The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-18

"r"ites aunt 'pat tuch tn'rh party would
take from their ranks some of the lesser debris
Of the ole whig and Know Nothing orgaaiza-
lions which now adhere to them, but they be-
Hove that if no new designating element is
Suffered to appear, their loss on this side will
he very small. Moreover, they are confident
that II will divide the conservative element ia
the Central States, ard deprive the democratic
candidate OF much support that he would re-
ceive in the event of simple conflict between
the two great parties, or even of one between the
republicans, the democrats and the boiling fol-
lowers Of Douglas Their idea, therefore, ia to
foster this third party movement to contribute
secretly to the preliminary supplies of money
for banquets, meetings, &c, and perhaps to
lend it occasionally q speaker or two in
pinch. BY pursuing this course they count
upon so splitting up the conservative element
in the Central States that in most il not all of
them the republican party will be left with
plurality which will secure to 1t the electoral
vote or, at the worst throw the election of Pre-
sidens into the present House of Representa-
tives. The battle is to be fought in the Cen
trail States, and 1t is there that the dsorgauza-
ton Of the conservative element Is to be Of
fected.
The democratic nomination at Charleston
will be first made, and followed by the bolt Of
Douglas Next will come the nomination of
the new Union party, and last in order the re-
publican nomination at Chicago. To avoid the
stirring up Of jealousy in the republican ranks,
to deprive his New England and Western rivals
of any new pretext to supersede him, and to
secure the Chicago nomination, Seward has de-
and exciting topics of the day his lips will re-
main sealed. On incidental topics and unim-
portant subjects he will talk and act But on
the great points Of leadership he will neither
act nor speak until after the Chicago Conven-
ton has made its choice. He has adopted the
policy of mastery inactivity" in the hope of
triumph both in the Convention and after
wards, amid the division Of parties in the field.
The Northern Republican Journals and
the south.
The present course of the Northern republi-
can journals is tending directly to civil convul-
sion and to bloody revolution. Ever since
the settlement of the Kansas question these
journals have taken new ground and assumed
holder attitude. A guerrilla war was set ON
foot in that Territory by the anti.slavery lead
ers Of tie North, which at one time threatened
to extend to the whole country, like little fire
in one corner of building, which, if neglected,
spreads on every side, and soon wraps the
whole in flames. Fortunately the inccndiary
fire of civil war was extinguished in Kansas by
the action of the administration, and the return
ing good sense Of Congress-. Thus deprived Of
an issue by which the anti-slavery question
might be brought to crisis, and revolution
precipitated on the country, the republican
journals and republican leaders of the North
became every dey more violent with the inten-
ton of creating new issue, and stirring up
the passions Of men like John Brown to the
point of savage fury and in7asion of the
South and at the same time exasperating
the Southern States to the verge of Sc
cession. Helpers Impending Crisis" and
the horse thiers raid a. Harper's Ferry
were godsends to these journals. Instead of
soothing the South, and denouncing John
Brown as a murderer, they exalted him to the
rank of hero and demi- god--some making
him equal and some superior to Washington,
Instead Of repudiating the sentiments of Help
er's reasonable book, they offered 10 sell it,
and do sell it over their counters, and they
sustain as candidate for Speaker in the House
of Representatives q man who has endorsed it.;
and the whole republican party in the House,
under the influence of their teachings, DO the
same thing.
The chief republican. journals in this city
the Tribune, the Post, the Courier and Enquirer,
and the Tmes-have exhausted the English
vocabulary by their use of epithets assailing
the South and its institutions. They keep up
continual fire against the shareholders, and
represent them as the vilest of human beings
men whom it would be no political, moral or
religious crime to get rid Of in the most sam
mary manner. In order to excite the North
against the South, they exaggerate and paint
in the darkest colors every violent proceeding
in the Southern States against Northern incen-
diaries They caricature and misrepresent the
South in every way. One OF them even charges
Southern slavery with being the cause of fero-
cious duelling. Under such inspiration q
member Of Congress talks of invading the
South with eighteen millions Of men in arms,
while another leader tells her if she does not
keep quiet the North will whip her into SUBJ
mission. Thus the antislavery crusade of the
present time is even more violent than il was
when it began thirty years ago, and produced
such tremendous excitement, and even violence
and outrage, in this city.
Now, if we tread upon worm it will turn,
and even mean usurious Jew, when his face
is spit upon, and be Is called "cut-throat dog"
will resent the insult How much more may
We expect the chivalrous men Of the South to
do so, when educated in a higher school of