The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-28

contest will be fearful. The democrats are NOV
ing heaven and earth, and party such a. il is, or
gained and drilled for series of years, always
achieving victories, requires prodigious force Of
enthusiasm and popularity to overcome it, The
wing party, on the contrary, Is wretchedly organ
lied, and miseraby conducted. We see Its orators
and journalists already reviving the Anticipated
issues upon which they have been regularly
defeated for the last twenty-five years. Mr.
Webster comes forth with all his tar Fl notions
and has the hardihood to say that the coun-
try Is going to ruin, in the face of more pros
perity than ever dawned before on any people or
nation. The tariff, as well as the sub.treasu
question, are hardly worth the breath that's vast
ed upon them. Most accurately has Mr.. Dudley
Seden stated that the success of either party
would create very little change In the revenue and
financial system Ct the country for many years to
come. A national debt always requires heavy
revenue, and hence, a financial system, embracing
permanent issue OF treasury notes to create a
national currency, must be the principal agent OF
the government in that particular department Of
the public affairs.
Yet in spite of all the efforts and anticipations of
the wing leaders and journals, to revive the anti
quated and unpopular issues, and assume for &C.
neral Taylor that narrow ground and selfish poll
cy which has shipwrecke ed the wing party for the
last quarter of century yet, in spite of all this
we believe that the name of the hero of Buena
Vista carries tower of strength along with it,
and has such torrent of enthusiasm carrying 1t
along In its career, that it will overcome all mere
technical calculations, and bring HIM out far in
advance of every State or other local ticket which
has been elected during the last two months The
seventh Of November will determine this impor.
tant result.
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES. observation-disclosures
and fair dealing are qualities which lie at the
foundation of all individual, collective, and ma
tional prosperity. No individual, no body of men,
and no nation that set them at defiance, and act
upon different course of policy, but will ind in
the long run that any temporary advantage which
they may gain is more than counterbaanced by
the greater losses which inevitably result Trace
the history of any individual of any society or of
any nation, who have turned their backs upon the
common principles of justice, and the invest-
CATION will show that, however slow, however de-
terred however puzzllng to human comprehension
may be the delay, the day of retribution comes at
last-the more severe the longer the blow has
beer In suspense.
We have been led into this train of reflection
from considering the frequency with which public
societies have lately appeared in our courts of law
lltigating with individuals matter where, In the
minds of the respectable portion of the commu-
nifty, the equity fthe case was clearly against them.
We have no intention to go into the merits of the
case of Niblo Us. the North American Insurance
Company, which was lately tried In the Superior
Court, where damages, amounting to $4,6l5, were
gwen to the plaintiff. This, however, is case
in point, and furnishes an illustration, and too
in an aggravated form, of the hardshlps of which
we complain.
1t is high time, therefore, that public attention
was directed to these bodies, some of whom are
wholly destitute of integrity and sound principle
Many of them are possessed of such large capital
as completely to overwhclm any poor man who
dares to find fault, complain of any act of in
justice or oppression they may choose to comm
against him; and the knowledge of this together
with the inscriptions lengths to which some of
them will 60 In entangling their victims In the
meshes of the law, make the latter frequently
prefer "to endure the Ills they have, than fly to
others they know not off,
This is really shameful, and calls for the indlp-
nant reprobatlon OF every respectable man In the
community. These public societies, who, from
the immense resources at their disposal consider
they can set all law, human and divine, at def
ance, must be taught that there is such power in
the community as public opinion, collision with
which may neither be so safe nor so profitable a.
with the antagonists they have hitherto been in
the habit of contending with. Let them take
lesson, therefore, in time, and not wait till la
mentable experience has convinced them, also.
that honesty is the best policy" and as applicable
TO the millionaire as to the mendicant.