The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-06-27

for the bunker Commissioners. The last drop in the
cup of bitterness was poured out His speech over.
reached itself, and gained him not single vote.
Evidently however, the hunkeB took new deter
mination. Il was impossible tor Mr. Mather to rest
under such extreme accusations, without demanding
a trial. 1t would be said that he had avoided an
investigation, and such charge would DO fatal to
his political future. He sent In therefore, second
before the court Of impeachments.
Now, the barnburner regency had made up its
mind that the impeachment could not pass the
House. The presses OF the Albany Aflas were busy
running Oh thousands of copies Of Champlns speech,
for distribution; and the expectation OF easy de-
feat Of Mr. Mather before the next State Convention
was based upon an opposition to the impeachment
on the part Of his friends. There was so much poll
tical capital thrown away. Yet there was no re-
but to pass the resolutions of Mr.. Champln-
the paternity of which, by. the bye belongs to the
canal department rather than TO that gentleman,
who has only played the part Of an aceouehenr or
man midwife in bringing them forth to the light.
After Mr. Loomis the great leader of their faction
upon the floor had failed therefore, in an attempt to
return this second communication to its author BY
the emphatic vote Of fifteen to eighty eight the dis
cussion proceeded with less energy than before. It
now became necessary for the sake Of apparent fair
ness, that sham investigation into the conduct Of
certain barnburner officials, should be trumped up,
and Mr. l.. introduced q resolution that the select
committee examine into their conduct and duly
whtewash the same for the public eye. This will
OF course be done, but whether the hunkers and
whgswill permit any trihing with the officials i'm.
pncated remains to be seen, and depends upon what
strength they can muster, when combined
The court now about to be organized will be the
first in which the Senate and the Judiciary of the
State have met since 1916. Ii will consist OF the
Lieutenant Governor, (unless likewise impeached)
the thirtywo Senator'S and the eight Judges Of the
Court OF Appeals OF which latter four, Ruggles,
Gardiner Jewett, and johnson, were elected to that
bench, and four, Morse, Willard, Mason, and Taggart.
are drawn from tho. eupiSnv Court. IRONICALLY, q
muJvrity or them sympathize with Gov. Seymour's
administration; yet fair and impartial trial is ex-
pected at their hands. The partisanship of the
lower House has not yet infected the Judiciary, and
may the time be far distant when it ever shall It
Is no dlparagement to former senates to call this
present one as respectable and talented body of
men as ever sat in the State capitol. Able counsel
Will doubtless appear on both sides, and the pro-
eeedng bids fair to be, in the highest degree inter-
esting.
But in the ranks of the now dominant democratic
party, this same impeachment has given the signal
for a relentless and lifelong schism. Whatever be
the final result of the proceedings their consequences
will outlast them for years. Not all the patronage
conferred on the free sellers, not all the Herkimer
Conventions, and buried corner stones not all the
secret circulars or open dsaections of former years
combined, could have produced the enmity between
the rival factions which this lamentable accusation
against Mr.. Mather will create and embitter. 1t
will carry the strife Of factions into the presence of
Judicial deiberaton, and bespatter the robes of JUS
tce with the mire of politics. 1t will furnish poti-
cal gadiators with novel weapons; and its tendency
will be to teach new lessons of hatred and extreme
partisanshp And possibly after all, it will fail of
its original object and the barnburners may fail to get
possession, even through such means, of the Canal
Commissioners Board which is to award the con-
tracts, time next year, for work to be done to
the vare of nine millions of dollars in charging
and completing the canals. This will be misfortune
to that aspiring body OF patriots, who believe that
some great evil will yet befa the commonwealth,
because the "slate" proposed by Messrs Church and
Chateld in December, 1851, was not adopted by the
Canal Roard