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


The GADsDEN TREATY AND THE H.,usE or REP
PEsENTATIvEs-The vari us tricks and devices
Of the Pierce administration T. consolidate the
Cabinet and Congre and the democratic party,
have been but series of miserable failures.
First. there were the Bronson manifestoes for
the relief of the Van Buren, free sellers. That
trick was wretched failure. Next, there was
the attempt to palm off the Washington Union
upon the Senate as the national democratic or
gan. That experiment was fzzle and a shock
ing failure The Senate decisively repudiated
the free soil white-washing concern. Next We
had the Nebraska bill thrown in upon the Senate
ard that has proved the most crip,,dnc, tiisas
trous and humiliating failure Of all.
The only plank LETT TO- Gen. Pierce, of the
Baltimore platforps, IS that rotten plank of re-
trenchment. Upon this great democratic prin-
ciple the Eew Hampshire successor of Martin
Van Bgren has come to the rescue with the
tweity million Gadsden treaty. This has
Voved q failure; bat the Senate have adopted
q substitute for ten millions, which may posi-
bly, open the Treasury to the coalition of Ame-
Possibly, we say, for there are yet some OBJ
structioHs to be removed.
The Senate, in adopting the ten million pro-
jtt as a substitute for the original Gadsden
speculation, are to this extent involved in the
erminality of the administration. Col. Ben
ton therefore, in his Indictment against the
| treaty, must arraign the administration and
INIT In fia rtrn;p % ho--
together As the prosecuting attorney, he l.
bound to have this done, and to push the trial
TO the full extent Of the law. Upon this trial,
VIXEN it is opened in the House, we expect q
royal fight. There was a good deal of ground
and lofty tumbling and rough jostling among
the democracy in the Bronson squabble-there
was a smart little campaign of sharp shooting
and hard swearing between the kitchen cabinet
organs and the hardshells in the election Of the
Senate printer-there has been regular in
surrection on the Nebraska bill, and the killed,
wounded, crippled and missing among the Pre-
sidential cliques and candidates can't be count
ed. The men of rags and straw which have
been hung and burned between Cape Cod and
Chicago, scarcely surpass the men Of straw and
political rags that have been knocked down fiat
and stiff by the Nebraska bill, beginning with
the administration.
But upon the trial of the Gadsden treaty
conspirators before the House, under the
management of Colonel Benton as prosecuting
attorney, all the aforementioned fights, insur-
rections, and stampedes, will be completely
eclipsed. Great will be the fight upon the
Gadsden treaty-great the crash among the
small beer advocates of the spoilsmen; and the
general smash-up of the crockery of the kitch-
en- cabinet will be frightful. Benton is an aw
full executiOner when he takes job of work in
hand of this sort. Broken heads and dislocated
arms and legs follow the terrible sweeps of his
horrid cleaver. He is the very man, on this
account for this identical piece of business.
He is the very man to probe to the bottom this
untlushing conspiracy to plumber the treasury.
IL fact there is prospect that it only requires
such man as Benton to open the prosecution
in the House, in order to secure the defeat of
the ten million project and the public condem-
nation of the conspirators. Call up the prison
ers, read the Indictment, and let the trial
proceed