The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-02
The Year Is6O-The Prcsldeatial Pro-
blem-Our Political Parties, soctioni
md RacaiOma.

The Year Is6O-The PrcsideatiaI Pro-
blem-Our Political Parties, Sections
and Factions.
We have crossed the threahold-we have en-
tered the vestibuie of the year 1860. We pass
from year Of political agitation, excitemcnts,
distractions and ugly Developments Of section
al discords into the year which ia to decide for
US, North and South, peace or an ermistice
upon the slavery question, or the premature
dissolution of this great, powerful and prosper
GUS confederacy.
The Impending crisis of our Presidential
election will undoubtedly settle this problem
of Union or disunion; and while we all know
that an overwhelming majority of the Ameri-
can people, Of all sections, are in favor of the
Union, we know that our political parties and
Presidential elections have fallen under the
control of reckless sectional agitating poiti-
clans, resolved upon the accomplishment of
their own selfish purposes Of ambition, power,
spoils and plumber, regardless of the conse-
quences We see that these desperate sectional
demagogues have already destroyed the old
national party organizations of the country;
that the only original Presidential parties re-
naming have each assumed the position of
sectional camp, and that thus our Presidential
contest for the succession threatens TO assume
the revolutionary form Of an "irrepressible
conflict" for the subiugation or maintenance Of
the Southern institution of slavery.
From the ruins of the old wing party aud
from the disintegratons of the old democratic
party, the present overshadowing Northern
antislavery republican party has arisen. 1t
threatens the complete occupation Of the
Northern States, upon this " one idea Of hos
tility to slavery and the slave power On
the other hand, as the democratic party has
been broken up or borne down in the North,
under the pressure of this anti-elavery senti-
ment, the same party has supplanted the oppo-
sition in the South, until we may safely declare
that, as matters now stand, every Southern
State may be placed on the democratic side in
our estimates Of the Presidential election
And what then9 a
Including the embryo State of Kansas, the
Presidential electoral vote Of November next
will be as follows: 4
Total electoral vote ............ 500
Northern electoral VOTE. 1876
southern electoral vote. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. I'D
From these suggestive figures, it will be seen
that in q purely sectional contest the North
can spare thirty-two electoral votes, and still
elect their President We can give the South
Pennsylvania and California, or We can throw
out New Jersey, Indiana and Illinois, and still
be victorious; but the ioss Of New Jersey and
Pennsylvania or of Pennsylvania, California
and Oregon, will settle the question the other
way, allowing that the South will vote as a
unit But the vote of New York alone, If
against the republican party, wiz not only de-
feat it, but destroy it
What Is the prospect Of this Northern balance
OF powerg We must first have settlement
with the Albany Regency at Charleston before
We can definitely count upon the vote of New
York. The results Of our last State election,
including The reserved popular vote, show that
New York upon broad national platform,
may be recovered by the democracy. The re-
publican party does net hold the States of
New Jersey ard Pennsylvania. They are held
each by temporary opposition coalition I'M
der different name, and upon more conserva-
tive principles than those of the republican
platform. To secure these two indispensable
States, therefore, the republican party must
make some important concessions Of conser-
vative and practical character, or the interven.
ton of third party may repeat The election
of 1856.
But, while republican triumph will thus