The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-12


Of departments as party leaders and members
Of Congress have forced upon him, and who
must trust to their superintendence the details
of the business which it would be physically
impossible for him to supervise. The President
is made the scapegoat for all the plundering
and laundering and Encouragement of all the
officials and all the culprits in the whole party.
Cause or the Defeat In PennsyIvania-
The Albany Regency.
The defeat of the conservative ticket for
Governor in Pennsylvania, which foreshadows
the defeat of the conservative Presidential
ticket next month in the same State, and pro-
badly, also in the State of New York, is the
consummation of the work Of the Albany Re-
gency. Their game from the beginning has
been to divide and be conquered, and they
have carried 1t out most successfully. Long
since they laid their treacherous plans for the
overthrow Of their own party and the triumph
of black republicanism, and they are looking
forward with longing eyes to the reward OF
their treason.
They found at an early period that it was not
likely they could have the control Of the Presi-
dental nomination and the spoils which to
the victors belong, and they deliberately went
to work to throw the election into the hands of
the republicans. Richmond said he would be
king and rule, or king and ruin. The FIRST de-
velopement Of the treachery was at the SYRIA
cuse State Convention last fall, where the Re-
gency deliberately split the party into two
fragments after the old rupture had been
healed. By rejecting Mayor Wood and the
delegates from Mozart Hall, and selling upon
the control Of the Convention, they created q
riot, and established division which they have
done all in their power ever since to continue,
till 1t is too late to unite and conquer.
They have demorsljzed the party, not only In
this State, but throughout the Union. The sue
cess Of Mayor Wood in the election Of last De-
cember on the great national issue against the
combination Of the republicans, the Regency
and free soil Tammany Hall, led by the original
organ Of aboliuonism In this State, the Journal
Of Commerce was q significant rebuke to the
Regency to which they would undoubtedly have
taken heed had they not made up their minds
to defeat the democracy.
The next overt act in their reasonable design
was the publication OF a private confidential
letter Of Governor Wise, Of Virginia, which had
the double effect Of killing Of that popular
candidate, and Of widening the split In this
State and rendering the confusion worse con.
founded. The unfortunate divisions and dis
sensions in this State were carried by the Re
gency into the Charleston Convention, and they
went there as dictators, not as delegates; they
had their programme cut and dry, nrst for the
rejection OF the delegates of the Mozart Hall
democracy, the larger and victorious wing Of
the party, and secondly for political platform
which they knew the Southern delegates would
never swallow, and a particular candidate
whom they knew to be Of all others in the field
the most obnoxious to the South. Having, BY
lying and fraud and cheating all round, gained
their fret point and obtained . firm footing in
the Convention they were in a position 70 drive
home the entering wedge. They stuck to one
candidate from FIRST to last, and would not have
any other, and they stuck to squatter sovereign
ty through thick and thin, while the secession
lists insisted on Congressional protection Of
slavery In the Territories. There was 10 mo-
deratlon on either side no middle course pos
sbis-with the predetermination Of the Regency
TO break up the Convention. They would lis
ten 10 no compromise either at Charleston or at
Baltimore. They must have either Douglas or
nobody. 1t was With them Cesar alt nullas.
They well knew that the extreme Southern
party would not yield, and they persisted to the
end In maintaining their position till they &C
complished their object By splitting the Con-
venuon into two conventions, and dividing the
democratic party into two factions, taking with
themselves the delegates Of 6fteen States, and
arrayipg the delegates Of seventeen against
them. They we're thus a. sectional a. the
black republicans themselves, and destroyed
the effect of the grand argument against that
revolutionary party.
Not content with what they achieved at
Charleston and Baltimore, the nail they had
driven into the coffin Of the democratic party
they clinched on their return 10 the En-
pire State. Ever since they have labored
night and day to prevent the union Of the con-
seryative elements in this State. The effect
upon the party and upon the conservative cause
generally in Pennsylvanis was to demoralize
them. and with the assistance Of Forney, TO drive
numbers into the ranks Of black republicanism.
There Ia always large floating mass Of voters
who desire to be on the strong side, and the
destructive. disorganizing course Of the Regency
convinced them that Lincoln was likely 10 be
the winning horse. Many in Pennsylvania
who would not 60 over to the republicans have
refrained from voting, from utter disgust and
despair Of doing any good. There is but too
much reason to fear that the Presidential cleo
ton will present the same results both there
and here. Thus have the Regency succeeded IL
splitting up and breakins'down the democratic
party, In preventing the union Of lite fragments
.-;,h each other or their union with the other