The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-07-24


parties that W. II. Seward, through the inss-
NOUS appliances Of his Albany caucus engineers,
against all the drawbacks of his unpopular |
nsme and principles, will be able to extort his
nomination from the Republican National Con- |
vtntion as the candidate # that party for the
next Presidency. It is believed that our up
preaching November State election will turn |
upon this issue, and that republican victory |
this fall will thus be held as equivalent to he
powerful voice of New York in favor of Seward |
for the White House. Indeed, as our last fall |
election was thus construed, and boldly pro-
claimed by come of our leading Seward organs |
we may safely predict that similar result this |
year will be pronounced by them as making |
assurance doubly sure"
Selling upon this idea, and fully aware of the |
real weakness of Seward among the conserva-
tive people of this commonwealth, some Of the
leaders of the democracy, we understand, have
recently preached q piaa of operations which,
in our November election, may turn the tables
upon the Seward engineers, and at single blow
give new shape to the whole Presidential con-
test. To this end we are informed that negotia
tons are on foot looking to a treaty of peace,
or an armistice till after our November election,
between the so-called hards aud softs; and to
this end, it appears, the fashionable world are
indebted for the recent visit of the long headed
Fernando Wood to Saratoga Springs.
On the third day of August the Democratic
| State Central Committee (soft-Dean Richmond
| cbairman) meet at Albany, to appoint the time
| and place for the usual State Convention of the
party. On the third day Of August also, as we
learn, Fernando Wood and the other members of
| the Aston House hard shell committee will meet
| in Albany, in view of some compromise with
| the State Committee which will secure a cordial
| reunion Of the party in November and the cleo.
ton of their State ticket. The compromise
| which will thus be advanced from the hards will
| doubtless be the postponement until after the
State election of the question of the Charleston
| delegation, and general rally Of both wings of
the party for the recovery of the State and upon
the broad and general issue of hostility to Sew
ard and his disunion and revolutionary abolition
! platform.
And why should there not be reunion of the
| democracy upon this basis? Let the State Com
mittee refuse it, and the election will again 60
! by default, and the moral power of New York at
| Charleston will be on par with that of Massa-
chusetts. Worse than this, let the State Commit
tee arbitrarily push their authority to the cleo
ton of the Charleston delegation in the lump by
the regular State Convention of this fall and the
result may be contesting delegation at Charles
| ton, which may reduce the vote of New York, as
in 184S, to cypher; but worst of all will be the
! moral advantages thus surrendered to the com.
| mon enemy.
| On the other hand, an armistice on the subject
of the Charleston delegates till after the State
! election, and then the election of those dele
gates by single districts will cover all the require
ments to hearty reunion upon the State ticket.
| With some such understanding the State may be
redeemed in November. Demoralized as was
the party last fall, Judge Parker gained largely
| upon the vote of Mr.. Buchanan, and the reason
was that Seward began to be visible in the fore
ground on the other side He now stands more
| distinctly in view as the embodiment and cham
pion of the republicans for the Presidency, and
thus the old line wings and Americans, and
original democrats who hesitated in 1853, will
be ready to join against Seward in 1859 in order
to shelye him in 1860. There were some very
significant accessions to Parker last year from
the Fillmore Americans, and there are sixty
thousand Of them still in reserve who cannot be
| dragooned or cajoled into the support of Seward,
but who may be induced to join the democracy
| to get him out of the way.
| But to secure the active assistance of these
allies, the democracy must first present united
front to the enemy. This they can do through
| the compromise We have indicated. The sharply
defined slavery issues which distracted and de-
feated the democracy last year have disappear
ed. The Kansas and Lecompton and anti-Le
compton troubles are among the dead issues of
the past; the rank and file of the party appre
ciate the necessity Of peace, and there is in
reality no serious impediment in the way of a
treaty.
Let haIds and softs, Tammany and anti-Tam.
many, appear as a united party in September,
and they may in November carry the election in
conducting the canvass against Seward and his
revolutionary doctrines Having thus recovered
the Empire State, the democracy representing it
may dictate the candidate at Charleston, or
secure the adjournment of the Convention to
later day for the purposes Of harmony in other
States. Upon this point we would again sug-
gest to the National Executive Committee the
expediency of transferring the nominating con-
vention from Charleston to New York, AID of
extending the interval from May to August or
September. But in the meantimeSas the ways
and means for the recovery of New York are
within reach of the Democratic State Central
Committee at Albany, the members of the party
Of all shades and stripes, will appreciate the mo-
mentous responsibilities which will attach to the
decision Of that committee in reference to the
State and Charleston Convention.