The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-12
The Conspirncy Sninst vyisc-Thc Demo-
cratic Convention OF New York

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cratic Convention OF New York.
The Democratic Convention of this State,
, TO nominate candidates for the ensuing fall
election. VIII take place on Wednesday next.
the l4th inst. The eyes Of the South are turned
towards it, and the eyes of the whole country,
to see whether the vile conspiracy concocted
by the Albany Regency against distinguished
democrat of Virginia, to cheat him out Of the
nomination for the Presidency at Charleston,
will be endorsed by the representatives of
the New York democracy at Syracuse AS
the day approaches for holding that Con-
vention, therefore. it assumes greater and
greater Importance. The Convention, indie
pendent of that aspect of it, is highly i'm
portant, for on the manner in which its
proceedings are conducted the success or
failure Of the fall elections in great measure
| depends, and on those elections hangs the Pre-
sidential election to far greater extent than is
realized at present But what gives its pecu-
lar and special importance to this Convention
! is the pendency Of the question, whether the
representatives Of the New York democracy at
Syracuse assembled will uphold or repudiate
| the trcachery Of the organ of the Albany Re-
| gcncy against the Governor of sovereign
| State. 10 onst him from his fair and legitimate
| chances Of the nomination, and whether poll
| ricians in this State will take advantage Of it
| TO further their own designs on the succession,
| and thus disgrace the Empire State in the eyes
| of the South, and cause its Acknowledgement at
| The National Convention.
| Whether by fair means or foul the Conf
| dence man Of the Albany Regency obtained
possession Of a private letter Of Henry A. Wise.
whether of malice prepense he was entrappel
into writing the letter, and whether Bernard
Donnelly was tool in the hands Of the Re-
gency. or whether of his own mere motion he
wrote the letter to which Mr.. Wise's communi-
cation was reply, we will not undertake to
determine. But however this may be, the let
ter was written in unsuspecting confidence to
Donneliy, and was handed by him in the same
confidence (as Tar as we know to the editor Of
the Ahas-Arglts, on the express condition that
t it was not to be made public or used dishonor-
a ably In fact, the Confidence man of the
4 Regency persuaded Donnelly that he was
fast friend of WISE and thus obtained posses
sion of his letter No sooner did the Regency
get hold of the prize than they issued copies of
(which they circulated around but took good
care to suppress the letter of Donnelly which
called it forth. They put these copies in such
train that they knew they would find their way
into the New York papers. Use has been made
of this violation of private confidence, and this
trampling under foot of every principle of
honor, to damage Wise in this State and to
build up the interests Of his rivals. Will these
men consent to reap the profits Of the dishonor-
able act and thus identify themselves with the
foul conspiracy
Horatio Seymour, candidate for the Presi-
dency; Daniel S. Dickinson, candidate for
the Presidency; Dean Richmond and Erastus
Corning, have all subscribed their money to
the Atlas-Argus concern, and are its real own
ers. By the act of its editor. and by the course
of the paper, these gentlemen are compro-
missed. They are men of station and charac-
ter, and their names give Fictitious importance
to the AtlGs-Avyus which otherwise il would
not possess. BY their silence or acquiesceuce
they endorse the base treachery of their miser-
able agent; still more do they identify them
selves with it if they will consent to reap the
fruits OF the rascality at which they connive.
The object of the Regency in this conspira
cy was to create prejudice against WISE and
under its influence to pack the Syracuse Con-
vention, and thence to pack the delegation
to the Charleston Convention-to prevent
the selection Of delegates by districts
so as to prevent the people having
any voice in the matter, to hurry up The APP
pointment of delegates at once, without giving
the democracy any time for deliberaton or ac-
ton, and thus to secure their own creatures to
do their dirty work at Charleston. Such is the
infamous plot that has been Matched at the
At'as-Argus Office.
Now, we ask. will Daniel S. Dickinson suffer
himself to be identified with it! Will he dis
avow the ARas-Argus and its editor. or will he
silently profit by the treachery practised against
distinguished democrat of a Southern State
in0Lder to get him out of his way? Will lIo-
| ratio Seymour, who is so anxious for the nomi-
nation for the Presidency or the Vice-Presi-
dency, render himself obnoxious to the South
by lying under the imputation of being mixed
| up with the Confidence man or his organ in
this shameless trick? Will the other two gen.
tlemen, who have something to lose, lend their
names and influence to the contamination of a
policy proceeding from so base an origin?
+ VIII the Convention at Syracuse suffer itself to
a be identified with the conspiracy by adopting
: the policy which it was concocted to promote?
g A few days will tell whether the democracy Of
New York will follow the leading of an Albany
mooncalf, or what is called in Cassidy's verna-
: cuiar an omadhaun, to the imminent risk Of
having the delegation from the Empire State
q ANONYMOUSLY turned out of the Charleston
a | Convention and to the almost inevitable GER