The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-08-26

OUX IoLiTiCAL CORRESPONDENCE AND THE
PROGRESS OF THE COUNTER REVOLUTION
another part of this days paper will be found
mass OF correspondence, from every point of the
compass, bearing on the Presidential election,
and indicating the direction and strength of the
popular breeze in the various localities, or the
change of the political current, or the upper
current and the under current flowing in oppo-
site directions at the same time, On the whole,
the tendency is to unite the conservative ele
ments, both at the North aud at the South,
against the anti slavery disunionists on one side.
and the fire eating disunionists on the other
1t will be seen that while here in the State of
New York the conservatives are combining
against republicanism, the republicans are di-
vided among themselves, the Weed faction and
the Greeley faction entertaining the most bitter
feelings of mutual animosity against each other.
The effect of the Union ticket on the party
is demoralizing. The leading republican jour
nails feel its effect, and they are out Of temper.
There is elimination and recrimination, az
always happens in disasters on shipboard and
elsewhere. Charges of corruption are flung at
each ether, and are hardly denied by the indi !.
viduals accused. As for the party in the last
Legislature, the evidence of its corruption is so
overwhelming that there is no attempt at
denial, but clumsy attempt to throw an equal
share Of the responsibility on the shoulders of
the democrats, which is too absurd for serious
reply, seeing that in the Assembly the republ-
cans were nnety-one to thirty-seven democrats,
and in the Senate twenty.three republicans to
nine democrats. They had the game Of plumber
entirely in their own hands, and those republi-
can leaders who were not permitted to share in
the spoils are fierce in their attacks upon those
who led the lobby, alleging that this proaigacy
is highly prejudicial to the party in the ap-
preaching irrepressible conflict and that if
republication should be defeated it is not be-
cause its cause is bad, but its champions I'M
worthy. These chickering's and misgivings argue
"the toregone conclusion" If the leaders felt
that they were on the road to victory, they would
be in such good humor that they would forget
all past differences in the contemplation of the
bright prospect before them.
Scared by the onward march of conserva-
tism, some try to parry the effect of the COM
bination ticket by pretending, like Chevalier
Webb, that republicanism is highly conservative
and even pro-slavery. Others bring their bat
teries to bear upon the combination of the
allies with such fury that they disclose the Sc
cret that their hopes have grown desperate,
and the conviction that the State of New York
is lost to them. In Pennsylvania and New
Jersey the republican cause is also doomed;
and there is every probability that in some of
setting in SO strongly against 1t will result in
it's overthrow.
In the South conservatism has not yet finally
shaped itself for the coming contest but the
tendency is to union, and before long the pub
Lie feeling will probably have settled down
upon single ticket, and the Southern States in
November will vote nearly as unit In the
present crisis they cannot but feel the import
ance of presenting united front to the COM
mon enemy however, certain IL Is that the re-
publican candidate can receive no electoral
vote south of Mason and Dixon's line
There is only one thing that seems now GER
tain about the election, and that Is the defeat
of Lincoln. Whether there will be any cleo
ton by the people, and who will have the best
chance If 1t should go into Congress, gre ques-
tions still involved In considerable doubt But
neither in Congress nor out Of it can the re-
publican ticket be successful SO that the Be-
cessionists Of the South will not have the Cd.
portunity Of making good their threats, at least
till the end Of another lustrum.