The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-03-12

respective conventions, and the geographic
notices Of the candidates before them, whic
we have published in recent numbers of til
HERALD We now bring them all together, o
DERBY arranged, for the greater convenience
review by our readers; but in view of the fat
that there arc only thirty-three States, Will
there are about fifty candidates, we shall leav
1t to the critical acumen of each reader to detel
mine which are the candidates that have, an
which that have not, State in their breeche
pocket.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES.
flames A. Bsyard, Delaware.
John G. Breckenridge, Kentucky.
3-Jesse d. Bright, Indiana.
HAlbert G. Brown, Mississippi.
5-H0well Cobb, Georgia.
Caleb Gushing, Massachusetts,.
7-Jeferson Davis, Mississippi.
S-Daniel S. Dickinson, New York.
S-Stephen A. Douglas, Illinois
lo-James Guthrie, Kentucky.
thames H. Hammond, South Carolina.
12-Sam Houston, Texas.
l3-R. M. 7. Hunter, Virginia.
l4-Afred Iverson, Georgia.
15-Andrew Johnson, Tennessee.
l6-Joseph II. Lane, Oregon.
Thames L. Orr, South Carolina.
lS-Charles O'Conor, New York.
l9-Franklin Pierce, New Hampshire.
2o-Thomas H. Seymour, Connecticut.
2I-Horatio Seymour, New York.
27-John Slidell, Louisiana. .
23-Alexander H. Stephens, Georgia.
24-Robert F. Stockton, New Jersey.
25-Henry A. Wise, Virginia.
26-John E. Wool, New York.
BLACK REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES.
Nathaniel P. Banks, Massachusetts,.
Edward Bates, Missouri.
3-Simon Cameron, Pennsylvania.
4Salmon P. Chase, Ohio.
5-Cassius M. Clay, Kentucky.
6-Jacob Collamer, Vermont.
7-Wm. L. Dayton New Jersey.
S-John G. Fremont, California.
9-Wm. P. Fessenden, Maine.
l0-John p. Hale, New Hampshire.
ll-Abram Lincoln, Illinois.
I2-Wm. Pennington, New Jersey.
l3-William H. Seward, New York.
l4-Henry Wilson, Massachusetts,.
UNION CANDIDATES.
Edward Bates. Missouri.
John Bell, Tennessee.
3-John M. Bolts, Virginia.
John J. Crittenden, Kentucky.
civilian A. Graham, North Carolina.
7-Washington Hunt, New York.
Sam Houston, Texas.
9-John M'I.ean, Ohio.
lo-William c. Rives, Virginia.
Winfield Scott, New York.
The claims Of all of these candidates are
pressed, each by his respective friends, princi-
pally on the ground that he is great on some
little matter as, for instance, the tweedle-dum
and tweedle dee of sovereignty of the people
through their representatives, or of popular
sovereignty through themselves in the Terrific.
ries; the stages of indefinite projection Of black
republican aboliioAism, from the destruction
of slavery and the South in the abstract
to its humiliation in the concrete; OF
the civic merits or martial claims Of some mar
who has committed the great public sacrifice o.
holding office from the first moment he coult
get it just as long as he could possibly hold OF
to it. On these high, noble and nationa
grounds the delegates and partisans respectivel!
are abusing and quarrelling with each other
candidates, preparatory to ceming together a
Charleston, Chicago, or Baltimore, as the cas-
may be; and after coming together, they viii
in each place select one man-somebody, per
hape, that is now nobody's candidate and ther
home, for the canvass and the contest.
Besides the candidates there are ianumerablt
differences about the platform, and many {
politician thinks he has got just the planks, Gu
and seasoned, from which to make the plat
form, and the only platform, upon which thu
respective candidates are to be placed II
this, poor schemers, they are all wide of tn,
mark. The rising waves Of fanaticism ani
demagoguism have left but single plank OF
which to defend, in 1860, the great issue o
the preservation or destruction of the fai
edifce of the American Union. The rapi,
growth Of our prosperity and the increas
OF our wealth have led men to think tina
if they took care Of their own business th
republic would take care Of itself. s.
fapaticism corruption and demsgogueisn
have been left at liberty to- fasten upo
the public places and 10 sit withou
shame in all our high seats. To be poll
tician, an officer in municipal government,
representative in the State Legislature, an
even member Of the Congress of the nation
has come to be thing to obtain which 1t /
necessary to stoop to arts which honest me
scorn and noble souls despise.
Aided by this unpatriotic negligence of pull
lie duty, fanaticizn has banded with the dems
gcgues and invaded the holy places of the n,
ton. II proclaims theories which, if not pr
down, and put down forever, by the uprising {
an indignant people will Inevitably carry Ii