The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-10-18

spells system decrced by the Cabinet; and here
we have it. Our Collector enters into logical
analysis OF the contemplate instructions of his
official superior and shows, from substantial
facts and the sober deductions OF common sense,
the degrading and destructive consequences OF
an adhesion to the miserable and dshonorable
Treasury manifesto.
Master Guthrie is admonished that 1T is bad
policy to treat the democratic party as mere
coalition of factions only to be harmonized by
judiciously gusging the public plumber among
them Hes informed that il any federal office
holders from this city were instrumental in
breaking up the party at Syracuse, they were
not from the Custom House. Pity the same
could not be said OF our Postmaster and
Surveyor Cochrane. The Secretary OF the
Treasury is also advised, (and it is bit OF in
formation which may yet be useful to the
Cabinet), that in State politics, whatever may
be the local troubles and squabbles of the party,
the members of the Cabinet at Washington have
no business to interfere. And such is the I'M
answerable truth. Concede the legitimacy OF
Guthrie's instructions, and we concede the
right to the Cabinet TO leave their du-
ties at Washington, and to take the stump, and
dispense the spoils in person, at every local
election in the country. Ii the President and
every member of his Cabinet were to come to
New York this afternoon, and canvass the State
in behalf Of the free sellers till election day,
dispensing rewards and punishments at every
point, they would be simply carrying out the
late outrageous edict from the Treasury De-
partment.
Far different are the instructions OF our Col
lector to the apparently Ignorant Guthrie.
They are practical, and to the purpose
based upon law the constitution, and the
duties OF the Secretary's office. And while
our Collector very properly insists that
even the Secretary Of the Treasury must
conform to the prescribed usages of the depart
ment, his right TO invade the privileges OF the
Collector is just as boldly and properly denied.
In a word the task has been easy to show that
an order without precedent, without warrant,
and without justification, is an order entitled
neither to obedience nor respect.
Honest men. therefore, will approve the dis
obedience Of Judge Bronson to the spoils
manifesto of Secretary Guthrie; and from the
superior knowledge disclosed by our Collector
Of the official duties of the head of the Treasury
Department we would advise that he be re-
moved from his office here without delay, and
transferred to the control of the Treasury in the
place of Guthrie, who will find more genial
employment in returning to his pork specula-
tions, or whatever may have been his business
pursuits in Kentucky.
The historical review of the ''family jars" of
the New York democracy, by Charles O'Conor,
bears us out in all that we have said Of the
dangers of mere coalitions for the spoils. dis
regardful of principles. But the day of set
Element is here. The breach is re-opened, and
strangely enough we find an administration
elected to carry out the principles Of the ma
tional democrats, identified with the abolition
and free soil pack of agitators of the Buffalo
platform. We find the Cabinet issuing their
edicts for the reward of these agitators, as if
the hypocritcal repentance of seditious dema-
gosues rendered them more proper recipients
of executive favor than men who have never
been dsgraced by an unholy alliance with the
filthy abolitionists.
Read the letters OF Collector Bronson and
Attorney O'Conor. A little more of such salt
would season the whole lump. The war goes
bravely on. Who comes next?