The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-08

more reported. Freghb closed with nrner feeling
yesterday the part Of shipowners which tended 70
check shipments They st tho Close except In small 'os
70 oil up refused flour under D., and asked 7hd for
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fay at ID, In ships' bags, for Liverpool
rhe Coming COMMUNICATIONS Of
the Politicians, and Their Results.
The signs of the times indicate that there is
no centripetal force left in the disordered ele-
ments of the old democratic party, and that the
country can expect nothing from II In the pre-
sent emergency In our public affairs.
Two frsgmentary conventions are soon to
and hopes are still entertained in some quar-
tiers that the voice of reason and of patriotism
will prevail over the factous counsels of con.
tending cliques and leaders. How little proba-
bility exists that such result will ensue may be
seen in the several efforts that have been made,
either through old local party organizations, or
by the getting up of new ones, to secure the
bias of the conventions in favor of one or
other Of the contestants for supremacy in the
party. No attempt has been made to add other
delegations to those of the seeding States at
Charleston, but these have taken counsel
with their constituents, and will come
to the place Of meeting hopeful that
events will 90 turn that they may re- enter the
Convention at Baltimore, support Its platform
and nominee, or else be Joined by further
number of seceders, sufficient to make the sup
port of the South unanimous upon sectional
and geographical candidate. The managers Of
the majority In the Charles Convention, on
the other hand, have been making strenuous
efforts to secure the support of the minority
still remaining in the Convention, and to all
cations with others favorable to their views.
The practical result of these hopes and
efforts has been to widen the breach and en-
bitter the animosities between the leaders, and
to demonstrate to the people how little reliance
Is TO be placed In any Of them. The voting
masses desire sincerely to meet the present
destructive mania Of the black republican
fanatics on the plain and open issue whether
the North shall be marshalled In . fierce war
of aggression upon social and vital institu-
ton in the fifteen slave States or not
But they zee very clearly that these
selfish quarrels among their political
leaders and managers will prevent the
true issue from being submitted 10 the pc.
pular vote, and that the tendency Of all these
plottings il to convert these conventions and
platforms into mere tricks to bring before them
the name Of some one or other Of the quarrel
some candidates. for the Presidency. As ma
tural consequence, the rank and file of the old
democratic party have been thrown into disor-
der and confusion, and mono Of the ambitious
leader can count upon general and united
support. They all recognise this fact, and Il
only makes them more bitter towards each
other. Each Of the leaders accuses the other Of
being the cause Of the present party disiu-
tegradon, and they are much further TO day
from q common ground OF union than they
were when the motion to adjourn was made at
Charleston.
These are the indications that every man
may zee around him, and from them no logical
mind car 'eSuce anything but further conten-
ton betw,ea the two conventions that are soon
TO meet No one of the leaders or cliques
admits the possibility Of being In any
degree In the wrong, and all unite
in forgetting that compromise Il the
only element of political association
among free men and peers. The conven-
tons are composed, under the pernicious sys.
tenn Of party organization, supported by the
possession or the hope Of Official spells, Of per
senal sdherere of the several leaders, and moi
Il really representative men. From such ele
menb a. shese we can hope for nothing but
recurrence OF the contestants 70 the platform
trick. ia the hope 70 beguIle the voters 10 thei'
support Ever since this fAllscy Of party
pl' .form has been introduced 10 our election
scheme. Il has been nothing but politica
trick. Twas unknown In the early days Of tn
country. Washington, Jefferson, Madison, wer'
elected without platforms, and they wer'
never thought of In the old times o
Congressional caucus Men then wer'
placed In nomination for the Presidency OF
their own meritorious sntecedents, and no ef
fort was made 70 present party nomina tior
on plant and deceptive resolutions, that would
bear any Interpretation a huckstering polIti
clan might put upon them, and which bound
candidate or The political managers 70 nothin,
at all.
From the proximste Richmond and Bala
more conventions nothing may therefore b.
expected other than the presentation Of two,
not three, platforms and candidates. The oil
democratic party organization is sundered, an
they will meet to make this more sppren
and 10 set the seal TO the cot Of separation