New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-06-15
the New-York Democracy as Jackson wss BY
those Of the Presbyteri Church. Our feeling is
rather akin to that Of the spectator of fight, many
wears ago. between two Boeion sectors:

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rather akin to that Of the spectator of fight many
| years ago. between two Boetcn sectors:
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The Democratic press of the interior is much
| exercised shS ut the recent Hard meeting at the
| Astor All the journals We bsye looked over pro-
test That they have no desire to open sfresh the
wound. Of the party. All counsel to harmony and
| concllistion in led phrase All loog for Demo
critic supremacy in the State the coming Fall.
! All desire q representation at Charleston next
Spring. that shsll reflect every phase of Democratic
sentiment which the psrty affords. True. there
few trivial matters still IN dispute. such as,
| whether the Actor conclaye convened contrary 10
| the advice Of Mr Dlckipson or whether be was is
moving chufe-whetber the party in this State has
has not Presidential Candidate to present az the
| Charleston OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES the best mode of
! giving all sections and shells fair show in that
body, is TO pack the delegation st Syracuse next
Fall or leave the selection TO the several Districts
whether the State Central Committe has any,
ard how much. authority in the p-emises-@hcther
| the Softs, having slways heretofore wheedled the
| Hsrds by specious promises, and then repudiated
| them, can how be trusted on etc eotyped pledges
| to regulate this matter-whcher il is best to con-
fine the present struggle SIMPLY to crushing the
Presidential aspirations Of Mr. Dickinson, or, at
| the came time. TO give Gov. Seymou triumph
over him by selecting delegation secretly in his
| favor To be used as circumstances shall dictate
| &c, &c.
We confess that the Zeal with which some Of our
Democratic contemporaries discuss these aud the like
questions betrays slight unge Of bitterness For
example: One influential journal calls the Astor
| Hsrds "a body acting for the selfish disorganlzer
"wbo initiated the demonstration, aud intending
"nothipg but mischief" Another, per contra, eu-
lOgizes them AS the Old Guard of the Democracy,
"Vho have been true to its principles and its can
| "dida.es when Others have abandoned the former
and turned traitors to the latter" One irrever-
ent editor pronounces such veteran Astor House
| leaders as CrosweIl. Wood Cramer and Mitchell
politically defunct;" and such i've managers as
Russell, Jsycox, Parker and Sutherland skee-
"tons" while the tireless Birdsall, TO whose acty-
ity the party is indebted for the Astor meeting is
sneeriDgy called "a political paraly tic" One
Westen journal asserts that it WAS Dir. Croswell,
acting for the steamship interest" that convoked
the meeting while its ghbor declares that il
got up by the enemies of Mr. Dickinson - to ruin
his Presidential prospects BY thrusting hin for
award as disorganizer." Still another organ az
firms that "the only reason why certain men in
sist upon the election Of delegates by the next
State Convention H. that they may pack the dele
| CATION against the National Democracy, as they
did the last State ticket" One creduous writer
is sure that "such Democrats az Dickinson, Rich
''mond, Beardsley and the Seymours have com
"mOn purpose in politics, and, while there is no
difference of principle between them, they will
not disagree on mere question OF form An
other writer after discoursng fervently in favor of
union and harmony in paragraph, in the next
depounces the whole Hard section as a contempt
ble Dickinson clique" band of 'politIcal con-
"spiratOrs," "hopelessly inscyent,' &c. To
which comes the response from the other side that
- the party has been run long enough by man.
ager of the Central Railroad Mr.. Richmond We
''presume, ard No. 81 State street''-(Mr. Gag
ger, we doubt mott To cap the climax, one jour
nalist waxing warm, eulogizes Governor Dckin-
son as "the eminent statesman of the Susquehan-
"pa;" while another, waxing warmer, stigma'izes
bin as " the old humbua of BinehsmtoD!'
Such are the latest quotations which have fallen
under our eve, Of ''union and harmony" III the
Democratic market Ia respect to the immedi-
ate cause of quarrel (the mode OF choosing dele
gates TO Chareston), though some thirty Journals
favor the District method the prep0nderance OF
Influence among Democratic presses Is doubt
less on the other side Ali the leading Softs,
like Richmond, Cagger, Seymour, Cassidy and
Church. are of course bent upon an election BY
the State Convention, because it il keeps power III
their hands. All who envy or hate Dickit son pre-
fer it, because they can thus not only blight his
Presidential prospects, but cripple his influence
with the next National Administration, should it
happen to be Democratic, thereby securing ths
Federal spoiIs to the Softs for the coming four
years, as has been done for the past eight
While, therefore, there can be no doubt of the
election Of the delegates to Charleston by the State
Convention it is important that the Softs, in tread
ing the Hards under foot, should step rs stealthiy
~ is consistent with al efectual crushing Of their
rivals With this in view, The atlas and Argus
giving the key mote to the Soft organs of the rural
districts, proposes by way of compromise that
the delegation be chosen by the State Convention
but that il be- composed Of able and representa-
tive men, fairly rejecting all shades of opinion
in the party" The central organ having in such
bland tones Disposed of the question as to the moie
of choosing delegates, whistles Gov. Dickinson
down the wind in the following dulcet but most
effective strain: 1--WE have not been disposed 10
:. hsco.ua or to sop others become the psrtsans