The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-30

TnE JUNIUs LETTER AND TEE CABIBlr-
There is yet another reason why we believe
the letter signed "Junius" to be the production
OF Mr. Marcy. 1t is essentially the performance
of country lawyer, special pleader, who, in
his anxiety to grasp at straws. seize hairs and
draw distinctions and differences from trivial
and incidental points. entirely loses sight of the
main question, and drifts miles away from the
real issue The squabbles that have been gsins
on in this State, between hunkers and barn
burners hard shells and soft shells, silver grays
and woolley heads, are, one and all of them,
utterly contemplate in the eyes Of right think
ing men-mere petty scrambles for plumber,
with which politicians of standing and charac-
ter ought to be ashamed to connect their names
The only tangible question in cotemporaneous
politics is whether the administration shall or
shall not be allowed to recognize the Van
Buren, traitors of 1848-the men who tried to
overthrow the Union by their free soil develops-
ments-as the true friends of the country and
the ruling political party: and whether Gen.
Pierce's cabinet, which was raised to power by
the Union sentiment, shall or shall not be saf-
their very entrance into Washington, and to re-
ward with the State spoils the traitors who 50
nearly plunged this country into vortex OF
misery and strife.
These are questions which are well calcu-
lated to occupy the mind of every leading
statesman. These are the only points towards
which he can direct his attention with any
prospect Of profit to bis country or honor to
himself. The points which Mr.. Marcy dis
cusses are utterly beneath notice. If il be
true, as he states, that the hunkers and barn.
burners have been spending the last far.
hVe years IN attempts to bring about coalitions
between men of opposite pri.acip,a. for tho sol.
purpose OF carrying the elections and dividing
ovoora,os :. parties richly deserve to be
- by all honest men as factions that
could degrade our national politics into a
shameful game at huckstering the public
Offices. We care not button for Bronson,
Beardsley, or OConor on the one side, or for
Marcy, Seymour and Van Buren, on the other.
| Our eolicitude is confined TO and sngrossed by
the oil absorbing problem mentioned above. on
solution of which the existence of the Union
may possibly and its peace must certainly de.
pend. While this is pending, we cannot follow
Mr.. Marcy in his elaborate account of attempts
to induce rival factions to coalesce for the sake
| of plumber, or even spend time in showing
how so unprincipled policy has led to- where
it could not but lead-the utter prostration ant
disntegration Of all political parties in THU
State.
Suffice it to say that such has been the case
There is not, in the whole Of this State, a singh
one of the old parties that can boast Of vigor
GUS corporate existence or substantial organi
cation. All are lettering and hopelessly rot
ten. Their leaders are known and admitted t
be men of small minds and narrow views; W
can hardly mention one on whom the peopl
could rely in an hour of emergency, for en-
larced statesmanlike opinions, and noble ma
tional course Of conduct Bargaining an