New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-27

members BY a Dald cnedt NJ syracuse yo"i "s"'
They promised Dickinson half the delegation if he
would turn his back upon Wood, Green, and the
" Hard Hards." and give in his adhesion to them.
so soon as he bad fulfilled his part, by foolish
and inopportune speech before the State Conven-
ton, they repudiated their pledge to him, took
forty FIVE of the seventy delegates, adopted one oil
the most stringent and insulting unit resolu-
inns on record: and, hen he and his dupes pro-
tested, they wheedled them with the promise that
whenever any considerable portion OF the National
Convention manifested disposition to rally
upon him, New-York should instantly present his
meme and give him her thirty-fvs votes-a propo-
sltion never alluded to afterward by the knowing
ones in the delegation unless the illusion was ac-
compauied by contemptuous sheer, that soon
eliminated in broad grim. abu
Having disposed of Dickinson by shutting his
mouth with his Syracuse harangue, and throttled
his friends in the delegation by the unit gature,
the Soft managers commenced plotting to secure
their admission to the National Convention And
here again their proclivity to double-dealing was
put in requisition While the minority OF the Softs
professed devotion to Douglas, the rest of them were
whispering encouraging words into the ears alter
nately of Guthrie, Hunter, and Breckenridge.
They secured the support of the friends of each of
these gentlemen on the question of admission to
the Convention intending, doubtless to cheat all of
them except Guthrie, and to ignore him if posi-
Bile, and thus pave the way for bringing forward at
the right moment as compromise candidate their
bosom friend, Horatio Seymour. After obtaining
seats in the Convention by those pretenses, all
their counsel and conduct kept in view this uti-
mate object. Douglas had not more than ten real,
hearty friends in the delegation. Guthrie was the
second choice of the Seymour men. That the dele
CATION as a whole was unfriendly to Douglas is
proven by its solid vote at Charleston in favor OF
recurring the same number of votes (202) to effect
nomination after the secession of nearly humid
red delegates as before
In the interim between the adjournment at
Charleston and the reasseubling at Baltimore, the
New. York delegation gave many indications of de-
serting Douglas. The history of it's secret cOun-
sepgs and confidential correspondence would con-
stitute one of the most amusing and instructive
chapters in the annals of party intrigue. The be-
lief of the Richmond and Ludlow managers that
they could by fnssm secure the ultimate nomina-
ton of Seymour, under the plausible and patriotic
guire of " harmonizing the party was the key of
their conduct. They repaired to Baltimore with
the intent of accomplishing both these ends. They
aimed TO harmonize the party by readmitting the
Charleston seceders. They hoped then to secure
the nomination of Seymour by rendering that of
Douglas impossible. Though Seymour was the
cynosure of their longing eyes, Guthrie lowered on
the outer circle of their hopes as dernier resort
if the Oneida Chief failed to obtain the prize
How signaly have the carefully concocted plans
of the Soft ntrguers been dashed in pieces at Bal
timore! Instead of uniting the party, they have
widened the Charleston breach. Instead of in
spring harmony through its ranks, they have
thrown them into irretrievable dscord. Instead
of securing peace between Earring sections they
have plunged them into war where quarter is
neither asked nor shown. On the test question of
the resdmission of the Charleston seceders, they
held the destiny of the Convention, and, indeed,
of the party itself, in their hands Their thirty
five votes determined the result. A change from
the negative to the affirmative would have adopted
the minority report of the CredeDtial Committee
and restored the seceders to their seats by twenty
majority. They originally intended to have voted
TO nc init them, and, by thus concating the South
take the first step toward the nomination of Sey-
mour. But the NOrth-W inexorably demanded
the fulfilling of the pledge to Douglas given on the
occasion of their admission at Charleston. They hes
taed and cogitated. They almost quarreled in open
Convention, and often retired professedy to con-
suit, but really to smother their chickering's. Their
leaders impored to be spared from taking the fatal
plunge; but the DOuglastes were remorseless. |
Rule or ruin was their motto, ard they pushed the
Soits the brink into the chasn. In their leap,
they dragged the Convention and tie party after |
them the incensed Dicknsonites in the delegation |
hurting the broken Pledges at their heads they
went down. For the Sots had not even the poor |
consolation of feeling that this suicidal leap was the
united act OF the delegation. A resolute minority
OF twenty-seven anti Douglasites, combining more
than proportonate share of the talent and worth
OF the body, favored the readmisscu of the |
seceders. Repeated consultations having failed to |
harmony If sentiment on this vial point, the
minority forced into submission by the screw |
Of the Syracuse unit" resolution.
As to the Seypo link in this programme it |
was broken a. an early stage Of the contest in the
Convection at Baltimore it, indeed, it ever reached
the threshold of that body in sound co dition.
The Dickinsopites and the Douglasites, though
agreeing 10 nothing else, gave the admirers of the
Oreda Chef early and unequivocally to under
stand that they would not tolerate coaliti,n with
the South which aimed 10 elevate him over tbe