The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-20

of the great State rights party in 1902 What
can they do, or what is it they expect to do, in
opposition to the administrati n? Most assuredIy
they can do nothing.
II strikes US that Mr. Douglas, in giving the
cold shoulder to Forney, and in the disposition
which he has manifested Of making his peace with
the administration, has shown himself possessed
of much sagacity and common sense. We un.
dertake to say positively thai there has been no
meeting between Mr. Douglas and Mr.. Buchanan
involving ga full explanation of their political
differences" and that there has not been any
coalition" between them Of any sort. The ad-
ministration will pursue its own course, and
leave Mr.. Douglas free to do the same thing; but
If he should continue to manifest. as he did
during the late session Of Congress, bona fde his
purpose to support the administration, surely it
will be no part of the policy of Mr.. Buchanan to
cut him Off The implacable wrath of the Cheva-
lier Forney against the administration and the
Charleston Convention and the violent and pro-
scriptive programme laid down for the Southern
democracy by the Charleston Mercury, are each
the policy of defeat and ruin to the democratic
party. Its only course Of safety lies through a
common adhesion Of all the odds and ends of
the party upon the general platform of the ad-
ministration.
Mr. Douglas appears to be fully aware of this,
as has been illustrated through his public con.
duct since December last. He knows that even
If united, the democracy will have an awfully
rough road before them in 1860, but that, unless
united, they are doomed to decisive and crush.
ing defeat-a defeat which will be the end of
the party, as the defeat of 1852 was the end of
the old whig party. Mr.. Douglas would in.
deed, be simpleton if he did not know this; but
he also knows, and appears fully to recognise,
the fact that the party must stand by tie ad-
ministration as the first essential to harmony
and reunion.
We are not surprised, therefore, 70 learn that
Mr.. Douglas has turned an incredulous ear upon
the desperate Van Buren, experiment of rebellion
recommended by Forney. On the other hand,
we are not surprised at the course of Forney,
nor are we astonished to hear an evidently au-
thoritative correspondent of the Charleston
Mercury say, that "before Mr., Buchanans ad-
ministration closes I expect to see the State
rights party, and nearly the whole Southern
press, opposed to it," The Mercury is the organ
Of those ultra fire-eaters whose policy is disor-
ganzation and dissolution, first Of the democratic
party, and second of the Union ITSELF Reduce
the democracy to rigid, exclusive AMI intense
ly pro-slavery Southern platform, and there
may be a collision between the two sections
which will throw wide open the door to South
ern confederacy, and to the scheming disor-
ganizers concerned all the government spoils
OF new establishment. But here the admins
tration of Mr.. Buchanan stands in the way, and
so it must be set aside.
We predict, however, that the Southern in
tractables, like poor Forney, will fail; that the
administration will continue to prove, as it has
proved more than match for all the disap-
pointed and revengefal oAdoe-s0okars of the
North, and all the oiuvr sanizing, re-eating dema-
gogues of the South; and that, if the Charleston
Convention be not dissolved in row, it will
rally the party together under the shelter of the
administration. The events Of the next twelve
months at Washington will, we dare say, prove,
at all events, the sagacity of Mr.. Douglas in the
support which he has lately given to the admin
stration and the folly of Fe.uvy aud OF all other
rvrvls conspirators, whose first object is some
contemplate purpose of revenge against Mr.
Buchanan, reckless of the consequences to the
country.
The JUNE REGATTA OF THE YACHT CLUB.-We
see it stated, unoiicially, that the June regatta
Of the New York Yacht Club will be sailed over
the usual course, from the Elysian Fields, Ho.
boken, to the Southwest Spit. 1t is further stated
that the opinion Of the majority of the gentlemen
of the club is in favor Of sea race but that two
circumstances have prevented the alteration of
the course. One is, that the laws of the club fix
the course. Now the laws Of the club are not
probably so immutable as those of the Medes