The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-25

which began some years since, and now leaves
the people free from all their old party afi-
liations and ties.
cations began with the defeat Of Gen. Scott and
the breaking up Of the wing party in 1852, and
the subsequent attempts to create an organiza-
ton on the proscriptve platform of the Know
Nothings Of 1854 and the destructive abolition
idea Of an irrepressible conflict between
North and South, which is now being promul-
gated BY the sectional Northern party, belong
TO the same order of things The Know
Nothings died of an excess of zeal for proscrip-
tive Americanism, and the black republicans,
whether Lincoln be elected or not to the Pre-
sidency, will die Of the same excessive Jealous
ness for an impracticabls mania for revolution.
Their leaders have thrown over their strongest
man, and weakened the party ties to degree
that cannot be recovered, and they must end
in disintegration and subsistence into small abo-
lition faction. This political revolution has now
eliminated in the breaking up of the majority
since 1928; and on Saturday the politicians
who have managed II passed at Baltimore the
solemn act absolving the masses from their old
allegiance, and presented two sets of political
leaders soliciting their SURFACES. No individual
democrat can hold fealty TO both Of the conflict
ing organizations that have come out of the
ruins Of the old party with which he acted, and
every one is now freed from his party ties, and
10 go whittier he listeth. Neither Breckenridge
nor Douglas has any claim on him on account
of the past, and they must base their claims to
popular support, in the new order Of things, on
the same ground where they will meet SO many
other claimants for popular favor-future SER
vices and true spirit of national craftsmanship.
Whoever takes broad view of the coun-
try and its attendant circumstances cannot
fail to perceive what the new order Of
things really is. II is supposed that the state
Of affairs in relation to political parties which
existed in 1924 is repeated now; and though
this Is true as regards the breaking up Of old
organizations, it is not so for the formation of
new ones. Then the adherents Of Jackson.
Adams, Calhoun, Clay and Crawford all came
from the old republican party, and each gather
ed to itself accretions from the loose elements
Of party politics, and from the then rising gene
ration of men. The new parties were ranged
after the old system Of political tactics To-day
this cannot be done. New circumstances attend
the country, new elements must exercise their
influence on parties, and totally different sys-
TEN of tactics is required to attain success in
future political campaigns
The country has become too large to warrant
the idea that il can be divided into two great
national parties, or that any purely sectional
party can succeed. Our sectional interests are
too numerous and varied to permit that. From
duct our national affairs, and the policy they
pursue, shall be Of higher order,
and partakc more purely Of a national character,
than mere local politicians can ever become.
Those who look only 10 success in State and
county elections are Incompetent TO conduct the
affairs of nation embracing hemisphere. As
a consequence of this state Of things, the old
scheme Of party organization, through a con-
nected chain Of county conventions, State con-
yentions, and national conventions, in which
the same men figure at all times, has become an
impossibility. This Is clearly exemplifed in the
present state Of the press all over the land.
The old system Of county journals, led by one
or two political organs at the capital, has been
superseded by the national journals, which the
independent newspapers Of this metropolis have
become. II is no longer in the power of the
county newspapers and the political organs TO
make great men by system Of elaborate and
continued putting Public men, as they appear
in the arena Of public affairs, are subject to the
independent judgment Of national journalism,
and they must grow or diminish in reputation
as their views are broad or contracted. their
motives high or low, and their deeds national
or sectional.
Here we have new element in the future Or
ganization Of political parties which has never
before existed. The independent journals of
this metropolis constitute u national congress
in permanent session. where measures and
men are continually discussed as they rise, and
which Is destined 10 exercise q continually in
creasing power among the people and in govern
mcnt IL is this congress which will in the main
animate and direct the ideas Of the people, and
every mile Of new telegraph or new railroad
every improvement In the transmission Of intel
ligence and newspapers, tends 10 increase its
influence. Under its guidance the natural ma
tional impulses Of the people will break up the
old system Of county and town party organize
tons, in which the same professional politicians
and Office hunters assume the right TO draw the
same party lines in national and in local affairs.
Higher and nobler motives than greed for Office
will thus become infused into the conduct Of all
our public interests, and we'shall get rid OF the
spoils hunting mania, which has 10 long been
the banc of national State, county and town
politics alike.
Let Mr.. Breckenridge and Mr.. Douglas take all
these things into consideration. In the new posi-