The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-12

party precludes The POSSIBLE ~ = fusion with
the opposition elements Of the outh; but that
it will embrace some plausible concessions to the
floating Americans and "old line whigso of the
North is apparent from certain recent events
We refer to the defeat Of the socalled Personal
Liberty bill in the Massachusetts, Legislature,
the shelving of q similar bill at Albany, aud
the objections of the New York Tribune to the
extreme abolition doctrines of the Rev. Dr.
Cheever. These corresponding movements on
the slavery issue indicate the reputation of the
Rochester manifesto by the republican party,
and probably the dropping of Seward himself,
unless be ween him and Gen. Cameron the terms
of a treaty of peace may have been agreed upon
calculated TO combine the republicans of New
York and the heterogeneous opposition elements
of Pennsylvania.
| In any event, the Northern elections of last
autumn and Of this spring, in connection with
the distractions and divisions of the democratic
party, have placed the next Presidential election
so temptingly within the reach of the republican
party, that if the "old line wings" and conserva-
tive Americans of the country desire to hold the
balance Of power of 1860, they must lose no fur
Their time. If they delay much longer any
general movement for national or
ganization, the present loose materials
of the country may be absorbed between the two
great sectional parties of the day. In this view
1t Is all important that the new opposition move
ment of the South shall be felt in the approaching
Virginia election. Let the opposition in this
election win the day, or exhibit anything like
substantial gain upon the old wing vote of 1910
and "A, and we shall have at once the nucleus
for third Presidential party strong enough to
command the final issue of the contest On the
other hand, il the results of this Virginia elcc.
ton shall disclose the fact that in the South the
opposition to the Southern sectional democracy
is as iupotent as the democratic party of the
North, then we may as well prepare for the con-
tingencies Of terrible collision in 1860 between
the North and the South upon the slavery que:-
ton.
The administration of Mr.. Buchanan has Of
fered to the democratic party the means and the
basis for powerful reunion and consolidation;
but the sectional and actious leaders ofthe party
North and South, have not only refused to sup
The party is thus reduced to the occupation of
the south side of the slavery line, and presents
but q feeble resistance to the overwhelming
power of the North. Thus it is that nothing can
save the country from the most fearful sectional
contest in 1860, except the Intervention of third
party, equally opposed to Northern anti,slavery
disunionists and Southern pro slavery secession
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Virginia election. Upon the defeat of the demo-
cracy there in 1859 may depend the defeat of the
black republicans in 1860.
The News from NIexico-Our spanssh-Am
can Relations Assuming Better Footing.
By the arrival of the steamship Tennessee at
New Orleans, we have full confirmation of the
failure of the Miramon expedition against Vera
Cruz, and of his retreat to Orizaba. We also
learn that the attack of Degollado on the city Of
Mexico had failed; but the most important point
| Of the news is the announcement that our Minis
ter to Mexico had recognized the government Of
| President Juarez.
| In taking this step, Mr.. McLane has adopted
wise course. OF the two governments now
striving to establish their rule in Mexico that of
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any sympathies towards us or towards our insti-
tutions; and, besides that, it is the only govern
ment in Mexico that has any real welding with
the popular tendencies of that country, and
which seeks to administer power in accordance
with the spirit of the age 1t counts in its ranks
all the popular leaders, as Lerdo, Zamora, La
Lave, Vidaurri, Alvarez, Degollado, and many
others, and has presented during the existing
struggle the most palpable evidences of possess
ing hold on the hearts of the people Aided
by foreign countenance and the remnant of the
old army organization, the church partsans
have been able to take city after city; but
they have always been too weak to divide their
forces and hold their conquests and thus, as
they were called from point to point to Dust the
constitutionalists the people have readily re-
turned to their allegiance to President Juarez
as soon as the church troops were withdrawn.
On the other hand the Miramon government
counts in its ranks all the reactonary leaders in
Mexico. With the Archbishop of Mexico at its
head, Bishop Munguia and Padre Miranda as
prime instigators, Cuevas, Elguero, PARA, Perez
Gomez, Cobos, &c, as actors, and Mons. Gabriac,
the French Minister and ad hoe representative OF
Spain and Prussia, as prime mover, it has endea-
vored, by initiating the forms of the French en-
pire, to construct State in America on the feu
dial and theological principles Of the Middle Ages
The discontinue Of Miramon at Vera Cruz is
virtually the overthrow Of this party, and of the
European theories it wished to establish in Next
co. 1t chose to make an open rupture with us
in the insulting course it pursued towards Mr.
Forsyth, and the robberies it perpetrated on our
citizens in that country, and it made the prepon-
derance of American or European influence one
of the most important issues Of the present con-
fict When the time Of action was ripe Mr. Bu-
chanan did not hesitate to send Minister TO
Vera Cruz; and now MIR. McLane, in recognizing
| the Juarez government, has thrown our moral