The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-29

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BLENDERS OF THE CAxrAIos.--The mistakes in
the Presidential campaigs which has ;,,st COM
menced are as numerous ~ they Are great
There have been mistakes ali round. The RI.
publicans committed as grave an error "a the
wings did in l840 In that year the whig psrtv
feared to nominate the illustrious Henry Csay;
they thought he could not be elected. They
were mistaken. They nominated an obscure
man, of no account, and were successful.
They would have been still more triumphant
with the Sage Of Ashland. In 1860, twenty
years after, the republicans commit the Same
kind of mistake. Under the persuasive elo-
quence of Hon. Massa Greeley, OF Oregon, and
Old Blair, of Silver Springs, they threw over
board their great man, Seward, on the ground
that he could not be elected, and they took up
nobody-a man whose best Recommendation IL
that he understands how to split rails. II IL
conceded now, on all hands, that NJ. Seward
would have been elected If he had got the uomi-
nation.
The democrats have Numbered still moro
egregiously, for not only have they lost the
chance of electing their best man, but of elect
ing any man at all. The rock on which they
split is, that they made two nominations in
stead Of one and to this disaster they have
been driven by the pilotage of the Albany
Regency.
The seceders committed an error in leaving
the Convention at Charleston. Their frst grand
blunder was voting for the admission of tho
delegation from New York, headed by Dean
Richmond, instead of that led by Mayor Wood.
The New York delegation and the Douglas mea
generally were guilty of blunder IN forcing
the seceders out. The Douglas men ruined
both themselves and their candidate by press
Ing bis nomination to the breaking up Of the
Convention, for both he and they will be mark
ed men hereafter, as Van Buren, and his fol-
lowers have been ever since IS48. The frst
error OF Mr.. Douglas was In quarrelling with
the administration, and in manufacturing false
issue of squatter sovereignty, destructive to
himself. Had be kept quiet he would have
been now in fair way of being elected Presi-
dent in November next. But had he not per-
sisted in his folly, after he saw the game was
lost, and had he magnanimously Withdrawn
from the hopeless struggle before the party was
split his chances would have remained good
for 1854 But now all Is lost.
Henry A. Wise did wrong In writing pri-
vate confidential letter to Bernard Donnslly, By
which the Regency were enabled to slaughter
him. Daniel S. Dickinson ought never TO have
identified himself with the perAdious cutthroat
Regency at Syracuse, In opposition to Wood
and Mozart Hall; and when he found out his mis-
take he ought to have cut loose from the politi-
cal pirates before the meeting of the Charles
ton Convention.
has made q capital mistake In bis own regard.
He could have cunsrullcd the nomination by
the united democracy, which would have had
sure game. But In his great anxiety to have
Seymour, he lost an opportunity which be will
never meet with again, for in pulling down the
democracy he has buried himself in the ruins
John Cochrane committed an error In endorsing
utmost to prevent, for the Little Corporal has
suffered Waterloo defeat, and cannot carry
one electoral vote. By a strange infatuatios,
the shrewd and sagacious Fernando Wood who
had publicly disclaimed any connection with
Douglas, appears another actor in this Comedy
of Errors We had hoped that he would have
stuck to our municipal affairs, and become .
quiet, model Mayor. But we now fear that he
Is going beyond his depth, aud that he win be
carried away and lost by the treacherous under
currents of one of the most extraordinary Pre-
sidential contests on record.