The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-05-24

uves Oi the hiucriChn pcOpit, ~ ID proper tnas
the executive at Washington should understand
the duties of his position and act accordingly.
His free soil policy is reproved, his free soil
appointments are condemned. r he intends to
abide by the platform o. the Neb aska bill, his
course is plainly defnel. He must give up his
programme Of a free soil coalition of spoilsmen
as the basis # the dem cratic party. The party
in Congress have ected them He must re-
peal and reject all tn he has done to strengthen
the free sellers and to weaken the national
democrats, and begin Lis work over again with
a reconstruction of his Cabinet of national men,
identified with the national and constitutional
principles of the Nebraska bill, in their ante
cedents. associations, and inclinations. He
must reject Marcy, as weighed in the bal lnce
and found wanting" his anti-slavery contede-
rates in the Cabinet, and all the herd Of free
soil anti-slavery spoilsmen that have crept
into Office and into power, under cover Of the
Buffalo and secession coalition of March 4, 1858.
The action of Congress upon Nebraska calls for
this, and for thorough revolution, from stem
to stern, in the policy and in the appointments
Of the administration. The Van Buren, anti
slavery faction in the Cabinet in Congress, and
elsewhere, have been communicated by act of
Congress from the democratic party; and
with the signing of the Nebraska bill the Presi-
dent should confirm the honesty of the act, by
singing also the political death warrant OF
Marcy, and all the treacherous factionists who
cling to his skirts. g To the victors belong the
spoils - but the national democracy in Con-
gress are the victors, and the anti-slavery i'm
posters should all be turned adrift, from q sense
of public duty resulting from the passage Of
Nebraska.
We entertain no very remarkable degree OF
admiration for either Jefferson Davis or Caleb
Cushing, as public men. The one is seces-
sionist, and the other trimmer. But they
have been true and consistent upon Nebraska
and in this view their previous mortal political
offences may be charitably overlooked. IT
would be perfectly justiiable, therefore, and
consistent with the Nebraska bill, should re-
construction OF the Cabinet be resolved upon,
beginning with the expulsion of Marcy-it
would be, perhaps,a good move to put Cushing
or Davis into the State Department Either of
them, no doubt, at this important crisis, would
be more efficient in the management of our
foreign relations than Marcy. At all events,
the passage Of Nebraska is equivalent to the
rejection of Marcy by both houses--to an order
for new Cabinet, new policy, and a new
schedule of appointments, comprehending the
absolute rejection for the future of all free soil
partisans, affiliations, or principles, from first
to last.
Let this line of action be adopted-let the
administration cooperate with Congress in the
introduction of domestic policy in all things,
resting upon the constitutional and national
principles of the Nebraska bill, and General
Pierce may yet escape the otherwise inevitable
fate of being Tylerized and Taylorzed and ut
tcrly abandoned by his party. But let the ad-
ministration heartily repent Of its errors, con
fess to the judment of Congress- and take a
new departure in the right direction in home
affairs; and let this be followed up with the
right spirit, in regard to Cuba, Honduras, and
Mexico; and we shall take q fresh start in the
expansion, progress and prosperity Of our
country, which viii defy all European balances
Of power upon this continent, and excite thu
| wonder and admiration even of our enemies.
We hail the passage of this Nebraska bill a.
| the harbingcr of q great and glorious political
revolution, comprehendng the publication of
| the democratic party the destruction of the
abolition agitators of all parties. and possibly
| Cor we are not sure of IT'D the red mption Of
the administration, and the washing it clean OF
all the stains of its anti-slavery and free soil
affiliations, beginning with the expulsion OF
Marcy. How plain is the path before us guild
cd by the lights of the constitution
| NEBRASKA AND Political PARTIES IN nv
YoEK-At the present time we have any guam
tity of political parties trimming their wires
for the fall election. There are the democratic
hard shells, the democratic free soil soft shells
the wing Fillmore silver grays, and the wing
Seward woolley heads, the Maine Liquor law
party, and the lager bier party, the free soil
party proper, and the know-nothings The Ne
braska bill will be very apt to break up all these
parties and factions, and to muster their mate
rails into two great parties, upon Nebraska and
tie slavery questions. Let all hands read over
the Nebraska bill, consult the signs of the
times, and between the anti-slavery platform
and the constitution, prepare to take their po-
sitions The Nebraska bill is passed. pofiti.
cal revolution must follow; old parties will be
done away with, new parties will take their
places; and this revolution will begin in New
York. The Maine law is at discount-the
know-nothings are nowhere Nebraska swal.
lows them all up, like the rod Of Aaron. We
| are in the midst Of revolution.
THE New YORK CRY DELEGATION on THE Ne
BRAsKA BnI"-0f the six representatives from
this city in Congress, five voted for the Nebras-
ka bill and one against it. The five were
Messrs. Cutting, Tweed, Walker, Walbridge
Walsh; and the solitary man in the negative
was John Wheeler. Cutting has redeemed him.
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