The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-11

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The Inevitable Result OF = Quarrel ut
Richmond and Baltimore-Merits Of
the Political Compilation.
1t is daily becoming more evident that the
political cliques which control the Richmond
and Baltimore Conventions are determined to
run two democratic candidates, although they
see clearly that the result of such an insane
course will be to throw the government and
the vast interests of the country into the hands
of the fanatical and sectional leaders of the
black republican party.
So blinded with anger and personal i'll feel
ing are the office seeking sdherents of the Sc
veral aspirants, that they are continually ex-
claiming, when driven by reason to contem-
plate the inevitable result of their quarrels,
"Better have Lincoln than Davis" or, from the
other side, "Better have Lincoln than Doug
las" and thus each consents to its own defeat
rather than see ib opponent triumph. The
true cause of this state Of things among the
political managers is their want Of statesman
ship and national sentiment. The class Of men
who now control the political organizations all
over the country, North as well as South,
look merely to triumph in local or State cleo.
tons, and their broadcast field Of argument
covers only section, North or South, and not
the whole Union. They forget that 1t IL by the
Union that the States attain their prosperity
and power, and that the act of confederation Is
the substratum Of all our local political sys-
TENS. As natural consequence of this state
Of things, the several cliques now about to
meet In so-called national conventions claim
that the political impulse Of the whole confed-
GRAFTON shall be 90 directed - to secure them
q triumph in the local distribution Of Offices
and spoils. Thus the Southern nreeaters want
. national platform that shall make them the
national and powerful party In the Southern
States; the squatter sovereignty advocates from
the Northwest claim that the national platform
shall be thrown into their scale In local politics;
the Pennsylvania and New Jersey managers
clamor for tariff platform to keep them right
at home; and the professional politicians from
New York and New England trade with all
and cheat all, in the hope Of being on the win
ming side and securing for themselves the fede-
raj loaves and fishes after the election.
This contest and balancing of the different
interests Of the country is right and proper, so
long a. II is directed to the establishment of
the great principle Of the greatest good of the
greatest number. But when 1t goes beyond
this-when the personal feelings Of ambitious
candidates for nomination are allowed to en-
bitter its operation and to create the feeling
we to-day witness, that the highest and best
interests Of the country shall be sacrificed be-
cause local designs cannot be achieved-it be.
comes an unmixed evil, that should be re-
proved by every man In whose bosom the ma
tionsl sentiment exists. This Is the conclusion
towards which the people are now tending, In
the North and in the South. They care nothing
for Davis or Douglas personally, nor for the
insane quarreIs between them, which have
grown out Of their own copartnership In the
weak and imbecIle policy which animated poor
Pierce and his Cabinet. They care only for the
preservation Of their private and individual In
terssts, which are bound up In the peace and
brotherhood Of this confederation and from
the moment that the two cliques shall have
contaminated their rupture, they will sink
into the condition Of quarrelsome and con-
temptible miroriles everywhere. 1t is their
relation TO the national party organization that
to-day makes them respectable. Destroy that,
and their own merits, as local politicians and
inriguers, will not eniine them to the position
Of regimental drumnsrs in national cam
paien.
1t Ia clear to every man not immediately
connected with this fight for Office and spoil
that as soon as the Douglas and Davis cliquss
shall have demonstrated their deternia stion
10 win or throw the victory into the hands Of
the black republicans, by the nomination OF
two Presidential tickets, they will be deserted
BY the great masses Of the conservatives, who
To- day hope to give their votes to some Union
candidate that may carry the whole country
with him. Neither Davis as purely sectional
candidate IN the South, nor Douglas a. one az
the Nsrth, possesses any Intrinsic strength.
In both sections they viii range their cpposius
ergasiza,iors. and ire Iesal, Of such proceed.
iug will be to scatter TIE electoral votes Of
TIE Southern States anoDg Bell H,us
Ton. Davis aad Douglss, While al
hose Of The Central s,d Nor,aera States
wN he given TO LircoI5, through the
ti',dicg Up o. tie popular majority opposed
&C Mn The most 'bs' n. Douglas ard Davis