The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-31

and driving the antislavery agitation to the
extremity Of disunion.
A grain or two of Syracuse salt will also be
required to render palatable, even to the out
side Utica Know Nothngs, the positive assur-
apce, that there is not at this day states
man of more ability, 10 the Senate or in public
life," than W. II. Seward. Where are the
proofs? In his speeches? No; for nothing in
our political records can be found as dcy YER
bose, tedious and drowsy as Stewards set
speeches. Any free soil sophomore of any col
lege, from musty classics add dusty text books,
gazetteers and Congressional debates, could
compile. at three days notice, sae OF Stewards
crack speeches. Is there one Of his speeches,
or reports, or bills that will outlive him? Not
one, we dare say. Can a single reader OF Sc
wards addresses and speeches re,ollect, from
this mass Of the "statesman's" trash through
which he has waded, solitary original express
sion worth remembering, excepting that memo
rable one that there is higher law than the
constitution" No. He has written nothing,
spoken nothing of his own that is or can be re-
membered, excepting this sedtious sentiment.
1t is the height of absurdity to call w. II.
Seward statesman. He is demagogue-
slippery demagogue-and his history is that
Of the slipperiest, most Inscriptions and most
dangerous demagogue of the country. His pre-.
fences to craftsmanship are like those of Bar
mum in business enterprises, the pretences of a
humbug and charlatan. Seward statesman
He commenced his career with the imposture Of
dead mans body, fixed up, la Barnum, to
represent poor Morgan, the victim ofthe bloody
Masons Next we find him Juggling with all
the ant. slavery associations Of the State, for
their peculiar support, and selling himself to
their work, for their precious votes Next his
cloven foot is betray ed in the descent Of Arch
bishop Hughes from the pulpit to the dirty
political pipe-laying of Carroll Hall. And we
have had the results Of this intrigue for the Irish
ment of 1s43-'44, in the Philadelphia riots and
church burnings and in that segregation Of the
Irish Catholic vote from the mass of our citi-
zens, which has brought upon us this terrible
uprising of the Know Nothings throughout the
whole Union.
For further evidences of Stewards statesman
ship we may recur to his partisan affiliations
with the anti-renters, and all the little knots
Of socialists, strong minded females, spiritual
lists and iniidel reformers of the day. His
latest achievement was the blending Of all
these materials with the Maine liquor law, and
anti-slavery platforms in the Saratoga SYRIA
cuse, and Auburn conventions. This is the
Holy Alliance which the conservative and law
abiding people of the State and the Union, in
the name of the Know Nothings, have risen in
good time to put down, and W. II. Seward is
the chief and the champion Of the conspiracy.
Shall he be reelected? If there be ma
jority against him in the Assembly we may
surely count upon his defeat, or upon the post
ponement Of the election to the next Legisla-
ture, so as to give the people hearing upon
this latest coalition of the Seward party with
the free soil administration faction. The de-
feat of Seward will be great conservative
triumph, great victory to the Know No
things in local, but especially in a national
view. His success will be to the new Ameri-
can party a great disaster-greater than any
other which can befall them in reference to the
campaign of $50. 1t is Of the first Importance
to the Know Nothing movement to supersede
Seward in the Sepate or, failing in this, it
becomes equally important that his election
shall he held over, subject to fair trial before
the people. What say the Know Nothings at
Albany?