The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-09-28


cIANs--It is pretty generally conceded that.
without perfect coalition among ell the con-
servative elements Of Massachusetts, opposed to
Lincoln. they are simply setting themselves up
like ten pins for the amusement of the repubN.
can bowlers. Aud yet we fud these conserve
tive elements of the old Bay State divided into
three different parties, and supporting three
different tickets, thus making fair opening for
sweeping republican triumph, even II THAI
party represented less than half the populag
vote.
Bnt to make these divisions Of the antfe-
publican forces still more ridiculous, they have
been blazoned to the world with all tho
pomp and circumstance Of prodigicus rai-
Hcatons, remarkable only for q vast amount
Of verbiage and old party rubbish, and
"sound and fury, signifying nothing" At
the late Breckenridge ratification meeting ia
fremont Temple the orators were Mr.. Benja-
min +. Hallett, the old platform builder Of the
democratic party, and Gen. Caleb Cushing, the
man Of many requirements of whom 1t Wal
probably be said hereafter, as Of Goldsmith's
village schoolmaster, that
--- Still tha wonder rev
That one small head should carry all be knew
And yet from neither Of these veteran poll
ticians who have grown gray and bald, and
fat and foolish. from the epoils Of their pre-
LESSONS SIS party leaders, can we obtain sin
gle practical suggestion of any value to the
common cause against the black republicans.
Mr.. Hallett exposes the fallacies Of squattsr
sovereignty, the follies Of the democratic poll
ticians, and all that; but he has nothing better
to recommend than his cid worm eaten, worn
out and broken down platforms Of democratic
principles. General Gushing looks over the
field of battle with his spyglass, and sabstaA-
TALLY tells us that Douglas will not get single
Southern electoral vote, except, perhaps, from
Missouri; that of himself he will not get soli-
tary Northern vote; that he has NO more chance
of an election ia any event, than the man in
the moon; that John Bell is Of no account;
that Mr.. Breckenridge will probably carry the
entire South, in which event he will only re-
quire thirty. two Northern electoral votes to
make him our next President; and that, conse-
quently, the only way to defeat Lincoln
is to unite upon Breckenridge And this
is all that General Gushing can do for the crisis.
the man who has belonged to every great poll
teal party Of the last forty years, who has
travelled round the world, and who knows
something even Of the Chinese languages and
of the party politics involved in the great
Chinese revolution.
We next come to the late great Union ratia-
cation meeting in Boston Of the Bell-Everett
party, at which those distinguished politicians,
hat ~ D;nA~ n
s. Fay, were the speakers. And what have
they to recommend. Mr.. Fay recommends
the constitution. Wise man, that. Mr.. Curtis
discusses the bred Scott decision, New Mexico,
his own consistency, and holds that "ths de-
mocratic party has lost the power Of being use
full to the country" Mr.. Winthrop glorifes the
Bell and Everett ticket, and will be happy to
that we can obtain from these three great guns
of the Massachusetts, BellEverett faction.
The Douglas faction stick to squatter sove-
reignty, the Little Giant and the regular de-
mocratic nomination, as they call 1t, and
denounce all boilers and disunioaists and
they work as II Mr.. Douglas were really
running with some hope, somehow, somewhere,
Of some possibility Of his election. And these
are the ways and means adopted In Massa-
chusets by the several factions concerned TO
prevent the federal government from falling
under the control Of sectional party pledged
and fanatically devoted to their zone idea Of
the suppression Of Southern slavery and the
slave power, peace or war.
The truth Is tha. Hallett, Gushing, Wirthrcy,
Curtis, and all such old tinkering and fddliag
party politicians, are unequal to this crisis.
They cannot see beyond their noses. As horse
that has been stiaened up by hard service be-
fore an omnibus makes sorry hunter, 80 the
mere old party caucus politician, in the work
of political revolution, is sure to founder and
stick in the hedges or bitches Of his old party
principles or preiudices. And such are these
old Massachusetts politicians and the journals
and factions with which they are associated
They are blind as owls In the sun. Each Of
these little Massachusetts, factions has little
world Of it, own, and each Is q sort OF mutual
admiration society for the benefit of its lead
ing members. Fools can be found to follow
and worship anything: but the most consum-
mate donkeJs are those who follow the silly
leaders Of such little political factions a. these
Of Massachusetts,, In the hope that by.and-by,
something may turn up"
There Is no hope, looking to the result Of
this Presidential election, to any faction or any
party, IL any quarter, opposed to Lincoln, ex-
cept from ihe simple, Common sense policy ola
common cause among them all against him.
Had the several cliques aud their managing
politicians II Massachusetts, concerned adopted
this policy in season, they nigh. have shaken
The nigger-ihe republican idol-from his pc
destal In their owa State, aud they would surely
have given powerful lift to III. Union cause
IN other States But with such twaddling, old
fogy, antediluvian newspaper organs as the