The Yazoo Democrat., 1860-06-09
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OUR NEW YORK OoRREspoNpENCE
NEW York. Nav %. 1850

lican party, so far relates to giving their ticket
strength in the Northwestern States; but it is
as weak a nomination as could have been made
for securing the vote Of f-this State. Seward is
pretty generally cOneededs ~ fFiends and foes
alike, all over the Union, to be TIE great man of
the Republican party. There Is not candid, in
telligent man, North or South, who would hesitate
to pronounce Mr.. Seward qualified by capacity
education and experience in public affairs, for
the position Of President Of the United States,
were it not for his anti-savery fanaticism, which
mars the symmetry of one of the most complete
mindsin every other respect that has ever adorn
ed the Senate chamber The Republicans Of New
York would have stood the nomination of Chase
perhaps, who is understood to be a man of capac.
ity, if expediency demanded the nomination of
Western man; or they would possibly have sub
mitted TO that Of Bates, on the plea that as radi-
cal candidate as Seward could not be elected
but they are justly indignant at the selection of
man whose principles, as far as they are known,
are quite as radical as those of Mr. Seward,
whose opinions have been expressed more vul
carly and more Extensively to the South, who is
less of statesman less of a scholar, less verscd
in public affairs and less specimen of refined
American gentleman than the New York Senator
One of our millionaire merchants, one of the
very blackest kind of Republicans, remarked to
me yesterday in an excited tone, 81 would not
hire bookkeeper sir, no, sir nor an outdoor
porter, of whom did not know something more
than the people of the United States know of this
man, Lincoln, whom they are called upon to
clothe with the chief executive power of this
great country. Have we no statesmen, sir, in
the Republican party, no gentlemen, no scholars
no men who have rendered services to the party !?
How, in the name of heaven, sir can we go be-
f,re the country, with any prospect of success
with mere local politician as our candidate for
the Presidency--a man whose highest qualifca-
ton for that position as | should judge from the
boasts of his friends is derived from his expert
ence in rail splitting?" 1t is possible that there
will be no overt split in the Republican party in
New York; hut that Bell and Everett will be
worked for and voted for, SUB rosa by thousands
of Republicans, there is not a doubt.
But there is also large proportion of the Re-
publican voters of this State, who were formerly
members of the Democratic party, and these only
want some good excuse for returning to their
former allegiance. The chaotic condition of the
I Republican party, whose managers have been
becoming more and more distasteful to the rank
and file for the last two yenrs, is, of ITSELF nearly
sufficient to break it down entirely next Novem.
/ Der, whatever candidates may be put forward by
the two Democratic Conventions which assemble
next month at Richmond and Baltimore; but if,
as is to be hoped, the two Conventions merge in
to one, and unite upon some man of sound ma
tonal principles, and personally unobjectionable
to the North, il is thought here by many intelli-
gent persons who have nothing to gain or lose
eth way, that he will draw off from the Re-
poblicans every voter who was originally Dem
ocrat
The very existence of the Republican party
depends upon the action Of the Richmond and
Baltimore Conventions. The delegates to those
4 bodies should remember that upon them rests o
fearful responsibility. fthey unite, and exclude
from their deliberations every other consdera.
ton than their counry's good, they must looh
forward with absolute certainty to victory Sc
decisive that Black Republicanism will exist il
the future only as matter of past history.
A friend of Senator Brandreth, of this State
lcontended, in serio-comic article in one of th'
morning papers, that there would have been M
disruption az Charleston, if the leaders of thu
party had made free use of Brandreth's pills be
fore going there. According to the writer, tht
disharmOny had its origin in a stoppage of thu
usual excavations of honorable members, which
first corrupted the humors of their bodies, ant
then those Of their minds If the cruditie
: which the cold of winter and want of exercis'
bad locked up in the bowels and solids Of tht
delegates had been expelled early in the spring
the extreme irratability displayed by those gen
tlemen would have given place to good sense ant
good temper. Few Democrats are aware, per
haps," continues the writer, g that the smooth
ness with which everything went off at Chicago
was due to the foresight Of some Of the wealthy
leaders of the Black Republican party, who ex
pended large sum of money in Brandrelh't
pills, and distributed them gratuitousy among
the delegates, as far back as the first Of April
SO that when they arrived at Chicago, they hat
been we'll purged, and their blood was as pure a
that which coarsed through the veins Of our frs
parents, their hearts, consequently, light anC
Joyous, their minds calm, and their tempers good
Let the delegates to the approaching Convention
: take lesson from their political opponents. lie
them cleanse their bowels and their blood thor
oughly, and go to Baltimore and Richmond we
provided with these soul-calmng pills; and il
: in the excitement Of debate, they should fin
their angry passions beginning to rise, let ther
9 lose no time, but immediately swallow four, pi1
. or eight pills, according to the intensity Of thei
J mental fever. The result cannot fail to be a sir
gle and satisfactory Democratic nomination 70
: lowed by glorious triumph in November"
The Heenan Testimonial promises to amour
to large sum. More than $4,000 have bee
already subscribed and paid in, and efforts al
being made, by the distribution of circulars a
over tho country, to raise much larger sun
These pugilists and their supporters are rath'
running the affair into the ground. 1t is to
hoped that no American gentleman will be