The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-04-27

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While the cohesive power that the public
plumber has always exhibited In the democratic
ranks ia producing a crystaiIzstion of the dis
cordant elements at Charleston, the signs Of
dissension and Reorganization in the black
republican party begin TO multiply, and before
long they will have very pretty set Of quar-
reis on their hands.
1t has always been noted that the spoils
question has produced a very different effect
upon the democratic organization and on that
of the opposition to 1t. The democrats always
quarrel over tho division Of the plumber after
the fight II won, aud unite whom the battle Is
to be fought; while the opposition ~ regularly
quarrel about the spoils before the fight takes
place, and through their chickering's lose the
object that was the motive of dissension. This
is what is taking place now. The black
republican party is composed Of Q part of
the debris Of the old wing party and .
section Of the democracy that has seeded
from its old affiliations. 1t has, therefore, It's
democratic wing and its whig wing, and the
two have already begun their contentious.
The whig element Ia led by Seward and his
allies, while the democratic follows Banks of
Massachusetts Chase, of Ohio, and others, who
came into the republican camp from the old
antagonist of the wings
Each of these sections possesses ito peculiar
characteristics, in many things Numerically
opposed to each other, and oftentimes, by their
contrary impulses, destroying the active
energy of the party. The great characteristic
of the wing section is its deep rottenness and
corruption, and its greediness for plumber.
Matteson is the Incarnation of its principle,
and he was elected from Congress with the
reprobation of portion of bis party for prac.
Using it there. The late Legislature of this
State was its practical exponent, the most I'M
blusbiDg bribery being openly carried out
While this body was in session, and when Its
corruption was evident to every one, the
black republican Convention met at Syracuse
and finally adjourned without a word
infamous practices. Recent events in
Massachusetts show that the same divisions
exist in the black republican ranks, and the
editor of one of its organs in Boston, having
been recently dismissed from the military staff
of Gov Banks, naively confesses that "there is
good deal of difference between q republi-
can and Banks republican,"
These dissensiops between the wing and the
democratic sections of the black republican
party are likely to break out with great force
in the Chicago Convention, and the affection
for the Niger has little probability of being
strong enough to control the discordant party
elements. 1t Is evident that the fever of aboli
tiouism has passed its crisis ia the present az
tack, and that the rising spirit Of conservatism
on one hand, and the settling Of the party
squabbles among the democrats on the other,
will lead to the defeat and dissolution of the
present black republican organization. There
are shrewd leaders enough within it who clear
~ perceive this, and who will not involve
themselves 30 deeply in the corruption Of the
old whig leaders as to make black record to
stand against their future hopes and labors.