The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-07
The Election or Delegates to Charleston
by the Union Democracy.

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keenest Indignation at the perfdy, fraud and
brutality, with which certain corrupt monopo-
lists have debased the party for 80 many
years. Not a shadow of doubt remains in the
minds of thinking men, who have studied the
history of late State Democratic Conventions,
that an organized conspiracy has long existed,
having for its object to keep federal and State
patronage in the hands of few barnburner,
free soil demagogues; and that these latter
have played into the hands of the Seward fac
ton, whenever they have found it for their
interest to do so. The atrocious sale of Gov
ernor Wise's letter for twenty dollars and the
violence with which Wieting Hall was occu
pied, and the regularly organized Convention
driven out, in September last, were only the
two latest phases of systematized scheme Of
iniquity, which has continued since the great
Van Buren, treason of 1S48. The true, Union
are everywhere hocking, therefore,
to the polls, and are determined to restore New
York to its pristine position as conservative
member of the American confederacy.
That they will succeed in their efforts, and
that their delegation will be received with open
arms at Charleston is as certain as that the sun
will rise in that city, on the Esd day of April
next. The character of the gentlemen thus far
nominated in the districts, is one of the surest
guarantees of the purity, integrity and patriot
ism with which the primary elections have been
carried on. No State has, anywhere, been
made up. No monopoly CLIQUE has assumed
the power, as Cagger, Richmond, Cassidy, and
their free soil confederates did, at Syracuse, to
pack delegation; but every opportunity has
been afforded for fair expression of the will
of each individual, and the choice of the ma.
jority has generally been 90 wise, a. to be
cheerfully acceded to by all. We're the South
ern delegates to the National Democratic Con.
vention, to receive into their midst the rene
gades of 1s4s, who are Caggeris emissaries,
they would stultify themselves, make them.
selves the scorn and byword Of the country,
and virtually endorse body Of men, whose
creed for thirteen years-ever since the Mexi.
can warts best expressed in the language of
the Wilmot proviso-''that, as an express and
fundamental condition to the acquisition of any
territory, by the United States, neither slavery
nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in
any part Of said territory"
Among the barnburner traitors in 1916; the
disorganizers, at the Herkimer Convention, a
year later; the seceders from the Baltimore
Convention, by which General Cass was de.
feated in 1s4s; the tricksters, who, under false
pretences, deceived the hunkers, in 1S49; the
brutal rufians, who broke up the Syracuse
Convention, and drove the anti free soil portion
of the delegates to Brintnall's Hall, in 1853;
were, in each instance, to be found numbers of
those whom Confidence Cassidy 4 Co. placed
upon their slate, for delegates, in September
last, and who compose the inside works of the
debased and rotten machinery Of the Regency.
They are the same old rufians, who are too
cewardly and polite to strike themselves, but
whose pugilistic condottieri are always in train
ing, and never fail to resort to blows where
arguments, regularity and majority, fail to pre-
vail. And it must be remembered that, so deep
has this treacherous Cagger-Cassidy Regency
sunk into the mire, that they invariably de-
ceive their allies, and even throw overheard, in
the face of the most solemn pledges, their less
available friends.
Thus, at the late Convention at Syracuse, it
was thoroughly understood, between certain
friends Of Mr.. Daniel S. Dickinson, short sighted
enough to place faith in the profes-
sions Of desire for the union of the
party, made by the Regency Iscariots, that
the delegation to Charleston should consist of
one-half hards and one-half softs. The weaker
hards, including Mr.. Dickinson himself, were
for the moment, bamboozled into shutting their
eyes to the atrocities which Cagger's bullies
had perpetrated in ejecting the regularly or
ganized State Convention from Wieting Hall,
and trusted to the representations upon the
subject of the Regency faction. And, although
not one Of these gentlemen was present when
the intrusion of Mr.. Cagger took place, they
were induced to sign paper, giving false
view of the facts, which most of them have
since expressed sorrow for having put their
names to. But how were they rewarded Why,
the compact was violated, and the ten or twelve
hards whom Richmond, Cagger and Cassidy
reluctantly admitted into their packed gang.
have become so disgusted at the falsehood and
meanness with which they were treated, that
they will, in all likelihood, give up their places
on the bogus delegation. They certainly are
favoring the Union democracy movement at pre-.
sent Even the friends Of Cagger, who re-
manned in his boiling convention, many of
them protested, after it had adjourned, against
the unblushing impotence and hypocrisy which
they had witnessed; and the documen. signed