The New York herald., 1865-07-26

butchers quarreing to who should get them.
Lambs are in less demand aud worth IS SO each
or DC lie. per h. Receipts 18,066 Live hogs
coming freely, the arrivals beng 1ee34 for the
week. They are selling WELL but at lower rates,
11Hc. a lee.
The Present Political Situation as Conn
pared with that or 1862.
In the year 1861, from the fusing of all par
ties in support Of the administration and the
war for the Union, one might have supposed
that the Northern, like the Southern de-
mocracy, had been disbanded never to come
together again, except as paltry minority, in
any State. But in the year 1852 the Northern
democracy, on patriotic war platform, car
ried all the great Central States from New
York to Illinois, including the election of
Horatio Seymour as Governor of this State by
ten thousand majority. In the State elections
| Of that year, from the disasters of Mcclellan
and Pope, the Northern democracy hit the
nail upon the head in taking the field for a
"more vigorous prosecution of the war;"
Strangely enough, however, in 1868, when the
war Gettysburg and Vicksburg) was more
vigorously and successfully prosecuted, their
| Northern democracy, from Maine to California,
upon the ricketty and rotten platform of
"peace at any prices" and from Maine to Cali
fornia they were swept off like chaif in
whirlwind.
This should have taught the party to cast
aside their copperhead peace leaders, and to
fall back upon their solid war platform Of
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while they recognized the war in the nomi-
nation Of General Mcclellan, they ruined him
and his prospects by denouncing the war as
a failure, and demanding peace at any price.
Vallandigham, beaten the year before by a
hundred thousand majority in Ohio on this
platform, was yet permitted to make it the
democratic platform for their Presidential cam
paign. The result, of course, was repetit3R
Of the elections of 1868.
| Now the war is over. II has not turned
out failure, but grand and glorious success.
Looking, then, from this success back to the
elections of 1862, the democracy ought to have
sense enough to know what course to take in
reference to the approaching State elections Of
1865. They should recognize the practical
results of the war, including the abolition of
slavery, the washing out of the Chicago plat
form, the downfall of that pro-slavcry fallacy
of State sovereignty, and this other important
result, that all the party leaders supporting
this fallacy are dead cocks in the pit. The
Vallandighams, the Pendletons, the Seymours,
the WOods-FernandO and Ben-and all those
pestilental copperheads who have brought
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Northern democracy, should now be turned
adrift, and new leaders, identified with the
war, and new principles appropriate to the
new order of things should be adopted in the
place Of the old worn out party trumpery Of
| Southern democratic traitors and their North
ern mercenaries.
BY pursuing this policy, and by fighting tho
Chase-Jay Cooke programme of immediate and
unconditional negro suffrage, and the expansion
of the national debt as national blessing, the
democrats, considering the present unsettled,
discordant and disorganized condition of the
republican party on these issues, may repeat
to considerable extent their victories Of 1862.
The republicans in Ohio, by casting Chase and
his followers overheard and by nominating for
Governor fighting general fresh from the war,
have gained the inside track; but in New Jer-
sey, by blindly giving the go-by to one of the
most dashing, successful and popular generals
of the Union armies, and by setting up an old
political hack with nothing but the prestige of
defeat, they have left the door wide open for a
democratic victory.
In New York both parties are " lying around
loose," waiting for the moving Of the waters.
Governor Fenton may move them II he will
to some purpose by upsetting all the machinery
| Of the corrupt municipal establishment of this
wretchedly governed and horribly plundered
metropolis, and by making the question Of
thoroughgoing metropolitan government here
the issue Of our November State election.
Otherwise, upon the negro suffrage issue, and
| upon the principle that a great national debt
is not great national blessing, but great ma
tional burden, which ought to be reduced and
settled as soon as possible, the democracy,
having less than ten thousand republican ma
jority to overcome, may carry even New York
this year, and more handsomely than in 1862.
The mischievous national programme Of Chief
Justice Chase and his fnancicr, Jay Cooke, will
make fine opening for the democrats this fall,
and If Governor Fenton would head them off
in New York his only course is to make the
issue of a great reformation in this city the
ruling question of our November State election
HUNBUG CoNvENTIoNs.--Thcre Is going to be
Temperance Reform Convention at Saratoga
In few days. II would be very curious to
know how much conventions Of this kind are
designed for the purposes announced or for
purposes Of politics. II is exceedingly proba-
] BILE pst all these temperance end 0thy aen-