The New York herald., 1845-10-22
WASHINGTON, Oct. l6, 1875

WASHINGTON, Oct. l8, 1915
Critical Vieo of the Critical Relations bet,ceen the
Naturalization, Secretary Walker and the Domi-
n0at Party in Congress .on the Subject of the Ia
riff, and on other Suteets-Prospective Contingen-
cies.
AT intervals it is we'll enough to abandon for an
hour, the sportve gossip and clap-trap of the day,
and take rational review Of the current of events
about us. We, therefore, propose you, in the rite
exordium of domestic correspondence, to :. en-
brace this present opportunity to scribble," as
Father Richie expresses it, serious and dspas-
sonate chapter on the existing and prospective state
of affairs with the party holding the rbands of au-
thority, and the check-lock of the veto power.
The various fragments OF the Democratic party,
united as man in the election of Polk and Dali
las and marching to triumph under the sublime ban
ner Of
Young Hickory.
Dallas and Victory"
Immediately on the issue of the battle, were found,
not united still upon the measures Of government
which this ADMINISTRATION was elected ostensbly to
accomplish, budlsJoin:ed again into fragments upon
the division OF the spolls !" And never were these
party fragments more distinctly diylslbe and divl-
ded, than upon this mercenary apporlonment of the
plunder OF the camp One single act OF the PresI-
dent more than all Others has put these conflicting
clements OF party organization into active efterves-
cence. That act the expulsion of Blair and
Rives from the tripod of the Executive organ. A
large and influential detachment of the party head
ed by such men Benton, Van Buren, Wright,
Tappan, Allen, Bagby, Ct Bsgby is anywhere) and
Others thus openly, and fearlessy ordered into
the rear of the army These leaders and this de-
achment in yielding to the imperative order yet
to be satisfied OF It's necessity. And the fact that
Blair was superseded by Rltche-that the Albany
Junto were made to yield the wall to new and
Southwestern Kitchen Cabinet arrangement, headed
by X. j. Walker, and composed OF such pliable ma
terlas as have been collected about him, has moi
made the necessity OF Bairs displacement at all the
more obvious TO the Wrlght-Van Buren-incdental
Protective -Taritf-tamy OF the North
The policy OF this wing OF the dominent party is,
therefore, selfevdent. They will contribute to the
administration as far as may subserye their own ad-
vantage-they have taken, and will take all Of the
executive patronage that has been or may be offered
with the view OF strengthening themselves for the
Convention of '4S, but they will watch with sleep
the executive looking their dissolution and assmi-
lation with Mr.. Secretary Walkers attempted re-
organization ofthe party upon the Tennessee or Mis-
slssppi platform.
| first, because Of Its national Importance, apart
| from mere starchamber consequences, is the pro-
| posed modification OF the tariff. MIR. Buchanan,
jealous Of the authority of Benton over the Globe,
was by far the most active in Its accommodation
So jealous, indeed, did the Secretary of State,
while yet in the Senate, become of the great MIS-
sourian's influence over the old organ, that he ac
tually refused the preparation OF his great Texas
speech for the Globe, and prepared 1t and published
1t in preference in the National InteLiegencer. On
the other hand Col Benton, it is said, in executive
session, by way liberalization, moved that certain
official communication Gone of the first OF Secretary
Buchanan's) touching our relations with Mexico
and Texas, be laid upon the table, because of lis
ant-dplomatc blunders and neophytism. Laid
upon the table But the fable of the king of the foge
will apty apply to Mr. Buchanan in the chrnge OF
evA We In lair 1 IA frre hp had an
instrument pllabe only in the hands of Col Benton
but II has bar to a 70 per cent advalorem. MIR
Blair, In his devotion to the great Mlssourlan,
might could would, and did forget the just claims
Of the great Pennsylvania but s, the tariff of the
latter safer than IL now Is from demolition. Mr..
Buchanan has thus only exchanged King Log for
King Stork, who, In the dreadful Juror OF ~ per
cent tariff, Will swallow down the iron manutacto-
! ries Of Pennsylvania at mouthful-transfer the
| State to the Wings, and exungLlsh the waning
| prospects of the Secretary of State, ad ibitun
Here is a movement of tact and sagacty on the
part OF Mr.. Walker, worthy the great Napoleon. II
battle could be gained by the "Llte Corporal, y
by the entire massacre OF his bravest regiments.
they were sacrificed without compunction. The
Little Corporal of the Treasury seems to be acting
upon this successful secret Of the French Emperor
What il Pennsylvania is lost 10 the party through
tariff OF twenty per cent, will there not be sufficient
strength remaining In the South and West, to cope
successfully with the wings And In the transfer
the keystone State to the enemy, will not the
whole OF Mr.. Buchanan's Influence, and means OF a
foothold for the Presidency be displaced, and the
influence of all otner tariff asPlrants from that quar-
ter I! Yes, Sir unequvocaly yes. This Is a very
military sort of calculation; but unfortunately ii
aground in the Senate, as the Great Britain did in
Holmes's Hole. The vote in the next Senate foi
the coming December, will stand aboutthirty demo-
Gratis to twenty-slx wings Admit that all the de-
mocrats will come up to the ropes Of twenty per
centem, excepting the two from Pennsylvania, and
the vote will stand q to y. Dallas will decide in
favor of cold iron, and against the twenty per CEN
t,r 4, ,hata
collateral inducement there might be. fa.1. .
But the bill will not pass the House The Wright
men OF New York-the Allen men OF Ohio-the
Cass OF Michigan, will unite 18th the Buchanan
men OF Pennsylvania, and the Bentonlan- Dromgoo-
ers against twenty per centum, and 1t will be laid
out upon the table as fiat John Tyler's Exchequer
And this combination vii! be less for the preserva-
ton CT protection, than tor the destruction OF the
aspirations Of Secretary Walker.
We take it tor granted, that the President will,
directly or indirectly, recommend the inexorable
minimum of the Compromise Act. We take 1t tor
granted that this will be done more from the argu-
ments OF MI. Walker, than from the Presidents un-
biased incIinations in reference to practical re-
solving and solution of the inexplcable mysteries OF
the Kane letter." We take it for granted, that Mr.
Walker is assured the President will in no event
enter for a second heat We take it as granted,
that Mr.. Walker Is aspiring to the Presidency him
se-that he is distributing his patronage with this
vew-crippling, as far as possible, Mr.. Wright in
the North, and Mr. Calhoun in the South and cast
ing off the conservatives and Tylerites, to increase
the smoke and confusion in the camp, while laying
his plans for lts complete surprlsal. ,
But he will fai-slgnaly fail; and upon this
single measure OF the tariff he will fail. All the
patronage of the Executive will avail him nothing
lit awaited John Tyler nothing-indeed, It damned
him Cohesive as IS the power OF public plunder
among the trading stock k,jobblng politicians OF
party, it avails but little when brought in confcl
with measures affecting the interests of the whole
people.
Should the President recommend, detinitlvely,
the compromise tariff. at its lowest stage of water
that stage at which il is ordable to South Caroll
nan in his cotton-stockngs, 1t will go much harder
with Father Richie for the printing, than II the
exclusive remarks upon the Tariff, the celebrated
Kane letter" If Father Richie can be defeated,
il will be upon this issue of twenty per cent tariff
He may be elected in the teeth OF the recommenda
ton. but il will be to give the Secretary of til.
Treasury higher fall, by the laying the recon