The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-08-12
The Standardization and the Pcddiiag P0ifti-
cians-Whsrc Is Mr.. Webster TO Cos


cians-Wherc Is Mr.. Webster to Cos
Who does not remember the eventful adminstra-
ton Of Captain John Tyler, of blessed memory
Who can ever forget how he stranged the Fiscal
Bank and the Fiscal Corporations; how he thus broke
up all to smash the great whig triumph Of 1910; and
how they read him out of church in public mani
esto, turning him quite adrit, with party in the
country to support him. except hungry swarm of
dependent onice-holders; no adherents in Con-
eress, except his ''CoIporal's Guard and not
olitary membsr Of his cabne. left TO stand by him
sexceptipg Mr. Webster? And who can everiorget tho
abuse which was heaped upon Mr.. Webster, BY the
leading whig journals of New York and Boston, in
that day. that sole occasion, when SOLITARY and
alone" the Secretary Of State stood up in Faneuil
Hall, and with tears in his eyes, demanded of tho
wing party, "Where am to go!' Who does pot re-
collect, with pity and shame, the desperate Straits
and shifts of Captain Tylers office holders, to hold
on to the flesh pots Of the treasury the last sands
of his administration were running outflow they
got up an Independent National Tyler Convention
al Baltimore, on the same day with the Democratic
Convention; and how they finally, bag and baggage
! in the hottest OF the dog-days, went over to Mr..
Polk, and how they all turned out for their
| pains, as be came into power
| All that eventual administration,
| that of Captain Tyler-and SO very peculiar,
unique, so amusing, SO funny, SO astonishing,
| ard SO exceedingly ludicrous-so unlike any
| thing that had ever before transpired, Gin the
heavens Or in the cart or in the waters under the
earth that no NOR 49, man ever dreamed of look
| ing upon the like again. 1t marked an epoch, like
the day when Joshua commanded the sun and moon
to stand still, or like the South Sea bubble, or the
removal of the deposits or the Buffalo platform of
| Van in n aud
astounding. from beginning to end, that it was
thought to be utterly impossible that anything like
it, in any respect, could ever happen any
But strange, unique, and remarkable, as was The
model administration Of Captain John Tyler, (may
he live thousand years,) the present adminstra-
ton furnishes many strong points of resemblance.
| Gen Harrison died, and his whole cabinet and the
whole wing party tumbled to pieces, excepting Mr.
Webster. Gen Taylor died, and his entire cabinet
turned adrift, and Mr. Webster recalled to
the State Department. Mr.. Webster was alike inds-
pensable to Tyler and Fillmore, and has quarreled
with both; and left the one in disgust he going
to leave the other in rage. In the first case he
knew not where to go; and it is so in the second.
Again, as regards the Office holders, we find them,
under the present administration, industriously
bargaining and peddling to make themselves all
snug as in the palmiest days Of Captain Tyler. Here
and there expert fellow succeeds in creeping into
the long gown Of judge-others are transferred to
missions abroad, so that even if recalled next
March, they will get the outfit and the init. But,
more than all, they who were the humblest toaies
of the President, or of Mr.. Webster before the
| Baltimore Convention, are among the most
ofEcious toadies of Gen Scott. We have no means
| of knowing Mr.. Webster's present opinion Of the
political consistency Of Moses IL. Grinnell or ST.
neon Draper; but the President can hardly fail to
be amused at the fexibility Of that India rubber
politician, James Brooks. And yet this same time
serving political huckster is mentioned as likely to
be rewarded for his fidelity to the administration,
with the Office Of Postmaster General This is one
sample of the revival Of the desperate expedents of
the Office. holders under Tyler to screw out of the
last few months Of the Presidents term Of Office as
much Of the public plumber possible. 1t is to
be hoped that the Senate Of the United States
will rebuke this system of bargaining and
corruption, Ia manner not to be msun-
derstood, when such unprncipled political toadies
as James Brooks are brought before them for
confirmation to cabinet offices or foreign mis-
sions. The suffers OF the camp are left their vo
| cation, as long other men, more available, are to
be had to fill accruing vacancies either in the staff
or line of the army and this, in all cases. should be
the policy Of the government. The precedents Of
Tyler's administration ought not to be admitted by
the Senate sufficient justification Of similar impo-
sitions upon Mr.. Fillmore
We desire to do no injustice to John Tyler. 1t is
but fair therefore, to disavow any resemblance be-
tween his and the present administration, including
the cabinet Of Gen. Taylor, the score Of Gaphin-
ism and Gardinersm Here, fortunately for the
treasury, but unfortunately for their credit the
cabinet Of Old lack, and the cabinet Of Mr. Fillmore
are without precedent parallel in American
| history. Swartwout, and the Boyds and the Har-
rises, Of Van Buren's time, sink into mere sixpenny
defaulters contrasted with the sublime swindng Of
the Galphins, the GARDENERS, and other Mexican
| Cherokee, Cboctaw, Chickasaw and Florida claims,
Of the last four years, counting up by hundreds Of
| Thousands, and even by millions at a single
haul. In the most enormous of all these
monstrous drafts upon the public treasury cabinet
officers have been parties in the business and stand
charged with pocketiDg the lions share Of the plum
der Old lack was an honest old man; but he was
tricked, duped swindled and ruined by the rogues
who surrounded him. Mr.. Fillmore is an amablc
Christian, but feeble man. and hence, in spite OF all
his honest endeavors to do right, he has neither
ceeded in putting stop to Galphinism and Gardi-
nerism, in bringing the offenders to Justice. |
Contrastod with this bad luck in respect to the
gangs Of busy leeches that have sucked the vitals
out Of his administration, how truly fortunate was
Captain John Tyler. He kept clean set Of books,
clean Of all Gardincrism and Galphinsm the most |
abominable system Of corruption of which the GO
yernment has had the misfortune to be the vic
tim lie retired with his public accounts satisfac- |
'oy settled and having saved, at least, fifty thou
SAND dollars of his salary, and having married
young blooming, rich, handsome and accomplished |
Mne' ana having bought a splendid plantation
James rVer' amid the ed localities Of Captain
John Smith and Pocat ontas. he retired with dignity