The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-05
the American idea in;tlactively rspels such

theory.
Upon these fallacies the political quacks and
the political fanatics, North and South, have
endeavored to construct platforms and build
up party organizations to further their own
selfish and corrupt ends; and In 30 doing nothing
is more natural than that they should get to
loggerheads, as they have done, and that as
one danger after another came up to the popu.
lar view, they should be abandoned by the
people, and the political ranks everywhere
should exhibit an inextricable confusion and
mingliDg Of parties. This is the spectacle that
lie presented everywhere in tho Union at the
present time. The Know Nothing leaders were
abandoned long since by the people, because
of the intolerance which their political theories
displayed. The ultra proslavery leaders have
lost the great mass of their followers, because
the people shhor their fallacies. The squatter
sovereignty doctrines are losing their rank and
dle, because Il is beginning to be seen that they
practically destroy the rights of the people
while pretending to maintain them. The
masses are rapidly falling away from the black
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elections in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Wis
consin, because they begin to perceive the revo-
lutionary and destructive designs that animate
them. Thus the political leaders are being
everywhere abandoned, and conventions and
cliques are COMPOUNDED by the instructive ad-
herence of the people to the true theory Of self
government, and the conviction that selfgo-
verned States, having different social organiza
tons, can exist and prosper in political con-
federation.
What the people now, everywhere, long for
is q political organization that shall discard
fanatics and fallacies together, and, returning
to the plain and impregnable theories Of the
founders of the.fspublic, proclaim political
creed consonant in all things with the inherent
idea of the American mind, and conservative
of the rights of self government, and of the
vast interests Of this great and growing COM
munity. They will not accept the idea of the
British feries, that any inherent right Of 60
vernment exists in Parliament or Congress,
nor that such q body can delegate what 1t does
not itself possess, nor that one State, or a
dozen, have the right to brand any political,
municipal or domestic regulation Of another
and sovereign State as Q sin and an evil
which must be abolished, Which Is the Con
venion, and which is the political party that
will take this, the only American ground
Show it TO lis, and we will show you the party
that the American people will entrust with the
executive powers of their government.
The CorroN CRoP AND THE CHARLESTON SEoEs-
SION MoyEMENT-The break up of the democra-
cy at Charleston has given but little concern to
the South or to the friends of Southern interests
They regard it, on the contrary, as the best
thing that could have happened, for compro-
mise from the detection of few Of the slave
States would have left matters In as unsettled Q
condition as before Now the issue is set fair
and square before the country, and there can
be no resuscitation of the democratic party ex.
cept upon a platform guaranteeing the fullest
security for Southern interests. II there are
any concessions to be made at Baltimore or
elsewhere, they will have to come from the
North.
The South is strengthened In this position py
ib unprecedentedly fourishing condition.
There never was period when it was so well
able TO stand alone. This years cotton crop
amounts In round numbers to 100000 bales,
Of which 100000 have come to mar
ket This Is a larger crop by 750,000 bales
than was ever before produced In o single
year. In money value the yield represents
about s250,000,0o0, and as the other crops
have turned out proportionately abundant, the
South has more reason than ever to feel con-
tented and satisfied with Its condition. Whilst
the West Is still suffering from the depression
caused by the panic Of 1857, the South has all
the time paid its way, and now the super.
abundance of its crops renders II more than
ever prosperous and rich With ib immense
yield Of raw produce, its young but promising
manufactures, and its enormous command Of
capital, II can easily become independent Of
the North, IL II chooses TO give greater de-
velopement to It's industrial resources and
foreign trade. The Southern delegations,
therefore, In their action at Charleston,
had no misgivings to perplex them Is
to the results OF the course which they
felt II necessary to take. They had but one
link to bind them 10 the North, and that was
equality Of rights and protection. This denied
them, they found themselves without motive
for the connection. They argued that part
nership, in which all the Apital was furnished
on one side, and all the arrogance and dictation
on the other, was not worth continuing, and
thew therefore felt justified In taking steps 10
put term to such an unfair and unequal con-
diHon Of things. The sounder elements Of the
democracy will back them up In this course Is
the only one calculated 10 restore union and dis
cipline to its organization. That the South do
not intend to recede from II plain, from ts Az
ing date for the meeting of is delegates at Rich
mond week prior TO that Of the democratic
Convention at Baltimore. This has been done
purposely to prove to the Northern section that