The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-08-20


Policy Ut she Setiooai Cons .rva tlves.
The Presidential question, within month or
20, in all its complications has assumed very
interesting shape. The encouraging results Of
the late Southern elections will unquestionably
eliminate in q new conservative Presidential
mov' meni; while, ION the other ha.d, tween
the Wise and Douglas contest for the Charleston
Convention, and the revolutionary policy of the
Southern slavery agitators, our approximations
are strengthened from day to day Of fatal divi
sion of the democratic party into two hostile sec
tional camps
{. Thus, including the overshadowing Northern
anti slavery republican organization, we shall
have four parties in the field in 1860, and there
can be very little doubt that from such contest
the three highest candidates will be carried up
to the House of Representatives for an election.
In view of this contingency, and considering the
balance of power which the conservative opposi-
ton party of the South have already secured in
the House, it is their policy at once to proceed
to national organization They can, If they
desire it, carry the election into the House, in
any event; and they may possibly, amidst the
"roise and confusion" Of the canvass, be able to
win the election in the electoral colleges.
Mr. Buchanan has positively, again and again
declared that he is not candidate for reelec
ton. Nor has he any favorite upon whom to
cast his msntle We doubt not that his influence
at Charleston will be exerted in favor ofconcilia
don, peace and harmony; but from the implaca-
BILE hostility of the Southern malcontents to his
administration, and from the deadly treachery of
the managers of the Northern Douglas move
ments, including Tammany Hall and the Albany
Regency, we have every reason to fear that all
the efforts of Mr.. Buchanan to save the party
from shipwreck will be cloves labor lost"
The controlling engineers of the Southern de-
nccracy in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama
and Mississippi, to 60 no farther, are Of that
secession school of fire. eaters who carried off the
uarty in said States into those insolent but i'm
potent disunion movements Of 1851. These same
democratic revoluionists have now mounted the
Southern hobbies of the African slave trade and
slave code for the Territories or its equivalent
as the proper creed for the Charleston Conven-
ton With the leaders of these reckless agitaters
The paramount object is, first, the dissolution of
the national democratic party as the nearest road
to the Inauguration Of Southern confederacy.
They are looking ahead to the unlimited schedule
of spoils and plumber which Southern con-
federacy would throw into their hands. To this
end, though bafled in 1851, they have been in
dustriously working and scheming ever SINCE
Thua fhaea Snufharp 1ianroo M arg ooror,apo,5
their assaults upon Mr.. Buchanan administration
with the proclamation of his Cabinet and inaugu-
raj address, thus, they have contributed their full
share to the present disordered condition of the
democratic party North and South; and thus
they are preparing to enter the Charleston Con-
vention to control it or to destroy it upon their
mpracticable demands. Believing in the power
Of these Southern disorganizers, Gov. Wise has
thrown himself forward as their special cham
pion upon the test question of slavery in the Ter
Iitories; but opposed to him, face to face, is Mr.
Douglas, with his Northern hobby and humbug
of squatter sovereignty. Douglas cannot give
way He must stand his ground, or be degraded
To me ranks. He must make his zone idea, his
ultimatum at Charleston. It will be rejected
1t cannot be recognized. What then ?. Why,
then he will be compelled to appeal from the
Convention to the Northern democracy or else
his followers will be swallowed up in the repub-
ican camp.
But the division of parties in the House, ill.,
GLIDING the anti Lecompton democrats, will in.
vite him to take The field. And thus, between
the sharply defined position of Mr.. Douglas and
the Charleston programme of the Southern fire.
eaters, the prospect Of dissolution of the Con-
vention before any nomination is made becomes
somewhat alarming. We may be sure, too, that
when once relieved Of their Northern brethren,
and Of the last hope Of the Northern balance of
power, the Southern democracy will take the
form Of an intensely sectional party, and that
between them and the Northern republicans both
sides will be supplied with all the combustibles
necessary to keep up raging fire.
In anticipation of this state of things, we call
upon all conservative and peace and Union loving
men, Of all parties and all sections to hold them
selves in readiness for that final charge which
decides the issue Of the battle. With the popular
name of Gen. Sam Houston az their standard
bearer, a new and Independent national party
may be called into action, abundantly compe-
tent between the sectional parties of the contest
10 cut in and carry off the honors of the field.
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No LESSON LIKE HUMILIATIoN-OUT OF DE-
FEAT CONES SrRENGTH.-We publish elsewhere
significant article from the Austrian Gazette, on
The present relations Of that government towards
Europe. Taken in conjunction with the tone of
the French journals towards their late adversary,
it establishes the fact that the entente cordale be-
tween Austria and France is as complete as
pledges can make it. So much the better for
the Italians, go much the worse for the govern
ments which are indirectly menaced in this ar
ticle. The eulogiums lavished on the Emperor
of the French, the determination expressed on
the part of Austria to fulfil faithfully her engage