The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-21

England have offended their best customers,
and unless the conservative masses of the North
put an end to the black republican folly and
fanaticism which ID now dominant in many of the
free States, things will go on from bad to worse
and the prices Of white labor will be still fur
tner depressed. When masters are breaking
every day, strikes for higher wages ON the part
of operatives are absurd In the extreme
NEW York POLITICS AT WASHINGTON AMI
EIsEwnERE.--Our silly and venerable cotem.
porary of the Washington Constitution seems to
be very fond just now of dabbling In the dirty
pool of New York politics. So far as the Con-
stit,aion grandam-and indeed almost every
one else-is concerned, such interference Is
loves labor lost. New York politics are really
not worth half the time and trouble that Is
spent by small newspaper scribblers in study
ing them. Let us see how the quarrel stands.
The democracy of this State is supposed to be
represented by two factions-one under the
control of the Albany Regency and Tammany
Hall, and the other paying allegiance to Mozart
Hail. Both these cliques have chosen full dele
cations to the Charleston Convention, and both
sets of patriots will be on hand to take part in
the quadrennial conflict for the spoils. The
Albany Regency delegation was selected at the
State Convention last fall Horatio Seymour
is its head and Daniel s. Dickinson its tail. The
Mozart Hall delegation has been elected in the
Congressional districts. Fernando Wood
sc Ske At ~ Ro&h al
cations are made up purely of politicians,
who are looking after the spoils and nothing
else. Any person who supposes that this fact
is not thoroughly understood by the people of
the State is quite mistaken. 1t is known here
and at Washington, and will be fully appre-
ciated at Charleston. The political issue which
is just now presented to the nation is too broad,
too important, too comprehensive, to permit
any time to be wasted in arranging the feuds
of political leaders who claim to represent pre-
cisely the same general principles. Weighed
in the balance with the vast interests which are
to be considered at Charleston, the squabbles
of the New York democracy are of no possible
moment, and should attract no attention what
ever.
That this is the opinion of the conservative
masses in this State, and of the leading men at
Washington, we have no doubt. 1t may be that
the vote of the Empire State will settle the next
Presidential election, and we believe that if
the Charleston Convention puts up fair man,
this State can be carried for him, and against
Seward, or any other person who may
be nominated at Chicago. We find q
strong proof of the reliability of this pro-
phecy in the last State election. Then the
relative strength of parties was about the
same, and some eighty to one hundred thou
sand voters did not 60 to the polls. These
sustaining electors form the reserved or floating
vote, which belongs to no party, but which, in
case of any extraordinary emergency, is thrown
in solid column on the order and Union loving
side. It will be thrown for the nominee of
Charleston, provided he is one who can com.
mand the confidence and support of fair men.
The result will not be changed whatever may
be done about the conflicting delegations; and
the very best thing that the Charleston Conven-
ton could do would be to send back both
delegations and let them fight it out among
themselves The quarrel has been patched at
Baltimore, and repatched at Cincinnati, only to
break out again at Charleston. The time when
q convention could repair the breach is gone
by, and therefore all the delegates, Mozart and
Tammany, should be excluded from the Con-
vention. All that the democracy of New York
asks-all that the conservative, no-party men
want, is good, sound, patriotic, capable candi-
date, and they will give him the vote Of the
State. Our word for it, If once the democratic
leaders in this State should be excluded alto
gether from National Convention, they would
manage to settle all their troubles in the short
est possible order. Let it be tried once, and at
Charleston. 1t is the only soothing medicine
for the chronic political Inflammation which
affects the party leaders in this State.
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