The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-09-03

judge Humphrey yesterday decided that Governor
Eeymour's pardon of Edymoin could not DO annulled
by the Court and that the prisoner must therefore
be discharged.
Special attention Is directed to the very full and
snpl ic reports We to day publish Of the closing
scenes in the Whole Worlds Temperance Convcn.
ton held in this city, and the Free and Easy Con
vention at Syracuse. Comment upon the trsnsac-
lions OF those connected with these extraordinary as
senbages Ia at present unnecessary. 1t is import
ant, however, that the people should be kept duly
postedup with regard to their peculiar movements.
Secrets OF View York wing Politics-A Full
View B< hand the Scenes.
We spread before our readers this morning
series Of articles from the Albany Erening
Journal, Stewards organ,) and the Buffalo Com
merciaI .4drertiser, (Mr. Fillmore's special
organ,) disclosing to the public view the secret
wires and wire pullers OF the Philadelphia
Slaughter House Convention Of l84S, and Of o
variety Of other matters connected with New
York whig politics and politicians.
In perusing these "reminiscences Of Thurlow
Weed. DR.. Foote and Mr.. Parmelee, the honest
and straightforward wing partisan, ignorant Of
the machinery back of the curtain. will be sur
prised and disguised at the dirty tricks and
miserable petty expedients by which few in
dividuals in the wing councils OF Washington,
Philadelphia and Baltimore, have directed the
party of the State and of the Union leading
them blindfolded but confding to the disas-
tiers, and the final decentralization, dispersion
and destruction, with which the universal wing
church has been blasted.
The main issue in this violent controversy
between DR.. Weed and DR.. Foote is upon some
paltry differences in their individual recollec-
tions of certain inside operations among the
wing wire workers and pipe layers at Phila-
delphia and Washington, relating to certain
Presidential candidates and to certain appoint
ments to Office under the WING regime Of ls4l.
And in reading over these diverse accounts Of
past transactions the exclamation of the old
women recurs: Who shall decide when such
wise doctors disagree?" 1t is Of very little
Importance to the public whether DR.. Weed is
or is not guilty of the alleged miErepresenta-
lions in the premises, or whether Dr. Foote
has or has not perpetrated the falsehoods in
the premises charged upon him. We can get
over that difficulty very readily by assuming
that each has treasured up his "reminiscences
after his own peculiar fashion-that both tell
good deal Of what is true but that neither of
them has told one-half the story of the bloody
butchery of Henry Clay, beginning in 1886 and
ending in 1s52-a case Of protracted political
treachery and murder of twelve years duration.
But these conflicting political confessions of
wire-working partisans are important to the
public to the extent to which they betray
the contemplate and selfish considerations by
which political jugglers are controlled, and the
dirty little tricks by which the honest masses Of
their partisans are hoodwinked and betrayed
Look at these "reminiscences of our contenl-
poraries of Albany and Buffalo. The inference
is inevitable from their own statements against
each other that from their acts Of treachery,
duplcity and falsehood, neither of them is en-
titled to public respect. But what is the key
to all this? The simple fact that Willard Fill
more, as President of the United States, thought
it expedient to cut loose from such free soil abo
lition associations as the Albany Journal and
Master Thurlow Weed. That's all. But what
could poor Mr.. Fillmore do ? Had he taken the
other horn of the dilemma his position would
have been infinitely worse then and now than
it has been-than it is. But where there ia a
party split there will be party disclosures made
discreditable to all concerned, as in this highly
amusing and instructive controversy between
Weed and Foote. We hope that the revelations
between these organs respectively of Seward or
Fillmore will go on till both sides shall have
made clean breast of all that they
know. Let them do it, and do it promptly.
so that the wing party, upon full con-
fession Of all the recent dirty tricks of both
factions, may cancel the record at Syracuse
and open new set of books.
The historical article closing the series of
our beautiful extracts is about the best
thing we have had for some time from Thurlow
Weed. 1t is given with the view of correcting
certain historical omissions in late article OF
the NEW YORK HERALD on the subject Of the
whig party in connection with anti-masonry
We commend the statement thus evoked from
the Albany Journal to the special attention Of
our readers. 1t illustrates that trite old axiom
most wildly: that tribes, after all, control the
fate of men, Of parties and Of nations. Here it
will be seen that the intractable humor of
Judge Thompson called from his bed at an I'M
seasoDable hour of the night. il the real secret
of the election of Van Bnren as Governor in
1923. and of the vast chain Of mighty political
events that have succeeded in the State and
in the nation. Had the committee reached the
Judges house about supper time, over bottle
of wine they might have reversed the destiny
Of both parties and Of this great country from
that day to this
Alas Alack-a-day! What pity, what a
shame, what sorrowful pity what burning
shame it was that DR.. Weed and the COM
mittee did not reach Judge Thompsons house
before he bad gone to bed What remark
able illustration is this Of the weight of the