The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-04

The Albany Regency and Their s.CaIl" OF the
Democratic State Convention.
The "loDg agony" Of the wrangling democra-
cy touching the scalp of their State Convention
is over. The "call" has been agreed upon, IN.
GLIDING the vexed question, as will be seen from
the proceedings of the Democratic State Central
Committee at Albany yesterday, which are be.
fore our readers.
The Importance of these proceedings, in a
party sense, may be copjectured from the mum.
bers of the leading politicians Of the different
cliques attracted to Albany on this occasion
The gathering, indeed, was more like that of
Presidential State Convention than meeting
of the little committee empowered to appoint
the time and place of the usual annual conven-
tion at Syracuse. But this extraordinary assem-
blage on this apparently trivial business was
drawn around the charmed circle of Dean
Richmond and Peter Cagger, not in regard
% the time and place of the annual State Con
vention, nor the usual business thereof, but in
reference to the New York delegates to Charles
on, and the spoils and plumber of the next Pre-
sidency.
The Astor House Hard Shell Committee, in
GLIDING Fernando Wood, presented to the State
Committee, at seasonable hour for considera-
ton yesterday morning. their proposition OF
Cancellation aud harmony, to wit that the notice
for the annual meeting Of the Democratic State
Convention be limited exclusively to the cleo
ton of the delegates thereto, and to the nomina
lions for the State ticket, and to questions OF
State policy; aud that the choice of delegates to
be National Convention and the mode thereof be
the subject of future consideration. The plea iu
support Of this proposition appears to be very
strong one; and if the State Committee had
adopted it, and if the distracting question of the
Charleston delegation had thus been postponed
ill after our November election, there would
nave been an armistice among the factions con
cerned of very favorable character for com
mon union against the common enemy.
But the State Central Committee, estimating
their power in reference to the Charleston dele
gates above any concessions for the sake of bar
mony in the camp, fatty gave Mr.. Wood aud biz
associates the cold shoulder, and have submitted
in the official call that 'the State Convention il
or to determine the manner in which, and the
time wbep, they shall be chosen" Ofcourse this
simply means that the State Convention will ap.
point the Charleston delegates, and that the AL
haDy Regency, possessing all the machinery OF
the regular State organization expect to appoint
the entire delegation to suit themselves The
plan desired by the Aston House faction was not
only the postponement indicated, but the cleo
ton of the Charleston delegates by the district
system, each Congressional district electing its
own delegates. But as this plan would unques.
tionably present divided delegation at Charles
ton, beyond the control Of the Albany Board of
Supervisors, they would not listen to it.
1t may be readily supposed, from this cavalier
treatment of the Astor House Committee by the
Albany Regency, that the latter consider our ap-
preaching State election foregone conclusion,
and that the possession of the Charleston delega-
ton in lump is of much more Importance than
any and all compromises for the attempt to re.
cover New York in November. 1t now remains
to be seen what course the Aston House party
will pursue. They are invited to capitu.
late at discretion to the Albany managers; but
in doing &c. the hards must depend entirely
upon the maguanimity of their masters. The
policy of making struggle for the delegates to
the State Convention has nothing in it of en-
couragement to Mr.. Wood and his associates
The proceedings of the soft majority last year at
Syracuse, on the contrary, are suggestive Of
very despo'ic exercise of authority, which the
sufferers will not be DESTROYS of counting agaio
We are informed by telegraph, that while 'ths
Wood men are ipcensed at the cail'' of the State
Convention, including the business of appointing
the Charleston delegation, "tbe Dickinson bards
approve it warmly" Has the New York Daily
Neps been flying the flag of Gov. Wise too high?
We fear 20; for we cannot otherwise account for
this apparent rupture between Wood and Dick
ipson. But is Mr., Wood, with his favorite Gov
Wise, thus to be driven from the field? Let
fammaDy Hall and our city election of last De-
cember answer that question. There may YET
be basis for democratic harmony in November
in an arrangement Of our city ticket for Deem
her; but as "a burnt child breads the fire." he
may shrink from a second roasting.
The Albany Regency have virtually agreed to
sacrifice the State again in November, rather
than make any concessions which will proven,
them from controlling, as unit, the vote of New
York at Charleston. But in this game they
may be defeated. We have had some intimatons
OF gracious allowance of few delegates to the
tards; but where the State is virtually given up
to the enemy there ceases to be a necessity for
any such acts of Cancellation. We have been
urging the feasibility Of a democratic union this
fall, with powerful reinforcements from the CD.
position camps, in a common cause against Sew
ard and his disunion and revolutionary pro
gramme, as the Magnus Apollo of the republican
party of this State, but we must now await the
issues of this call for the Democratic State Con-
vention before we can undertake to promise ans
satisfactory arrangements at SYracnse any hone