The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-12-05


New YORK, Nov. Is, 1858.
s1R-You occupy conspicuous position, AMI You
expec, TO be noticed Therefore you will not be sur
prised that address, you.
You have not displayed much charity or respect
towards the national demo Gratis Of New York ; but
! shall show to you as much Of both as deem due
to the occasion. We have not given you aud your
adherents the severe lesson you have had to learn
/, rom our late election, by using hard words. The
national democrats Of New York are not obliged to
resort to any language which does not correspond
with the dignity Of their character the greatness
It is entirely proper to hold you responsible for
your recent political course because you have in
former years fairly established your claim to the
self pronounced many an eulogium on Daniel s.
Dickinson, before you began TO Willy him. You have
not shown yourself very scrupulous in dealing with
great and pure men, when you wanted to help bad
cause by hurting them and therefore you must not
complain if you are moi handled very gently.
know that you have undertaken very difficult
task and feel sorry for you therefore shall not
use any hard words Many brave man has been
put in fase position aud still think that even
Won will come out, although your friends will smell
supber for some time, whenever you come into their
neighborhood. They will not DO 70 blame because
you have been In bad company.
Yes you have hard road 10 travel, and you may
have harder one yet. When you left Tennessee, "
come up to Washington to edis the Union, you you
have started, if you had known what the Cabinet
was going to do with yoa when you got there You
have had TO play the part Of Good lord, go01 deyi,
ard other sinners have found it an business
Borton might succeed at it for night; but you will
certainly break down If yoa try to keep II up. IL
may do very well for the moment, - . political
trick but in the long run you will lind that II wont
pay. $500.
Mr.. Editor, you was once o confidential cores
pondent of Gen. Cas- and you have said aud written
your full share Of noble and hard" things against
The pen that have overshrown with your Cabinet
to back them. How do you feel now, when yoI DIP
your pen in white ink for side, aud in black ink
for the otherl Is il congenal business for you TO
burn incense to Gen. Dix, who consented to run on
an an'i-savery ticket in 184S expressly to defeat
Gen. Cass, with John Van Buren, for tender carry
ing the flamir torch of political ao0ltonism in hs
| hand, to light the way Of the traitor?
Mr. Editor, there IRE several members of the Cabi.
net which you gloyfy every twentyfour hours, that
you wrote and spoke against most vehemently, only
year OF two ago. One of them is the Secretary OF
| War, who was the most lurid dsunionist in the
whole country; who ridiculed The compromise mea-
| sures and you and me for uphodiug them. How do
| you Tee now, late at night, when you sit down by
your table in the little back room OF the Union OF.
flee, and put sheet OF pure paper on that piece OF
green clGh to write praises on this trickster? How
do you feel when you see Mr. Guthrie come up, reek-
ing with the crime Of negro slavery-if it be oneto
preach abolition lectures to Judge Bronson? We
hoped that you would let US put down abotonism
at the North without sending SoutheneIs and slave
holders and Secretaries and members of Cabinets, to
neither Kentucky, Mississippi, or Tennessee would
| furnish euogists on John Van Buren,.
Mr. Editor, have you thought what you doing
exactly know you are paid for it; bu. still, you
must feel, after ALL that 1t will take good dea! to
| really pay man for doing certain things. This ca
binet has leveled the Only blow againss slavery it
ever felt from an administration. Everybody thiuks
that you are eDacting "Uncle Toms CABIN Ia your
| paper. That is o very nice litta romance; bu.
think you had better not say much about it. Above
all, do not put it on the public stage" The aboli-
g.,
obscure theatre in New York he'd played "Uncle
Tom one OF two hundred rights, and made money
at it. BarnuD, doubtless ached to bring it out him
self in the beginning for he knew there was abolition
isIs enough in the country to make il protAble; but
be was afraid of the public sentiment at the South,
where be bad half dozen travelling menageries,
Tom Thumbs, and God knows what. But the other
day he announced it, aud in way That Mrs. Stoves
invention would never have thought Of High along
the cornce, some fifty feet, in ornamental letters
beautifully done, say "Uncle TOMS CABIN bs
low low It some i've hundred yards Of cotton mus
| In, reptesenhTg a negro Dance on one side,
and the anti fugitive slave la7 fight between
the runaways ana their paid pursners on the
other. The latter sceLe was done remarkably
| well, and Barnum, who don't Fay very high
| for these things must have drawn his pocktt a
little for that fer it vas done by man OF talent
Now, Mr.: Editor, how many abolitionisis do you
suppose Barnum makes there i'm Broadway with this
s,ene every hour? Not o 1.-THE as many as you
make whenever you print the U"ioa small as its
circulation may be. Baraum influences: common
HlME-yOu carry Will YOU me SANCTION oil q uaCOfal
ADMINISTRATION But sou have rot the slightest 3ea
that Bapum would have dared to paiot nbolitionism
over the whole facade OF bis theatre until your Cab
net appointed free s,ers TO Office, and their official
editor was told to eul0gise them. Mr.. Editor, be-
gn to think the South is abotionsed, and will tell
you why. Jefferson Davis - ranting sece1sionist
when he stumped Mississippi against FOote. He made
no distinction between Norh rners and aboliti
and you know be talked pretty hard about any Mis-
sissppian who would vote for any Northern man
for the Presidency. And yet You published his letter
the other di day. in which he plays the very knight
store the Van Buren, dynasty in New York. by con-
centratiJg nearly all the Offices of the State upon
the men who defeated our party and Gen. Cass in
1S4e. Mr.. Dobbn, another Southern gentleman, sits
in those tigh ABOLITION Cabinet councils and either
approves OF what Is done, does not deem it his
duty to follow the example OF bis predecessors from
the same State, and frown down incipient treason.
One by one tine Southern press come over TO the
port OF this abolition Cabinet, and wherever man
kicked he was fettered with Office or patronage At
last the great gun OF Ri :hmond is spiked the IN
Quirer turns its back the man that fought for it
and The South in lSlS and have ever SINCE because
the South had the constitutin on its side, aud rot
because we loved merchandise in ie,h and blood, be
they never so back. BIr. Editor, before our late
election you tried 10 make The South thiak that the
grand issue upon which it's fortunes hung was a
family quarrel in New York If it was, neither your
paIer nor your Cabinet had any business to mix mp
with 1t. But, cir, you have Seen that IL was some
thing more. The stake for US in that election was
the Union--the stake for you was slavery. You in
suited us; your people sent hired bulies to The
yenion at Syracuse; they wrote resolutions, by which
they made your New York free sellers lick negro
dust and confessed that they were scoundrels ia
1913; and you thought by these means you would
carry the State. Now, what did you succeed in do.
ing? You only proved that your free sellers we're
not only scoundrels in l84s, but are rascas nov;
and you know in your own heart that you did not
believe in their sincerity then, and you don't believe
In IL row any more than do.
Is then, the South nboliti,nised Has " Uncls
Tom Cabin dOIe work And has Mrs. HAr-
Iiet Beecher Stowe told the truth after all, aud not
only converted us, but you Mr.. Editor, in a
few days the next Congress cones together;
ard we shall make a discovery. We shall
zee whether The South sent up the howl of "wof.
vcf wolff az o trick because ii was trick It
ytu are right. But sir, believe that you are
w,ong that you misrepresent the genuine feeling OF
the South in every coluUp you write. believe that
q. Li1ef hna hnunkt that of the