The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-12

held tomorrow at the Volks Garden, in the
Bowery, will be worthy Of the cause of civil
and religious liberty involved in the question,
and that the modern Pharisees will receive
such rcbuke as their spiritual pride and inso-
lent dictation merit at the hands of all liberal
minded citizens who understand and appreci-
ate the genius Of our free institutions.
The Presidential Movements or the Day
strong symptoms Of a Scrub Race.
The flaming letter which we publish in these
columns from Gen. Ogilvie Byron Young, of
Missouri, to Hon. Stephen A. Douglas of Hi
nois, may be regarded AZ one Of those terrible
mefeors which are sent streaming athwart the
midnight sky to warn us of some approaching
physical or political CONFUSION. And the late
and present movements of Mr.. Douglas, as
Presidential aspirant, Justify the conclusion
that he has deliberately made up his mind, in
the event of his rejection by the Charleston
Convention, to follow the advice of General
Ogilvie Byron Young, "never to bow to the
magnificent humbug, or acknowledge the au-
thority of any such tribunal to dsappoinf' his
destiny.
There can be no other rational construction
Of the present position of Mr. Douglas and the
extensive system Of electioneering appliances
which he has put into operation. Either he or
his platform must be adopted at Charleston, or
he will take the field as an independent candi-
date. We may, therefore, consider him now
as acting in anticipation of the action of the
Convention for it must be Us manifest to him
as to every other intelligent man, that neither
Mr.. Douglas nor his hobby can be adopted by
the Convention. He is thus substantially al
ready in the field for the Presidency as an in
dependent democratic candidate, as much so
as Fernando Wood is an independent demo-
cratic candidate for Mayor of New York
against the anticipated adverse action of Tam
many Hall.
We have thus one inevitable democratic
stump candidate for 1860; and Governor Wise,
Of Virginia, may probably be another. He has
made his Southern pro-slavery dogma as en-
PRACTICALLY sine qua non with the Charleston
Convention as Douglas has made his Northern
anti-slavery humbug. But as the premedtated
Independent movement Of Mr.. Douglas will be
quite sufficient to demoish the Charleston
ticket it is hardly necessary to enter at present
into any conjectures in reference to Governor
Wise. Assuming that in 1860 Mr.. Douglas and
his devoted Northern partisans will e-enact
the Van Buren, rebellion of 1913, we may rest
our democratic calculations upon the conclu-
sion that the result will be the same-the de-
feat of the party.
The result however, may be widely different
in regard to the opposition. General Taylor
was elected in lS48 by cordial fusion of the
opposition, North and South, excepting the ex-
IRENE Northern anti-slavery elements, which
were carried off by Van Buren,. But in 1852
this powerful national opposition party which
elected Taylor was destroyed from its affia-
tons with the anti-slavery heresies of w.
II. Seward. In 1854 on the other hand,
the Northern democracy were broken to pieces
from the disastrous pro-slavery Presidential
movement Of Pierce and Douglas with that
Kansas-Nebraska bill. And thus, while the
remains of the old whig party South have been
reduced to the doubtful occupation of one OF
two States, we find in the North great over
shadowing anti-slavery party built up from
the broken fragments of the old wbig and de-
mocratic organizations.
But in this zone idea" of hostility to the
'slave power" we have the secret of the
weakness Of the republican party as a national
organization. 1t is sectional party, but so
widely separated from the opposition elements
of the South that it will be compelled to cut
them off in 1860. Our late Republican State
Convention at Syracuse, in its resolutions, has
given us u foretaste of the general drift of the
utility to the opposition South; and thus we
may surely count upon at least two opposition
tickets for the next Presidency.
From these divisions of sections and parties,
democratic and questionable Douglas move
ment in the North, and the conservative oppo-
sition ticket in the South, and in New Jersey
and Pennsylvania-we should say that the cleo
ton must inevitably be thrown into the House
of Representatives. And what, then? Why
then, as neither the anti-slavery republicans
nor the pro-slavery democracy will be
able to command a majority of the States
in the House, there will have to be
compromise upon the third candidate
for President or the election will fail in the
House, in which event the republicans will
have to accept as President the candidate
elected as Vice President by the Senate, who
will unquestionably be the regular democratic
nominee.
In anticipation Of this state of things, let the
conservative opposition men Of the North and
South prepare to take up General Houston as
their candidate, and they can certainly carry
him into the House and elect hin, there if they
do not secure his election directly from the
people. The grand immediate, but still grand
or prospective results of such a triumph to
the party indicated and to the country, are
surely worth an effort To win this nrize The