New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-10-03
NETWORK AT CHARLESTON.

We perceive that several Democratic journals 10
other States are specializing upon the probable at
fnities of the delegation to Charleston recently
elected at Syracuse, and seem anxious to know fOl
whom they will cast their votes in the Convention
This anxiety is natural; for though the Democratic
party of New-York has sadly deterorated 10 char
acter within few years. its numerical strength IN
National Conventions is undated. And II 1t shall
succeed in electDs portion of its ticket this Fall,
its advice at Charleston may be needed, while IN
AIRY event its seventy votes will be prize worth
contendiDg for.
We shall now speak solely of the delegates al.
resdy appointed leaving out of view all considers
lion Of probable consequences or notifications
which may spring from the appointment of seventy
additional delegates by Congressional Dlstfict',
under the Wood Avord organization. That these
dele gates will be chosen there 10 not shadow Of
doubt That they will attend upon the Convention,
and demsnd admission, is unquestonable. That
this may lead TO complications not now anticipated
by the victorious Regency is highly probsOle. But,
for the present, We cobfne ourselves to the SYRIA
cuse delegation.
What, then, are the presidential proclivties of
these seventy delegates In our judgment they do
not know themselves. The best informed even
among them can only approximate to an opinion on
this point by an analysis Of the elements Of which
the delegation is composed. As near as can be
ascertained, without putting some oftne gentlemen
under OATH it may be stated that forty eight OF the
delegates are Sof,s," and twenty two are
"Hards" OF the Softs thirty were originally
Baruburners, and eighteen Hunkers or the
forty eight Softs at least forty will act together,
as one man, in every important exIgency that msy
ari,e in the Convention. They are Of the Regency
type of politicians; shrewd aud cautious always;
conciliatory and winning, If that will serve their
purpose, but remorseless and INSCRIPTIONS when
the crisis can be mastered by no other means. Or
this type of Softs Messrs. Richmond, Fowler, Gag
Ger, and Church, from the Barnbarner faction and
Messs Corning Stry ker, North, and Ogden, from
the Hunker, are representative men in the deleg,-
ton.
OF course these forty eight Softs will under the
"unit" resolution OF Mr.. Champhn, control the
delegation. They would do it in the Absence of
such . resolution, and even were the COnye eaton
to fail to adopt the usual rule, authorizing the dele
CATION of each State to cast its vote in such mode
as the m,jorty shall direct. They love power.
They know bow to WELD it. They took msjority
of the delegation into their hands, despite the Abs,
nv compact with Mr. Dickinson, because they
intended TO control it irrespective OF bis wishes.
The men who did not stand upon ceremony at
Syracuse while obtaining power, Will not stick at
tribes while using it at Charleston.
In arriving at an opinion a. 10 what the majority
of the delegation will do in regard to candidates,
we must remember that its numerical strength and
its controlling spirits come from the Barnburner
wing of the Softs. True there are among these
forty-eight gentlemen some sdroit managers who
were formerly HuDkers; such az Mesrs. Sty ker,
Coming Stetson, Ogden, North and West Indeed,
Mr. John STRIKER is one Of the ablest and most
.kilful politicians in the State; and it will not be
forgotten that he is the confds ntial friend and
adviser of Horstio Seymour. But, the leaders or
rather we should say the die .ators of this majority
were the master builders of the Buffalo platform
Ten or . dozen of them WILL in al the arts And
intrisues By which Democratic Conventions are
controlled, prove 8 match for any equal number Of
persons that can be picked ont Of the coDclsve Of
political plotters that viii assemble at Charleston
Richmond, vice-President Of the Central Railroad,
Postmaster Fowler, eI-Spesker Ludlow, Cochrane,
tx .Suryeyor Of the Port aud member Of Congress,