The New York herald., 1844-11-21

sitOns that ever stood in the way of any admin
stration II the Wings understand their position,
and pursue moderate counsels, they certainly have
the bes. chance of carrying the country, abol
uonism, locofocoism, and natvsm, in l845. But
they wont because of that fearful rock-reform as it
Is so called, of the naturalization laws II
they 60 for any reform, leI it be the total abo.
lition OF all such restrictions on the political
rights OF humanity. Let every man, from what
ever land he comes, who sets his foot upon
ihese shores, with the declared intention of adop-
ting TINS country as his permanent home. and
who swears allegiance toit be at once acknowledge
ed to be what he is-a freeman and entitled to the
iull enjoyment Of all the rights OF those who were
born ~. This is in accordance with the first prin-
ciples OF American liberty, as declared in the De-
claration OF Independence. Let the wings, also,
take care how they again barter or bargain with the
abolitlonlsts The true policy is to stand aloof
from the administration, maintaining, all the time,
firm, united, but dignfed opposition, but allow
ing the administration to carry all those measures
which they regard as annuncated in the recent
election by the people, and six months before the
Presidential election in 184S, let them calmly
call convention, and nominate such q man
rs General Scott, or General Wool, or some
other pure man unconnected with party poll
'ics Or let them even take up some obscure
man, but with an unsullied name and genuine pa
rrousm one who has never been de6led with the
mlre Of mere party politics. II the Wings do this,
they may regain their ground which they lost IN
The last election, by the State Of New York going
against them, as we told them il would.
CHEvALIRR WIKoFF, ALL ALIVE We have said
very little Of late of Chevalier Wikoff, with the
exception of passing reference to some of his re-
ported movements in the theatrical line, which are
now, it appears rather under cloud. But it seems
he is still call alive" "all alive" as cookies
are cried In the streets Of London We
have recently seen a statementthat he had
commenced an action for libel against us,
nodestly estimating his damages at $4,000,
yhen he might as easily have made it $l7, 900, SO
Is to cover all his recent losses The cause was
il appears, first undertaken by David Graham, Jr.
Esq, his private and confidential counsel, and who,
Wikoff says (no great authority at besD was to
have conducted of his cases.. free, gratis, for
nothing Be that as it may, however. we canno,
for the life OF u.s. make out what the foundation is
Of this threatened new libel suit. II is true we did
state recently that having retired from the news.
paper business, after sinking about $4,000 or
$4,000 in the "Republic," he had turned his at
tention to his original occupation in the theatrical
line, and had been quite successful in out. general
ling John Povey, Esq, in ma king some engage
ments. Such was the rumor; whether il was true
or not. was of little consequence and. indeed. the
remarks were rather complimentary to the TASTE
tact, and teachings Of the Chevalier
But it appears that the Chevalier has been very
much annoyed Of late in consequence of our mat
tention to him and his movements. Well, really
we did not think him worthy OF notice, although
we had abundance OF materials with which still
further to elucidate him. But we did not consider
the subject worth the trouble. However, as soon
as he landed here, few weeks ago, he went to one
Of the gentlemen Of the firm that supplies us with
paper, and in the most mysterious and confidential
manner solicited him to state to US, that he was
desirous of settling all the difficulties with Ben
nett''-" that he had been badly advised-very'-
/" that he was really sorry-he was''-and "that
pom his honor, he wanted to make every atone
ment in his power-he did," On being advised of
his repentance, we told the gentlemen alluded to
tha. we had no difficulty with the Chevalier and
would have none, but that il he wished to settle all
the affairs between us, he was bound to take the first
step, like man of honor. by retracting hefalse and
calumnious statements regarding us of which he had
been convicted. The gentleman whom he had
selected as his confidential messenger to us,
was quite of our opinion but the Chevalier was
not willing to accept the terms, and Immediately
on the back Of this attempted negotiation, he com.
mences this suit for $40, 900, about something, We
don't know what, and has it published in some OF
the newspapers that meany lent themselves to his
purposes No doubt he wants $4,000 very much
to repenish his pockets after the losses and bleed
lngs by the Republic newspaper-but whether he
gets it, is another question.
We suspect, however, the cause Of all this. BY
the steamer before last, we received package of
very rich, private correspondence, written by this
Wlkoh, last summer, in New York, and address
ed to "John Wilkes" of London, then his lite
rary correspondent. Mr.. Wilkes has communi.
Gated to us those letters-yea the very orr
gnals-numbering about six or seven, and
they contain the richest materials of the
history of establishing newspaper, which
could possibly be presented 10 the public.
la fact, this correspondence in point of piquancy
richness, and pungency, is far superior even to the
famous Essler correspondence with which we de.
lighted the world last summer. We rather suspect
i is the dread Of the forthcoming of these letters
nat has stimulated poor Wikoff into the desperate
dilemma OF commencing suit about something
But he mistakes his man. He may commence as
many suits as he pleases. We are always ready to
meet him. But this correspondence is so rich-so
pungent-so remarkably illustrative Of the attempt
10 establish newspaper that fell through, despite
Of the many great men about town and country
that made offers to him, and even in spite
of the offers by the administration Of Captain Ty.
er-that we shall at our leisure publish each and
all OF those letters with appropriate comments
And as 1t is probable from appearances that the
EvenixS Mirror, and Chevaer Wikoff are linked
in the bands Of iraternal intimacy, we trust that
the letters will be copied into that sheet as contain
ing the best instructions how new paper is done for.
We shall set designers and engravers to work in