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

and the people Of the North against The wings. and
alliance with aboltonsm and the price Of its favor
ues the Joining in eenseless crusade against tue
Institutions OF the South. To strengthen the hands
lie formed an alliance with CAT ,olicisrn inflsinK
religious fannticsm AID sectarian pr~judices into
political crttds, and making them clements OF
party striie-tbe price TO be paid Tor its support
being the annihilatiou OF our system OF public edu
cation, and converting our common schools into ia-
strments OF eectarlan propa9 andsm. To strengthen
stl further the bands OF his favoIie, and establish
his own poser, he formed az alliance with anti
entism; the price OF its support was TO I've tue de-
s'ructior OF immortal titles aud the abrCgation OF
That portion OF the constitution which guarantees
the nvclabiiity OF the obligation Of contracts The
great body Of the wing party protested against
ihese coinipiBg and disturbing alliances. They re-
fused TO fellowship with abollsonists to recognize
ab1htonism Us ANY portion ot the wing creed. They
refused to court sectarianisul. to consent that
hgious prrdces should be thrust into the political
arena and made an clement OF party strife, and es-
pecally did they refuse to convert the great whig
party into an instrument Of Catholic propagandism.
They refused 70 recognise anttrentism as o princi.
plcin the wing faith, or to associate with faction
made up OF banded resistants I, the Law. They Op
posed the stipuia ions OF the treaty formed by the
editor of the Eccn,ng Journal with these turbulent
and destroying factions. They refused to pay the
price required to carry it out. They preferred the
uatlhcDl W uc OhioH ttb ptfs<NaLtOh u our syS-
ten q public education. the nviolsbllity Of the con
stitUtioD, guaranteeing the rights or property, TO
the support Of these factions.
AT the head Of this great body Of the wings, who
refused TO deDotioneze the whg party and make
II one composed Of factions Of shreds and patches,
Of political tigots aud moral aud political fanatics,
was Mir. Fillmore and his friends" and because
toy $1,000 fast N thai ancient faith, The editor Of
guilty of the egresious folly OF surprising that they
Dared rot resist hs Threatened hostility aad tho still
greater folly VI surprising that he possessed the
rower d crushing them. The great mass Of the
Uhig party refused to follow him in his crusade; aud
IN the place Of an easy victory that be went ont :,
oesisye. he was astonsbed by dsastcrous defeat.
ipscad Of bearing his misfortune like man, or look
ne upon his overthrow in his fool hardy experiment
against the Integrity Of the wing party as the logit-
nate result OF his own folly, he whnes like whipped
Cur, and cI7es out against the cnvenomed per5ecu-
ton Of Mr.. Iillmcle and his friends
II will be new thing VIC think. 70 the wligs u
this state, 10 learn that the editor OF the Eceaing
J0sEiict WIS friendly TO, or was NJ all instrumental
IL, tie nomInaton OF Air Fillmore Is Vice President
in SiS that he not, 10 the last minute opposed
T. that Of General Tay Tor. We we're a. the Phade-
dh'a Convention. and were one oil the few irieads OF
General Taylor who Heut on non this city, aud who
by the J0urHGt and it, clique here were ficelasly
STYLED c ''cabiosd Of his aimirersn If there was
oce fact more notorious, or more talked ali ,ut,
uote clearly understood ~ the time OF the Conyen
uca, than all others IL was the Opposition Of the edi-
TN Of sic Jcnnot, and hi pecuur political assnci
aias ard hackers here 60 tho omaation Of General
Taylor aud Willard FILLMORE. Nor was the opposi-
Son OF the eotor OF the Journal TO Mr. Fillmore then
OF recent origin. lie had long regarded MIR. Fli-
more as the rival OF bis great avoIte, whose fortunes
he seemed TO regard il mis- peculiar mission to
p.sn, and so Tesarcing HIM, he had tor years been
wasing war for his destruction When the State
Convention ri 1916 was covered, the o1itor or the
Josaat was there to push the nomination Of Judge
Harris for Governor, and to oppose that of john
Young and Mr. Fillmore. ~ will be remembered That
on en- informal ballot by the Convention, Mr. Fill
more bad majority Of The prospect was
that be w0u!o get the nomination. This was
cOEtummaton TO which the editor Of the Jour
nal was strongly opposed, and to prevent it he
abandoned Judge arris, and threw oil his influence
~ favor OF John Dung. Not because he loved John
Young, but because he hated and sought to defeat
Willard Fillmore. From that period, aud from long
before that period, he had waged ceaseiess war.
fare against him, not always perhaps openly bat not
the less relcntless, from being at times carried on
under the bypocritica preence Of being his friend.
The editor OF the Journal complains that his warm
aid devoted support OF Mr.. Fillmore has not been
properly rcquied. II he thinks that he thus, by
whining appeal to the sympathy OF the whig parry.
eGace the recorded facts relating TO his warm aud
devoted support he greatly undertakes THEN ntcii
eercc, or the pcitinacity OF human memory. Before
General Taylor was in hs collin, before the ston
had recovered FROM its establishment at the sudden
announce ment OF his death. aud before Mr.. Fillmore
had taken upon himself the discharge OF q single
duty OF ,he Office with which he had beoonio invest
td-beforc lie had spoken ono word as frcsident-the
Lyesiig Journal came cut with au article ucaned
by ihis same editor ~ foil OF malice against tho
new President, it was i'ltimcd aud uDcaued
for. The wing party denounced This exbibitiou0
disappointed spleen. Even lis own friends hopre
Gated 1t as foolish and unwse calculated TO ma
the harmony OF the party, and damage the use
tulfess OF IN administration which everybody
conceded To be purely end only Nbig. But the
editor Of tic JDsa nal saw III Mr. Fillmore only auc-
cessiul rival OF LIS avoritc. and With heart swelling
with envy, and with entity peculiar to himself
he soUe 1T TO ruin an administration that he could
ntthtr ntimidats nor control As President of the
United Suites sr. FILLMORE could not in Justice 80
his own high character to tho friends that had al
ways stood fast by him, nor TO the wings who had
beer struggling 10 preserve the nationality of the
whir party, take TO his councils one who had been
his Interest opponent for years, who had denounc-
Cd him and his friends, and who had done moro
than any living man to corrupt aud ruin the wing
Iai'y ~ The State OF New ork. That he exhibited
lack q syInI&iny with such nllu gas inevitable
from bis own flank and honorable potc:n .satinots
from the history OF tho past, and from the oircn,
stances that surrounded him. Thc"wGim and devoted
support OF the editor OF the journal the
vol givcs to the victim ne would destroy, tie
vuturC renders 10 the prey he would dcv0ar; and his
Nqutal has been measured by his deserts
In his reasonable efforts against the integrity Of
the whig party he has been defeated. In his e
sgGirst Mr.. Fillmore ald his friends" he has been
oeftaed. And we think, with the lights afforded by
| the history OF The past, he will fail 10 secure the
| sympathy Of the w0id or invest IL, !au with the
| gcries OF political InartJIdom
| ONSLAUGHT Or THE ROBERT MacATEE OF TIE
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