The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-06-21

from the proceedings yesterday Oh Cuo rHtn
Avenue Hotel Conference, of which we give
very interesting report this morning, the intel
ligent reader will perceive that we are in the
midst of one Of those extraordinary political up
heayals which mark, from time to time, o re-
construction of our political parties. This
conference originated with anti Greeley leaders
of the Free Trade League, and though the de-
cared object of their call was the union of all the
opposition elements against General Grant in
this Presidential contest their real design, as
subsequently, betrayed was diversion against
the CINCINNATI ticket of Greeley and
Brown, and in view Of the nomination Of
other candidates by the approaching Demo-
cratic National Convention for the general
suftiaees of the anti-administration clements.
The meeting was called through o confidential
circular. and was doubtless, as an invitation,
limited 10 list of such prominent demo-
Gratis aud anti-Grant republicans through
ont the country as were supposed
to be dissatisfied with Mr. Greeleys nomina-
ton, and particularly on the question Of free
trade.
Ia the next place, in the organization Of this
conference as u deliberative body, with General
Cox, of Ohio, as President; General Dix and Mr..
w. G. Bryant as Vice Presidents, and for Secre-
tary, Henry d. Lloyd, one of the secretaries Of
the Free Trade League, it will be remarked
that the anti-Greeley free traders were given
al they could ask in the control Of the meet
ing. And yet when the interchange Of opin-
! ions among the one hundred members, more
or less, OF this conference began it was soon
made manifest, from the earnest speeches in
support Of Greeley, and from the enthusiasm
with which they were received that even this
assemblage Of supposed anti Greeley old-line
wings old-line democrats and anti Grant free
trade republicans was anything but unit
against the Cincinnati candidates.
But as we write we hear from this conference
that the discussion has become stormy and ex-
citing; that motion to adjourn has been
rejected by decisive vote; that the anti
Greeley men are disposed to no compromise
upon Greeley; that the meeting may be
prolonged till the morning, and that the
result may be harmony or another
bolt. Meantime, we are informed that mys-
tcrious meeting of democrats in favor Of
straight democratic ticket, or Charles Francis
Adams as substitute for Greeley, was held
yesterday at the Metropolitan Hotel,
Long Branch. We presume that this
meeting was contrived for the pur-
pose Of strengthening the ani-Greeley
party in this Fifth Avenue Conference and
between the two there may be some mischief
afoot in reference to the acceptance of Mr..
Greeley by the Democratic National Conven-
ton We think, however, from the spon-
taneous uprisings of the democracy
in his favor throughout the Union,
and from the decisive majority he
has secured Of the Democratic Convention,
that lie will be adopted al Baltimore and will,
with few exceptions, be supported by the
democrats, old and young North and South,
and that, from the Discussions in the repubE-
can camp, III Pennsylvania and elsewhere, he
will be apt to give General Grant a very sharp
and close contest.
This will be one of the most remarkable
transitions and transformations i'll the history
of our political parties, though we have had
many within the brief period Of our history as
an Independent nation The dissolution and
disappearance Of the old federal party in 1920
was remarkable event, in being followed
by reconstruction of parties, which brought
General jackson into the foreground and
made him one of our great political land
marks rs the founder and builder of the old
democratic party, and Henry Clay as the
glorious embodiment and champion of
the old wing party. The dissolution
and dispersion Of the wing party in
| 1852 was remarkable event. from the
momentous consequences which Immediately
followed in the rapid rise, development,
| decline and collapse of the mischievous Know
Nothing party in the intolerable demands of
the Southern slaveholding obligarchy, and in
the rise and wonderful growth of the present
republican party on the single point of hos
tility to any further extension of slavery.
But more important event than the disso-
luton Of the old wing party was the disrup-
ton OF the democratic party in the Charleston
Convention of 1860; for it was through the
divisions thus created in the democratic
ranks that the republican party came
into power. We need not here repeat the
radical changes which this party in the
suppression Of Southern pro-savery
rebellion and in the reconstruction Of the re-
! bellious States, has made in the government.
! It is enough that within the last twelve years
this powerful party has fully achieved its ap-
pointed mission in one of the most stupendous
political revolutions in the history of any
| people The democratic party, or what re-
4 mains of it from the Charleston Convention,
secession rebellion and Southern recon-
struction, having at length accepted
the issues settled by the war, as incorporated
4 in the new amendments to the constitution,
is precisely in the position required for an
active coalition with the Cincinnati anti
Grant republicans, and all the other anti
! administration elements of the country