The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-24

the secession of the Southern States. There is
nothing, however, very consoling to the friends
of the Little Giant" in the circumstances at
vote of this rump Convention voting for Presi-
DENTAL candidate was
As it appears. ................... ......... 1872
And the electoral vote of the seceders and neu-
trails was. ........ ......'......'.''.'.. III
Making the'whole electoral vote of the Union,
which Is. ..................'... ooo
Our reports of the proceedings, ending in these
results, will give the reader the small fractions
of the Southern vote fraterpizing for Douglas,
and the several detachments of Northern dele
gates who operated against him. Substantially,
Mr.. Douglas is confined as Presidential candi-
date to the Northern States; for doubtless the
Seceders' Convention will put up ticket on their
Southern rights platform which will carry all the
Southern States that are not carried by the Bell
and Everett ticket. This ticket has now very
good prospect of carrying, not only Maryland,
but Delaware North Carolina, Tennessee, Ken
lucky, and even Old Virginia, which, thus far
has never failed as the Southern bulwark Of the
democracy
1t is the general impression that the Seceders'
Convention will nominate some such ticket as
Caleb Gushing and Jefferson Davis. This, or
any other respectable ticket, upon the platform
embodied in the late resolutions of the United
States Senate on the slavery question, will CON-
mand the bulk Of the democratic popular vote
of the Southern States, and sufficient vote,
perhaps, in every otherwise doubtful Northern
State, to leave Mr.. Douglas in the exact position
ofVan Buren, in 1S4S-without solitary eecto-
raj vote to compensate him for all his troubles.
On the other hand in the border slave States,
where portion Of the democracy are pretty
strongly tincturcd with that sort of free solism
known as squatter sovereignty, Douglas will
take away from the Southern democratic ticket
votes enough, beyond doubt, to give
those States to John Bell And so, If the cleo
ton be thrown into the House, Mr.. Douglas will
not De the third highest candidate, but Bell will
be the man.
But with the election carried into the House,
the "irrepressible conflict" there will unques-
tionably continue from February, when the
question will come up, till the 4th of March,
when the session expires. In that event the
power OF the House over the subject expires,
and the man from the two highest candidates
from the people, who may be elected Vice Prcsi-
dent by the Senate will become the President
of the United States. 1t follows, then, that If
gress, the House will fail to make an election in
the brief interval to the 4th Of March, and that
the Southern or anti-Douglas democratic candi-
date for Vice President will, in all probability,
become the President.
In any event, therefore, Mr.. Douglas has be-
come negative quantity in this election. He
may operate to carry the contest into the
House; but there he will have only one vote,
that of Illinois, resulting from his present ma
jority Of FIVE to four in that delegation. The
election, then, will 90 to the Senate, unless
the republicans should strike Q bargain
with the Southern opposition-a thing which 1t
will be very difficult to bring about; and once
In the Senate, the result will be as we have
described IL, unless Edward Everett should
come forward as the second highest Vice Presi-
DENTAL candidate.
But TO carry the election into the House |
thirty-one votes Of the Northern States must be |
taken away from the republican ticket. New
York will do, or Pennsylvania and New Jersey;
but how are these to be carried against the re-
publicans' They can only be taken from them
by joint stock electoral ticket Of the parties
opposed TO Lincoln. The prospect, however,
for any such joint stock combination Is dim and
dubious. The shortest way to rational con-
clusion Is from the assumption that, under the
circumstances, the elements Of opposition TO
the republicans will be FILTERED away. Lincoln
will thus be our next President by a majority
of the electoral votcs
We have no regrets meantime, 10 express
over the broken down democracy. We con-
gratulate the American people that this corrupt
and demoralized party Of Juggling and swim
ding spoikmen, with political vagabonds and
Migrants as is managers, has at last
been broken TO piecee from their quarrels
over the spoils. For the last twenty-five
years we have been laboring for sweeping re-
volu,ion In our political parties. We hailed the
beginning Of this revolution In the downfall
and dispersion Of the old wing party In 1852;
we accepted the dissolution Of the senseless
mushroom Know Nothing party as another in
stalment Of this revolution; and now, with tho
disruption Of the demoralized democracy. we
have only the sectional republican party TO dis
pose Of, In order 10 have clear field for q new
order Of things.
The defeat or the election OF Lincoln will be
the beginning Of the end of this republican
party. Assuming that Lincoln viii be elected.
we know, from The experiments Of the last TWEEN
~ years In President making. tina, he will break
down his party from his inability 70 make one
eoice do for ten applicants. Before elk months !
OF his administration shall have passed BY, he J