Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1868-07-11
THE NEW YORK CONVENTION.

Especial Correspondence Of the Evening Star
NEW YoRK, July 10, Is6s.-Those who have
attended the New York Con ventiol, as we'll as
those who have no; will be viv.dly re niaded,
as they look back on the great pol II record
Of this Week. o. those pro nluent pcople in
French history who, VIII lie they never learned
anyibng never forgot anyt1ing. The parll,el
is somewhat ancient bat it is severely cro-
PIRATE. In view Of the general expre. sion OF
public opinion, and the extensive dis 5lay o.
party intercs. and parry feeling anterior - r1s
meeting Of the Nltionsl Democratic Co1vel.
tor the retrospect cannot be pNI mt, evea to
that most zealous part saa who prefe s to IN
if he cannot rule. Whatever the Polit &c, n,
may say, it was evident to all thai the lrnes
sober-thinking msn of the country were b re
in such numbers as never before a.tendt a a
national convention; and behiad them q
thousands who, in the expressive language o.
Chief Justice Chasc, "had an intense desire to
zee the Demoera'ie party meeting the questions
OF the day iH the sri.it Of the ass. aud securing
TO itself long daration of ascendaucy."
The South m States who went oat Of the
National Convent'oa at .ltimore a-d
Charleston JUS eig ght yelrs ayo, Were all b2cx
ags'n, reps nta1t from terrible les -o1s aud
meek and deveut enough on the anxious seats
in lront OF the poliica, ALTA. II is due - sars
that iIOm first to last they upheld Their pro-
LESSONS of followers and not leaders Tney
neither suggested nor diota'ed, but follow
the $ ight sud narrow plth into which the
Northern D'mocTacy directed them. They ex-
hibitcd spirit Of ma : m uimity aud concession
worthy of all pra,se from their polIt Il o,po-
nenis, and did not even desire to use, what they
actually possessed, the balance of power
They had in eight long and terrible ypa--
changed positons-they were the servant
Doi the masters OF the party. IndC 4, they
were willing 10 support Soldier or SAILOR,
Conservative or Democrat. They had but one
thou ught, and t1at was the tho ught OF winning
in the November ides. How they, in common
with the Frs I'm and Wcs'ern Democracy,
were be-ray' in the home Of their frie ads, it
s the purpo-e OF tbs letter to relate.
Gre:t as were the inside WORKINGS of the
New York Convention, the chapuel in which
they entered is very Cssy to comprehend 1t
was plain, the -efore, irom the first to tho wto
dipp' d into tNe undercurrent th.t there were
two elements in the party, which at one tire
II was believed could be harmoaiz: d. ba.
which, as policies were more sharply defned
became ltagohistic. There VIZ the progres.
sive Democracy, which d, red 80 mr ct the
questions of the day in the splrit o. the day.
on one band, a1d on the other the school nat
has no; advanced an inch beyond the Virginia
resolutions OF 11Si. 1t is not necessary % stop
here 10 say that the latter triumphrd. Tle
former desired Sc lator Hendricks, Ge1e,r,
Hancock, Chief Just,cs Cnase, or aly ore
who represented the progressive spirit
Of the Democratic party. The others de.
sired George H. Pendleton, Joel Parker or
Asa Packer-and they got Horatio Seymour
" no secured the triumph OF the latter! The
answer is Indelibly written in the his 1Iy OF
American Ioliti' :, tina; the New York del "a
uon, protesting to La, them, elves from the
slough Of tie politics of this S,ue. Were pub.
licly plfdged to take the aggressive, ard place
IN nomination some prominent, positive public
man, who would destroy the c2aiive elements
Of the party, and place them in the 'front.' rauk
with the prestige Of success. Inde d, they ave
the utmost limit Of such promise by gcing SO
4ar as to openly declare for Chief Justice
Chase in their preliminary conferences and in
the exprc sion OF their individual preferences
The only man In this city who OWNED the
rickery and deception Of the New York del.
egatiop-who knew beyond all Others ow In.
lie confidence was 10 be placed in the SOCIAL,
Albany Regency-was James Gordon Bennett,
Sr-, OF the Herald, who, rom his home on
Washington Heic hts, dictated the editorial IN
Mondays and Tuesdays Herald, warning the
Con ven ton and the publ c us,t the cour-e Of
the New York delegation in nom mating san
ford L. Church was merely blind 10 d stroy
directly the prospects Of Mr.. Chase, and. in.
directly, to kill OF Mr.. Pendleson, so that at
the proper time Horatio Seymour could be
nominated. The unsophisticated of course
ridiculed this idea, for tpey declared thst u ov.
ernor Seymour had again and again declined.
But the HerdLd editor knew what he was
about. As was predicted, Mr.. Church was at
the proper time Withdrawn, and the de,egati on
Ignoring their promise, threw heir vote or
Senator Hendricks once or twice, aud when
they saw General Hsneock was gaining rapid.
Iy on the nineteenth ballot, on "Wednesday
evening, they folio wed the cue for an ad-
journment and carried u-thus destroying a:
once and forever, As was manifest 10 all
The chances OF either Senator Hendricks or
Gsreral Hancock for the nomination Had
New York stood out agains: an adlournm.nt
or had the delegation transferred its vote .rom
Church to Chase, the res ult OF yesterday would
NO; have happened; though in all probability
General Hancock would have been nomina I'd,
If the voting had continued.
The adjournment on Wednesday evening
was the stragetic movement which des royed
GeEeral Hancock, Senator Hendricks, and the
Chief Justice. II gave the proper time for NJ,
fcDdleion's friends TO eoalesce fully with the
New York delegation, and at the proper time
10 precIpiiate the name of Governor Seymour
on the Convention. The programme teos faJ'y
odTried out as agreed upon. Ii, of course, would
not do for New York TO lead on, and , Ono,
with General McCook TO make ihe uomina ion
OF Horatio Seymour, aud Vallandigham 70
second il, was determined on. II was So pre-.
clpitate and so politically pyrotechuic, that it
took the Convention, and carried it by
storm. The Albany Regency succeeded IN
erreung by trickery what IL could never
have accomplished by a bold, fair cont, st.
II attempted this same thing at Chi ago
IN 1864, and boasted then, as your ~
respondent well remembers, that it would
u ant till i-es, when Horatio Seymour should b.
The threat ms te at Chicago has
Dsen fulfilled, and Samuel J. Tilden, the fussy
and dapper little Chairman OF the New York
delegation, has proved himself and his ass,ci-
ates to be OF that class of politicians who rather
rule even If ruin yawns at their very feet.
The nomination Of Governor Seymour was
so much u matter OF pTemeditatIon that in half
an hour after he was nominated magnificent
series of revolving turret iransparencies,
mounted Ugh on wheels, and drawn by eigh;
white horSes, appeared % front .of Tammany
Hall. The workmanship was so fine and elab.
oraie in the way of names and portraits thar IL
must have takan several men two to three days
70 get mp an AZ air grand and complete. IL
astonished the people, who rushed out of the