The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-25

| ira. on demo rat o. Pennsylvania has creaseu
much am the par y regular camp
| TIL 8, ne the Washn t papers, generally
r, ogn ed as th apointed organ OF Me.
Dougla. frautly declare that "we deplore this
NOV, II en- bee use the ilev able defeat it will
enal,nt democratic art.;" and this organ
FL Il er ys ia re ereoc the Il CO antl-nd-
N pht at or, an iLecom ton, nti slavery speech
~ Fop. job Hickman, OF the said Invention
that
tie avowcd the reasonable doctrine OF S.ard in ths
u1bt sxpc and emphato lsnsuas-, and 10 declaration
10 infer from this iuc'deop Must we p-epsre for
yepttsl al soce between the back 'epubl and hos
seeni'ent emocrais of Pennsylvania What Is the pur.
$50 of hr. Foney ana bis fren sY Do tnef medi.Aie
posacy % the opposition they reso 70 ahee
coed ferb 70 The democratic ga t,f DO they pledge
NJ 10 support tie nominees OF She Cha- lesion
onvebtoS 10 the or the denocraoy OF the Union
r,sreciluIy entreat q reply to tnese III inirI.s
In "reply to these inquiries the Philadelphia
Press, the principal organ of these Pennsy lvania
boilers, at the tail of long harangue against
the administration, answers substsltialiy:-l
Tdat tie States righs democracy Of Pennsyl
eanie mediate no apostaoy to the opposition;
2. That believ ng the democratic party of the
| Uoicn will adhere to its traditions and cove
napis, these Pennsylvania boilers are resolved
70 adhere to the party, protesting however,
against the insoleat assumption that the federal
admins ration is, in auy respect, the representa-
tive Ct the democratic party" 3. That this go
called States rights division Of the Pennsyl-
vana democracy will support the nominees OF
the Charleston Convention, provided they shall
be procla med the representatives Of the 'popu-
lar soveIeig MY platform of Mr.. Douglas, but
that of on the other hand, that Convention shall
be committed, in any shape, to the iheory" that
''ths governm Mt is to be dedicated to the pro-
pagation of slavery, then We shall unquestion-
ably oppose its nominees"
The two conditions thus required TO a reunion
of these boilers with the national democratic
church are-1. The absolute reputation Of the
administration BY the party; 2. The adoption Of
the squatter sovereignty platform of Mr.. Doug
las. That either of these conditions will be full
| filed by the Charleston Convention is clearly
out Of the question. Thus while it is manifest,
| from the tribunal designated for the settlement
of these propositions, that in the interval to
1860 this division of the party in Pennsylvania
is to be kept open, it would appear that all
hopes of reunion at Charleston are cut on from
the inadmissible terms Of peace herein pro-
posed.
On the other hand, Mr.. Senator Brown, of Mis-
sissipp has lately issued manifesto, in which
he declares that the rights of Southern men to
take slaves into any Of the Territories of the
Union and to hold them there having been es.
tablished in the bred Scott decision of the Su-
preme Court, it is the duty OF the federal gov
eminent to afford flair and adequate protection
to slavery in the Territories" Accordingly, Mr..
Brown, upon this platform, is ready to co-ope-
rate with the Northern democracy. Otherwise
be is in favor of the utter abandonment by the
South Of the party in the North to the mercy of
its enemies. We dare say, too that very
powerful majority Of the leaders and managers
of the Southern democracy will now cry cannon
TO this ultimatum Of Mr.. Brown.
Thus, then, stands the case. If the Charleston
Convention shall fail to adopt the squatter sove-
reignty platform of Mr.. Douglas his Northern
followers will repeat the game of Van Buren, of
lS4S; but il the Convention shall fail to proclaim
the doctrine that it is the duty of Congress to
protect slavery in the Territories, then the South
ern fire-eaters will cast the Charleston Presiden-
tial ticket and the party headlong into the gulf
of perdition.
Thus the democratic party at Charleston will
be driven into that narrow pass between Scylla
and Charybdis; but still |. may be saved. All
these quarrels in the camp upon principles, nice
distractions, State rights and what not, may be
traced to personal rivalries for the spols, or to
personal disappointments concerning the spoils.
And the only policy whereby the Charleston
Convention can save the party is the
soothing policy Of the spoils. In. this view
the compromises of 1852 at Baltimore will
be found eminently advisable at Charleston, in
cluding-1. A general amnesty to all sectional
snd fsctious offenders, and their recognition in
the Convention upon footing Of equality. 2.
The dropping Of all the contesting candidates
for the Presidential Office, and O nomination
that will be q surprise to the man himself and
the selection Of man whose comparative
political obscurity viii afford the highest re-
quisite Of availability.
Lastly, with regard to the platform, few
"glittering generalities," admissible of several
interpretations, according to the old successful
tactics of the party, viii do-the great over
shadowing, paramount bond of cohesion, disci.
pine and harmony, being the good old bond OF
the spells. Upon this plan of operations the
broken fragments Of the party may be reunited
in 1860, as they were reunited in 1852; and
| Hickman of Pennsylvania, and Brown OF Missis-
sippi, Wise and Hunter, Davis and Douglas,
Cobb and Stephens, Slidell and Soule, and Geo.
W. Bowman and John W. Forney, and all the
cHques and factions concerned, may be rehar.
monized az band ofbrothers But in default of
the broad and comprehensive treaty indicated
the proceedings Of the Charleston Convention
will be the funeral obsequies Of the democratic
party.
Meantime, as the rnrtv has baop hrokon into