The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-22
~. - mDcr1sy and the neutrality-suspicious.
al..l.nE IA K.aNeen Wise nnd Dou2i.s.

trpsrt Of ihis paper our democratic readers will
perceive that their State election being over, the
ttud between The Wise and Hunter ciiques of the
GA Dominion has been reopened with coasidera-
tie upcuon on both sides The two factions.
baoing saved the State by JUNCTION against the
common enemy, have, i'll other words, RESUMED
tie more i'm por'ant sqrilbbie among themselves
Crowd, ont ol the rival preteDsious vi Governor
Wise senator Hunter for the Presidential
sucC sion. AS the issue now stands bet Seen
them, we incline to the opinion that Hunter has
ry atiroitly cut ia between Wise aud Douglas,
touching the point Of national availability at the
Charleston Convention.
Governor Wise. who, for the last six mouths
or more through bis central organ, tue Rich
m0ud Enquirer, has been very clamorous tor
slave CODE Tor the Territories, or Congressional
mterv entlou for the protection OF slavery against
eustter sovereignty, nov retreats to the simple
declaration that it is the duty Of Congress to i'll
,er,eue IN behalf of slavery whenever in any Of
the Territories the safety OF slave persons, OF the
right of slave property, is unconstitutioaaly as.
sailed" The original idea of slave code is here
pared down to ViIgioia abstraction but it still
retains the essential oil OF Congressional inter-
vention. But how stands Senator Hunter, whose
cauio0 as a statesman has always been not lees
remai kabie than the rashness of Governor Wise.
All. Hunter fail. back upon the bred Scott de-
cisiop, as atsoipg sufficient security for the
South III the Territories aud be is in favor of
avoiding any direct issue upon the subject,
which will cut of the Northern democracy.
The oitiere nee thus presented between the pre-
sent views on this slavery question of Wise and
those OF Hunter may appear to be only the differ
enoe " betw'xt tweedledum and tweedledee," aud
yet while The position of Wise is bad that of Hun
teris decidedly good. Wise insists, at all events
upon the the recognition Of the duty of Congress
to protect slavery in the Territories-a recog
milton which caDnot be forced upon the Douglas
democracy of the North Hunter, on the osher
hand, agrees to disagree upon the subject and
to say nothing more about it, which is practical
non-intervention, and brings him within reach of
the Northern magnetism of squatter sovereignty
Considering, too, the heavy majority which the
Northern States will command IN the Charleston
Cow ention, and the existing imperative party
Necessity Of retreat from the extreme pro-
slavery demands of the Southern party leaders,
it becomes manifest that, as national candidate,
Senator Hunter, holding the ground of neutrality
between Wise and Douglas, will be very apt to
loom up in the Convention, like King Saul
among the sons Of Israel head and shoulders
above them ALL
The whole character and all the antecedents
of Hunter are equally strong in his favor. He
is calm, cautious, consistent statesman, univer.
sally recognized as faithful champion of
Southern rights and equally we'll Known as
man who has said nothing and done nothing
to render him obnoxious to the North. During
the great contest Of 1856 conservative
Northern speech or two of his contributed
thrown out by such hotheaded Southern agi-
tators as Wise, Keitt and Toombs. Hunter,
therefore, from his antecedents a. well as from
bis present position, is minently qualified to be
the peacemaker among the democracy at Charles
ton. In fact, we cannot imagine how the Douglas
squatter sovereignty democracy of the North aud
the Congressional Intervention democracy of the
South are to be amalgamated at Charleston ex-
cept upon Hunters platform of broad and
generous neutrality.
Let it be declared in the Charleston platform
that the people Of each Territory shall ''be left
perfectly free to regulate their domestic institu-
lions in their own way" and the South will fly
off at tangent and set up ticket for them
selves. Let it be declared that it is the right
and duty of Congress to override the local regu-
)a'ions Of the squatters of Territory where they
conflict with the interests of shareholders, and
the Northern democracy will cut loose from their
Southern brethren. Thus the Convention, upon
either Wise or Douglas, will be split into two
parties by the line of Mason and Dixon; but
upon Hunters programme of neutrality the two
wings OF the army may be made to fight as har-
mon'ously as upon their different interpretations
OF the Kansas Nebraska bill.
We thus conclude, in opposition to the views
and arguments of our Richmond correspondents,
that as matters now stand among the dismantled
democracy on the slavery question, Senator
Hunter, in cutting in between the extreme South
ern views of Wise on the one hand, and the
Northern squatter sovereignty platform of Doug
las on The other, has taken the only available
gIcn'4 for an armistice and reunion of the
part, at Charleston. Ia word, the democracy,
for sonfern votes, having pushed the party to
the yer verge Of dissolution on the niger oues-
ton, must DOW drop the niger, if they would
save the party. The attempt to run the niger
again, in the trappings Of either Wise or Doug
las will be the dissolution of the national demo-
cracy as surely as, in 1862, the trouble about
the bigger principles Of Seward broke up and
oisbanded the old wing party.
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