The daily union., 1856-10-23
THE oUINTUPLE CONSPIRACY IN THE NEW YORK
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THE oUINTUPLE CONSPIRACY IN THE NEW YORK
PRESS.
The election Of James Buchanan will have one signif.
sance which will greatly enhance the value Of the triumph
1t will teach the ye daily journals in the city Of New
York which have entered into quintuple conspiracy to
rule the government that the people of this country have
yet ceased to have the intelligence and the viii to gov
themselves No parallel is to be found in history to
this audacous and unprncpled combination. Each one
Of the parties to it has been heretofore denounced in
measured terms of reproach by some if all the others
We doubt whether at this moment any two of them
entertain confidence enough in each other to hold free and
unresaned social intercourse Their differences have not
been the wrangngs of political riyalsand antagonists
but they have been marked by all the bitterness of the
most intense personal hatred What that is low and mean
has not the Tribune said of the Herald What that is dis
graceful and dishonest has not the Herald attributed 10 the
Trbune2 What biting sarcasm and ridcue has not the
Herald employed towards the Courier and Enquirer What
and contempt has not the Courier poured out upon
the Herald What and vllany has not the Times
charged upon the Herald What bitterness and dishonesty
has not the Herald heaped upon the Tmes What sovereign
contempt have not all the others shown for the Post They
have not only quarreed and abused each other personally
but there scarcely two of them that harmonzed
any important political question. If the editors Of
any of the five journals called into court wit
nesss they could be dscreded and their evidence be set
aside unworthy of belief by the united testimony of all
the others oneenth of the charges made against each
and all OF them by each and all of the others has been
true there is of them who is entitled to be recog
missed in decent society If onetenth of what they have
said about each other false they deserve to be poried
as the greatest sanderers and caumnators the age
But Notwithstanding all this these five presses have
tered into conspiracy control the election of Presi
dent What magic power there be about Col Fremont
that has reconced such inveerate hosties and mould
ed such bitter personal and political anpahies and antag
onisms into cordial harmony Has he the wonderful
pacy of transformation that enables him to play FIVE diff
ferent parts in the presidential drama with so much
success as to adapt himself to the various conflicting
tastes of the FIVE daies Has he political face
for Greeley, another for Webb, and another for Ben
nett and on Is he exploring his way successfully to
the affections of these opponents of each other upon the
same principle that he is engineering his between
the Catholics and Protestants Does he shape his
sations with each the confidence and sup
port of all Or it be possible that instead of two
Fremons as Greeley asserts there actually FIVE
Nothing is certain than that the Fremont whom
Greeley supports the sectional disunon candidate can
not be the Fremont that Bennett supports the national
conservative, Union-savng candidate The Fremont who
is in favor of admitting Kansas slave State according
to the Herald be the Fremont that Is for
ssng such admission the drenching of the land
in blood and the wrapping Of the national Capitol in
flames according the Tribune Or is it true after all
that there but Fremont and that bis magic power
pacifcaor in his Maposa gold mines and in his as
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y7 Taking it for true that all FIVE Of the consprators are
consummate knAves they represent each other it
be admitted that this explanation is full Of plausbiity
Does any one doubt that Bennett would listen to
Mariposa argument7 Or that Greey would turn deaf
such appeal to his patriotism Or that Webb
would surrender his natioussm to ifty-two thousand
glitterng in favor Of sectionasm1 Or that Ray
mond would decline pocket two hundred thousand in
speculation fanybody has doubts these points, he
has but to to the proof furnished by the several par
ties against each other.
Bot however difficult II may be to End satisfactory
solution of the remarkable phenomenon alluded TO- the
fact stands out beyond dispute that those five nveteate
enemies have entered into combination to dictate the
Americans the man who should be their President Each
one Of the partners is proverba for his arrogant pre-
tensions but the idea Of becng the affairs Of this gov
eminent 70 the control OF such combination enough OF
itself to sartle the good OF the country The
spiraey to be formed upon tho assumption that
New York city gives tone and law to the commercial in
eres Of the country therefore the FIVE New York daies
should give direction 10 the political affairs Of the
whole government Was there such exhibition oil
swelled-he arrogance and presumption
New York city the last place which ought to tolerate
such concentration Of the power Of vsnR press for the
promotion Of sectionasm and consequently, Of dsunion
ism We gra6ed TO know that in the city where the
consprators known, and their motives and purposes
Appreciated, they Poweress The late indications in
Pennsylvania Indiana aud Ohio furnish song evidence
that the people know how to reject and spurn the dcta
ton that would render vaueess In their hands the elective
franchise We look TO the result n November with more
pleasing anticipation because satisfied II will teach
this corrupt caba Of presses that the love Of the Union h
too deeply imbedded in the American heart 10 be rendered
nsensble to the dangers Of seconalism BY all their sp
plihnces The very fact that five journals whose conduct
have made for each other notorousy bad characters
have buried their former hsreds and formed conspiracy
win excite just suspicious TO the character Of the can
ddse who has been able command their united support
If possible that bad could combine at all
for good purpose such supposiuon in this case Is re-
PEELED by the character Of the instrument chosen FACTION
and snacism may be blind the force Of the argument
against Fremont furnished by the fact that be Is the
ddae Of such coalition Of bad men, but thousands upon