The New York herald., 1844-09-25

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very letter!
| AS to our being "against protective tarlff -
"against all banks and paper money"-and the
determined champion of the Sub-Treasury," we
beg leave to differ from our contemporary. We
have always been in favor OF tariff, incidentally
protective. We have always been in favor Of
banks, when well regulated, but against all rotten
paper money and badly regulated banks; whilst
as to the Sub-Treasury we have always rdiculed It
in the severest terms, regarding il as gross fallacy
In finance If any other opinions on these subjects
have ever found their way into our columns, has
been without our knowledge, and they have been
Immediately revoked as contrary to the views OF
the conductor of the Herald But il is, indeed,
one OF the most amusing things in the world to OBJ
serve the extreme senstiveness of the whig press
and whig leaders with respect to what is said Of
them or the relative position Of the two parties,
in the Nep York Herald. II would appear from
this that they regard US as preserving the con-
troll over both parties-that we can give VIC
tory to either Of the candidates. We beg, how
ever, to disclaim all such equivocal honors-all
such mysterious influence over the fortunes of the
rival candidates. We do not care button which
| of the two parties achieves victory next Novem-
Der. We are almost perfectly Indifferent whether
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the head OF Mr.. Clay. But we must say, that if we
have any wish at all in the matter. we would rather
see Mr. Clay, in spite OF all the charges against him,
elected President. Because Mr.. Clay is known
statesman-identfed with the history Of his coun-
try-a bold and fearless man, and would, we be-
eve, conduct the affairs of government with dis
cretion, dignity and success settling at a proper
| time the Texas question, in such man.
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country from any disturbance or interruption, just
as he settled The Missouri question. Mr. Polk is
rather an obscure mana good man, moral,
harmless, pous man, but still we doubt very much
whether he possesses the Intellectual cabre and the
force OF character to be himself the President.
And now, once for all, if the wings mean to
elect their man, they must change their tactics
The Wolence-the personality-the foly-the inde-
cency--the fabrlcatons Of the newspaper organs,
have outraged many Of their own friends. For
years past, the principal whg journals, instead Of
honestly sand faithfully advancing the interests Of
the great whig cause, have been occupying them
selves in warning against the Ne,D York Herald,
and that without any provocation whatever,
but merely to crafty the malignant feel
ings OF few individuals who have been
mortified by our success, and are sung
ence which we WELD as an independent journalist.
The ISLANDERS, folly, and personality Of such men as
Thurlow Weed and Horace Greeley would
danger any cause, however good and however
prosperous. Such malignant, scurrous and abu.
sve journalists the greatest curses to any poll
tica party, operating in their destructive influence
as insdiousy, as perseveringly, and as fatally as
those poisonous insects of tropical climates which
.L. Al. IL
gorous bodies, and burrowing in the flesh of their
victims, spread corruption and death throughout
every limb The whg party must now counteract
the mlschevous agency OF these intestine enemies,
or defeat is unavoidable.
Thus much for to-day Tomorrow we shall en-
ter into a minute and philosophical investigation
of all the elections which have taken place for
twenty years past and show that il is possible yet
for the wings, II they conduct the remainder OF the
campaign wiih decency and dignity, TO recover
their lost ground and elect Mr.. Clay, although it
may be with the loss of the House Of Representa-
tives.
ASTOUNDING INTELLIGENCE EXPLOSION OF THE
"NATIvE' PARTY--ANp TEETorAL DISAPPEARANCE
OF THE "NATIoNAL REFoRMERs p'-Yesterday af-
ternoon was indeed pregnant with the fate Of two
OF the mghties political, religious, moral, reform
ing movements of the age-the "natlve" reform
ers and the 'National Reformers." Who would
have thought it? The sky was nnclouded--the air
cool and bracing-the moon arose in more than
usual splendor-no portentous omens appeared in
the heavens-men went quietly about their ordi-
nary business women smiled and scalded- and
the children asked tor Shermans Lozenges, just as
if nothing extraordinary was going on. But mean
| while the ''native" convention met, and after a
scene of unexsmpled moral, political, philosophi-
| cal, reforming, and ''native" submty, the whole
body exploded. The convention adjourned till the
| 18th of November, for the purpose of making their
| nominations after the election was over. For all
the particulars, the report in another column.
Now, we Go verify believe, never has there been
afforded such an illustration of the lines Of the i'm
mortal poet:--
The King Of France with twenty thousand men.
Marched up the hill, and then-msrched down again
Equally astounding IS the news from the camp o.
the National Reformers." The whole party, it
would appear, has vaporated-vanished, like the
ghost in Virgil, into thin air. Our reporter went
to the foot OF Canal street, in order attend the
great mass meeting, which had been summoned
there at that hour, for the purpose of hearing the
reports of the nominating committees for mem
bers of Congress. But alter waiting nearly an
hour, and not the slightest appearance Of meeting
being presented, cur reporter left Thus it appears
that in the vortex of the spresent political excite
ment, both these miner factions have been swa-
lowed up and totally disappeared for the present
time at least.
For the explosion of the "natves'' we have
been for some time quite prepared. The violence
-scunility-folly-and fauhessness of that party,
were, it was evident to all, fast hurrying them to
ruin They have doubtless got their lasting quie-
tus. But the other new movement-the "na-
tional reformers"-w revive after the election
and with the aid Of the Fourierites, the Tribune
and the social reormers of all classes, may attain
a strength and importance Of which many do NOT
dream at present.