The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-12

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substance of Senator Johnson's Homestead
bill.
a Grand Opening Tor the Chicago Con-
vention.
Our black republican friends, who will meet
at their Chicago wigwsm bright and early next
Wednesday morning, are understood to be in
aterrible quandary a. to the candidates whom
they should select, and the platform which
they should manufacture. Their main party
diniouiy, and one that is aggravated in the
present condition of political affairs, Is the
faint of sectionalism, Helperisn aud Spooner-
lam which has been fastened on them by the
Seward clique, and which is especially dis
tasteful to the conservatives of the Central
States. who have the 6nsi decision of the mat
ter in their hands. While these couserv atives
are bitterly opposed to the extreme fre-eating
democracy of the South, they do not accept
The Helper doctrine of stirring up the non
shareholders of the South to promote insurrec-
tons, and put down the peculiar institution,
nor do they agree in Mr.. Stewards theory of
the "irrepressible conflict" They consider that
the radical republicans have placed themselves
in an attitude as dangerous and reasonable
as the Garrisonians, and will hesitate long
the country in their hands. Some Of the
managers of the purely political spoils-seeking
section of the party found that this feeling
existed some time ago, and it was for this
reason that OLD Blair and Hon. Massa Greeley
trotted out Madame Bates, while somebody else
mentioned another splendid antiaue-Judee
McLean-who has been ready to ruu foe the
Presidency, upon any ticket, any time these Eve
and twenty years, and who has been polite Ally
dead two thirds of that time. 1t was noticed,
however, that the attempt to galvanize these
political relics did not excite any very great
amount of enthusiasm in any part of the couu-
try. So the repnblican leaders concluded to
wait and zee what was done at Charleston.
The result of the Democratic Convention
distressed the wirepullers on the other side
terribly, and they are really on their beam
ends, without chart or rudder, and not knowing
what to do.
In this state Of things, we feel moved to
help our black republican friends out of their
trouble, and point out to them the broad and
easy road to victory aud one hundred
millions of spoils per annum. Listen: il there
is anything, Messieurs Republicans, for which
you are distinguished according to your own
account) over and above all other factions and
parties, 1t is your answering loyalty to the
your unvarying fealty to the
Union, your rigid determination to assist in the
sustain the compromises and guarantees Of the
famous instrument which forms the organic
Law of the republic. You, conservative repub-
licans, ignore Helper and Lovejoy and Seward,
and all those pestilential fellows, and declare
yourselves TO be pure patriots, as immaculate
as the lambs who have been seven times washed
in Jordan. You declare that yours is the party
of union; the democratic organization that of
disunion. Very well. You make this pro-
fession of faith to catch the votes of the conser-
vatives in the Central States, but they must
have something more. Platforms are nothing,
resolutions trash, political principles bosh.
What Is required Is q ticket in which people
can have confidence, and that il made to your
hand The Baltimore ticket is just the ticket
for you. Never mind about Mr.. Bells age or
Mr.. Everett's mild and undemonstraive amia-
biliiy. 1t is very easy to cry old fogy; but, In
the opinion Of many solid men hereabouts
land some of them have been younger
once than they are now, an old fogy
is better than young fool or middle aged
trickster. Both Bell and Everett opposed the
Kansas Nebraska bill, the first party capital
obtained by the republicans, and a. good a.
new In the back districts yet
Thevery best thing, then, that the conservative
republicans can do at Chicagoist TO take the Bal
timore ticket and platform, smashing all the
states, breaking up all the combinations, and
going before the people with q clean ticket
Such course would 20 far to convince the
people, who are stupid enough to be somewhat
skeptical on the point, that the bulk Of the
party is sound on the great question Of the
lay.
Such Is our advice gratis To the Chicago Con-
vention. VIII they take III As that venerable
patriot, Richie, would say, nous r@ToHs.