The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-09
Progress OF the Political Revelation
The Republicans in Danger.

what new party will replace the old. When the
corr,,ptions and divisions OF the democracy re-
suited in its breaking up at Charleston and Dalti
more, the republican journals and leaders cried
on, eAultngy Now we have sure thing-the
game is in our hands," But it turns out after
all, that there is no certainty; on the contrary,
doubts and fears are casting their gloomy sha-
dows over the minds of the republican chiefs.
They are alarmed-they say there is danger"
In proof of this we refer TO remarkable
article, reprinted in another column, from
the Albany Erening Journal, headed "The
Single Danger" The old stager takes the horo-
scope Of the political heavens and he sees in the
horizon ga little cloud, like man 8 hand, rising
out of the sea- but growing larger and blacker
every moment, and threatening at last to over
spread the whole armament and explode in
terrible crash, carrying destruction to the hopes
which the republican party had cherished.
Nothing in politics." says the Journal "is
more fatal than to underrate the strength of the
enemy. This is being done just now to an
alarming extent by the republicans. 1t will
result in disaster, if it leads to nothing beside
exuberant anticipations. The sooner the con-
viction presses itself home, that We must work
Systematically or be beaten, the better"
Whence this sudden alarm? 1t is the progress
Of the revolution, which, having disposed of
the democracy now menaces the republi-
can party with the same fate. When
revolution breaks out in this country it is i'm
possible to say where it will end. 1t cannot be
arrested by governments or the tricks of d.
plomacy. If the physical force revolutions in
Europe, in 1913, had not been stayed by stand
ing armies and the combinations of tyrants.
they would have gone forward till now, or till
that section of the globe was revolutionzed
But they were stopped by kingcraft and priest
craft for ten years. The moral and political
revolutions Of this country cannot be suppress
ed or checked in the same way, for there are no
dynssties and no standing armies, and there is
no power superior to the people, whose,,own in
telligence is their guide. Once break down
the barriers of party organization and it is like
the giving way Of the artificial embankments
which con6ne the Mississippi, near New Or
leans. "The King Of Floods" pours his waters
through the crevasse, and deluges and lays
waste the country far and wide. None can say
with certainty what will be the extent of the
damage, or the duration of the inundation.
Thus no politician can determine the limits of
the political revolution, which, like the Father
Of Waters" now sweeps the land. Before
three months the republican party may fall be-
meath the surging waves Of the popular will
We cannot yet tell how this may be brought
about. For instance seeing that there are four
candidates now in the field, the friends of Mr..
Seward may advise him to make fifth-being
cheated out of the nomination by Greeley
and his chances, if he were now in the field.
being as good as those Of any other candi-
date. Or, supposing that the democrats of
the North make up their minds, even at the
eleventh hour, to run but one candidate, and
that candidate Mr.. Douglas. and surprising that
the conservative elements would rally around
him for the purpose of defeating Lincoln. what
would become # the republican candidate in
that event? And assuming further, that in the
South the conservative Union sentiment should
concentrate its strength on Bell. and carry
majority of the Southern States. defeating the
Southern scctosal ticket of Breckenridge on the
very same grounds as the Northern sectional
ticket of Lincoln, either Bell or Douglas might
be elected, or there would be no election by
the people AID who can predict what the re-
suit would be in Congress, or whether, with the
revolution in progress. and parties in a transit
ton state. even the Presidential electors
before the assembling Of Congress, might
not catch the revolutionary contagion, and de-
eide the question themselves in manner very
different from the programmes of the shattered
and disorganizcd parties who elected them. If
parties sIe broken up and the authority Of con.
ventions overturned. by what ties are the cleo
tors TO be bound. As there is cheating all
round, may not q sufficient number Of the cleo
ton cheat so as to change the apparent result
of The contest in November or may not others
Of them conclude that under the peculiar and
anomalous circumstances Of the times. there il
a discretion vested 10 them TO be exercised
rather In favor Of the country at large than the
fragment OF disrupted party?
This is a supposable case. II may or may
rot happen. We cannot tell where the revolu.
ton will stop. or what may be the complexion
Of the new party who will take the rcins of
power on the 4th OF March. 1861. When the
French revolution broke out in P,tss in 1873. it
would at first have been satisfied with change
Of ministry and some reforms. Bu, when these
demands were refused. and when the popular
fury gathered strength by opposition and delay.
even the deposing Of the monarch was not
sufficient TO arpease the whole dynasty
must he swept away. aud the very forms of
monarchy itselc So may 1t be now in the
United States. II Is evident that the seer of
Albany fears this contamination. He SAYS
I'VE refer to the subject now because we are
impressed with Tie danger to be apprehcnded
fiom the spirit of over confidence which pre-
walls everywhere. Altogether too much il
being taken for granted. II is the single cloud
In our pCl,ical horizon. and IA canuo, n. d;s.