The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-22


ton to the whig cause, has been most outrage
ously requited Only think oft After securing,
by dint of skilfnl electioneeriDg. compromising
and concilating conferences among the Ja.ring
elements of the Philadelphia Slaughter House
Convention, the nomination and election OF Gen.
TAYLOR and Mr. Fillmore, the very man to
whom the party and the country are indebted
for that ticket is treated as renegade. from
and after the death of good Old Rough and
Ready" and excluded from the favor and CONT
dence Of his successor, for whom the largest
sacrifices were made. We had always thought,
until these late revelations OF Thurlow Weed,
that he and Greeley had been among the most
violent and uncompromisng opponents OF Gen.
Taylor's nomination--that they did all that
could be done to defeat it; and that, after the
deed was done, they swallowed the ticket OF
Taylor and Fillmore with the badly disguised
nausea of dose of calomel and jalap. But,
admitting the evidence Of Master Weed in the
premises we are astonished to find that to him.
above all other men. is the wing party indebted
for the fatal ticket and the disastrous victory OF
1913.
We are also moved with an Involuntary feel
ing Of commiseration for the harsh treatment,
in view of his invaluable services to which poor
Thurlow Weed has been subjected by the nn-
grateful Millard Fillmore. No wonder that
there has been discord in the wing family OF
New York. The Albany Journal was too out
rageously insulted, in the establishment OF the
Register under its nose, to submit to it; and in
spite Of the plausible explanations of the Regis
tr, the Seward organs and the Seward faction
suffered quite enough under the administration
Of Mr.. Fillmore, to remember him to the longest
day of their lives, as they most unquestionably
intend to do. They will remember him and his
organs. and his friends, and be revenged upon
them for the wrongs not only Of Seward and
company. but for the treachery and base ingra-
titude which swamped the fair prospects Of Gen.
Scott from the day OF his nomination.
But again. Who can read, unmoved with in
dgnat'on, the remarkable disclosures Of Master
Weed concerning the luplicity and unblush-
ing hypocrisy Of the . Robert Macaire " Of
the New York city press, concerning the
nomination of Taylor and Fillmore? Can
the honest reader fully realize the fact that
such doube-dealing treachery is practised
even among the most unprincipled secondhand
politicians? Can it be that such men guilty
of such receptions and political thimble rig
ging- can it be that such unscrupulous buck
sters set themselves up as the conscrvators Of
public morality, as the teachers OF law and
order, and public and private decorum? 1t is
even so. And hence it is that good and true
men, like Thurlow Weed are distrusted. abused
and vilifed. disgraced and turned adrift while
the unprncipled spies and informers who have
betrayed them arc taken into the confidence OF
the administration. No wonder that the party
policy Of Mr.. Fillmore, while in occupation Of
the White House, resulted so unfortunately at
Baltimore and in the late election.
But. seriously. there is moral and polit-
cal meaning in these articles, from the opposing
whig journals of Albany. They show that the
OBJECTIONS which originated With the noln;na-
ion of Gen. Taylor, which were extended in
every direction by his short, misguided admins
traton. which were not healed by Mr.. Fillmore.
but which were carried to open and wide-s spread
rebellion with the nomination Of Gen Scott
are still open, and apparently without remedy.
In the squaring up OF the accounts between
the Albany Journal and the Register, there
is no Ian of reconciliation suggested Nothing
Of the kind appears to have entered the heads
If either faction. There is no approach to
re-nnio between the Seward men and the
friends of Fillmore and Webster-no middle
ground proposed upon which they may rally
!, again in the common cense Of resistance TO The
fierce do.nooraulc.1 The poor wings. divided
and defeated. still remain as he awful disper-
sion Of November left them. Greeley pronOunccs
the party dead-stone dead and is in favor of
new organization OF some sort for State pur-
poses, based on the aine liquor law. woman's
rights, and spiritual manifestations: but there
is no response to his recommendation.
A few weeks hence and the antumnal election
will be upon us. The democrats have appointed
their convention for the nomination of their
State ticket. and they are moving in the coun-
ties to provide for their Legislative candidates
hut the poor wings are doing nothing but quar-
rel over their past tollies and their horrible
defeats. They have called no State convention
they have thrown ont no indications of what
they expect to door intend to do, in the election
In fact for all that appears TO the contrary.
the Seward and Fillmore wings 90 not expect
TO unitc-do not care to make the attempt but
arc rather inclined, in their Overwhelming de-
spair, to let the election 80 by defanlt. Ken
lucky and Tennessee have not done so well
as might have been expected. The admin
istratlon is omnipotent the wing party
is practically powerless for good or evil. sub
stantially defuncr; and why should the frag-
mcnts Of the party attempt to rally in New
York under such disheartcning circumstances?
Why should they so far crafty the democracy
as to give them the occasion for clarifying over
another victory: even worse TO the poor wings
than the last Why not let the democrats fight
il out among themselves, or put in and give the