The Barnburners

The split in the Democratie party of ïiewYork, by which they lost tlie recent ilection, was a serious onp. lt bid fair o defeal the Presidential nomination of .lie party.. For New York hns 36 Elecoral votes, and agninst tliese no candidate ;ould well expeel an election by the peojle. And these 36 votes aro dependanl jn the Derritierais obtaining a popular majority in :he State. This has always been small. The popuia rit y oT Silas Wright in 1844 only brought it up to Sbout 5000 for tiie Presideniial ticket. - If then, with their wliole party united. ley could b&rely expect to c.irry the tate, and Ihus save the Presidency, ithokt union nothing but ulier defeat ould await them. Heneo, notwitlistand ie great nnd hitherto increasing bitter881 of feeling between the two sections, ve have been aware that the most strenous efforts for a compromise, temporary r permanent, would be made. The first iiroposal we have noticed is lat made by Theodore Scdgwick, n larnburner, though the N. Y. Evening 5ost. He thinks the whole Democracy hould inscribe on their bannor : - Support of the War ; California and San Francisco ; Free Trade ; President pledged to leave the Slavery Question to the decisión of Congress. So here is to be nn allempt to dodge he question of ihe extensión of Slavery. The President is to leave it lo the .lecison of Congress. That is, he wil] neilher ay or do any thing on the subject, bui et Congress do wentsoever it will wit-i. nit any interposilion from him. He will therefore be pledged not to veto a )ill estriblishing or permilting Slavery in the newly acquired territory. A single glance isenough to show that ;his compromise is all on the side of the Slave holders. Accordingly, 'Jie most proslavery papers of the party will doubtlessagree to il. The Detroit Free Pres, which goes for any thing that will help the party, and isa ttrong Cuss paper, endorses the prxjecl most heartily. We presume it would not be at all disagreeable to a candidate like Cas?, as it woulii relievg him from the necessity ofcoustant wiggling and turning between the North and tlie South, or of attempting to wear two faces on this question a once. The Barnburners, by adhering tothei posilion against ihe extensión ofSlavery can bring up the whole norlhern por tion of the parly to that stand, and there by cause a disrupiion with the Sou'.hen portion. But we scarcely exnect suc a degree of determinaron from the lea deis of that section, ngninst all ihe ap pliances that wil! be uscd toseduco thon from tbat position.