The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-23


Stewards Plans for the Campaign.
The work goes on brsvely. While the
bulk of the people are engrossed in their
own business, leaving the country to take
care of itself as it can, and abandoning
politics to rogues and idlers, the honora-
BILE William Fl. Seward and his coadjutors
were never buster, or more energetic in
the pur. uit of their great object. No time is
being lost, we can answer for it, by the aboh-
ZIONIST junta. Such Glance for the realiza-
ton of Mr.. Stewards highest aims may never
offer gain, and he is by no means the man to
neglect it. The Nebraska wave has not ceased
to surge on its crest the honorable Senator
still thinks he may be carried into the Presi-
Dental chair. The temperance question agi-
tates the public mind: it, to-, may lend hand
towards his advancement. Even he Irish,
struggling under the heel of the Know Moth
ings, may swell his forces, and poll their
usual enormous vote in his favor. All these
elements of success he bears constantly ia his
mind, as his fancy sweeps round the coveted
goal of his ambition approaching nearer and
nearer at every turn.
Two years yet must elapse before the con-
test begins in earnest. But it is high time to
settle preliminaries It is high time, for in
stance to provide for defeat by securing
another term in the Senate. This Mr.. Seward
intends to accomplish with his usual dexterity.
Every candidate for the State Assembly
is required to pledge himself in favor of Mr..
Stewards re.appointment to the United States
Senate, under pain of being discarded by
the Seward managers. In more than one In
stance an eligible candidate has been set
aside to make way for one maniiestly Gnfe-
rior because the former would not, while the
latter agreed to give SO dishonorable pledge.
Attempts ON the part of candidates TO reserve
right Of individual judgment, reluctance to
submit to the degrading dictation Of political
hacks, have been treated by the Seward execu
tive as rank treason and visited with summary
punishment In the present day, in this State,
no whig can pretend that his soul is his own.
1t belongs to William H. Seward to do there
with what to him seems it
The Congressman are dealt with in like
manner. The whig candidates are obliged to
give the best security they can that, in the
event of scrub race of President throwing the
final choice into the House Of Representatives,
they will vote for William H. Seward and use
their influence on his behalf. If candidate demur
to this preposterous request, he is handed over to
st. Nicholas Hotel inquisition. His case is
first treated with gsntle aperients. 1.-The be the
son of an Irishman, he is shown Stewards
speech on the Know Nothings, and it is delicate
iy limited that under Mr.. Stewards Presidency,
none but Irish names will appear in the list of
Office holders. If, on the contrary he be Know
Nothing, he will be told that policy required
MIR. Seward to make that famous speech but
that at heart. no one is so American as hr.
teetotaller is hidden to read the articles in the
Tribune written, as he is told, under the eye ana
with The approval of William II. Seward. A
friend to the liquor interest is reminded
that Seward has never committed himself il
favor of Clark's BILL aud that privately he
objects to it. Strong abolitionists are referred
to the whole tenor Of Mr.. Stewards career as a
guarantee Of what he would do were he Presi-
dent: constitutional anti. Nebraska wings are
| advised to remember the strong attachment to
the constitution which the New York Senator
has always expressed. If the candidate, or
patient, is not brought round by any of these
applications, the final question is put to him:
and his negative reply is his death warrant
lie must give up the keeping Of his soul un.
conditionally to William II. Seward, or he is
thrown aside by the wirepullers at once. We
zee, however, from the list of candidates, that
the mild treatment has been generally success
ful; and from the facility with which their
owners parted with them, we are inclined to
believe that wing souls do not rank high in
the market at present.
Sickening as is the spectacle of all this
scheming, trickery, corruption, and dishon-
esty, it is neither peculiar to the party which
| is led by Mr. Seward, nor the first instance of
such proceedings in his own career. He has
risen by these very means and only follows
his own precedent when he offers to barter O
seat in Congress against vote for himself as
President Other leaders have done, and still
do the same things. There are however some
notable differ ences between Mr.. Seward and his
rivals We are not aware that any political
party was ever sunk so low before as to make
fidelity to the cause of one particular man
the sole qualification for party preferment.
On former occasions, the party has been the
main thing, and particular leaders have ranked
second in consideration with the New York
wings, considerations of party are laid aside al
together, and Mr.. Stewards advancement is the
sole aim of the managers. So complete des-
potism on the side Of the chief and so abject a
subeerviency on that of bis followers, were
never, we venture to say witnessed before.
And for what aim? To make President of
man who is VIGOROUSLY no tile to the consH-
tuition, whose whole life has been spent in fos-
tering fanatical e.udice against it among his