The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-03-05

Tor what they can get, 1t would be much more
10 their credit.
Poliucs-Amerlcan Letter Of George
Law-Anti-Slavery Manifesto or w. II.
Seward.
Island? Did you ever see the training Ar
sach race, four mile heats, the an-iet-< "a,
The sportsmen, the careful grooming, fe6isn
and rubbing down Of the hor .es
Did you ever see the horses brought ovt b7
their jockies, prancing and snorting ro5ar
their blankets, fiery and elastic, "a, n tbe
speed Of thought were IA their limb sn-their
eyes and nostrils dilAte6-their ever > vain dis.
tended-head and tai up, and straJ ming for the
start? Such is the training, AND. such the ex-
citementa attending the entering of The nags
for the Presidential sweepstakes. Here we have
the same careful grooming; the feeding, rub
bing down, exercising, and close Inspection by
the sportsmeR aud the jcckies OF their particular
tavorites, preparatory to the run around tie
coarse.
The informal entries for the great Derby of
'56 have commenced. We publish to-day the
reply Of George Law to the late letter ad-
dressed 70 him on the subject of the present
crisis in our political history by number of
members of both houses Of the Pennsylvania
Legislature. We have heard nothing further
in reference to similar application from the
Assembly of New Jersey; but as hrs response
here will, we doubt not be substantially the
same as his letter furnished by our Harrisburg
cAVyp danf VIC cd p,xx L
answer to his American friends in New Jersey
aad all other quarters Of the Union, who have
desired, or may desire him to define his posi-
zion. By way of contrast, we also publish to-
day the new anti-slavery manifesto of w. Fl.
Seward, lately delivered in thesUnited States
Senate, and boastingly paraded to the world
by his two jockies Of this city. This procia-
unation Of George Law and this manifesto of
Seward, exhibit most strikngly their peculiar
points Of muscle, wind, speed and bottom to
the public eye, and the peculiar system of
grooming and training by their respective
owners, cstlers, and sporting. partizans. The
first Of these nags it will be seen, is fresh, mus
culor, bold and straightforward in his move
ments-while the other has a sinister aspect, a
suspicious gait, and betrays il his stealthy
movements the "artful dOdger" of the turf.
Drd1fng the figure, and proceeding to a
critical comparison of these two Presidential
documents, we find between them a contrast
as striking as that between the rising and The
setting sun-the one presaging long, bright,
and wholesome day, the other threatening
plight, dark, cloudy, stormy, and disastrous.
Such is the contrast between this new American
exposition Of George Law the great contractor,
and this new anti-slayery manifesto Of W. II. Sc
ward, the great demagogue. Law is frank and
clear in his views and American and national to
the backbone Seward is crafty and insidious
Creeping under the shadow of the WALL" aud
Disgusting himself and mis- fell designs under
the fimsy cloak of constitutional liberty and
philanthropy. The great contractor, dealing
with politics as with dollars aud cents, calls
things by their right names. and without re-
serve chalks out his programme of practical
reforms; the arch agtator, with the smoothness
Of hypocrisy, ard with hooking show of eau
dor, walks modestly before as q veritable wolf
in sleeps clothing From that which is avowed
by George Law we see that he is man and an
American Of the new epoch; from that which is
withheld by Seward, we may detect the princi
Piles of agitation, sedition and disu1ion which
lie at the bottom Of his legal ourishes and false
pretences.
Mr.. Law heartily seconds this new and spon-
taneous revolutionary movement Of the people.
He discards the rickety platforms Of both the
old defunct political parties he goes full length
for thorough reconstruction and reform alton
he concurs in the popular movement against
surpluses in the Treasury-hs urges COM
plete reform in our public land system, and
decisive American foreign policy. He dis
claims any desire or idea, in conjunction
with the Know Nothings, Of the wanton perse-
cuton of Catholics and adopted citizens but
confesses, at the same time, his hostility to
any movements of the clergy for monopoliz-
ing their church property, or any interference
Of the priesthood or politicians with their
focks in our political elections. He advocates
the intermingling Of all our adopted citizens
in the homogeneous mass of the American
people, not as Irish Americans, German Ame-
ricans, or American Catholics, but simply as
Americana. But above oil, as a member Of
this new American party, he fully adopts their
conservative Union policy, in opposition to all
sectional agitators, North and South. Such is
the national platform of George Law. It stands
out in bold relief, strong beautiful and SYM
metrical as his High Bridge at Harlem.
Mr.. Seward, on the other hand, would nullify
the execution of the constitution and la W., in.
crease the antslayery agitation, and, in every
available form and device, subject every thing
wholesome, practical and useful to the ultimate
object Of breach between the North aud the
South, and violent disruption upon the ques-
ton Of slavery. He belongs only to two per-
suasions, both open the one a Christian