The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-09-25

confined in its1ntluences and operan ons chiefly TO
the State of New York, arising, chiefly, from the
personal influence and popularity OF Mr. Van Buren,
and his friends, confined TO that State and extend
ing very little beyond its limits
In tins view Of the contest, the policy TO be pur-
sued by wing journalism and whig meetings is of
the most essential importance, during the few re-
naming weeks until the 9TH of November Now,
what is the character of this polcyl Do they
adopt a mode calculated to make converts or pro-
cure adherents in the debatable States of Ohio,
Pennsy lvanIa, or the West Are the sentiments
OF the various wing journals, which profess to be
friendly TO Gen. Taylor, congenial 20 the feelings
OF the people IN those doubtful regions This is
question which may easily be answered by pc
rusing, for only few weeks, the columns of those
newspapers, in New York and other States
The leading journals IN this city In favor of Zen.
Taylor, belonging formerly to the wing party, are
the Courier and Enquirer, the daily Express, the
Commercial advertiser, and the New York TIL
b~ne. These are the most prominent, the others
are mere leather and prunella, and utterly inslg-
nlfcant In guiding, directing, or agitatng public
opinion. These journals give the tone to the other
wing newspapers in the Northern States, and, in
a measure, control the opinions OF the wing party
generally Now, in watching the policy pursued
by these Journals we can say, promptly and de-
cidedy it is OF such a character as to repel those
masses of independent thinkers, throughout the
city of New York and the country at large, who
have American feelings and democratic sympa-
thies, from the support Of Gen. Taylor. In almost
all public questions, and in those great democratic
sentiments which would be congenial to the mass
of American democracy, In all sections of the
Union, and especially in New York, the New York
journals have opposed rdculed and reviled the IL
beral or American side OF the question They have,
in such questions. taken ground absolutely more
European and more hostile to republican feelings
and sympathles, than one would have expected
even from the heightened aristocratic papers IN
London and the rest of Europe! Upon the Irish
question, which offered field for sympathy broad
and wide, sufficient to affect the whole mass of
Irish voters IN Pennsylvania, Ohio, and elsewhere,
these journals took the very same ground which
the violent anti-Irlsh journals took in London and
other places. Now, 1t is we'll ascertained, that
the number of Irish naturalized citizens IN Penn
syvania, Ohio, and the other debatable States,
is quite large enough to decide close election in
favor of the side they take. But, instead of con-
ciliating this class by the course they have pur.
sued, they have, with the single exception of the
Tribune, which, however, rendered itself quite
ridiculous by Its folly and credulity, opposed and
lnsuted every measure and proposition calculated
to bring about a revolution Ireland, or to adj
vance the great cause of republican principles on
the continent. Even the French republcI and
its destiny, have very generally been subject
Of depreciation, ridicule, or Misrepresentation,
among these journals. Is 1t possible, there
fore, that such a course of action, in the
greater portion of the wing press, now sup
porting General Taylor, can be expected to ope-
rate advantageously and favoraby upon the sent-
ments of the unbiased democracy, in those States
to which we have above alluded Certainly not
Such course and policy cannot operate otherwise
than most unfavorably upon the prospe cts of Gen
Taylor in every part of the Union.
the wing journals and wing journalism here have
taken up similar anti-Amercan, antl-patrotc,
and anti-democratic ground. They constantly re-
present General Cass, the one side, as being in
favor OF more progress, and of increasing the mag
nltude of our republic while, on the other side
hey represent General Taylor as hostile to the
advancing destiny of the United States. General
Cass is represented as anti British, in favor of
more territory, an advocate for the moor
poration of Cuba and Canada and the entire
annexation of Mexico, with this great and
magnificent Union while they represent General
Taylor, the very man who was the chief instru.
ment In bringing within our limits California and
Northern Mexico, actually opposed to our pro-
gress, opposed to these accessions, and agreeing
with them IN the sentiment of wishing to reduce
the policy of this country, if he should be elected,
to absolute nonentity and permanent stand-still
Now, however much these their sentiments may
prevail among the cotton, and stock, and shipping,
and money brokers in w all street, who adopt their
sentiments chiefly from English houses, English
brokers, and English merchants, we are persuaded
that such opinions, connected with the great des-
tiny of this great republic, prevail very little beyond
the high trading quarters of this and other cities.
They have no existence in this country beyond the
commercial, the cotton and wheat specializing
clIques, who are regulated entirely In their move
ments and feelings by the rate of exchange, and
who square their pollticalnohons according to their
English connexions, and British correspondence
The truth that the wing journalism of this coun
try must be considered more In the light of British
PROVINCIAL press, echoing the opinions of British
statesmen, as favouring the sentiments of the
British anstocracy, IN all shapes, rather than as
organs of the unbiased pure American sentiment,
in all public matters, which, out of, and beyond the
great commercial cities, prevails throughput the
Union. Now, even the mere representing General
Cass as exclusively the war candidate, and General
Taylor, on the other hand, as the peace candidate,
is enough to lnjure the latter among the demo.
cratic classes of the doubtful States, which we
have before enumerated.
To place this view yet IN the clearest possible
light, by reference to historical facts we need only
to allude to the unfortunate political history of
Henry Clay, during the last twenty-five years
When that great statesman, natural orator, and
original American democrat, dyed in the wool, we
might say, first became candidate for the Pres-