The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-05-16

the Rspuslscan Parsy-W. N. Seward vcr-
sus n. p. Banlks-uo Slavery versus NO
PupeEy.
We refer our political readers to two signih
cant newspaper articles which we publish to-
day-the first from the Boston atlas, the leading
local organ Of Gov. Banks and the Massachusetts
Native American republicans; and the second,
brief but pungent and telling paragraph from
the Albany Evening Journal, the principal organ
OF W. II. Seward and that republican programme
which is purely anti-slavery, "unmixed with
baser matter Detached from each other there
is nothing very remarkable in either of these ex-
trac 8, but face to face they afford world Of IN
struction.
VIII. Seward is the greater Ajax Of the anti
slavery republican party, pure and simple. He
has no sympathies with the principles Of Know
Nothingism, more particularly in regard to the
Pope and the Catholic church. On the contrary,
he has rather political weakness for Archbishop
Hughes, between whom and the willy Senator the
most friendly personal relations have been cul-
tivated by the latter for many years. Governor
Banks, of Massachusetts, els black horse Of
another color" Lately identified with the ma
tiyistlc American noPopery party of Massachu-
sets, we find him, with the absorption of the
bulk of that party by the local and-slavery re-
publican party, assuming the halfandhalf'
composition of that party itself While, there
FORE strongly opposed to the extension Of slavery
as republican, he still sympathises with the
nativistic and anti Catholic sentiments aud dec
trines Of Know Nothlngism.
This broad distinction between the principles
associations and sentiments Of Seward VS.. Banks
will explain the wide margin of difference be-
tween the views Of the Albany Journal and the
Boston Atlas in reference to the general fusion of
the Northern republican party and the "South
Americans" &C., for the next Presidency. The
organ of Mr.. Banks, referring to the proposition
of the late American State Council of Maryland
for a national convention of "the whole body of
the conservative opposition in all the States of
the Union" in view of the next Presidency, gives
to the proposition a "hearty concurrence"
Hear it,
meet the Convention to nominate candidates for tho
two highest offices in the government, delegates from all
ton such men as Kenneth Reynor, Mr.. Giner, Nc
Vance, Mr. Graham and others Of North Carolina John
sotts and Judge Summers Of virginia; Il Winter Da
Of representative position from the several Southern
States.
The Aaas man has an especial admiration for
Maryland and the aforesaid Davis and Harris of
that State, and says, eff either Of them should
be put in nomination for the first or second office
~, {bo tbovv rovv tho
electoral vote of Massachusetts," Thus, it would
appear that there is very strong affinity be-
tween the Banks American republican party of
Massachusetts, and the American party Of the
South, and that the voice Of Massachusetts in
the republican camp will be earnestly exerted in
favor of the general fusion indicated.
But this programme would put the nose of W.
Fl. Seward out of joint. The North Americans
do not like him. They hate him because of his
suspicious anti.nativistic associations and ante
cedents. The South Americans can never ap-
proach him until that Rochester manifesto shall
have been blotted from the record. According
ly, if there shall be fusion of the opposition
elements upon the broad and liberal basis of the
Boston 1tlas, w. II. Seward must 60 to the wall,
and Banks, Of MASSACHUSETTS,, Cameron, of Penn
sylvania, or Bell, of Tennessee, or some such
man, will be apt to come uppermost as the cham
pion of the coalition. All this we perceive is
most clearly comprehended by that veteran politi-
cal gambler, Thurlow Weed, and he ia, therefore,
dead set against any concessions or affiliations
which will shake the integrity Of the unmixed
tslavery Seward division of the republican
church. What says Mr. Weed? He says that
It's significant fact that in Virginia and Kenusy the
opposition make upon the democracy because they
slavery. 1t ia with ouch element that the republicans
are expected to combine. would be much easier 70
mix oil and water
This is brief, but very much to the purpose.
And we concur with the venerable Thurlow
in his opinion that " it would be easier to mix
oil ard water" than to fuse the anti
slavery republican party par excellence with
the odds and ends Of Americanism and old
line whiggery, as proposed by the leading
organ of Governor Banks. But, what then
Why, then, the division 6f the opposition forces,
in 1860, into two or three factions, becomes p" a
fixed fact" The strong pro-slavery grounds,
offensive and defensive, at present occupied by
the opposition in the South will cut them off
from the republican camp; and the nativistic
doctrines and legislation Of the American repub-
licans Of Massachusetts have opened another con-
troversy which may terminate in Northern
rupture as mischevous to the republican party
as was the Fillmore movement of three years
ago.
Let the democracy-es especially of New York
proceed, then, to the work of reunion and reor-
ganization, and they may re-enter the White
House in 1860, as in 1856, between the divisions
OF the opposition The name and the programme
Of W. Ii. Seward, even in the North, can only
operate to distract and divide the opposition
forces; but, at all hazards, his partisans are re-
solved upon Seward. Let us watch the progress
of the game among all concerned for very soon
it will become TO u.s. on this side of the Atlantic,