The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-26

The BRxcKNRnoE MoyxsnNT N NEw Yoex-
A STATE CONVENTION CAILEp.-We publish to-
day from the Breckenridge State Committee of
New York, recently appointed. call for
state Convention at Syracuse on Tuesday, the
9TH of August of the supporters Of Breckenridge
and Lane, to nominate an electoral tcke. and
State ticket for our November elections.
This is going to work in the right way for
this Breckenridge Committee, 1t will be OBJ
served, ignoring all the doings and arrange
ments of the Albany Regency based upon the
old order Of things, is proceeding TO business
with new set of books adapted to the new
order Of things And what il this new order
of things! 1t is q contest between the North
and the South for the Presidency, aggressive
on the ons side, defensive on the Others con-
test in which Abraham Lincoln Is the champion
Of the Northern party, devoted to the suppress
sion Of slavery, while John G. Breckenridge is
the defensive champion of the South and its
peculiar institution Of slavery. This Is the sum
and substance of this new order of things; for
all the other odds and ends are ''but leather
and prunella."
To be sure, there are the Union party Bell
and Everett ticket, the democratic Territorial
squatter sovereignty ticket Of Douglas aud
johnson, the abolition ticket of Gerrit Smith,
and the Independent San Jacinto Texas ticket
Of General Sam Houston. But all these tickets
and parties are in the way, and serve only to
md okop afs Co
posed to this thing Of perpetual sectional war
against the Southern States and their domestic
affairs. Practically, If there were only one
party in the South, or if there were half dozen
parties and half dozen tickets, the result would
be the same-the unanimous vote Of the South
ern States against Lincoln. In the North, how
ever, the conservative elements opposed to Lin
coin must cooperate with the South, or Lincoln
will be surely elected
What avails ii if we have popular majority
in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Indiana opposed to the republican party, unless
We can bring the forces together which make up
this majority. They can be brought together
by very simple plan of operations. Let Dou-
glas and johnson withdraw, and let Bell and
Everett withdraw, and we shall soon realize
concentration of the conservative forces of the
North upon Breckenridge that will startle the
followers of Lincoln. We apprehend that by
this time the most enthusiastic and hopeful dis
ciple Of Mr.. Douglas is convinced that, come
what may. there is not ghost of chance for
him before the people or before Congress, and
that his supporters, by keeping him on the
course, are only playing the game of Van
Buren, Of l84S. The same cannot be said of the
Be.l-Eyerett party; but if this ticket were also
out Of the way the line between the conserva-
tive and the destructive forces Of this section
would be so clearly drawn that there would be
no difficulty in bringing out all our substantial
interests and classes in full and overwhelming
strength against this slavery-agitatiug republi-
can party.
In q word, the best thing that Mr.'Douglas
and Mr. johnson can do, and the best thing that
Mr.. Bell and Mr.. Everett can do, in this crisis,
for themselves, their friends and the country, is
to withdraw from this Presidential canvass, so
as to remove all distractions to fair fight be-
tween Lincoln and Breckenridge, the only two
candidates for President who will be heard of
the electoral vote of the Union.
LArRA KTs1's THsrsE.-rhat fA,nous comedy, 4" Our
American Cousin has been revived here with great sue
cess the house being crowded every night The s
nearly the same - during It's first Mr. Jefferson
quaint In Asa Trenchard sotherns Dundreary
the delicious caricature Of the extreme British
swell; Couldock Burnett and Peters clever be-
fore In the same roles and the ladies' Mrs. John WOOD
Mss Sara Stevens, N@ C. Jefferson and Mrs vinng make