The daily union., 1854-11-22
THE SCHEME OF THE NEW YORK HERALD

THE SCHEME OF THE NEW fORk HERALD.
The New York Herald has gone to the so-called
know-nothngs paper whose editor lives nearly all his
time in foreign countries and whose hatred of the United
States is shown by his perseverng abuse of its
and its citizens become the volunteer champion of
exclusive and proscrptivc party based upon assump-
ton of superior Americansm. man who is himself a
nauraized citizen offers his assistance to those whose OBJ
ject is dsranchise all born abroad There is
consistency all this Inconsistency in excellent harmony
with the history and the character of James Gordon Ben
nett
The platform upon which the know-nothing fusion
is to be conducted, this platform is defined
by the Herald involves the two ideas of hostility to the
abolitioniss and hostility to the administration This is
the scheme which the New FORK Herald formally
dedicated This is the plot Matched amid the nfamies of
Partisan life social and political to consummatc which
the editor Of the Herald has returned for brief space
to the United States. Among all the yagaries of New
York politics. and of French eccepirices if strikes
the absurd.
In the first place it il be warfare upon Sewardism
and upon abolitonsm If the reader win his eye
over the list of know-nohings in the different States he
will find that those who notorious its leaders also
notorious abotionsts with nconsiderabe exceptions
Every member of Congress elected by the
exclusive of some anti-Nebraska democrats is also
pledged 70 the abolition plan Of admitting more
slave sntesof repeal of the fugitive-save lawand
the restoration of the Missouri Compromise line 1t is
in Maine 1t is SO in Massachusetts,. 1t is in New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio Indiana Illinois, Michigan,
and Wisconsin Even in New York, where Seward
ism took ground against the know-nohings the know
pothings have not elected a single national man to
Congress, but the reverse To strengthen this array OF
facts il only necessary to state that the leaders of this
order are ali notorious for their hostility to the South
How many Of those ia session at Cincinnati, apart
from few southern wings who always geady to unite
with faction to put down the democratic party are the al
lies of the abotonists2 Take the mayor Of Phn-
depbia who probably the abest and most powerful
envy of southern nen in the State of Pennsylvania; take
the new governor OF Massachusetts Mr. Gardner who
fured the flag of d abolitionism at the
same time but the roll might be indefinitely extended
Such the New York Heralds national party organza
ton which is protect the rights of the States based upon
the idea of assang the rights of the citzen The
izaon which procams and exults in the most violent in
tolerance be pat forth the champion Of those const-
tutional guarantees which bsd upon the broadest
principles of civil liberty and national union!
But the place the fusion which the Herald seeks
engine of destruction against the administra-
tion and in favor of the South contains but perma
nent element of power. Knownothingsm is evanescen
Reared and cultivated in the night and carried by
oaths it perish in the clear light of truth and in
the searching ordeal of public dacpssop But aboltonsm
will not die while foreign desposms live, while there is
foe to our constitution in the North and while Seward and
his satellites are strong enough defeat the of
the free States SO that wod the scheme of the New
York Herald laid bare before the country is to build
great sectional party in the North based upon the idea of
hostility to State and 70 individual rights to
protect southern States
AS to the second branch of Mr. Benefits rqa opposi-
ton to the administration of President Pierce we have
only remark that the aboltionss have always been his
opponents Constituting they do the controlling spirits
Of the present fasop party they only continue their anag
onisms under another name, and with the vigor and
venom which have always characterized them Such niu-
will oppose any administration pledged, that of
Franklin Pierce is the principles of the constitution
add such President Pierce will always OPP
pose them How sgators will bcabe carry those
democrats with them who have been eiuced into their fusion
party is however different question When these
to what extremes the abolition leaders resolved go
when they behold them using this fusion break down
honest fearless
reco from the pestenal association with instructive and
manly indignation They will not yield to the mandates
OF politicians who have been able when in power to
protect great interests from spoiaton and from wrong
Even democrats who opposed to the Nebraska BILL and
who have been disappointed in regard 10 the besowal of
patronage under General Pierce, will refuse commit
their fortunes TO the tender mercies of those old federal
leaders who look forward to be galvanized into life by
appeal of the New York Herald oppose and assa the
administration of Franklin Pierce when convinced be
must that when ne damages the President Of the United
States he restores power such uncomproisng foes of
great principles as Corwin and Ewing. No New York
democrat will join crusade against Franklin Pierce
simply to bring back into the government Granger and
his prescriptions Seward and his snaticms Are the
democracy Naipe willing to sustain the assault Of Ben
nett upon the President they aided to elect simply that
George Evans and W. Pitt Fessenden shall be clothed with
influence in the general government Ia Pennsylvania
ready TO add her weight the Herald course in the face
Of the fact hsi by doing her democracy place Thaddeus
Stevens and w. r. Johnston IL 9 position to carry out
their monstrous doctrines2 win New Hampshire desert
her noble and her wetred son. and forget the truth that
cannot be denied that when she strikes him down
Il to elevate her aes her Foggs and that last trail
tor nursed upon her bosom only that he might poison it,
Edmund Bure2 For let the democrats keep in vivid and