The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-14
Our Democratic State Convcnti0n-The
Presidential Imbrog1iO MT Syracuse.

Our Democratic State Convcntion-The
Presidential Imbroglio mt Syracuse.
The State Convention of the New York de-
mocracy which meets to-day at Syracuse will
be the most momentous affair of the kind in
the history of the Albany Regency. Limited
to State affairs, there would be very little in
this annual party gathering to attract the atten-
ton of the general reader. But the Regency
having decreed, and arranged, and resolved,
that this Convention shall comprehend in its
work the absolute exclusion of the right wing
of the party of this State from the Convention
at Charleston, il will be seen that the Presiden-
ial battle in somewhat threatening form to
the democracy, is to be opened to-day in the
midst of the salt boilers at Syracuse.
Our readers are well acquainted with the
difficulty on hand. The democracy of this
State are divided into two great factions, the
Albany Regency faction and the Aston House
faction, otherwise known as hards and softs.
The hards are the minority faction, and in q
State Convention organized under the ma
chinery of the Albany Regency, are completely
at the mercy of the softs. The hards, there
fore, in order to secure their legitimate share
of the delegation to Charleston, have asked
and insisted that said delegates shall be elected
by the single Congressional district system.
The softs, on the other hand, have resolved
that the Charleston delegation, in the lump,
shall be appointed by this State Convention,
and that it shall be "a unit" according to the
wishes of the Regency and their Presidential
schemes.
This game of despotically packing the
Charleston Convention was very adroitly con-
ly drawn from Gov. Wise to poor DonnelIy
the Regency have had at least pretext for the
war of extirmination which they have declared.
They have conducted the elections to the SYRIA
cuse assemblage upon this pretext, and having
a majority of the Convention ready to do their
bidding, we can hardly expect anything better
than the same offensive exercise of power
against the minority which restored the State
last year to the black republicans.
The organ in this city of the Aston
House clique has information from SYRIA
cuse that "the national democrats are in
good spirits" and that "it is supposed they
may have a majority of the Convention;"
but tables Of the delegates on both sides
will afford very little encouragement of this
sort. From the same organ we are also in
formed that "there are many ugly looking
chaps here (at Syracuse), who appear to be
strangers to the citizens of this place." and who
'look as if they could strike from the shoulder.
Who they are, from whence they came,
and for what purpose, conjecture is not
| at fault" We are thus forewarned Of a
| possible appeal from the decision Of the Chair
to "the noble art Of self-defence" 1t is to be
hoped, however, that law and order will pre-
vail in the Convention, and that no necessity
will arise for the armed Intervention of the
Syracuse black republican police.
We do not despair altogether of treaty of
peace, and democratic alliance, offensive and
defensive, against the embodiment Of the re-
publican party and his revolutionary pro-
gramme of Fan irrepressible conflict" between
the two great sections Of the Union. The po-
Icy of the Convention is to heal instead Of re-
opening old sores in the party camp, and to
conciliate instead of driving off that indispens-
able wing of the party known as the Astor
House clique. In cutting it of the Regency
will deliberately sacrifice the State in Nsyem-
Der in order to hold the monopoly Of the vote
Of New York at Charleston But as this despic-