The American patriot., 1855-01-17

The stepping stone to fortune is not to be found
in a jewellers shop.
Seward and Wise.
Though politics in its usual party sense is at a
dead calm, and wings and democrats can scarcely
be said to have substantive existence, there are,
one or two questions of political character which
at present elicit material share of public interest.
One of these questions is the Senatorship from
New York, and the other, the Governorship of Vir-
ginia. WM. II. SEWARD is the favorite candidate
of the Freesoilers for the office, and HENRY A.
WISE, is the democratic nominee, par excellence,
for the other.
Both these distinguished gentlemen arc destined
to encounter the ticrcest opposition, and VIC have
some faint hope of being ultimately enabled to
chronicle the defeat of the arch antslavery agita-
tor and the renegade whig In ordinary seasons,
and under the wonted stringency of party predom-
nance, Mr.. SEWARD would be certain of his cleo
ton, and Mr.. WISE would be chosen by majority
Of thousands but political cohesion is now so loose
and uncertain, that the former cannot possibly
command his party strength while the latter will
be unquestionably deserted by thousands of the
most untlinching democrats. SEWARD, though u
whig in name, is identified with the most mischic
vous section of the abolition party. He belongs
to the oily, doube-tongued and dangerous class of
higher law demagogues, who, with professions of
peace, good will and love for the Union, eternay
on their lips, incucate doctrines utterly at variance
with the harmony of the Republic, and which, if
carried out would band the North against the South
in fatal and irreconcilable hostility. SEWARD and
his followers are more pernicious to the welfare
and stability Of the Union than ten thousand how
ling fanatics of the stripe of GinDISGs and LEA
WITT. The true men Of New York-.he National
Wings and Observation-Disclosures this perfectly,
and will avail themselves Of every possible means
direct and indirect, Of comprising the overthrow
OF so deadly foe to our institutions. They know
that SEwARD's success would be the inevitable pre-
lilnnary to the organization of the North on u
purely sectional basis for the canvass of 1866, with
him as the nominee of the pie-bald and hybrid
coalition. SEWARD has another formidable foe to
contend with, in the secret and sered hosts of the
American party party which execrates his very
name and detests him as at once the greatest truck
Ter to foreign votes, and the most Infamous of oJ
oiton panders. With this power arrayed against
him, and having to struggle with the determined
anlmosity OF a respectable body of National Wings
IN the New York Legislature all the astuteness
and all the sagacity Of SEWARD will be required to
save him from an gnominious discontinue. We
should regard his success as of evil omen for th.
welfare of the Republic; while his defeat would
10 more to que abolitonism, than any event we
can possibly conceive.
HENRY \. WISE "docs not carry with him those
portentous elements Of mischief which the very
name of SEWARD would seem to evoke, but his
past career, and his recent professions have rem
dered him highly distastoful to many of his own
political friends, well as to the mass of Virginia
Wings. Mr.. WISE was nominated over the heads
OF Scared warriors of the Democracy-men whose
lineage was undetiled, and whose annals were with
out blur
lie who had sat at the feet of the GAMAIlsLs of
Whiggery and had heshed his maiden sword against
the stalwart breast of JACKSON: whose onslnuobts
on Democracy had made him the darling of The
Wings, and who in 1910 had given utterancc to n
slogan so full OF earnestness and power, that i.
was inscribed on the banners of the party every
where-he it was who was preferred over the vote
rams reared IN Democracy, and who were fighting
Its battles in the Old Dominion when Mr.. WISE
was puny whipster, Or was 'mewling and puk
ing in his mothers arms" Nowondler hosts Of the i.
unerriiled are indignant at the choice of the Staun
ton Convention, and resolved to withhold thci,
support from it. The Wings are particularly an:;
lous to feed fat their ancient grldge against Mr..
W lsE for deserving them under the Tyler admins
'fa,on and abusing and villifying them ever since,
and with view of effectng their object they will
strive as they never yet have striven. But Mr.,
WISE, like those who being predestincd to ruin,
are first maddened by the wrath of the GoDs MS
II completely to annihilae all possible chances of
success, deliberately set to work some weeks ago
TO crush the American party by the thundercolts
OF ms 1ery eloquencc, and indited ten OF twelve
mortal columns of rhodomontade and rubbish for
the purpose of proving that all Know-Nothings
must necessarily be knaves, traitors or ninnics
lie did not exactly succeed in dcmolishing
Amercanism, but one thing he accomplished be
yonea doubt lie provoked the united redoubtablc
and thus far, nearly irresistible hostility of every
man of that party in Virginia now Mr.. WISE.
as the regularly nominated candidate of the Old
Dominion, which is avowedly largely in the ascen-
lant has upon his back, all the Wings, all the
and considerable fraction of dis
entients in his own party. He has the f,irest
prospect of being defeated that any asprant for po-
ltical martyrdom could possibly desire lie. but
MS enemies unite-and there is strong reason to
believe they willard Mr.. WISE will be suffered
catch perch and plant potatoes at Accomac,
while the unterritied democracy of Virginia will,
or the first and only time be constrained to brook
be Humiliation %. lcfnat 60 + L. p.