond to New Orleans, instantly
opened their masked batteries upon the Presi-
dent and for several months they kept up
most horrible din But they had mistaken their
man. Mr.. Buchanan was neither to be bullied
nor frightened into submission. Aud so, when
they had exhausted their ammunition, they sus-
pended their useless cannonade.
In the meantime, Mr.. Senator Douglas had
smelt rat; and he accordingly gave the
administration, last summer, broad hint
of an impending rebellion in another
quarter. His Kansas coup dStat was but
the fuiflment of premeditated bolt, re-
solved upon from the moment of the discovery
that not even the Douglas clique would be per-
mitted to dictate the appointments and the
policy Of the administration, but that Mr..
Buchanan intended to pursue his own policy,
and leave the various Presidential factions and
cliques of the party to take care of themselves.
The Tammany Hall letter of Governor Wise
may also be explained upon the basis of the
next Presidency. Governor Wise is candidate,
and quite hopeful candidate, for the succession
But he has declared war against the Southern
ultras, and has nothing to expect from them in
any contingency. They demand the admission
of Kansas under her Lecompton constitution as
slave State, and should this policy prevail,
even to the extent of uniting the Southern de-
mocracy, Governor Wise will be overshadowed
by the superior pretensions of Jefferson Davis
in the Southern camp of the party. Hence this
Tammany Hall letter Of the Governor. He has
no faith in the Davis faction, and no notion Of
flying as tail to the kite Of Mr.. Hunter. Wise
has had enough Of that and prefers the chances
of q fusion with Mr.. Douglas and the Northern
democracy
Another thing, which has been conclusive in
determining the present position of Mr.. Doug
las, has doubtless had very considerable infiu-
ence over the mind Of Governor Wise We
refer to the tremendous popularity of Fremont
in the Northern States in the campaign of
1856. There never vas anything like it be-
fore: never were the democracy so badly
and never did they SO narrowly
escape al absolute humiliation. In Illinois,
which had never before shaken in the faith, the
House chairman in Congress on the Kansas
Nebraska bill, Mr. Richardson, was defeated by
an overwhelming majority as the democratic
and Douglas candidate for Governor. Mr.. Blu
chanan, upon the same issue, would have shared
the same fate, but for the Intervention Of Mr..
Fillmore. The present policy, therefore, of Mr..
Douglas, although new departure for the sue
cession, has been exacted by the law Of self
preservation.
We apprehend, however, that if Mr.. Douglas
or Governor Wise expect from their present
course in relation to Kansas to restore the
Northern democracy to their ancient footing,
they are under very great delusion. We
think that the Northern democracy are now
past praying for, and that all these popular
sovereignty; efforts Of Douglas, Walker, Wise,
and others to help them, will only contribute to
swell the forces Of the republican camp. We
fear, too, that this letter Of Governor Wise will
be the signal for the breaking up Of the South
ern democracy, never again to be reunited.
Thus we see that the various movements Of tbs
Presidential aspirarts, sections and cliques of
the democratic party TO rule or ruin the cd
ministration are operating only to demoralize,
cut up and scatter the party to the four winds
Of heaven. The administration stands firmly to
its course. and will be more than a match
against all factous movements and tricks aud
coaspiroces to break it down.