The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-07-03

= sshsfu, rreashc,y as GENERALIZATION nf
Ttosc pI.nter-- chr Ses atoriai Qucstaem.
On Saturday last, the telegraph brought rs
he astounding information from Concord, that
Ny. Hadley, OF the New Hampshire Reporter,
Of The Patriot, by joint vote of the two hou-
ses OF loo for Hadley to l53 Tor Bntterfeid.
This frightful act OF disohedience and treach-
cry to the administration is one of the most
significant and ominous political events Of the
day. Mr.. Butterield is an especial fayOrite of
the President, personal and political; and pos
sesses larger share a his confidence, we ven-
ture 10 say, than either Caleb Gushing,
Charles Gordon Greene, Colonel Nichol-
son OF the Washington Union, Paul r,
George, Sam Green, or John w. Forney.
1t was the New Hampshire Patriot which
first developed the spoils policy of General
Pierce's administration. Ger readers will re-
member that manifesto, the exultation with
which it was received by the Buffalo free sellers,
and the savage indignation with which it was
repudiated by eur old hunker democracy. Re
peatedly, since, mas the fulflment of the Pa
triots predictions confirmed it's position, now
generally admitted as the confidential home Or
gan of Gen. Pierce. Holding this relation to
the President, and having vigorously defended
the administration through thick and thin,
in all its removals, all its appointments,
all it's measures, and all its recon-
mendations !; having boxed the compass
and wheeled about with the celebrity and
fexibility Of the Washington Union ITSELF
on the Nebraska question; and having fought
for the administration through the late popular
elections with indcmitable energy, great SKILL
remarkable ingenuity, and with degree Of
zeal and devotion worthy Of better cause
having done all this, we say, it is sin and a
shame, crying sin and burning shame, that
Butterfield should be thus driven from the field
without either bread or butter; yea, without
even a "thank you," for his pains.
The solution of this merciless operation is ex
ceedingly simple. AS in the case Of the cleo
ton of Tucker, as printer to the United States
Senate, over the head of the administration Or
gan, so in the election of Hadley, the cham
pion of the Burke party and the national hard
shells, the blow is aimed, not at the man. but at
his masters. The fact that the Concord Patriot
is special organ Of the cabinet, and the kitch-
en- cabinet at Washington, is the cause Of its
rejection. The New Hampshire Legislature has
simply discarded Butterfeld, as involving the
most emphatic protest which they could ex-
press against the administration, for, doubtless,
the Legislature believed that remonstrance
involving so large an amount Of the public
plumber, az the rejection of the cabinet State
printer, would be felt more keenly by the
spoilsmen at Washington than any series of
empty resolutions which could be adopted.
Truly, have we fallen upon evil times. The
Granite State is in process of disintegration.
The ramifcations of party treachery are extend
ing in every direction, like the subtle contagion
of the cholera Dragged liquor, free soil princi-
Piles, Nebraska and the spoils, have brought both
houses of the New Hampshire Legislature to a
deplorable state Of characterization. Discord
prevails in Concord, and confusion rules the
harmonious democracy. Poor Butterfeld, the
anointed for the Office Of Public Printer,
is defeated, ard Wells, the administra-
ton candidate for one of the vacancies in
the Senate, to be filed, hangs fire upon two or
three my sterious, intractable votes A motion
was made to get at these fellows, by providing
Iuat tuc cACCIiOu, lustCuu VI bCiIS Ny uuiAOu:
should be cira roce; but it was no 60. 1t was
flash in the pan; and finally the House post
poned the election till Thursday next-the
second day after the Fourth of July. This will
allow one day for cooling off from the drugged
liquor which will doubtless be drank in Concord
in commemoration of The GLORIOUS Fourth
But there is another and more ominous tea-
ture in the arrangements at Concord for this
week. The Nebraska resolutions, or rather the
anti-Nebraska resolutions, are made the special
order in the House for Wednesday There is
prospect that the coalitionists, on these resolu
tons, may put the Legislature Of New Hamp
shire back to back with the administration.
Should this be done upon principles, and
upon the spoils, the executive establishment
at Washington will be left to the equivo-
cal and divided support of Tammany Hall.
All! yes! A lucky and happy man is
Captain John Tyler. He was elected by
the wings, and repudiated by the wings;
he was refused admission into the democratic
church; yet he aourished without party,
and after frightening the wings and the demo-
Gratis with National Convention of Office hold
ers at Baltimore, he retired with the dignity of
victor, and lives in his retirement like phi
losopher. How different the position of Gen.
PIERCE Elected almost by popular acclama-
ton, he has fallen into general decay He found
the country hopeful of peace and sectional har-
mony, and of brilliant career. 1t was deli
rium--a mirage it has vanished away The
invincible party which brought him into power
is destroyed. Even New Hampshire, a State
which can swallow almost any democratic pre-
scription without finching. now ainches under
the pressure of bad principles, bad associations,
bad appointments, bad leaders and bad liquor.
The Legislature has taken the spoils from the