The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-21

their property out Of their hands, are anxious
to have their debts wiped out as with sponge,
In ord.r y resume again. II Is q similar
measure to the Bankrupt law of Congress In
1910, which was intended to wipe out the debts
Of some forty thousand persons all through the
country. The Insolvent Debtors bill Is de-
signed to do the same thing for this State, and
Is most unjust and Ubiquitous measure which
we trust will never become law.
The chicago Cenvention-ssrlsus Trou-
a Bios Of the RePublicans.
If ever our republican friends were Get by
the ears they are so ct the present time. An
that their own press and few hungry edi-
tors from the mountains may say to the con-
trary, they cannot deceive the public as to the
real nature of the difficulties by which they are
surrounded. Who Is to be their candidate for
the Presidency b the great question now aei-
tating their counsels, and as they cannot
answer it themselves they need not expect any-
body to do so for them. The best friends Of
Seward have now reluctantly TO acknowledge
that his chances Of election--that Is, of course.
if his republican admirers see fit to nominate
him-are slender. The republicans have
come to the conclusion that their chances are
daily growing less. The treason which they
have been preaching for months past and their
open and avowed determination to overthrow
every vestige Of law and order, II ever they
have the power, are now strongly operating
against them. Constitutional ideas and patri-
otto devotion have gained sure and certain
pre- eminence, and the walls of black republic
can venom having been broken, there is little
hope even among themselves that they can
carry the free States at the November election.
As one of the signs of the times, it is, never
theless, interesting to glance at their progress
sive attempts to impose upon the credulity Of
the simple as to their chances in the coming
Presidential struggle One of their we'll known
organs has been amusing its readers with
variety of correspondence on this edifying
theme. According to our contemporary,
Stewards chances are hourly growing DINNER,
and will in the end be very thin indeed. One
of his correspondents maintains that the nomi-
nation of the distinguished Senator" will be .
death blow to the whole concern, and sug-
gests that Fremont should be again brought
out to contend for the Presidential chair as
set-off against the Seward heresies Upon this
ground alone he believes that there is the
slightest chance for the success of their cause.
Another speaks of Dayton, and another Of
Cameron. The republicans are so sadly
cut up among themselves that they do not
know as certainty what they will, can or
should do We also find another republican
proposing and in fact insisting that the
duty of the Convention is q reaffrmation Of
the Philadelphia platform, and the nomination
of man who is known to be heartily
and honestly in favor Of that platforn.
Anything short of this, he says, will drive out
of the republican ranks thousands of their best
and most active men. Here, then, Is what the
old wives would call pretty kettle Of fish,"
The plain fact is that these republican agita-
tors are not very scrupulous as to the means to
be adopted to carry out their revolutionary
ideas. The man on the masthead has, however,
warned them Of their danger. He sees the
cleaning lightning and the rushing storm, and
he shouts to them that there are breakers
ahead. They know that their position L.
q desperate one, and theironly effort Is
now to set themselves right with the pub
lie; whom they have go long deceived. But
they do not come on the stool Of repentance To
ask for forgiveness. On the contrary, they
glory In their former delinquencies, and call
upon their followers to consolidate their prin-
siples, as this Is the only way to be successful.
They assert their conviction that all il lost to
them unless they can induce the people to
favor their sanguinary and diabolical princl-
pies, which tend to overthrow civilization and
give loose rein to crime and barbarian.
The republicans are indeed making despe-
rate efforts to blind the eyes Of the public as 70
their true and Interior intent. They start the
Homestead bill to gull the foreign vote. They
get up mean investigating committees to hide
their own frauds. Seward, Fremont, Lincoln,
Dayton, Chase, Cameron and others ore sew.
orally named as persons fit and proper to
represent the insurrectionary doctrines ss
the party; but, Notwithstanding all this, 1t il
not so certain that they can unite upon one
of these names. The one shouts, like the old
Highland clans, Cameron and victory" while
another shrieks out, "Chase for the West.u fol.
lowed BY crowd Of others who call for Sew
ard, Fremont, Dayton and Lincoln 1t is easy
to- see the causes and the results Of this dissen-
sion. The followers of the republican doctrine
are losing confidence in the hitherto recog-
nized leaders of their creed, and the conse-
quence must be that the creed itself must
shortly fall to pieces. The sacrifice is only
made holy by the Offices of the priest, and
when he is shorn of bis sanctity by the wor-
shippers his vocation is ended, and the doors
of the sanctuary NAV as we'll ha cloaod TIA