The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-02-12
Startling Effects OF Cuba ON the Black Re
publican and American Parties-Ruin o.
Seward ms n Political Leader.


publican and American Parties-Ruin OF
Seward a Political Leader.
We devote a large portion of our space to-day
to the publication of the debate on the taking up
of Mr.. slidell's Cuba bill in the Senate, and the
proceedings of the mass meeting on Thursday
night at New Rochelle, in support of the policy
Of the President and of the acquisition of Cuba
This question is, beyond all dispute, the most
popular question of public policy that has been
presented to the people for long series of
years. From all sides and all parties the evil
dence of this fact comes in upon u.s. Yesterday
we gave the report of its enthusiastic reception
by the State Democratic Convention in Connec-
ticut, and the reports we publish to-day present
two remarkable points. Mr.. Hale, Senator from
New Hampshire, gave expression, during the
discussion in the Senate, to the following re-
markable acknowledgment have received
letters to-day from the State of New Hampshire.
from some of my political friends, in whose
judgment have great confidence, and whom |
always follow, let them lead where they will
and they tell me that the sentiment there is
that this question is demoralizing the republican
party in this country, and that they dare
not meet it." This is an official confrma.
ton Of what we have repeatedly stated as the
opinion of those leaders in the black republican
party who are in immediate contact with their
constituents, and we know that similar repre-.
sentations have gone up from all parts of the
country to the opposition leaders in Washington.
The other startling fact in the reports we pub.
lsh to-day is the flatfooted and unqualified posi-
ton taken in favor of the Cuba movement by
Mr.. E. W. Andrews, at the New Rochelle meet
ing. Mr. Andrews has been one of the great
lights of the American party organization ia
Westchester county, supplying it with no small
portion of its BRAINS and the greater part of its
faculty of speech. Last fall he ran as the
American candidate for Congress- in the triangu.
lar canvass with Mr.. Haskn and Mr. Kemble,
and his unqualified pronunciamiento for Cuba at
this early stage of the discussion will have an
important effect upon our State politics in the
canvass for the Legislature to be elected next
fall, and which has to name successor to VIM.
ii. Seward. A fusion between the democratic
and American organizations in New York on the
Cuba question will place either democrat or
Mr.. Fillmore, as a pro-C Cuba man. in the seat of
Mr.. Seward in 1861.
While the Cuba question is thus breaking up
all the old political organizations among the
masses, and preparing the germ of new party
that will sweep over the whole country, the re-
publican leaders in the Senate are counting DO
litical death. Their arguments against the Sill
dell proposition are confined to two points
which nullify each other. They insist, on one
hand, that the bill will take large sum of
money out Of the treasury, at time when we
should economist the public expenditure and
on the other hand they argue just as strenuously
that Spain will not sell Cuba at this time, and
that, therefore, there is no need Of appropriatng
the money. In this they follow the cue given
them by Seward in his speech against the bill
when 1t was first presented in the Senate. lie
foresees that the Cuba question will Gust him
from his Senatorial chair and in leading the re-
publcans into their present course he has deter