The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-02-21

! IT oubles Of Parturition Among the Black
RepubIicsna-The MAN Child that II 70
be Born.
| A man child II to be born, and all the po-
litical midwives and nurses are busy with their
preparations, and cooking up their candidates
for the conventions to come of this spring and
| early in the summer.
In one important particular the democrats
have secured an advantage ever all their op-
| ponents. They have determined to come early
into the field, and have fixed the time for bring
ing forward their candidate on the 23d of April
while the others have unwisely put of theirs
until the month of June. This arrangement
will give them q decided advantage; for be-
before the other parties are ready to enter the
field, they will have an opportunity to make an
impression while their antagonists are still
quarrelling over their candidates. If this ad-
vantage Is well improved 1t will contribute
largely to the final result There can be no
doubt that the nominee of the Charleston Con-
vention will carry the Southern States In
body, and that the key Of the fight lies in the
Central States. Here the conservative masses
are to be moved, and for this purpose
every effort must be devoted to them
These efforts will acquire much support from
the discussions among the black republicans
that evidently exist, and which will increase in
heat and bitterness until their nomination Is
made.
An article from the Tribune, which we print
in our columns to-day, gives vivid idea Of
troubles of parturition which will attend the
black republicans. That abolition sheet insists
upon having practical abolitionist of the
school of Mr.. Bates, instead of that "little
coterie of common scolds," the disunion aboli
tionista, who insist on damaging Seward and
Chase by speaking well of them" According
to the philosophers of the Tribune, Mr.. Bates
possesses many of the qualities of Helper. He
was born in q slave State, has not the odium of
having been hitherto identified with the black
republican party, goes in, like Helper and
Hickman, for the abolition of slavery and the
perpetuation of the Union by force;'' and though
as the Tribune acknowledges, he would have
little chance of carrying one of the border
States, he would have a respectable ticket in
them, "led by such men as John Bell, h.
Winter Davis and John ]. Crittenden." On
these grounds the Tribune believes that the
man child to be born should be practical aboli-
ZIONIST Bates, and nobody else than practical
abolitionist Bates The whole scheme has the
earmarBe of the true getters up of Helpers
handbook of treason and incendiary revolution.
1t is in such revelations as these-and we
shall have many of them during the troubles
of parturition of the black republicans-th
the democrats will find much advantage by
their early appearance in the field. By perfect
ing their organization at an early day, they can
bring them all thoroughly home to the con-
servative masses in the Central States, where
the fight lies. There will be no need of vast
| ing ammunition in the Southern States. We
perceive that this fact is becoming patent to the
democratic politicians. The Virginia Conven-
ton have shown their appreciation of it by
throwing overheard both the Wise and Hunter
factions, and announcing its preference for the
candidate who can win 1t would be we'll if other
politicians were to learn something from the
fears of those of Virginia, and not be foolishly
stirring up divisions in the Central States, as q
papfed journal in Washington is doing, by try
ing to puff up one set of New York delegates
by crying down another. If the democratic
party in this State is united at the next cleo
ton, it may have a good chance to carry the
State for the Charleston nominee; but division,
such as the Constitution is endeavoring to TO
ment, can never do it.
The issue is too important to be risked in
| petty and personal squabbles. 1t is the issue
Of peace and prosperity, or revolution and
ruin. The black republicans have inscribed
on their banners principles which will involve
this whole community in ruin. 1t is sought to
| arm the fanatics of the North against the local
institutions and right of self-government of
the South. The commercial, manufacturing
and mining interests of the Central States are
to be sacrificed to q set of theories absurd in
deduction and impossible in practice. Their
prosperous trade is to be broken up, line of
blood is to be drawn between the slave and
non. slaveholding States, and those lying upon
| its border are to be made the active scenes of
Stewards propagandism, Helpers incen-
diarism, and John Browns practical treason.
Against such principles and such plans all
conservative men should unite, and bid the
fanatics and political demagogues who support
them to hold their peace forever.
THINNING OFF.-The recent Democratic Con-
vention in Virginia has diminished the list of
Presidential aspirants to the extent Of two,
the friends of Messrs. Wise and Hunter having
succeeded in using each other up, after the ap-
proved fashion Of the cats of Kilkenny, whose
wicked example has ruined many promising
politicians any time these fifty years. As
things stand now, the Old Dominion, the
Mother of Presidents, will have no candidate
| tn offer Mt Charleston Int NAV he able tn die