The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-02


itical correspondence, all bearing more or less
directly on the Presidential election, and Civ
ing accounts from every part of the Union of
the shifts and contrivsnces to which the various
friends and enemies of the candidates, and, in
some instances, the friends OF the Union, are
resorting, in order to attain their ends
As TO the South, in one letter we are told
that thu friends of Douglas, in Tennessee, are
going over to Breckinroge; while In another
we are informed that In Louisiana there is a
prospect Of q union between the Bell ano
Douglas men. In Georgia we are told none
but Douglas has any chance, and there is the
most bitter hostility that can be conceived
against Breckenridge and Lane-a statement
which our readers will do well to qualify with
very large quantity Of salt A writer from Ala
bama says Bell is the only man for that State and
for the South, but against Lincoln they are all
united to man. 1t is pity they do not prove
that fact In come practical form which would
insure his overthrow. In Texas correspondent
states that Douglas will have no ticket and the
vote Of the State will be given to Breckenridge.
In Virginia the democracy are all at sea; and
unless they do something very decisive, and that
soon, Bell will get the electoral vote of that
State. In Missouri the democracy are equally
in fog, and Bells chances there are the best
When we come to the Northwest and the
Northeastern States we find the same confusion.
An Illinois Douglasite attempts to show that
Douglas can carry his own State He could as
soon carry the Union, while Breckenridge and
Bell run against him. If there were no other
candidates but Douglas and Lincoln, it would
be very problematical whether the Little
Giant would succeed or not; but as matters
now stand his success in Illinois is
simply an impossibility. In Wisconsin the po-
pularity Of Douglas is great, but so is the popu-
larity of Lincoln. In this State our Albany
correspondence informs us the Bell and Douglas
forces will unite; but that will not prevent the
State from giving its vote to Lincoln, unless
they both unite their forces with those of Brock
inridge, the only man who, except Lincoln, has
any chance Of being elected by the people In
Rhode Island the principal portion of the de-
mocracy will 60 for Douglas, but there is not
the slightest probability of his getting the cleo
toral vote of that little State.
This mass of correspondence shows that while
the forces of Lincoln are united and compact,
the hosts opposed to him are divided and split
up and warning against each other. If they
were all united to a man against him, his bare
defeat would be just as much as they could &C.
complish. But divided as they are, what other
result can there be than the triumph Of Lincoln.
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PUBLIC DEcENcY.-George N. Sanders, the
discharged Navy Agent at this place, has writ
ten letter abusing the President. Nothing
more natural. Every enc, in private life, ex-
poets to be abused by the servants he dis
charges; Sanders did precisely what Pat does
when he is kicked out for insolence, or John,
when he is shown the door for making free
with the contents Of the pantry. In Sanders
case the solace of abuse was the more congo
nial, as Sanders has, in his time, abused almost
every good and honorable man whom he has
Senator Hunter, General Cass, and about half
the Senate, because he could not secure the Lon
don Consulate, are still source Of shame and
sorrow to the few good natured persons who
entertain plying regard for him.
Some wag said that Sanders letter was like
Junius. 1t reads much more like an editorial
in the Little Peddlington Gazette, whose editor
was always telling the Gar Of Russia, and
telling him for the last time" &C., &c; or like
the first composition Of a half educated collie
gian, who is dying Of love for big words and
laundering phrases. II is gable from begin
ming to end, pure unadulterated decasyllabic
gable; there is no argument in It. no logic, no
ideas, little grammar, and no sense.
but for the fact that its publication in the
Times, Tribune and some other city papers calls
for word Of remark. What earthly good did
such publication achieve. The very papers
which published il denounced it; yet they pub
lished IT, Can these journals find nothing to
Gil their columns with but gross, coarse, per-
sonal attacks on the private character OF Mr.
Buchanan Are they not aware that such at.
tacks are an outrage, not upon Mr.. Buchanan
but upon the Office he holds and the nation
whose government be administers. Or are their
columns mere common sewers, In which every
dirty fellow Is free to void his filth
So long as leading journals are willing, for
party purposes, to transcend the fair lines of
political controversy, and TO allow their columns
to be used for the wanton vilifcation of the
private character Of the highest magistrate of
the country, -he opponents of our institutions
will always have an argument to prove that re-
q. A.. A.