The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-21

moa by its discordant members, is an open
agreement to the compromise measures and the
salt and substance Of the Baltimore platform.
There is this difference between the political
and that now resulting from the Cabinet spoils
coalition oflS53-lhe latter has been more rapid
in its Developments Than the former, which is
doubtless due 10 the fearless disclosures and ex-
positions Of the independent press. In proper
ticn to the accelerated progress of public opinion
will the wsr advance. Perhaps in less than
three months the last reliance of the admins
tration upon The House OF Representatives may
be swept away. In any case having been
assigned our position by the administration
organ as the leading journal Of the opposi-
tion, we shall not talter in our duty We
are enlisted for the campaign It's End
may be foreseen already. An administra-
ton organized upon the old exploded spoils
policy Of Marcy, Martin Van Buren, and
the Albany Regency is simply behind the spirit
Of the age. Public opinion. at every test, will
condemn it. The thing is obsolete and cannot
stand. Such is this present administration
1t has been led by Marcy Co. into the
slough of Van Burenism. Wasting its pa
tronage upon political loafers and balancing
accounts, like hucksters, between freesollers
and secessionists, so as entirely to repudiate
rational men and national principles, the admin
istration of General Pierce upon its first up
peaIance before Congress, is substantially
broken down. The vacillations Of the Cabinet
organ upon the great issues of the day, and its
whining complaints and threats concerning the
public plumber, betray the most painful symp-
toms Of hopeless disease The message, which
was to have placed Congress- the great masses
OF the people, and the Cabinet, all in harmony
on the same PLATFORM has fallen upon both
Houses " like thrice told tale in the ear Of
drowsy man." 1t has had no healing infiu-
ence its only effect appears to have been the
widening of the breach between the two great
divisions Of the party and of the country.
Thus the war is opened; and the Cabinet Or
gans, with the keen sagacity of true spoilsrnen,
foresee the gathering elements of another po-
ltical revolution. The movement commenced
here in our last State election was nothing
more than a marking Of the lines for more ex-
tended operations. The spirit of reorganization,
upon broad and wholesome constitutional issues,
vital and broad as the Union, now developing
itself in Congress, will soon ditfuse itself
throughout the land. The election of the next
House of Representatives. "a, '55, So
will be but the precursor Of the Presidential
election. The administration will be beaten,
A ,.,4 ~ 1oJoa
tions preceding and accompanying the Presi-
Dental canvass OF 1928.
The old issues between the whig and demo-
cratic parties are settled They exist no more,
and those old party organizations are therefore
extinct They cannot be revived again. The con-
test now is between the administration and the
opposition between the Cabinet spois coalition
stool-pigeon democracy and the national Union
men of all parties. 1t opens as did the general
contest between the Senate combination and the
Adams administration in 1927. The programme
the moraie-the general drift of this present
movements substantially the same rs that
which SO triumphantly carried Gen. Jackson
be the same: the Inauguration Of new order
OF things, and the ratification OF q new division
of parties in the election Of 1856.
In this contest. we repeat, we accept the hon
orable position thrust upon US by the Cabinet
organs. Let it, then be understood, that the
New YORK HERALD is the leading organ Of the
national opposition party to the administration,
and that it is enrolled for the campaign against
this coalition free soil spoils Cabinet and the
stool-pigeon democracy. We shall feel it our
duty to maintain the fight till the political n.y.
birds Of the present Cabinet coalition are super
seded by more consistent, homogeneous and
practically national administration. We care
nothing yet for Observation-Disclosures Weshall
have plenty OF them, no doubt, from which to
choose, in season But we shall be careful
against committing ourselves to the fortunes of
any man without full and uneqUivocal un-
Outstanding Of the ground he occupies. in ad-
vance. And after the juggling experiments
we have had at Baltimore, we quite agree with
Mr., Calhoun, that these national conventions
arc but trading caucusses upon large scale
and are not to be trusted. They forestall pub
lie opinion. They cheat the people Of their free
discretion in the elective franchise
AT all events the campaign for the sue
cession will either be free scrub race, like that
of 1924, or combined onslaught upon the
party in power, like that Of 1928. In either
case this administration is doomed-it will 60
down and another will be inst allied in it's place
to carry out the great national principles which
this has betrayed and forsworn. To this end
4hn tTr-,,. I,
the Cabinet the leading organ Of the opposi-
ton and, satisfied with this high distinction,
we again answer that we are enlisted for the
war.
THE IRISH DIRECTORY FUND 1t appears that
the moneys raised here in 1913 to aid in pro-
noting the Irish rebellion Of that year, have
been partly devoted to assisting in the escape