The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-06-24
The Oppositacn and the Presidency afasion
Wosso COMPOUNDED.

forces there is not much to choose. If the
are exceedingly slim, the prospect of fusion Of
the opposition elements ia equally gloomy. In
deed. while the democracy may possibly be
brought together again by the cohesive power
of the spoils," the divisions Of the opposition be-
ing upon principles, distractions and conflicting
agencies Of compromise. And 80, while he
Charleston Convention may possibly hit upon the
man and the platform competent to reunite the
broken fragments OF the democratic party, the
separation Of the opposition into two or three
Presidential camps appears to be fixed and inesi
table. Let us Sc how they stand at present, 10
reference to grand coalition movement for 1860
In Massachusetts Know Nothingsm has be-
come ruling element Of the republican party,
as expressed in the lately adopted two years ex-
| IRA naturalization law Of that State. In Rhode
.saDd the republican party proper has just been
| beaten in Congressional contest by the Afreri-
can republican organization. In New York re-
| publicansm pure and simpie-that is, the una
| iulterated Seward platform of the party
| rules the roast, and the American party
IS thus left at perfect liberty to take its
| course. They will probably consent to sup
| port Seward when he and Fillmore, like Bolts
| and Tyler, shall have been found comfortably
asleep under the same blanket, but not before
| in word our New York Know Nothings
nave got the idea into their wise heads that
| here is Jesuitical understanding between Sew
u6 and Archbishop Hughes, which would open
''side door" to the Irish in the way of political
| preierments and thus defeat the great principle
nat Americans shall rule America"
In New Jersey the temporary union of Ameri
cans and republicans of last fall has expired,
and each faction is preparing tor separate
State Convention. In Pennsylvania the repub-
leans have met the Know Nothings half way, 10
consenting to sink their party name in the fleet.
ng expedent of 1.-The peoples party" In Ohio
he Republican State Convention, with al eye
upon the powerful German vote of that State
and all the Northwest having fatty repudiated
the Massachusetts, naturalization law, have
| driven the indignant Americans to O revolt
They will not submit to this pandering to the
foreign clement and accordingly, at a mass
meeting in Cincinnati they have pronounced in
favor of the American party reassuming dts
proper and legitimate position of independence"
| Thus, it appears that the old sores Of 1856 be-
| tween the repub leans and American or Know
| Nothing faction Of the North are being reopened
upon the sharply defined issues Of Seward aud
| his peculiar principles on the one hand, and
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| the Massachusetts naturalization law, on the
other.
These difficulties will form adelicate job n the
way of compromise in the Republican National
Convention Of 1860; and it is not improbable that
upon that Massachusetts naturalization act the
said Convention, for the sake of the indispen-
sable German vote of the Northwest, may be
driven to the sacrifice of the American balance
! Of power in New Jersey and Pennsy lvania, to
say nothing Of Massachusetts,, Rhode Island aud
| Illinois. According to this exhibit of the dis.
cords among the opposition forces Of the North,
those organs of the republican church who ques-
ton its absolute safety, and are fearful of i'm.
| pending danger, have some show of reason for
their misgvlngs.
Meantime the new departure taken by the
Southern opposition elements in Virginia, Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Georgia and other Southern
States, as a strong and decided pro slavery
party, settles the question in regard to their
position in 1850. They will enter the contest as
separate party, in opposition to the. republ.
cans and the democracy. More than this, in
this new Southern opposition movement they
may find it impossible to fuse with their Ameri
can brethren Of the North upon the negro ques-
ton, and thus we may have three opposition
| parties or factions in the contest for the sue.
cession-two in the North and one in the South.
If we should also have two sectional democratic
parties thrown into the arena, Northern and
| Southern one, we shall certainly have most
interesting and inexpicable sectional scrub race
| AS matters now stand on all sides, we may
surely count upon two opposition parties in
1860, while there is chance that in view of the
spoils. and under the moral power of Mr.. Bu-
| chanan's administration. the demoralized demo-
cracy may be brought together again. If it
| should meet to morrow, the Charleston Conven.
ton, we believe, would result in democratic
| explosion and in the final dissolution of the
party; but in the long interval to May next this
disaster may be averted. In brief with the re-
turn - 'be rebellious leaders and cliques to the
| smiIr OF the administration, the party may
stln bcome strong enough to slip into power
| once I,','' b"tween the divisions Of the oppo-
sitior, Us III 1874 and 1856 We perceive, too,
from the reported movements Of Walker Doug
las and others, that las the mountain will not
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