The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-04-26

night GENE within their power and control The
ate magnificent canal lettings, comprehending a !
division Of nearly ten millions Of dollars for the next
three years, which have kicked up such rumpus IN
this State is part Of the plan of party organize
ton, party government, and party control, which
Senator Seward and Thurow Weed have success
fully introduced and carried into operation To the
same category may assign the agency OF MI.
Hawley, of Buffalo, in managing nifty or SIXTY
hanks Of this State, through the Auditor of the
canals. and making these corrupt and damnabe
institutions pay up black mail, or bonuses, or what
ever else il may be called, to such an amount as
was necessary to keep the organization of the wing
party complete, and its pay roll snug during the
whig ascendancy in this State.
But it seems that this system Of party politics is
not sufficient for all purposes in the latitude and
longitude of Washington. In that atmosphere, am
bilious politicians, like Mr.. Seward, cannot fully
grasp the consciences and the souls of the wing
members, through their pockets, but they can COM
petely reach that depository of power and influence
the conscences of whg poticans-by a shorter cut,
and that is through their palates, in the shape OF
pctits soupers choice wines, canvass-back ducks,
elegant parties, and splendid dinners During the
past winter, therefore, Mr. Seward-on the authority
Of the letter in the Express, prepared and corrected
under the "eye" of the Hon. BOBBY Brooks-seems
to have been organizing system of party tactics OF
so rich and recherche description, as entirely to
control certain portion Of the Southern wings,
particularly those who opposed to liquor laws,
and are good judges Of wine and segars. And this
portion he has fully managed and shaped in the re-
cent caucus to degree which hasbeen wonderful and
astonishing We have no doubt that during the
actual European tour ofThurlow Weed. Senator Sew
ard has received from that distinguished parsonage
hints in respect to this new system Of tactics
which the latter has just carried into effect at Wash
ington. The large fortune which Mr.. Seward has
recently acquired, the ambitious purposes which
now fill his mind, and the prospect of making Gen.
Scott his exclusive President with the reversion to
himself, have been the means Of inducing him to
organize these supper set on foot these dinners and
bring together at his board not only Southern wings,
but mi,a6He dictn Southern secessionists; for,
cordng all accounts at of those suppers,
Elwood Fisher the organ Of the secessonsts Of the
South, and Senator Hangum, the leader Of the whig
party both invited and both joined heartily and
cheerfuly in the canvass-back movement OF the day.
In this important supper and political movement of
Senator Seward for the purpose Of ruling the wing
party and its nomination, he has, it seems, from
want Of experience, made some inconsderable blum
ders and omissions from which have arisen the con-
vulsions, throes and difficulties in the wing caucus
the secession of several of the Southern members,
and the terrible explosion between Mangum and
Brooks, on the floors Of both houses.
In the early part of the present session. the wings
held caucus and in that caucus, it seems, the
promise resolutions were proposed and accepted.
De- Ahox had aov ALL okal
together on a sudden, and was under the cold wa
ter influence of the White House, which is no
influence at all. 1t was merely considered, there
fore, the expression Of sudden opinion, without
reflection or consideration and before the in
fuence Of the suppers and dinners Of Senator
Seward had been fairly under way or begun
to operate. In the recent caucus, therefore, these
Compromise resolutions were tumbled out neck
and heels, and of the principal causes Of the
exdlosion seems to have been, that Senator Sew
ard had not invited the Hon. BOBBY Brooks, and
some of the Southern wings who bolted, to those
splendid entertainments which were participated
in by Mr.. Mangum, Ellwood Fisher, 4. F. Stanly,
and other patriots, who remained and stood fire.
Senator Seward has thus committed fatal mis-
take in his first movement, in the adoption of this
new system of European tactics for managing the
whig party Of this country and regulating the Pre-
sidential succession This is the only Ineligible
explanation that be put this transaction, ac
cording to the revelations made by the parties them
selves on the floors of Congress, through the CO.
umns of the newspapers.
Such is the volcanic position of the whg party
1t is perfectly clear that the Southern members in
this caucus who seeded account of its refusal to
support the Compromise, will be themselves compro-
missed before their constituents and the country, if
they do not come boldly out and explain to the
world their position, their principles and their pur-
poses. Mr.. Brooks, and the other whig authorities
in the wing journals, have clearly indicated that the
explosion in the whg caucus originated in the ne
gect of Senator Seward to invite certain other whg
leaders to his 'uppers dinners to drink his wine
and eat his canvass-backs instead Of any other real
political cause on the calendar. Such will be set
down the internal principle and cause of the dis
organization, disorder, and explosion of the wing
party, and the whig caucus, unless the Southern
members who have seeded come forward them
selves and explain their position on higher prnci-
pies. We have heard it said that Mr.. Fillmore, and
even Mr.. Webster, have taken in hand the case of
the seeding members from the caucus, and have ad-
vised them, from dread and alarm Of the power of
seward, 10 Issue no WOnrnctdmento, put forth no
manifesto, but to swallow their modification at the
triumph which Seward has attained over them, and
to 10 the best that they hereafter. This weak
ness Of Mr.. Fillmore is very characteristic Of him.
He is man Of no great moral courage in politics Mr.
Webster too, with his prodgious intellect has still
less Of the like moral quality Senator Seward has
courage and capital-more cunning than both Of
them put together, with an awakening taste in
suppers and canvassbacks, which will give him
with those Southern wings of the liquor and oyster
brand-the whip hand of the whole of his Northern
unless they look out in time. The
Southern members, who have seeded, will be
utterly demolished in their districts, if they do
not, as we have said, at forward and de-
clare their position, their purposes, and their rea-
sons; otherwise they will be set down in the same
category in which every will set down the Hon.
BOBBY Brooks who, undoubtedly, has boltcd. and