The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-10-12

states 6&aln III HosilIiy, dt least until dleI ue
whole OF the fifteen millions shall have been dis
posed of. When that shall have come to pass, it
we think 1t not unlikely, especially If Herrera be
over;hrewn by Santa Anna, that we shall be forced
INTO another brush with them, for the purpose of
then getting. perhaps, another subsidy Of fifteen
millions IN lieu OF another strip of territory.
THE ELEc rIoNs AND THE PARTY PREss.-As the
time for holding the elections approaches, both
parties are endeavoIing to agitate themselves and
the country into something like terment. The
meetings are growing fast and furious, and the
press is flooded with the frothest of speeches. the
combined result of ofiice-seeking enthusiasm and
drink In all this excitement, however, there Is
evident one remarkable truth, that the mass of the
people are not leavened with this political yeast.
They will not rise. ''li you do not vote for free
soll,' says one, "you and your children may
day be slaves" ''If you do not support Cass,''
says another, ".he country is lost" ga fig for the
integrity of the UnioD,'' says third, 'If General
Taylor be not the next President" And yet the
people are unmoved. The truth, Is, they have
heard this cry too often to mind it /; and they are
impressed with a very wholesome conviction, that
whoever is elected, the Union, and the country,
and our institutions, are entirely safe.
The extraordinary attempts at humbug made by
the politicians, are too superficial to escape detec-
ton by the more intelligent portion OF the com
munity, and they consequently resort to the small
villages 10 make speeches. and TO divert the minds
of the people into one or the other channel. In
these villages they get up meetings, spout from the
stump, drink brandy and water, get into rows, and
abuse their opponents UNNECESSARILY.
The conduct of the party press, OF all grades and
conditions, is OF the most reckless and shameless
character We need but instance the course OF
the organs of both parties at the seat OF govern
ment. One of them, the Union, the mouth-piecc
of Mr.. Polk, (but rejecting the sentiments OF no
member of the cabinet except Cave Johnson,) and
by reason Of Its position regarded, however erro-
neously, as the leader of the democratic press OF
the country gives daily exhibitions OF the grossest
vllest, and most wanton scurrihty. Wishing TO
initiate the example of his immediate predecessor,
Francis j. Blair, whose coarseness was always
relieved by force and spiciness, the editor of the
Union aboring under the deusion that severity
consists in coarseness, pours OUT every day, whole
columns of pointless abuse on his political oppo-
nents regardless of the character OF the President
and of the party which he thus brings into con-
tempt. The IntcHgencer, on the other hand, APP
pears to be wholly devoid of energy, and seldom
gives signs OF vitality except when 1t puts Its head
out of its shell to snap at any body who dares to
question the perfection of the institutions of Great
Britain which the editor still seems to regard as
the grandest system of government ever invented
The one paper is an example of active, untlring
scurrity-,he other of melancholy lmbecilty.
Fortunately, neither is known abroad, and, there
fore, the country escapes much opprobrlum that
would Otherwise, however undeseUedly, fall
upon it.
The candidates OF both parties are to be pitied,
for the misfortune of the support and advocacy of
such papers. They should, however, be held
blameess. II is not TO be supposed that the extra
vagance of the one, the seniiy Of the other, has
the countenance or sympathy of either candidate
Neither is II TO be believed that such journals
fleet the tone OF the people. The great mass ofthe
intelligent people of the Union hold both, and all
journals Of like character in unmeasured con-
tempt