The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-22

"Whom the gods would destroy they first
make mad" We refer the inqairing reader Ia
our reports Of yesterdays proceedings in the
Baltimore Convention. They were unique, and
in every point of view they are full of instruc-
ton. They betray the character Of the mate
rails of which these national party conventions
are composed, and particularly the predoinina-
ting element Of ruflianism, to the full gaze of
the world. We perceive, too, in these scenes
OF brutal violence, where all should be har-
mony and Cancellation, that the days of this
demoralized democratic party are numbered.
and that il is in the agonies of death.
Upon the question Of the contested Southern
delegations the New Workers asked another
nights reflection. They hesitate between the
alternative Of sacrificing the party for the sake
of Douglas and the expedient of dropping
Douglas to save themselves. They fear that in
dropping Douglas they will array the solid
Northwest against the Albany Regency, and
they see that in adhering to him they only pre-
cipitate the inevitable explosion. For once the
willy, plotting Dean Richmond Is in water be-
yond his depth. He finds that all his beautiful
arrangements perfected at Syracuse last Sep
TENDER, for debating the candidate Of this Con-
vention, fall short of the necessities of the case
But he and his delegation do not yet despair,
or they would not have asked another night for
the purposes Of treaty Of peace.
We can tell Master Richmond, however, and
Mr.. Church. his henchman, that they may as
well abandon at once all their delusive hopes
Of the spoils and plumber Of the next admins
tra,ion. They are lost The democratic party
Is destroyed. There Is not the remotest visible
ghost of q contingency for the reunion Of the
belligerent elements Of this revolutionary con-
vention. The moral consequences Of what
they have already done render 1t superfuous
to speculate upon what they may do to-day or
tomorrow.
Assuming that these fighting factions. cliques
and sections may still agree to bury the Ratchet
and unite upon compromise ticket,
II will avail them nothing. The party Is broken
to pieces and, with one, two or three tickets, 1t
must be superseded 1t Is too badly cut up,
too seriously crippled, and has too many bones
broken, to be healed and put upon its legs
again in q single day or a single year. II Is
practically dissolved aud disbanded, whatever
may be the remedies attempted by this Conven-
tion. In brief, the National Convention Of the
democratic party, having become degraded to
the base condition Of Tammany Hall in Its worst
days Of rufhanism, is only suffering the fate Of
Tammauy Hall-discords, divisions rebellion
defeat and Disgrace.
Were these no other drawback to Vie reunion
Of the broken fragments Of the party, the faot
that this disgraeeful Baltimore Convention
represents the party will be capital enough for
the republicans. A miracle, and only mira
Gle, can save the distracted, divided and dis.
torted democracy from terrible revolutionary
explosion at Baltimore, and We despair Of
miracle of this sort from Dean Richmond aud
his Regency delegation. They are but thinkers.
end II Is this dirty tinkerins that has ruined
their party