The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1844-06-12

New York, wednesday, June re, 1874.

ANOTHER DKMoNsrRAroN-GREAr RATIFICATION
Mass MEETING IN MILITARY HALL-Jo SMITH IN
THE FIELD.-Another or nd ratification mass
meeting was held last evening in favor OF one of
the Western candidates for the Presidency, being
none other than the Mormons coming out for the
great 10 Smith. This immense meeting numbered
about 60 souls, besides little boys, and such cattle.
A full report is given in another column.
We have now four candidates for the Presidency
in the field-all from the far west. They are Clay,
(whig) Polk, Coco foco) Birney, (black) and now
10 Smith, (Mormon) The enthusiasm and conf
dence of the Mormons are tremendous They say
that in this great race, they will beat Captain Tyler
all TO pieces And indeed the Tyler men have yet
ID hold their great mass meeting pretty soon, if
they expect TO win the donkey purse. The contest
will be severe between 10 and the Captain but
we rather think we will bet on the Mormon.
Licentiousness Of the Party Press.
We give to-day in another part of our paper few
extracts from the journals of both parties as illus
traions Of the extreme RIGHTEOUSNESS of the party
press, and the savage bitterness, magnity and false
hood with which they assail the candidates for the
chief magistracy of this nation. This exposure is
painful in the extreme, but it may not be without
IL
Look, for instance, at the wing journals. Mr..
Polk is represented by them the meanes and
Sasest of men-he is called duelst, murderer
everything that is vile and detestabe. His private
character is the grand object of attack, just as
that had anything to do with his public opinions.
Opposition 10 him the ground OF his opinions on
the tariff--on the Texas question-or any OF the
other important subjects OF political discussion,
would be proper and justiiabe and legitimate
But the wing press, instead of adopting this course,
have been guilty, almost without exception, of the
most atrocious conduct. Dscarding argument and
reason, they have taxed their ingenuity and malig-
nifty IN the fabrication of the vilest SANDERS and
daily pour forth column upon column of the most
filthy personal abuse.
Nor are the locofoco journals whit less cu-
pable. In breath they sneer at Mr. Freling-
huysen because he is a religious man, and friend
of temperance-and revile Mr.. Clay in the coarsest
terms because he is not, they say, religious man.
and friend of temperance Indeed, the language
applied by the democratic prints to Mr. Clay, is
disgusting in the extreme. They represent him as
a murderer, a gambler, as a frequenter Of
taverns, as a horseracer-in fact, as low, degra-
ded rufiisn. And thus the contest will be carried
on for the next three or four months The Amerl-
can party newspaper press will labor day after day,
with, as the Chinese happily say, "laborous VILE
ness, to convince the world, that all the principal
public men in the United States are destitute of
moral character and are perfect lepers, who should
be Kissed and hooted out of society. Is such con-
duct not really humliating to every true patriot!
And all this is only according to the ''use and
WON'T of party spirit. Such is the invariable course
pursued by the party presses in all political
tests from that tor the Presidency down to the
election of ward officers What strange opinion
must the conductors of these prints entertain of
the American people, when they suppose that
such torrents of personal abuse, of the most
beasy and Infamous character, can operate upon
their independent Judgment And the Jour
mails which are most conspicuous in this filthy
and degraded work, are the very prints which de-
claim most vociferous about decency and respect
ability, and the infamy of using personalities in the
newspapers. These journals which are thus repre-
senting the leading of this country as pack
of abandoned rutfians, msrderers, gamblers, and
patrons of all sorts of immortality and vice. the
very journals which talk loudly about the nqui-
ty of "attacks on private Character" personal
abuse" sander"-" caumny," and SO on!
We cannot imagine any thing more degrading
more humiliating-more demorazlng than the
conduct of the party newspapers of both sides
These political contests ought always to be con-
Quoted with decency and decorum. The private
character of public men should ever be held sa-
cred. This universal system of SANDER end detrac-
zion is most dsgraceful to the country. Itdegrades
us as people in the eyes of the nations Nothing
can be calculated than this to lessen us in the
estimation Of all enlightened and intelligent minds,
MI 4 he he of oho,
Hughes-politco-re religious hypocrites, who come
forth and sputter their vulgar abuse on all who pre-
sumo to tell the truth and chastse their gross mis-
conduct.
WALL STREET DEVELOPMENTS THE Court OF
SESSIONS The trial OF Schermerhorn, for embez-
zing the funds of the Ocean Insurance Company,
begun yesterday in the Court of Sessions. Only
three witnesses examined, but their evidence
gives us curious inkling of the way monied cor
porations are mismanaged in Wall street.
BY the development thus far, it seems that the
business of these companies is entrusted to the
subordinate clerks or other officers, and the re-
sponsible directors entirely neglect their duties,
until some great defalcation or embezzement be
disclosed This fact, no doubt, discoses the real
secret that has been the cause Of the many Wall
street robberies and faiuresneglect in the direc-
tors and other responsible officers. In such state
of moral delinquency, what bank or insurance
company can create confidence in these latter
days of sin, shame and sorrow
The MosT DANGEROUS MAN-WHIcH rs He
The Virginia Locofocos state in of their adj
dresses that "Henry Clay is the most dangerous
man in the country" Bishop I John Hughes of