The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-18
Prince John Van Buren, on the Stump-WhG
IL to be Our Next United states Senator:

judges are in good health.
Prince John Van Buren, ON the stump-Who
IL to be Our Next United States Senator:
We have given our readers brief telegraphc
epitome of the opening stump speech for this
fall campaign, of Prince John Van Buren,, at
Canton, in ST. Lawrence county, on Tuesday
evening last We now propose to look into the
merits of that speech little, and to inquire
into the meaning of this patriotic stumping ad-
venture of the Prince, with these lamentable
divisions between the hards and softs still pa
ralyzing the energies and the labors Of our New
York democracy.
The Prince, it appears, follows the beaten
tracks of the Syracuse soft she'll resolutions
He goes for retrenchment and reform in the
financial and canal departments Of our State
government-he is down upon the Maine law,
and dead against the Know Nothings. He is
also opposed to the extension of slavery; but is
inclined to the opinion that there need not be
much fear that Kansas will become slave
State He thinks the Nebraska bill was an out
rageous piece of business but that the best we
can now do with it is to let it alone, and trust
to luck. The old Sage of Underwood himself
in bis best days, could not have whipped round
the stumbling block more adroitly. The Prince
is, furthermore, opposed to Seward, as a mere
political agitator, and to his scheme of an
abolition fusion party as disOrganizing pro-
ject from which there is no way Of safety ex-
cept in the bosom Of the democratic family
Pretty good, this, considering the Van Buren,
free soil fusion ticket of 49, through which the
democratic party was defeated.
There is one weak point however, in this
new electioneering programme of the Prince,
and that is his endorsement of the adninistra-
ton of Franklin Pierce. The least said upon
that point is the soonest mended. Does not the
Prince know that Mr.. Pierce and his admins
tration are the only existing impediments to
hearty reunion Of the hards and softs? If he
does not, we can assure him that such is the
fact We undertake to say that outside Of the
State of New York. the general understanding
among the democracy is, that Mr.. Pierce, like
Captain Tyler, is emphatically Tylerized, done
for, and finally set aside. Why, then, cannot
our Custom House democracy consent to this
understandings Why, of all things, should
Prince John Van Buren,, with his fine chances
for democratic promotion, persist in thrustng,
nolas roleas, this impracticable man, Franklin
Pierce, down the unwilling threats of the hard
shells? This brings us to the kernel Of the wal
nut we have been cracking.
The patriotism Of the Prince, in this appa-
rently thankless campaign, is not, after all,
superior to that of other men. Nor is his flat
terry Of Mr.. President Pierce and his official
acts TO be set down entirely to the credit of
seli-sacriiicing generosity. The universal
motto of number one is also the metto of
the Prince. Papmdi--In 1857 the seat in
the United States Senate, now occupied by
Hon. Hamilton Fish, becomes vacant. The
Legislature Of '5G-7 will have to fiji that vacan-
cy. Our State Senate Tor that Legislature is
to be elected this coming November 1t is
supposed, meantime, that, though everything
else should fail, the Cincinnati National Demo-
cratic Convention Of next May or June, will
bring the New York democracy all together
again, on the public plumber of seventy-five
millions year and a new deal, so that they
will carry our Assembly for '56-7 by beauti-
ful majority. Very good Of course, then, a
democrat must succeed Mr.. Fish in the Senate
at Washington; and thus we see the Prince at
Canton, looming up in that bold relief of the
light houses on the Nevasink Highlands be-
tween the incoming steamer and the setting
sun.
Mark you, then, the deiicacy of the game
which the Prince has to play. Marcy is be-
leved TO be very busy, through his agents. in
securing the right sort Of democrats for the
Legislature upon the Presidential question;
and thus being ahead Of the Prince, the latter
is compelled to play the second fiddle of the
Syracuse soft shell convention. Accordingly
the Prince stands by the administration for
in the beginning of all great enterprises every
little helps. BE ii also remembered that Mr..
Horatio Seymour, very conspicuous man
among the softs, has recently made speech at
Tammany Hail. which has won the unqualified
appreciation OF the Cabinet organ at Washing
ton, and that this movement will probably
place Mr.. Seymour in good position for the
sufragcs of the reunited democracy when
they shall come to the nice question of a sue
cessor to Hamilton Fish.
just go III Is remarkable how well we I'M
derstand thing Of this kind, after IT has been
clearly and logically explained. And so there
ceases to be particle of mystery in this
expedition OF Prince John. at is
he early bird that catches the worm" More
over, while the Liquor law, the Know No
hings the canal finances, &C., are legitimate
capital, applicable to hards and softs alike. we
must recollect that the Prince is of the old
bourbon Albany Regency, that Marcy belongs
there, too, and that the designs Of Marcy and
the hopes of John are thus interviewer together
in De restoration of the Bourbons. According.
ly, the Prince backs up the administration
'nouen II rs possible That his real confidential
opinions OF Mr.. Pierce are not whit better
tina n those Of Preston King.
Finally, the cat being out Of the BAG LAT II