The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-07-06

uomocIacy on saturday last commenced Il
the new Tammany Hall their labors of Her
cuies. In the proceedings of the day, limited
TO the preliminary organization of the Con
vention, there was nothing very startling o.
extraordinary, with the exception of the com
mlttee appointed ''on resolutions and plat
FORM" This committee of thirty six members
one from each State of the Union, embraces
such men as Charles G. Langdon, of Alabama
James B. Eustis, of Louisiana; M. E. Banks
dale, of Mississippi; Robert Strange, of North
Carolina; General Wade Hampton, of South
Carolina, and Thomas. S. Bocock, of Virginia,
late Speaker of the House of Representatives
of the rebel Congress. Shining lights of the
Southern Confederate church and the Northern
copperhead school, with perhaps an exception
or two, make up the committee We are pre-
pared, therefore, for democratic platform OF
the most decided complexion in opposition to
negro suffrage and negro equality, and tor
such declarations on the national bonds and
the national debt as will make the bondhold-
ing aristocracy Of the New York democracy
shake In their shoes.
From the early announcement of this com
mittee we infer that the party platform is to
be reported and adopted in advance of the
ticket. The proceeding, we have no doubt,
covers deep intrigue of the Pendleton men to
rule out Chase and head off Seymour and 1t
has good show Of success On the other
hard, it will be remarked that in the adoption
of the temporary rules of the Convention the
Pend Teton faction were defeated in their mo-
ton, (Which left an opening for the repeal of
the thirds rule in the matter of the nomi-
nations. From this preliminary test we con-
clude that this terrible two-thirds rule will
remain in force, and that it is the guillotine
prepared not only for Pendleton, but for per-
haps, host of others, which may make mas
sacre of the innocents more appalling than the
last horrible slaughter of his native prisoners
by King Theodorus at Magdala. Of an the
invented by the genius of cruelty none will
compare in its remorseless barbarity with this
horrible democratic two-thirds rule There it
stands, ready for its bloody work, and the
question is who can safely challenge and pass
the dreadful ordeal?
From our reports of the sayings aud doings
yesterday among the delegates there is hot
work before the Convention. The plots
and counterplots between the Seymour
and Pendleton or between the gold-bearing
bonded democracy OF the East and the green
back and bondless democracy of the West
foreshadow the consuming fight of the Kill
kenny cats between these factions. The com
mittee on the platform foreshadOws the excu-
sion Of Mr.. Chase as a beginning, and from
this beginning who can tell the ending2 The
general tone and temper of the Convention, to
all appearances, are intensely Bourbonic, hot
and glowing like FURNISHED copper in the sun.
Wehave shown that upon the recognition of GER
tain fixed facts, such as the new constitutional
amendments, numbered thirteen and fourteen,
in reference to slavery, reconstruction and suf-
frage, and in the proclamation Of liberal and
popular platform on the money question, the
way is open to a great democratic victory
under the banner of Chief Justice Chase. We
have said, and we now repeat It, that In re-
jecting this platform and this candidate there
Is no halfway house Of rest to the absolute
reputation Of all the work done by Congress
frage.
On this extreme ground General Francis P.
Blair has boldly drawn the democratic plat
form. He proposes the nomination Of the
party candidate substantially upon this pro-
nuncidmiento-th in the event Of his election
he shall proclaim and treat ~ null and void all
the reconstruction doings of Congress and
Andy johnson, and call upon the whites oc the
Southern States, each upon its suffrage laws
last in force before the war, to resrganiye their
State governments and provide Coz their cleo
tons to Congress. Some say that this means
another civil war. The object, however, Is
only the abolition Of Congressional and uni
versAi negro suffrage. We have seen, too,
from the election results on sAis, sort Of negro
suffrage, from Connecticut 10 California, that
heavy majority Of the voters of the North,
Including the most decidedly radical States
heretofore, are opposed 10 this monstrous inno-
walton in our political syy.tem. Suppose, then,
I upon this Blair platform against negro suffrage,
and with General Blaff as the democratic can
didate, II you please suppose he is elected, with
q majority OF the gouse of Representatives to
back linn, how Is he to be beaten by Congr ess,
and how are the radicals to make war
against him in attempting to carry out his
, policyf In any event, If the democracy are
prepared to recognize the Congressional work
Of reconstruction as embodied In the fourteenth
! amendment which leaves the question Of suf
: frage with the States, Chase is their man
and II they do not intend to endorse sal,
amendment they will only make a botch Of /
, by stopping short of the Blair manifesto.
e The committee on che platform has the lool
. Of Judgment against Chase and a repudia