The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-01-30

has been SO long laboring under political bal
lucinaion. 1t Il decided symptom of return
ing convalescence We trust he will soon be
completely cured of squatter sovereignty.
The REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CONVENTION AT
CH1cAoo.-There is now dispute among the
republican leaders as to the time of holding
this Convention. The friends of Seward, seeing
that there was division in the republican
camp. produced by the effect Of the Harper's
Ferry raid and Helpers book on the public
mind, and that the more conservative portion
of the party were thus scared back from the
advanced position occupied by Mr.. Seward in
his declaration Of war to the knife against slave
labor in the Southern States, deemed it advisa-
BILE to have the National Republican Conven-
ton for the nomination of President postponed
to the latest possible day, in order to give time
for the split to be healed, the fears of the mode
rate men to subside, and the Seward stock TO
rise once more to its former high figure Ac-
cordingly they managed to have very late
day appointed-the 18th Of June.
Even that time is considered now too early
by Seward and Weed, and they would gladly
extend it further if they could. 1t is with the
same view that Mr. Seward is silent in the Sc
nate: he wants the troubled waters of agita-
ton to become calm till he gets the nomina-
ton, and then he will probably come out
with manifesto more fierce than that of Ro-
chester. His silence, however, like two
edged sword, cuts both ways, for 1t will proba-
bly, disgust the more rabid portion of the party;
and notwithstanding the polite quiescence
which he regards as "masterly inactivity" the
conservative and Union feeling is gaining
ground, and his rivals desire to take advantage
of it by changing the time for holding the Con-
vention to an earlier day.
Weed and Seward insist upon the middle of
June as the very earliest, in order that the
higher law apostle may have time to recover
from the injuries he has received in the "irre-
pressible conflict" which he set in motion be-
fore he went to Europe, and which in his alb.
sence became so hot and bloody, and now after
his return, threatens to become more sanguinary
and destructive, and to be extended on scale
of the most alarming dimensions. On the
other hand, his rivals Banks, Chase, Fessenden,
and particularly Bates-want to have the Con-
vention held soon, in order to kill him off
while he is down. The Tribune, which is the
organ of Bates, advocates the holding of the
Convention at least month earlier. It is pro-
bable, however, that it will not be held till the
middle of June, for Weed is engineering to pre-
vent an earlier day; and we need not tell our
readers that he knows how to pull political
wires, and that many who think themselves
amazingly smart are only puppets in his hands
DELEGATES TO THE CHARLESTON CONVENTION
We print In another part of this paper list Of
the delegates, so far as known, that have been
chosen to represent the democracy Of the seve-
raj States in the National Convention which Is
to meet ct Charleston on the Sd OF April next
The time for the Convention being 80 near at
hand, this list, though incomplete, will be found
quite interesting.
The Charleston Convention will have to meet
q very heavy responsibility. The canvass
which it opens will be the most important that
has taken place in this country since 1882,
when the conservative and commercial classes
Of the country rallied to the support of General
Jackson, who was battling against foes without
and traitors within his party, and triumphantly
returned him to the White House for a
second term. The insane fanaticism and odious
treason of the abolition party breaking out in
the Helper book, the Seward irrepressible con-
fict and the John Brown raid, have incensed the
South beyond measure and disguised all peo-
pie who have grain of common sense in the
North. 1t is expected, then, that the Charles
ton Convention will present candidate who
will command the votes of conservative ma
tional men in all sections of the country; and
the nomination of the right man would be equi-
valent to putting him in the right place. Many
of the delegates will 60 to Charleston pledged
to vote for certain candidates. As many as
half dozen prominent democrats such as
Wise, Hunter, Breckenridge, Douglas and
DckiDson-have votes promised in advance.
But none Of these men will do. They cannot
command the reserved vote. As we have pre-
viousIy demonstrated, Mr. Buchanan can COM
mand the united Southern vote, his full party
strength in the North, and the reserved vote of
the great Central States. His administration
has been distinguished by frmness, prudence
and sagacity, and his only opponents are disap-
pointed seekers after the spoils. Mr.. Buchanan,
then, is the only man for Charleston.
AMERICAN INTERVENTION IN CHNA.-In an
other column will be found notice of meet
ing of the Boston Board Of Trade, at which a
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