The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-09-01

shinys-Thr~ atss Political Epasapn of w.
HI. ewasd.
Our exas er tie hilosopl r. o. the elder
| SewaId ga o his cty r, painfully
| exercised co CT ming he bro d hns- the sill
v.rgry to-, h hey Int, n % bring no
the Know othi gs ga INST warl and his re-
taiDtrs in cur Move Der ectio.. Read the
paragraph hich we p b ish bis IN log among
our ms Il ou' extrac 8, IA, m the Buffalo
! Comm, rci0i, and the common; ry-,he ayoniz-
ing cou meniary-of our Fo rierite abolition
neighbour p)a the u ec'.
Every hing is at take. 1t VS. the intention
OF The Seward lea ers at first t. make their
champion the anti-slavery-free soil -land-re-
form wig cand tie for Governo, tn fall,
! as The first regular movement tow ards his no
nil alton the OF thern sectional candidate of
the Holy Anti Slsvsry Alliance for the Pfesiden-
| cy. The proposition was boldly thrown out, and
the oo cct fr y kl, fta ed blG it was instantly
crushed. mere hint of the undoubted oppo-
/ siiio OF c m, Iious order of the Know No
| things was enough Not another word was re-
quired. The original porpose of running Sew
ard for Governor was dropped, sub siientio.
| The field was thrown open, aud upon all hands
it is now understood that even the leading
Seward wings are prepared for "union, con-
Citation ano harmony" upon such a candidate
as will rot only be satisfactory to the freesoii
and antislavery alliance, but upon a man who.
from his anti-Catholic and native American
ante,edents and opinions, will be acceptable to
the invisible but dreadful order of the Know
Notbings.
Ready rs were the Seward men to make
this extreme concession, for the sake of har-
moDy, ana for the sake of considerable body
Of voters, was il not reasonable to suppose that
the Know Nothings would be appeased, and
would consent at least to the reelection of w.
II. Seward to the United States Senate? We
think so. But it appears otherwise. The But
falo organ of Mr.. Fillmore says, that If there
is any thing dear to the hearts of the Know No
things, it is TO write the political epitaph of the
not political managers to whom we have al.
luded y meaning W. II. Seward and his pecu-
liar clique Of wirc-workers and scene shutters.
This ominous warning signifies that W. II. Sew.
ard is to be superseded in the United States
Senate, and that the object so "dear to the hearts
Of the Know Nothings'' is the choice of sucl u
Legislature at our fall election as will be certain
to write the political epitath y Of the arch
agitator.
Why is this? Let US see. The Know No
things have their own game to play. Their !
first object g to clear the political race course
of all eair.es tinctured with Irish. Catholic |
antecedents, associations, or predictions; and |
of Ill the political bucks ering demagogues
in the United Stae w. II. Seward has been
the most liberal in his barney in behalf Of our
Irish Ca'holic fellow-citizcns. He has been as
me- ky The devoted servant Of Archbishop |
Hughes as that meek and holy disciple who
edits our distinguished prelate's newspaper
organ. No man, in fact, has doae more and
received less, in behalf of our Irish Catholic
fellow citizens, than our ill-used and much
abused Senator Seward. They have not had
faith in him--he was in the wrong party-they
could not reconcile his position with his profess
sioDs-he was slippery customer, a political !
trader, and his sincerity and his usefulness were
doubtful. But he has persevered, until at
length he has almost persuaded the Archbishop
hims If Z, a. he is Chr stan, lacking only the
seven sacraments to m Ike him bona fde Irish
Catholic. 1t is at such commune ure of good
relations that the terrible order of the cabafsfic
Know NothiDgs appears and conIronts our hope
full Senator face to face. He has gone too far
he cannot recede. And so, making a merit of
necessity, he rises up in his place in the Ame-
rican Senate, and, declaring that he knows moth
ing of the Know Nothings, repudiates oil poll.
teal sympathy or association with them. Dear
to the heart Of w. ii. Seward is the precious
jewel of consistency.
Having defined his position, his organs ap-
plaud it to the echo. But the terrible Know
Notbipgs are nothing abashed. They are ia.
visible, but they are everywhere, as the sue
cessive elections, North, South, East and West
abundantly prove. The overwhelming defeat
of Col Benton is especially calculated to strike
terror into the Seward camp. What follows
Our leading organ in behalf of Seward and his
projected Northern anti-slavery alliance lets
up little on the Know Nothings, and dis,
charges broadside upon the bigotry, the folles
and the crimes OF the Irish Catholics It ar
raigns them as false to religion and moralit;
upon the temperance question, aud challenges
even the Archbishop to answer the indictment.
But as the French Assembly said when a re
gency was proposed in behalf of the family of
Louis Philippe, sit comes too late" If the
Buffalo Commercial may be relied upon, nothing
now will satisfy the Know Nothings but the
political epitaph' of w. ii. Seward.
Hence the unspeakable tribnlation into which
the violent philosophers of our elder Seward or.
gan have fallen. They are seized with disnay
The enemy which threatens them is invisible;
but it is known to operate with purpose
and with effect. tmsy be feeting political |
apparition-the unsubstantiL phantasm of |
o day But what comfort does that afford, If !