The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1856-10-31

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from this country. Fair play is jewel Monsieur
Belmont.
COMMODORE STOCKTON AT BERGEN HHL-
ANOTHER LIE NAnED.-In that little obscure
concern the Daily Neacs, the INSCRIPTIONS organ
Of little democratic faction Of this city, there
appeared yesterday the following editorial para
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COMMODORE STOCKTON This gentleman made q speech
ut Bergen, NJ j., yesterday, In which he denounced COL
Fremont - . dishonest man and coward. The Commo
core takes hts disappointment rather hard. This hardly
confirms the announcement the P0a made with such .
oursh that the Commodore had come out for the w0oly
horse.
In reply to which we received yesterday the
following telegraphic despatch from Princeton,
PRINCETON, N. j., Oct. 80, 1855.
o JANIS GORDON BENNETT
EDITOR NEW YORK HERALD
nEAR sR-Please to notice the New York Ne,m, In
,t,np to my remarks ~ Berger for speech was not
r. f. STOCKTON
From brief report of these remarks of the
Commodore at Bergen, in one of our Know No
thing exchanges, he repudiated the idea that he
was about to fuse with the Fremont party, and
said that "the leaders of the two great opposing
parties Republicans and democrats) were both
INSCRIPTIONS and Enthusiastically. He would not
join one more than he would the other He was
surprised that there were any adherents of such
leaders" And this is probably pretty near the
mark of what the gallant Commodore did actually
say at Bergen Hill. He cannot, however, permit
for single day, the libel of the Neus against
himself and Fremont to 60 unanswered,
but employs the telegraph to give an
immediate quetus to the libeller. The
fact is that with the personal knowledge which
Commodore Stockton possesses of the honesty
and bravery of COL Fremont, as illustrated in
the California war; it is simply impossible that
the former can be enlisted among the vilitiers of
the latter. Thus, almost as rapidly as they are
Matched, the ibels, forgeries and fabrications
against Fremont knocked in the head. The
instant they are coupled with respectable and
responsible name, they are knocked in the head.
ExJUDGE WRITINGS FIRST AND LAST AP-
rEARANCE AT THE ACADEMY.-We published
yesterday speech delivered at the Academy of
Music by ex-Judge Whiting in support Of his
own nomination for Mayor, which may be con-
sdered as the valedctory address of the ex-Judge
to wicked political world. We know Rynders,
Xantippe, and we can conceive Mrs. Caudle,
even in breeches: but hencefortb, it will be i'm
possible for any one to think of any of these dis
tinguished characters without recalling the image
Of ex-Judge Whiting at the Academy Of Music.
II was competent for the ex-Judge, on his APP
pearance at the Academy, to have delivered a
speech that would have done himself credit, and
the public on the issues involved in
the present contest for the Mayoralty. He could
have shown-no man better-by what entangle-
ment of bad laws and corrupt men, this city has
been plunged into an inextricable maze Of confu
sion, debt, and anarchy. He could have drawn
The picture of a good city government, such as
New York ought to have; be could have placed,
in contrast to this, q faithful picture of the
government as it is and he could have shown
us, clearly and forcibly, wherein the things that
are differ from what they ought to be- and insensi
bly, led his audience to the discovery Of the
remedy which ought to be applied. If Judge
Whiting had thus employed the hour or hour aad
a half which he occupied at the Academy of
satisfied, and might have convinced at least some
that a man who knew the work to be done 10
well might perhaps be the best man to do it.
But he did nothing of the kind. lie drew no
picture either of the past or present; he laid his
finger sore; he denounced no mischief that has
not been denounced long ago; he added not one
iota to our former knowledge Of the existing mis-
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and, what is more, he was quite right In avoid
ing these topics. For, DC 1t we'll known, Judge
Whiting could not dcnounce the official corrup-
tons and mischieis which have been the ruia OF
the city government, without denouncing him
self as a sharer and prime mover in all OF them.
must destroy, if we want healthy government;
he could not attack them, he could not even hint
at them, without making public confession of
his own iniquity. He therefore wisely abstained
For thirty years or Whereabouts, ex-Judge
Whiting has been an offceholder of some grade
or other IN the city Of New York, and affiliated,
successfully, with almost every political party
that has ruled the day. There are two things in
his career that are worthy Of note. The first is
the extraordinary financial skill which be must
possess TO have saved q large fortune, (by
some estimated at half a million of dollars,)
out Of small salaries ranging from two TO four
thousand dollars. We are not aware whether
the friends of the ex-Judge consider that this
quality qualities him for the Mayoralty; il Is
certainly a rare gift. The second point in the
career of Mr.. Whiting is the fidelity with which
he has clung through every change of rank,
social position and circumstances, to the manners
and diction which were his chief characteristics
when he was employed to prosecute pickpockets
and disorderly women In the petty police courts.
A man of moro versatilitv rising IN n noat which