The New York herald., 1868-06-28

The Inauguration Of tho Now Tammany
Hail-Prospect Of q Lively Time.
The old Tammany Hall, after its fumigstion
and general cleaning out and scrubbing, and
washing, and plastering, and patching. and
painting, looks very well transformed into
printing establishment; the new Tammany Hall,
adjoining the Catacombs, with the frontispiece
Of q big Indian, although with but little pre-
tence as to style, is still a more pretentious
structure. There the big Indians Of the Tam
many ring-men who have grown fat and are
growing fatter on the spoils of this Corpora
tion-the grand sachems, little sachems, pap
pooses, sagamores and whiskeyskinskis assisted
by the representatives of the national democ-
racy from all the States and Territories of the
Union, reconstructed and unreconstructed, and
aided by the women's rights women, too, will
meet on ''the glorious Fourth" to inaugurate
this new temple of the ''Tammany Society of
the Columbian Order" The history of the old
Tammany Hall is startling record of demo-
cratic lovefeasts of the Donnybrook order,
noses and used up locofocos, and it will be al
most miracle if the new Tammany Hall
escapes a similar baptism.
Over the length and breadth of the land
from the iron-bound coast of Maine to the
coral reefs of Florida; from the glaciers of
Oregon to the miasmatic swamps of the Caro-
lnas from the petroleum wells of Pennsylva-
mia and the hot springs of Arkansas from the
stunted herbage of Coney Island to the cloud
kissing cedars of Californis-oficial and volun-
tary, the delegates to the National Democratic
Convention are coming to town. They will
be here by thousands on the Fourth, although
we presume that thousand will cover the au-
thorized delegates upon whom will devolve the
business of naming the democratic ticket and
proclaiming the democratic platform. In 1860,
on the slavery question, between the Douglas
squatter sovereignty men of the West and the
JEFF Davis Territorial slavery men of the South,
there was conflict in the Charleston Conven-
ton which resulted in q democratic split,
Southern secession, rebellion, fire, sword, de-
struction and revolution, and in Southern recon-
negro suffrage question, reconstruction and
the money question, but mainly upon the
money question, between the greenbaoks or
Pendleton men Of the West and the Chase (Old
Greenbacks himselO and anti Pendleton men of
the East, there are thickening symptoms of
Messrs. Comstock and Cassidy, and of Belmont
and Barlow, and of Hoffman, Wood, Brooks,
Rynders, Morrissey and Godfrey Gunther will
be required In the Convention to maintain har-
mony and brotherly love.
The two-thirds rule, invented and first ap-
piled by the Southern olgarchy in 1874 to kill
off Martin Van Buren, has made every demo-
cratic President-making convention since that
day regular slaughter house, involving a
fearful massacre of the innocents. There was
up as the lucky man slaughter in '4s, which
resulted in Van Buren, Chase free soil bolt
and the defeat of Cass q merciless slaughter
in so, when poor Pierce was marched in over
the dead bodies Of the slain; in '56, when
Buchanan passed the ordeal on an alibi and
in 1860 came the grand democratic explo-
sion and volcanic eruption, hundred thou
sand times more terrific and calamitous than the
late fiery shaking up of the Sandwich Islands.
This two-thirds rule, so fruitful of democratic
discords and disasters, Is still the supreme law
Of the party, and within the party camps the
old elements of factious antagonism and erup-
ton still exist.
The Pendleton men of the West claim a
majority of the Convention. What will they
dop If they have the majority they have the
power to upset this two-thirds rule; but as
this would probably effect split at once the
experiment will hardly be attempted. Pendle-
toms majority, then, will be to him what the
majority was t. Van Buren in "A and to Cass
in so. II will be worried down and frittered
away. The late speech Of Seymour defines
the issue which will swamp Pendleton. We
may say that he is already swamped by that
speech. Tit for tat, any Eastern man repre-
senting the financial policy of Seymour will
be swamped by Pendleton. What then
Another poor Pierce, such as Hendricks, or a
new departure under Chase. The Pendleton
pioneers are in for fight, after the fashion Of
Douglas, against both Seymour and Chase.
But from the South will come up a force for
Chase which may bring the Pendleton party
to the alternative Of a surrender or bolt. II
the Western democrats from the fate Of Doug
las have learned anything they will, reduced
to this pass, fall into line; but il they have
learned nothing and forgotten nothing they
will bolt. In any event the pressure of the
new issues and new ideas of the day, and in
conflict with old democratic combustibles, will
make this coming Convention boil and bubble
like the witches cauldron.
"LET Us HAVE PEACE General Grant