The New York herald., 1864-06-28

| heres to that worst agglomeration Of imbecility
that ever pretended to govern country. And
! now q new fact condemns it. General Grants
hard blows have failed of their full effect
| through the Presidents blanders and the crimi-
| nal weakness and incapacity of his Cabinet.
Will he not now give the country some hope for
the future by calling new advisers to his assist
| ance? Will he not remove these overtried in-
capables and put practical men in his Cabinet,
even at this eleventh hour?
Tho Fremont Ratification AIcoting-A
Very Significant Sign OF tho Times.
The Fremont ratification meeting at the
Cooper Institute last night was an affair well
calculated to create great and powerful po-
litical sensation. Read our report Of the pro.
ceedings elsewhere in this paper. We have
here the formal and enthusiastic christening,
"drums beating and colors flying" Of this new
political party, styled "the radical democracy"
although organized and set in motion by the
radical anti-Lincoln republicans, and the most
Indifferent observer of passing events will
recognize in this extraordinary demonstration
very significant political movement But
when we turn to the grand, exciting and en-
thusiastic popular Fremont ratification meeting
in ST. Louis, we are almost constrained to
inquire, is not this the beginning of another
political revolution, and another popular year
Of jubilee, like that of 1840, against the corrupt
party in powers
1t has been supposed that this Fremont Pre-
sidential venture was contrivedfor the purpose
Of selling out to the trading democracy, after
the fashion Of those Independent party move
ments Of the last five or six years of the Brooks
Brothers, Of the New York Express. But from
the suicidal postponement Of the Chicago Con-
vention, and from the divisions and disntesra-
tions of the forlorn democracy, the prospect
now is that the remaining Northern rump of
this once all powerful party will disappear and
die out with the absorption of its elements
mainly by this Fremont organization, but
partly by the loyal leagues Of Lincoln. Mr..
August Belmont and his National Committee of
the Douglas democracy OF 1860, however, in
postponing the Chicago Convention from the
4th of July to the 10Th Of August, justify this
proceeding upon the plea that in the interval
the events OF the war may clearly indicate to
all concerned the ticket of the party, aad the
way to harmony and success. What stupidity!
The party, or what is left Of it, going to pieces
on all sides for want of little putty, and the
absurd idea adopted that, with the work Of re-
union postponed till the fall the fragments
can be more easily put together. "Bray fool
in a mortar" says Solomon, the wise man of
Israel, 'and his folly will not depart from
him."
From present appearances there will be moth
ingpeft of the dismantled democracy in the fall
except this Belmont Douglas committee, the
Thomas B. nceBreckinridge committee
the Albany Regency committee, the Tammany
War committee, the Mozart Peace committee
and the vallandsham-Je Davis committees
OF the Western States for, except these excep-
tons, the rank and file Of the party will have
| gone over to Fremont, all but few stra gglers
| for Lincoln. Have Mr.. Belmont and his COM
mittee, and the Albany Regency, forgotten the
consequences Of the postponemeut Of the
| Charleston Convention Of 1860 What that
foolish proceeding-for the sake Of harmony
has left of the Northern wing Of their party
this Chicago postpouement will be very apt to
carry of. This thing will be 30 far accom-.
plished, we dare say, before the goth Of August,
that the convention will be indefinitely post
poned, and every man and the various COM
mittees Of the party, East and West, left to
take their own course for Fremont or Lincoln.
Where the mass Of the old democracy, once
disbanded will 60, 1t is not difficult to foretell.
They will naturally gravitate to Fremont and
the new radical democracy, and Fremont will
thus become formidable antagonist Of Lin.
colin. There will, We apprehend, be no decisive
results in the Geld Of the war In the interval to
September upon which the democratic party
can hope to get up better organization than
they can make on the Fourth OF July. The
war may "drsg Its slow length along" beyond
the November election, beyond the 4th Of
March next, and deep into the next Presiden-
tial term. This may be expected with the con-
tinuancs Of Lincoln in Office, and this fear Is
gaining ground everywhere. The people are
getting heartily tired Of Abraham Lincoln.
The melancholy condition Of our financial A.
fairs b rendering them impatient Of delay
! They are ready 10 adopt the Harrison and Tyler
argument Of ls4o:-"Things cannot be made
worse than they sse, and they nay become
better under change Give us, therefore, .
change" Accordingly, In default Of regular
democratic ticket, the mass Of the old democ-