The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-08

the Charleston landlords were MEMORABLE, and
would not trust them for their hotel bills, and
60 they adopted the expedient of adjourning to
Baltimore, and coming home to raise the wind
by new promises and new corrupt bargains.
This adjournment they had no right to make.
In submitting to their going to Charleston for
a distinct and specific purpose, the party had
right to demand of them fulflment Of that
purpose, which was q nomination for the Presi
dental campaign, to be accepted or rejected
by the people, and not bargain and sale of the
nomination to suit their own plundering pur-
poses. Besides this, after having driven from
cooperation in the Convention 90 many dele
gates representing democratic majoriHes. those
who remained represented q set of minoriies
at home, to which condition their own vile
practices had reduced their party, and pos
sessed no real control over the high officer that
they pretended to hold In their hands. The
adjournment to Baltimore was, therefore, one
which they had no real right or power to make,
and in making 1t they referred the question of
the Presidential Convention and nomination
back to the constituencies of the party, who
have now the unquestionable power of naming
new delegations to any Presidential Convention
they may accept
Under these circumstances, and in view of
the critical complications which now exist in
the political affairs Of the country, 1t is time
that the direction of party matters were taken
out of the hands of these corrupt political vaga-
bonds. Their only power D derived from hired
shoulder hitters and DULLES in primary
elections, and the tAcit consent of the
honest and peaceable citizens. They are
not the representative men of the
country or the party, and the convention
system through which they operate gives
the vagabonds who, having been rejected at
home, represent only imperative party minori-
ties, a position to which they have no title.
The true national party representatives are the
Senators and members elect in Congress. They
represent the live and working msjorities OF
their several parties, and their public position
involves their direct and personal responsible
lity to their constituencies This, too, is always
active, and they cannot bully and plumber the
government, under the irresponsible phantom
of the party organization.
In the present juncture of affairs, the demo-
cratic Senators and members of Congress
should at once meet and take into consideration
the state of the country and of the parties that
now distract the conservative masses. Let
them prepare and issue an address to the peo-
pie, broad in its conception and conservative
in its tone, and call national convention, to
be held in New York In September next, for
the purpose of presenting national and con-
sentative ticket in nomination for the coming
Presidential election. This is the only way
that the crisis can be met, and the wishes
Of the now discordant party ranks, and Of the
great mass Of conservative voters, grati6ed, and
their efforts united, for the one great purpose Of
preserving the constitution and the Union.
ANOTHER IRISH ExoDus.-The emigration
from Ireland this season promises to be the
largest that has taken place since 1S47. The
numbers that are arriving by the Galway and
other lines show that the movement is assuming
almost the character of panic. Considering
the favorable accounts that we have been re-
ceivipg for some time past of the prospects of
the Irish laborer at home, 1t Is difficult to ex-
plain the fresh start which emigration has taken
in this direction. That there has been good
deal Of destitution in Connaught and some por-
lions of the South we know by the reports that
have lately reached us; but these localities are
periodically visited by distress, and depressed
condition Of things there would not account
for the general character Of the movement 1t
appears that the newly arrived settlers come
from the North as well as from the South and
Wet Of Ireland, and for the most part bring
some means with them. They are Of q superior
class to the general run Of Irish emigrants, and
their coming here thus early in the season would
indicate either failure Of the expectations en-
tertained Of the successful working Of the En-.
numbered Estasea act, or the apprehension Of
another great famine like that Of ls47-4S. Al
though II Ia painful spectacle to zee people
thus compelled 10 desert, by thousands, their
homes and native soil, we must regard as Pro-
vidential the causes that turn their steps hither
ward. But for the periodical visitations that
render the Irish and German populations dis
satisfied with their lot, we should ourselves
have 10 do much Of the hard labor by which
the material progress Of the country is ad-
vanced
THE DKsrNArroS or THE GREAT EASTERN
The proprietors Of the Great Eastern have
written to the Mayor for information a. to the
facilities TO accommodate that monster ship In
our harbor. 1t has been demonstrated very
clearly we think that abe can enter safely By