The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-10-31

due by the IOiilns Steamer enc Will prOD3-
bly, arrive in the course Of the day.
The Last Card OF the Webster Newsstand
Ing Fast TO their Position.
When General Wolfe lay mortally wounded upon
the Plains of Abraham, he was startled with the
shouts" They fyw "They Ayp' "who fly Z"
ne enquired with quick impatience "The enemy"
''Then,' said he, Il die contented.' And SO, we
may readily suppose that the last days of Daniel
Websters life were frightened by the total rout of
the Seward party and their allies in the preliminary
skImishes of the late State elections, from Maine to
Florida, and from Mary land to Missouri. Mr.. Web
ster had joined issue with the Seward party, between
the constitution and 1.-THE higher law'-between our
compromises with the South and the revival of the
Slavery agitation-and they had forced him back to
the wall, where he has fallen, without abating jot
or little Of his conscientious repugnance to the
Baltimore wing nominations, or to the means and
appliances by which, and to the purposes for which,
they were effected.
There was some reason, however, to apprehend
that with the death of Mr. Wooster, his wrongs
would be forgotten, and that the great principles
upon which he had resolved to " sink swim, sur
vive or PERISH" would be practically abandoned by
his friends and that most of them, as between the
wbig party and the democratic, would, as the only
remaining alternative, fall back upon Scott and Gra-
ham. t is still highly probable that considerable
portion Of the Webster party proper of
under the impression that having done all they
could do fer Mr. Webster, and that they can now do
better, will vote for General Scott 1t is highly
probable too that the result of this sort of
ing among the rank and file of the Webster men of
| Massachusetts,, will give that State to General
Scott, on Tuesday next, by decided vote. From
the antecedents of the whole wing party of Massa-
chusetts, have suspected, and still think, that
considerable portion of the Webster branch will rs
Gin their judgment,) choice between two evils, go
over. to the support of the Seward ticket or, the
shock which they have sustained in the death of
Mr.. Webster has so Frustrated them that they will
permit the election to 60 by default, contest in
which they to have any special interest or per-
sonal preference.
We had also concluded that the eleventh hour
Webster organization Of this city and State would
drop to pieces with the loss of their ustrious cham
pion, as movement which had served its purpose
in vindicating and defending and maintaining the
cause of the great statesman to the end of his
glorious But il that the statement of
the Courier and Enquirer concerning that letter
that dreadful letter-that letter which Mr. Webster
"never signed'-has had quite the contrary effect
The Webster men of New York have held a meeting
and, as msy be seen by their published card in yes
terdays HERALD, they stick to their electoral ticket
they stick to their principles, and they proclaim as
their motto, {" Men die-Princples never''
1t thus appears that the editor of the Courier
in his labor of love to draw the conservative Union
Webster wings, Of New York, off TO the support of
the Seward ticket, has been labor in vain. Perhaps
the Webster had but little faith in his sincerity
or discretion; perhaps the humiliating confession
| which General Webb has made concerning the mis-
sion of that strange and unexampled committee of
five to Marshfeld, has made it essary to vindi-
cate Mr.. Webster's consistency of purpose and ad-
hesion to fixed principles, even now that he is in
his grave. The motives, objects, and purposes of
the Webster men are, however, laid down with
telling emphasis and dstinctness, in their card,
titled the peoples Electoral Ticket
How strange and startling this conjuncture OF
great events On Friday last Mr.. Webster's NOR
tai remains were carried to the grave; and on Sa-
turdsy his steadfast political friends in New York
deliberately meet, consult, andresolve to fight his
battle, although their great leader has fallen Their
proclamation has the ominous sound Of the speech of
Mark Antony over the dead body of julius Caesar.
1t comes upon the heel of the election, to the
Seward cliques, like the solemn warning voice of
Casar's ghost to Brutus-" Well meet again at
Phllippip' 1t is omen of terror, defeat, and
destruction.
Nor are the New York Webster men alone in their
adhesion to the great fundamental principles which
frst induced them to abandon the Seward party.
The Webster men of Georgia, who were foremost
in The field with an electoral ticket in his behalf
intend 70 IN hat F; NJ 1tar
is more. They have made movement, substi-
tuting Fillmore and Crittenden for Webster and
jenkins; but whether it is or is not generally
adopted by the independent Union wings of the
State, il is abundantly manifest that they have
done enough to render Georgia one Of the surest
States in the Union for q verdict against the
Seward nominations. But still the blow Of the
Webster wings of New York is the most merciless
and deadly.
The battle comes off on Tuesday All the signs
" in the heavens, and in the earth, and in the
waters under the earth,'' foreshadow an over.
whelming defeat to the Baltimore wing ticket. In
anticipation of this defeat it is WE'LL perhaps, thai
there is nucleus in the whig ranks of the North,
for the Union and the constitution; for we shall see
the real colors of Seward and his allies In the event
Of their overthrow.
TJE GERMAN VoTE.-As in the case OF the Irish
so in the case Of the Germans-ev ingenuity is
resorted to obtain their votes for Scott and Ger.
man agents have been hired to influence them; but
all will no. do-tbey regard the unretracted letter
of General Scott, in which he declared he would de-
prive the Germans, well other citizens of for
eign BIRTH of the right to vote, the best
in the world for not giving him their votes long
as they possess that right. Tho Germans, like the
Iish are democrats and they will vote for Pierce,
progress and democracy
WING MONEY IN CIRCULATION 1t is said that
immense sums of whg money collected in the de-
partments at Washington, and in the New York and
Philadelphia custom houses, and elsewhere, is in
circulation in Pennsylvania and New York, to be