The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-15
The Charleston OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES OF
the New York Democracy.

The Charlest0n COnvcntiOn-M0vement OF
the New York Democracy.
The secret intrigues, plots and counterplots Of
the caucus and convention managers of all par.
ties, factions and clques, for the next Presiden-
cy, have actively commenced in various quar-
tiers; but, as usual, the New York democracy,
ha1ds and softs, are foremost in getting up a
row. We have already apprised our readers of
the movement undertaken by the softs to COM
pass the election of the whole New York delega-
ton to Charleston; and of the counter movement
of the hards, who, thoroughly alive to their dan.
ger, have set themselves earnestly to work
to escape being swallowed up alive by the
soft faction, after the fashion in which brood
of helpless rabbits are swallowed up by hungry
boa constructor.
1t has leaked out that the softs, who control
the Central State Committee, and the Central
Railroad and lobby interests of the democracy at
Albany, have taken it into their wise heads to
monopoise the delegates of this State at Charles
ton, through the annual party State Convention
next fall. We presume that they contemplate
the election by said Convention of the delegates
to Charleston in the lump, and certainly more
summary or decisive process with the hards
could not very well be devised. We know,
from the last September Democratic Conven-
ton at Syracuse, that in the next the softs
will bold decided majority, and that
where they have purpose to serve they will not
stick upon trifes in their treatment Of the minor
ty. Hence the we'll grounded alarm of the hards
concerning this soft movement for the monopoly
of the honors of the Charleston Convention.
Prominent among the managers concerned in
this movement of the softs are Dean Richmond,
Comstock, Cagger & Co., OF Albany, and, no
doubt, Postmaster Fowler and his Tammany
Hall clique, although this last named set are in
this matter still invisible to the naked eye. But
why this extraordinary interest in regard to
Charleston 90 very early in the morning? The
softs have brilliant idea that if they work
their wires judiciously, they may secure the
Charleston nomination, and Horatio Seymour is
their man. Our readers will remember that at
Baltimore, in 1852, Douglas, Cass, Marcy, Bucha-
nan, Dickinson, &c, were successfully tried and
dropped, and that then, by way of compromise
all round, poor Pierce was slipped in and nomi-
dreaming of some such game at Charleston; and
if they can only secure the whole New York
delegation, they may be able, perhaps, in playing
fast and loose, upon Tom, Dick and Harry, to
succeed in bringing round the nomination of Ho-
ratio Who knows?
The first grand point in this important game
is the Charleston delegation. The hards. under.
standing all this and still smarting from their
rough and shabby treatment at Syracuse
last September, have promptly called and
held secret State Convention of their
own at the Astor House including upwards of a
hundred delegates, gathered together from every
quarter of the State. John Cramer. of Sara.
toga, the presiding gerius of the occasion:
David L. Seymour, Edwin Croswel, Fernando
Wood, Augustus Schell, Gideon J. Tucker. and
host of Others conspicuous among the leaders
Of this wing of the party, were present.
The result of their deliberations was the ap
pointment Of a committee to wait upon the
softs Gncluding the State Central Committee a.
Albany with these points of peace protocol.
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