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

dence OF the Mormons are tremendous. lhey 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
tralions of the extreme RIGHTEOUSNESS of the party
press, and the savage bitterness magnity and false
hood with which they assa the candidates for the
chief maglstracy Of this nation This exposure is
painful in the extreme, but it may not be without
a salutary effect over partzanshIp itself.
Look, for instance, at the wing journals. Mr..
Polk is represented by them as the meanest and
basest of men-he is called duelst, murderer
everything that is vile and detestabe. His private
character is the grand object of attack, just as if
that had anything to do with his public opinions
Opposition to him the ground of his opinions on
the tarf-on the Texas question-or any of the
other important subjects OF political discussion,
would be proper and justifiabe and legitimate
But the wing press, instead of adopting this course,
have been guilty, almost without exception, of the
most atrocious conduct. Discarding 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 the locofoco journals a whit less cul-
pabe In one breath they sheer at Mr.. Frelng-
huysen because he is religious man, and friend
Of temperance-and reve 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
murderer, q gambler, as frequenter OF
taverns, as a horseracer-in fact, as low, degra-
ded ruiisn. And thus the contest will be carried
on for the next three or four months The Ameri-
can party newspaper press will labor day after day,
with, as the Chinese happily say, "aborious VILE
ness, 10 convince the world, that all the principal
public men in the United States are destitute of
moral character, and perfect epers, who should
be Kissed and hooted out of society. Is such con-
duct not really humiliating to every true patriot?
And all this is only according to the "use and
WON'T of party spirit Such is the nvariable course
pursued by the party presses in all political con-
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
DedSly anu lu dIHUus ClldThCttI, Gull 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 vocerous about decency and respect
ability, and the infamy of using personalities in the
newspapers! These journals which are thus repre-
senting the leading men of this country as pack
of abandoned ruiians, msrderers gamblers, and
patrons Of all sorts Of immortality and vice. are the
which talk loudly ahO n he ninu
ty of "attacks on private Character" personal
abuse" SANDER" caiumny,' and SO on!
We cannot imagine any thing more degrading
more humiliating-more demoralizng 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 Sd
cred This universal system of SANDER end detrac-
ton Is most dsgracefu to the country. Itdegrades
us as a people in the eyes of the nations Nothing
can be calculated than this to lessen us in the
estimation Of all Heightened and intelligent minds.
unless it be the spectacle of such men as Bishop
potco-religious hypocrltes, who come
forth and sputter their vulgar abuse on all who pre-
to tell the truth and chastise their gross mis-
conduct.
WALL STREET DEVELOPMENTS IN THE Court OF
SESSIONS - ne trial OF SCnerHleTn0rn, 1Or emOeZ-
zng the funds of the Ocean Insurance Company,
begun yesterday in the Court of Sessions Only
three witnesses examined, but their evidence
gives a curious nkng of the way monied cor
porntions are msmanaged in Wall street.
BY the development thus far, it seems that the
business of these companies is entrusted to the
subordinate clerks other officers, and the re-
sponslble directors entirely neglect their duties,
until some great defacation or embezzlement be
disclosed This fact, no doubt, discloses the real
secret that has been the cause Of the many Wall
street robberies and failures-negect in the drec-
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 Is HE =?
The Virginia Locofocos state in one of their ad-
dresses that Z" Henry clay is the most dangerous
in the country" Bishop John Hughes of
New York, in one of his addresses, states that
"James Gordon Bennett is the most dangerous man
in the country" Can any body tell which is right Z
reward will be given for an accurate solution,