The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-05-25
TEE DEn0CRArIC AND WHIe RfvrE ws-PoLrrYcs

ON srtLTs.-Iherc are two monthly periodicals pub
lished in this city, as the great organs and oaeles
respectively, of the democratic party and the whis
pAyty. The one i called the Democratic Rerfetc.
and the other the TFhig Reri0c. The assumed
functions of each to dictate the measures. men.
and policy OF the party--to pronounce final iudc-
nent upon statesmen and politicians, great and
snail, and to astonish the illiterate with such a
mass Of learning and profundity that they will not
dare to comprehend it OF dispute it.
The Democratic RertGic controlled by
Geosos Sanders, has undergone very considerable
change Under the old management it was stupid,
dull, heavy, drowsy, and stale--it had no life, no
pulse, policy, no grit, pluck: but was tame and
servile, and, like Southey, it would get up a worry
fattcring life of Luciier himself, for consideration.
It agreed with everything and everybody in the
party, and was constantly repeating the warning OF
the dunghill fowl which had got into the stable
among the horses" Let us all take that we
don't tread upon each others toes.'' 1t was n
quiet old fogy affair, and not likely to disturb
the nerves Of the sckly members of the family,
for its treatment thin cruel and milk and
water. Under the new mana cement, however. the
concern has been subjected to terrible transmogri-
ication. II has descended upon the dead weeds OF
IL
has struck the grandfather Whteheads of the party
with the CONSERVATION Of bowie-knife brandished
before their very eyes. 1t cuts and slashes, right
and left, in the crowd and knocks down and drags
out the party patriarchs with remorseless fury |.
asks no quarter-it gives no quarter; but with its
banner aloft, Of Young America, and fourishins its
Irish shilleah to the tune Of Yankee Doodle" it
clears the way in the effective style of Capt Rynders
in bringing to order Sixth ward meeting at Tam.
many Hall.
All this is not without purpose. The object of
George Sanders is to secure the nomination Of Judge
Douglas at the Baltimore Democratic Convention,
under the delusiyc dea-frst, that he has chance
for the nomination; and, secondly, that if nominate
ed, the subterraneans, the buttcnders, and the
Empire Club can elect him. But all violent and
spasmodc efforts soon exhaust the patient. Sanders,
with his Irish shIlclah, is like man who, knock
ing his own house down about his cars, is buried
himself in the ruins. He has, by his blind impe-
tuosity, killed Judge Douglas against his own
sent, and in spite Of himself. He is done for-he is
killed outright-dead as Van Buren, and the old
foges will bury him at Baltimore without benefit of
clergy. Next, the Democratic Rerioc itself viii
disappear as suddenly as fierce pugilist sometimes
sinks to the earth from some unucky blow in the
crowd; for it has none ohthe prudence OF General
Scott in looking after :" the fire in the rear.''
As for the NATTER the pith, and substance Of this
Reciec, it is mass Of the most insuferable VERDI
age trash, claptrap, rant and fusan. The ideas of
Sanders, rendered into Irish by Reilly, have been
diluted into dish-watcr-very greasy, and very dirty
at that The thing is over-done for, while its af
fectation Of learning and profundy, on the one
hand, are very much like the oraces Of Paddy from
Cork or Jack Bunsby-al moonshine-the vulgar
isms Of style, the other hand, in all its political
articles, SAVIOR too strongly Of the Five Points and
gin and water, to be palatabc to the sober reader
These political dsqusitions appear if written by
sort Of Feargus OConnor in his cups, for the ed-
fcation Of the unterriGed democracy of Sing Sing
SO little do they possess of the clements Of even
party dccency and common sense. 1t is trash-trash
trash.
Of the UMg R,cter it is scarcely necessary to
say that it is van self conccitcd political old gran
ny, cacklng like an old hen over nest Of added
eggs. Both these party organs were established as
catch penny inventions, and SUCH they will starvc
through miserable existence, or suddenly die.