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

,htpss-JLr .txms POLITICAL Episapn ~ w.
III. ~wssd.
Our exss er tel hilosop Of the elder
Se~Td o ga his city r painfully
exercised co CT ming he bro h'ns- o the sill
YER gry a ito h hey lat n | o bring no
the Know otbi gs ga nst warl and his re-
tau,rs 10 our Move Der ectio i. Read the
paragraph y hjch we D isb bis IN ing among
our ms j n GU extrac s, fl, m the Buffalo
Comm rciai, and the commen. ry-,he ayoniz-
ing Con- menIary-of our Flo rierite abolition
ntighbur p)n the ec'
Every hi X is at take. It W the intention
champion the anti-slavery-free soil land-re-
form wig cand d tie for Governo, tn fall
as the first regular movement tow ards his no
mi alton the OF thern sectional candidate Of
the Holy Anti Slavery Alliance for the Pfesiden-
| cy. The proposition was boldly thrown out, and
the o6 ect irH XII, ia ed bis it was instantly
crushed. A mere hint Of the undoubted oppo
silio of m, Iious order Of the Know No.
things was enough. Not another word was re-
qured. The original pnrpose of running Sew
ard for Governor was dropped, sub silentio.
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 n candidate
as will rot oaly be satisfactory to the free soil
and antislavery alliance, but upon man who,
from his anti-Catholc and native American
ante,edebts and opinions will be acceptable to
the invisible but dreadful cvder 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 lot reasonable to suppose that
the Know Nothings would be appeased, and
would consent Mt least to the re election of w
ii. Seward to the United States Senate? We
think so. But it appears otherwise. The Buf
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 eptaph of the
not, political managers to whom we have al.
lnded meaning W. II. Seward and his pecu-
liar clique OF wirc-workers and seems shutters
This ominous warning signifies that W. H. Sew.
ard is to be superseded in the United States
Senate, and that the object so dear to the heart
Of the Know Nothingsr is the choice Of sucl u
Legislature at our fall election as will be certain
to write the political eptath' of the arch
agitator.
Why is this? Let us see. The Know No
thipgs have their own game to play. Their
first object IS to clear the political race-cour4
of all entries tinctured with Irish. Catholic
antecedents, associations, or predilections; and
of III the political bucks ering demagogues
in the United Sta es, w. II. Seward has been
the mot literal in his barney in behalf of our
Irish Calholic fellow -citizcns. He has been as
me ky the devoted servant Of Archbishop
Hughes as that meek and holy disciple who
edits onr distinguished prelate's newspaper
organ. No man, in fact, has done 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 hiH,-he was in the wrong party-they
could not reconcile his position with his profess
sioDs-he was a slippery customer, political
trader, and his sincerity and his usefulness we're
doubtful But he has persevered, until at
length he has almost persuaded the Archbishop
hims If Il a. he ia Chr stan, lacking only the
seven sacramens to m Ike him a bona tide Irish
Catholic 1t is at such a conjunc'ure of good
relations that the terrible order of the cabastic
Know Nothipgs 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 Anne
rican Senate, and, declaring that he knows moth
ing Of the Know n ,things, repudiates oil poll.
teal sympathy or association with them. Dear
to the heart of w. H. Seward is the precious
jewel Of consistency.
Having defined his position, his organs ap-
plaud it to the echo. But the terrible Know
Nothings are nothing abashed. They are in
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 follies
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 re
gency was proposed in behalf of the family of
Louis Philippe, I" it comes too late" If the
Buffalo Commercial may be relied upon, nothing
now viii 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 dismay
The enemy which threatens them is invisible;
but it is known to operate with q purpose
and with effect. 1t may be feeting political
apparition--the unsubstantial phantasm of
o day Bnt what comfort does that afford If