The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-15
The Spells Cabinet.-The Washington Union
and the New York Herald.

The Cabinet organ is throwing off its reserve,
and is beginning boldly to develope its tactics
upon the great issue Of the spoils in connection
with the prolongation or dissolution Of the
Spells Cabinet In it's discussions OF this impor-
tant subject, the Washington Union gives
rehash of the stale clap-trap and fustan so
common among our party organs some twenty
odd years ago, before the independent press of
the country was established. We are tod of
1.-The thunder tones of democratic victories"
which "come booming in from State after
State;" and of 1.-THE gigantic power of the true
hearted democracy;" and Of the ''squeamish"
silk stocking gentry" and of democracy" and
".he working man." and 1.-THE lion-hearted
democracy" and Of Mr.. Guthrie as one Of
those democrats who have been tried in the
fire." and of the cowardly threats ofmob law"
and Of "the stock Of Kentucky democrats" and
all such fatulent nonsense-the veriest stuff of
Western stump speeches before railroads had
crossed the Allegheny mountains. Such glib
berish is simply beneath the dignity of argu-
ment, and discreditable even to the Cabinet
organ.
But the Union also INDUCES in certain ac-
cusations and assertions which call for pass
ing notice. One of it's most amusing charges
is directed against this journal, being nothing
more nor less than this-that the late articles
in the HERALD, urging the necessity Of new
Cabinet, are said to emanate from the pen of
w. H. Seward. What an idea! How dread
full What will Mrs. Grundy say? Mr.. Sew
ard, we admit, is capable Of making prosy
speech Of any length before cattle show or
college, or the United States Senate he can
speak by the hour in windy verbiage, or write
by the yard upon great variety of subjects !;
but he lacks that practical cast of mind, that
common-sense perception Of men and things,
and that matter-of-fact understanding of pass
ing events, which are indispensable qualities
in even a second or third-rate writer for the
New YORK HERALD. As far as political princi-
pies are concerned. too. however acceptable
the contributions of Mr.. Seward might be to
the Cabinet organ at Washington, inst now,
they would. doubtless be as distasteful to US
as have been his seditious vagaries for the last
twenty-five years. W. II. Seward writer for
the HERALD! Oh! hush!
But a still more ridiculous and a really wick
ed, assertion of the Cabinet organ, is that to-
wards those, even of the democratic party, who
have arrayed themselves in opposition to the
Cabinet, the President /" can have no other feel
ing but one Of sovereign contempt We pro-
nounce this an atrocious calumny upon Presi-
dent Pierce. 1t is clearly impossible that he
can cherish any thing like feeling of contempt
for that class OF men to whom he owes his cleo
ton. A contempt for them would involve a
contempt for the political principles OF his whole
life, and the policy SO broadly laid down in his
inaugural address. We know from good au-
thority, that Gen. Pierce has an abiding sense
Of respect for and Of Identification with, the ma
tional compromise branch of the democratic
party, North and South we know that he can
entertain nothing else than feeling of respect
for the overwhelming constitutional Union prin-
ciples upon which he was SO triumphantly borne
aloft into the White House. His responsible
ties are to the honest millions Of the American
people-not to the buckstering politicians ofthe
Cabinet and the Cabinet organ. The fact is,
that the Cabinet and their organ, in their despe-
ration, are striking blindly about them, and
dent recoil upon themselves.
In this controversy between the President
and his Cabinet. we may safely assume that the
latter. and not the former, is guided by selfish
and sordid motives. The intentions of General
Pierce are good he can have no possible object
TO gain otherwise. 1t undoubtedly his settled
purpose to carry out the great principles of his
al ~ .ha
general policy of his administration. We be-
lieve, too, that if one set Of men, upon a tull
trial. are found discordant. disorganizing, and
incompetent, he will be ready to follow the po-
Icy Of Old Hickory, in turning them adrift, and
in the appointment of a new set, better adapted
to the practical business before him. We can
not believe that he will persist in the retention
Of this or any other ministry, when fully con-
WINGED that it will hazard the usefulness aud
the unity Of his administration. Such is the
broad line OF demarcation we draw between the
Presid ent and his Cabinet and their imbecila
Washington organ.
We have had enough Of this old party news
paper cant about the silk stocking gentry
and the "lion-bearted democracy" and such
twaddle. The time Tor such paitry pueriities
in the Washington organ has gone by. 1t was
all well enough perhaps. in those days when
the Albany regency and Martin Van Buren,
controlled the democratic party; but those days
have passed away. The independent press and
an independent public opinion have since taken
the field. We live now 10 an age Of intellect
Of reason. and Of practical common sense. The
rant. the cant, and the clap-trap of frontier
electioneering have given way to sober argu-
ment and solid facts.
The Cabinet organ Is behind the times
twenty years behind the times. It's efforts 10
destroy snch men as Bronson. Dickinson. O'Co-
nor and their partisans, like it, efforts to de
fend the Cabinet. will be vain and impotent as
long a. it, arguments are made up Of such bal
derdssh az the silk stocking gentry" the
lion. hearted democracy" and the President