The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-09

Frcm the New York Tribune, Nov, 81

tieal contest will have 70 record the disastrous
failure of an attempt TO enforce upon the whig party
An outward uniformity Of opinion and action WITH
regard to human slavery. For this uniformity
there no foundation either in fact IN tradition;
our Northern and southern people have always re-
garded slavery with very different eyes, and, 50
Iopg as il shall exist among us, probably always
viii. In national convention, in no congress
sionsl caucus, in no assemblage claiming 10 speak
In behalf of the wings of the whole Union, was
there ever an assumption OF power to create or
declare uniformity on this subject prior TO this
present 1851 Messrs Toombs aud Stephens d,d,
indeed, attempt TO force such declaration IN the
congressional caucus Of December, 1919, but ther
Iepulse was signal and conclusive, leaving onen
only the old resort of defeating the party they could
not control. The second attempt OF the kind was
made by the opponents OF General SCOTT 8 nomlna
tion in the last Baltimore Convention-Nith whst
suceess has been told in the succeeding CANVASS and
Its result.
vass was the virtual combination OF the maSnates
and usual managers OF both the great parties pow
eIfully aided though not With such evident malice
prepense by those Of the third party to hunt down
and crush a single individual, and he no candidate
for Office and no wise connected with the DISPENSE
tion Of spoils. Gov Seward not only holds no post
OF power or influence under the present administra
tion, but he stood expressly pledged TO refuse any
Under the next, had Gen Scott been chosen No
matter what might have been the result of the re-
cent contest, he would have remained what he nov
is and for three years must continue to boa Soma
tor from the State of New York And yet against
him have the batteries Of the nov victorious host
been pointed throughout the canvass the fire OF the
traitors in the wing camp has all been aimed at his
devoted head Members Of Congress, electors Of
President, and various orders of OK notables
have renowned the wing party by which they
have hitherto been hsnored aud cherished,
with no other ayowed reason than this-th1t
General Scott was the s'Seward candidate" and
therefore must be crushed Seward" Seward
"SeEardt'' has been the burden of our adyerssries
sopg from the outset-the theme on which the Sa
fantic press has expended half its venom. aud on
which she journals subsisting on advertisements of
women and children for sale, have expatiated with
uneQualed persistence and fervor. The wing po'
tentates who have given their and their names
toward the promotion and support of $ Webster
Union tickets, have doneko to feed fat their grudge,
not against Scott but againss Sc ward to that end
have mercantile wings by thousands either refused
10 vote for President at all, voted plump for
Pierce and King-ready not merely to defeat, hut
TO arnihilate the whg party, if they might thereby
dsmolish Seward. To this end, too have extra
exeytione been put forth By the barnburners, who
feel that their recreancy and shame can never be
efaced from the public recollection long as Gov.
Seward remains IN the Senate faithful to the prin
oiples and convictions which have rendered his
detested by every tTafcker in human sinews, oy
every perpeir atoI of egaized villanes throughout
the civilized world
Well: the conspiracy Of Aristocrat with Jacobn,
Slave Trader With Agrarian, Pearl street with the
Five Points, has been crowned with uumeasued sue
cess. Gen Scott is Overwhelmingly defeated, and
the whg party not merely discounted but annihila
tensions to reading the FUTURE but we do not SEQ
how the whig party as such can ever be rallied again.
Defeat is but an accident, to which any party may
be subjected; but defeat based on comprehensive,
systematic reachery like that just experienced, can
hardly be other than conclusive.
For 1t must be considered that even those cotton
journals and politicians which finally yielded re-
notant support to Gen. Scott, had taken such a
course preparatory to the wbig National Convention
as to neutralze and paralyzs the subsequent acqui
escence. They set out with The assumption tsat
Gen. Scott must not be nominated, since his nomi-
nation would be Seward trium sh which all the
South and conservatives everywhere must repulsts.
when, therefore, they came round and undertook
to commend the nomination which they had so un.
sparingly denounced in advance, their afversaries
had only to quo,e agans. the N their wn diatrbes
hardly yet cold, to prove that, on their show
hog, Gen Scott should be opposed and defeated be.
cause Of ''Se wardism" Thus they had taken the
precaution to render their support Of Gen, Sco5t
nudity before they could be required 10 prefer it.
The result it obvious, could hardly have been
other than it is.
"But," says one :" how docs all this prove tho
whig party annihilated Why may it-uot regain
its former Strength by eschewing or avoiding Sew
arois p
We answer-If you mean simply that the whig
party rally and regain its forEer pofer By mere
~ purgng itself Of all that is stigmatized as g Sew
ardism," We entreat you to 20 ahead with the
pertinent. There is nothing to risk lose
now, and there can be harm in trying this and
trying it out. We whom you call "Sewardtes'
90 ahead as you see fl. Whether your anti pro-
gressive, proslavery whg party would be strouy yer
than that which has just been routsd, would IT.
semble on trial "the tragedy of Hamlet with the
part Of Hamlet omitted, can better be determined
after than before trial. There be no reasonl-
BE objection to that,
But if You mean that those to spite and destroy
whom you have just broken down, the party will
follow and sustain you in restoring and establish
ing IT, with the understanding that they are to be
aliens ard seIvitors therein, until they consent to
suppress heir Own convictions and otegs your views,
would advise on not to invest either efforts
hopes in so wild o speculation, They are in no
hurry 10 move at all I; whenthe 90 take part With
you in another canvass, il will be your equals
and nothing short Of it They are not going into a
convention with you again, 70 have your notions
foisted into the party creed, ard their cgDdidase
then beaten by you, Notwithstanding his acce paucs
OF your platform They viii not consent that
candidates ayOwed determination TO regsrd aud
treat all wings With equal favor, whatever thoir
views % the last Baltimore platform, shall BE deemed
q sUfhcieI reason for his defeat az your hands lf
they are 10 he prescribed, they prefer 70 suffer at
the hands Of their s9oTed and consistent a1yGt.
saries rather than at those o. superficial but tca
erous compatfi0ts.
But we were speaking ofo scwardsm :
The speeches. addresses, arguments and messages
Of William II Seward. are now IA process prepa-
ration for the press ~ George r. Baker, Esq and
will probably be published next spring II has been
deemed by the editor desirable that the work be
piste, containing every official paper or pablo
speech Of Governor Seward whereof any record
mains and 10 presentit exactly it was originally
given to the public The whole will make three
full ocayos Of some COO pages each, and will b. pub
hshed II style rendering it worthy Of place IN
any COED library, that all the hersziss, extrayl-
Gancies, ana atrocities where with Gov ;. Is popg-
lsry charged viii be readily accessible to all aud
thofe who accuse him Of recommending that foreign
Languages aud unpopular theologes shall be tau ght
10 our public schools Cor some Of them) will no
longer have the excuse Of ignorance for their mis-
representation
We believe there is no other American statesman
now living whose works embody so much that viii
fix and reward the Students attention az do those Of
Gov Seward. Popular education in all its phases
crime and its penalties; political economy in its
sdaptions 70 our national condition slavery, its
perogatiyes, and their limitations free soil and
the compromise anti rent and manoria land to-
nurts the currency, Sc, So, have been dis
cusstd BY him for the last quarter OF century with
vigor and clcarness which leave nothing to be do
siled by bis friends. When his writings shall be