The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-12-15

created quite fur0re in the city; and what we
have already said about him in connection
with the Presidency has awakened feeling of
enthusiasm among all classes of men who are
I not under the trammels of the miserable fac
| tions of the day, which are utterly reckless of
I; the interests Of the country and Indifferent to
| the dangers which threaten the integrity of the
Union.
| 1t seems as if the Paciicator is to deserve
the name in higher sense than any in which
| he has yet earned it, and as if he had just come
at the right moment to loose the Gordian
knot, which so many, both at the North and
South, are impatient to sever with the sword.
Terrible to domestic traitors as he is to the
foreign foe, he is just the man to make peace
among us.
Every man who has stake in the commuu-
ty feels that if General Scott were at the helm
in the coming tempest, the republic would be
in safe hands; and to nominate him, therefore,
for the Presidency, is the spontaneous sentiment
of thousands in this commercial metropolis, and
Of millions throughout the land. To elect him
it is only necessary to put that sentiment into
practical form, and to afford an opportunity to
the nation to make known what is in its heart.
All that is wanted is beginning, The nomi-
nation of General Scott as conservative Union
candidate for the Presidency, without regard to
party names or organizations, would have more
effect in sitting the troubled waters which
menace the security Of the country than thou
sand Union meetings like that which is about
to be held in the Academy of Music. Such
Buncombe gatherings are of no prac-
teal value, and without any beneficial
results. The only way in which the forth
coming demonstration can be turned to
good account is to take the opportunity
which it affords Of proposing the right man for
the Presidency, in disregard alike of the demo-
cratic and republican factions. And perhaps
this may be done, and good be brought out Of
evil; for "there is divinity that shapes our
ends, rough hew them how we will"
The meeting on Monday is designed as sub
terfuge, and has been got up under the direc-
tions Of the Albany Regency, in order to help
that junta in its local elections, and Seymour is
sent to make flourish with that view, and to
put Tammany Hall on its legs again. Tam
many stood on the Buffalo platform in the late
municipal election, and had for its allies the
congenial black republicans. That rotten
platform broke down, and Tammany was hurt
and crippled by the ruins. To bind up the
wounds of the old sinner, anu put her upon a
Union and national platform, and thus give
her another chance Of playing the harlot, and
carrying on once more her filthy intrigues and
schemes of corruption, is principal objec
of the managers; to give Seymour, the
creature of the Regency, chance of wormine
himself into public favor, so as to reach the
Charleston nomination, is another object in
view.
This is the political aspect. But there is q
commercial motive in organizing this move
ment. Those merchants who signed the calls
for the Opdyke and Havemeyer meetings have
become alarmed by the debates in Congress
and they fear that their names, published here
in an obscure journal, may, by some possibility
be republished in the Southern papers; and ir
order to mystify the South and place them
selves on a good footing for continuance O
the Southern trade, they sign the call for the
sham Union meeting at the Academy of Music
If Nh. Seward should be set up for President
ninety-nine out Of every hundred of these mer
would vote for him next November.
This, therefore, is a false and deceptive move
ment: and what else could be expected
from such elements? Who can bring
clean thing out of an uncleans The repub
lican party is abolitionized and revolution
ary-its creed is Helpers book, and it sym
pathizes with John Browns rebellion. !
believes not in Union, but in an "irrepressibl
conflict" between the antagonistic forces of tn
North and South. This party has vitality AM
,, great power for evil. The democratic part
!. is effete and corrupt, demoralized and spill
into factions, North and South. 1t has no prin
ciple, and no purpose, but spoils. 1t is in
, state of rapid disintegration. In the South
large section of it consists Of seating seces
, sionists, who want to see the Union dissolved
in the North 1t Is tainted with abolition
this State, for instance, majority Of the demo
cracy is antislavery; and as for Tammany Hal
/. smells more strongly Of the niger than
colored church in the dog days How, TIER
fore, could conservative principles and &C
| emanate from such source? The democrat
party is powerless against the republicans an
if it enters the field against it in the Presidel
tial campaign it will be defeated. The onl
EXISTING issue is that Of slavery, and the repu1
lean party will put that in such shape TIL
if The democracy meet it squarely 1t will lo'
l ho1f s{o op1, ~ lho n
d not meet it squarely, it will lose tt
) whole South. Republicanism is rampan
y just look at it in Congress, able to elect {