The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-09-16

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and now she shows herself in favor III
it. She has preached in favor of established
governments, and now she countenances insur-
rection What then, will be the effect of such
examples upon the English mind, and are they
not likely to react disastrously upon herself?
Just as the first French Revolution followed the
first American Revolution, SO may the second
American Revolution be succeeded by reyolu-
ton in England-the latter nearly direct con-
sequence of the former. It will therefore be
well for the British government to take warn
ing in time, and not lose sight of the future in
their present policy towards this country;
otherwise the present British monarchy may be
swept away as ruthlessly as was that of France.
In no former age could this have been done as
easily as in our own, and no event is capable
OF inducing causes more provocative of it than
the one which now agitates this continent.
The Moral Victory mt Syracusc-Triumph
OF Conservative IDEAS.
Tho results of the late Peoples Convention,
held at Syracuse, must be gratifying to all loyal
men throughout the North. 1t was one of the
largest conventions that has assembled in the
State, conservative in its bearings and highly
national in political sense. 1t not only pur
sued safe policy, declaring itself in favor of
a vigorous prosecution of the war, and for
strengthening the hands Of the administration,
that it might more speedily put down the rebel
lion--and all this without any ifs or ands--but
it forced the republican party from its radical
and extreme platform. Its platform, when COM
pared with the sneaking, double dealing and
many sided resolutions of the late Democratic
Convention, is exceedingly satisfactory. We
can, in fact look upon the result of this gather
ing of the people in no other light than the COM
plete overthrow of all factions in the State
The hards and softs, hunkers and barnburners
silver grays and woolley heads, radicals. abo-
litionists, Americans, shOddyists and all other
ciques and combinations have all gone down
together, and new, conservative and national
party has sprung into existence, pledged to sup
port the government, maintain the constitution
and the restoration of the country to its former
condition.
The conservative and national tendency of
Convention into the same channel, and sue
cecded in putting down the men of radical ideas
on all sides. The republican party likewise
now stands before the world stripped of its
Chicago platform, forced to abandon it by the
uprising of the people. When Lucius Robin
son, before the war really commenced, led
off in the State Assembly in favor of COM
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all sides as abandoning the Chicago plat
form and the fundamental principles of
the republican creed. Weed alone, of all
the leaders of the republican party in the
State, planted himself on similar platform, and
was denounced by not only the Greeley faction,
but by many of his personal associates, and ac-
cused of being traitor to his party. Less than
nine months have rolled around since that posi-
ton was taken by Weed and Robinson, and we
now find that the republican party, in its own
Convention, has abandoned the Chicago platform,
and been forced upon issues and to support
candidates conservative and national The re-
publicans have even been compelled to take
Robinson as one of their standard bearers and
have not man on their ticket of the extreme
TcpuDllCun luilN w NaleVer may DC SalQ OF
Weeds defeat, in local or personal sense, no
one can deny but that, in national point of
view, he has triumphed over Greeley; and such
it will be considered not only at Washington,
but throughout the country. The platform
enunciated is national, and without any attacks
upon the administrations the candidates nomi-
mated are all, without exception, conservative;
the ideas and doctrines daily advocated in the
Tribune and Times have not a representative on
the ticket or silver in the platform. In this
view the public receive it; and we now rejoice
that the people, and even the republican party,
have declared that they have had enough of the
Chicago platform. While our military generals
are preparing for q glorious victory over the
armed extremists of the South, we are thus per-
mtted to record an equally important moral
victory over the extremists of the North
Our Royal AND FOREIGN MILITARY VIsrrERs-