The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-21

| their rascality upon innocent parties
| But the Wise-Donnelly letter served the pur-
poses Of the Convention at Syracuse Fearful,
however, Of accidents, they take care to pro-
yiue against them, and Tammany Hall is called
| into service. Tammany, hand in glove with the
Regency, responds, by the appointment of an
assistant delegation of pugilsts, headed by the
| "Benicia Boy" to aid, if necessary, in deciding
| any difficult point Of order with the hardshells
But tie Regency are caught mapping; for the
other side, by their superior vigilance secure
| the organization of the Convention when the
! disturbance is raised by Peter Cagger in putting
a second chairman on the stand. All this was
mean enough; but the meanest feature of the
Regency doings at Syracuse was the brazen at
tempt, through lying reports, scattered broad
| cast over the land by telegraph to fastcn upon
the opposing or hardshell faction the RESPONSE
bility of the hiring and transportation of these
pugilists DULLES and ruffians to the Convention
| All this catalogue of transactions, involv-
ing falsehood, double dealing, hypocrisy,
| treachery, rufianism and brazen impudence
on the part Of the Albany Regency, is but the
| reckless spoilsmen known as National Conven-
| tons. And we shall see at Charleston that
| like causes, on larger scale, produce like re-
| suits in magnificent form. There will be
| concentrated in that Convention all the corrupt
| caucus appliances and cliques of the whole
Union. Wise and Douglas will also be there,
each with his ultimatum Of rule or ruin. The
results will in all probability be- as we have in
dictated, the separation of the democracy at
Charleston upon two or three sectional tickets,
which, in addition to two tickets from the oppo-
sition forces, will give us a beautiful scrub
race, somewhat like that Of 1924, and an cleo
ton by the House of Representatives.
We contemplate the prospects for this pro-
| gramme with decided satisfaction. We hope
that this rotten and corrupting convention sys-
tenn of President making will be brought to an
end at Charleston and we are strong in the
belief that it will be- All the party movements
of the day-all the circumstances and signs of
the times point in this direction. We are glad
of it, because we recognise in the House Of
Representative responsible authorized and
infinitely more reliable body of President
makers than in any of these juggling conven
tons Of irresponsible loafers, vagabond politi-
clans and reckless political gamesters. The
late doings at Syracuse were milk and water
compared with the revolutionary uproar we
| shall have at Charleston
Louis Napoleon and the Attacks OF Foo
| reign JOurn als-Efects celebrating the
| French Press.
| When the English and German papers began
some time since their systematic attack on the
| motives and ~isns OF Louis Napoleon, they no
| doubt supposed that they could in great
measure, if not to an equal degree, create the
same blind feeling of hatred to him which the
same course had given rise to towards the First
Napoleon and that not only out of France but
even within the empire, they could stimulate the
growth of distrust in, and opposition to, the
imperial policy.
The result has been quite opposite to their
expectations. Far from finding himself the
object of increasing distrust on the part of the
French people, Louis Napoleon feels to-day
more confident than ever of his strong position
in their hearts This he has shown in declar-
ing at the same moment general amnesty for
political exiles and detenus and lifting the pro-
hbitlons from the French press. Journalism
to-day is as free in France, under the i'm
perial regime as it ever was in the
days of the citizen king, Louis Philippe.
Some of the journals, doubtless, use their new
freedom timidly and with hesitancy, but others
have already launched into the wide field of
liberty with boldness and decision. In thus
| lifting the chains that have hitherto bound the
intellect of the empire, Louis Napoleon has
proved the fallacy of a saying that was
frequent and popular in the mouths of French
thinkers and writers, that France has mill
tary scab upon her which she must slough
before she will be we'll"
In restoring freedom to the French intellect
Louis Napoleon has taken step that will
strengthen greatly the foundations Of his house.
In the Crmean war, the diplomatic contests
that followed it, the recent war in Italy, the
sudden peace Of Villafranca and the material
| prosperity that has attended France under his
rule he doubtless feels, and with reason, that
he has created antecedents enough to answer
the accusations Of his enemies and to found
promise for the future. The throwing open of
the press of France to the free publication Of
the assertions of his adversaries, not only
makes stronger the arguments of those who
defend him, by proving that they are
voluntary and heartfelt but it turns
the attacks into attacks against the glory
and prosperity of France, instead of
against himself personally. Thus the recent
publication of the letters of the Duke of Tus-
cany, in which he is spoken of as "brigand"
and Monsieur Bonaparte," have recoied with
terrible effect upon their author and the dynas
ty to which he belonged.
30 1t is with the bitter aspersons of the Eng
| llsh and German press and the attacks Of Lord