The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-04
The Presidential Ques<ioa-New York and
Her Candidates.


The Presidential Qucs<ioa-New York and
Her Candidates.
The organ Of the soft shell regency at Albany
pleads that, as the New York democracy will have
no candidate for the honors of the Charleston Con-
vention. the poor hard shells are very foolishly
agiisted concerning the mode, time and place
of eiectiug the delegation of this State to the
said Convention. And so, to the modest appli-
cation of the hards for information on the sub
iect, Mr.. Dean Richmond, chief of the authori-
,ative State Central Committee, blandly sug-
gests the policy Of patience and resignation;
ger, 'the man who carries the stater-softly an
swers "Amen!' But the "no candidate" Plea of
pious Peter is transparent dodge, Horatio Sey-
mour's name being upon the slate of Peter as
the special Presidential favorite Of the softs
against Daniel S. Dickinson, the venerable
champion Of the hards.
The real object then, Of the softs, in resolv-
ing upon a solid, unmixed delegation to Charles
ton, is to leave Dickinson out in the cold with
out a representative from his own State
in the Convention. Good policy this, perhaps;
because, in 1852, with only about one-third of
the New York delegation to back him, Mr.
Dickinson, from his ''soundness on the goose
question:" or, in other words, his good national
record on the subject of slavery, would have had
the democratic nomination. had he not positively
refused to accept it, His nomination had been
agreed upon, and Virginia had led off with a
upanimity which clearly foreshadowed the re-
suit, when the distinguished New Yorker arose
and emphatically declined in favor of Gen. Cas-
This act of selfsacrifcing magnanimity brought
down upon the head of Mr.. Dickinson perfect
| avalanche of flowers from the beautiful women
Of Baltimore, who thronged the gallery on that
side, and such democratic hurrahs as bad been
never heard before, except in some triumphal re-
ception Of Old Hickory during his tremendous
struggles against that hydra-headed monster of
Biddle and bis bank.
Possibly the soft regency of Albany have their
fears of some such scene at Charleston, should
Mr.. Dickinson be allowed to put his nose
in there, even by proxy, from the Empire
State. But we apprehend that Mr. Dickinson
belongs to the past, and that be will never again
be offered the alternative of accepting or de-
clining the Presidency. Horatio Seymour is a
much younger man, and will not be fossilized,
perhaps, for ten years to come. Genial and fas
cinatiDg, modest and generous in his manners,
he quietly wins his way as politician, and can
wind about his finger, somewhat after the fashion
Of Thurlow Weed, the more noisy and rampant
managers Of his party. But we fear that Mr..
Seymour will never touch bottom at Charleston:
first, from being the candidate only of local
clique; and second in being the stalking horse
Of the Little Giant"
How many other New York candidates and
availables there are for the Charleston nomina-
ton we know not Gen. Wool, whose domicil
is at Troy, is certainly an available national
man. Prince John Van Buren, might have be-
come SO by this time, had he possessed little
more Of that non-committal democratic wisdom
which was the making of his father. AS it is,
John has said too many of his good things about
niggers, every way, to stand we'll among the
Southern ire-eaters; and it may take him four.
yea, perhaps, eight years to come before he can
spread himself beyond the shadow Of poor old
Tammany Hall. We have heard it said that
Fernando Wood has had vision or so of the
cast-of shoes of Buchanan or Breckinridge:
but while there are men who believe the White
House none too good for the ex-Mayor, there
are Others, venomous chaps, who would prefer to
see him marched Off with "Old Buck" to the
State Prison. Probably with the settlement of
tho J1rnai1 balances odudooJ H. L.
police force, Mr.. Wood will loom up in the Presi-
dental horizon; but in the meantime his friends
must be content with his efforts as a champion
Of the peoples rights (hard shelly.
The republican party, now in occupation of
the Empire State, have but one candidate for
ls6o-W. II. Seward. They don't keep their
man back in the bush dixie the soft shell Albany
clique. They wish all the world to know that
Seward is their man. But while they are max
ing no parade of him, they are laying their pipe
in every direction to an extent which would as
tonish the Croton Board. Seward is the Magnus
Apollo of our New York republicans, and they
have no more a second choice fixed upon than
bad the old wing party in lis prime of second
choice in the event Of the dropping Of Henry
Clay But while Seward is thus all powerful
among our New York republicans, there are over
E hundred thousand old line wings and Americans
in the State who hate him as cordially a. Lola
Montez hated the Jesuits of Bavaria Among
these anti-Seward elements Willard Fillmore is
still considered prophet in Israel and all the |
more available for 1860 in having ceased to be
wandering whower among the old ruins of Italy. |
MI Fillmore is also surrounded by his marshals,
Consisting OF the Rev. Joel Napoleon Headley,
zen. 0ustavus Adolphus scroggs, the Hon.
boooy (Erastus) Brooks, and Others, any one Of |
whom Will do for third party candidate for
Vice President upon pinch
Lastly, we are reminded of another Nev yor,
candidate George Law, our famous Give oaL
George" who went up like rocket in 1856 and
came down like the stick in 1856. bef,ro