Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-01-02
WASHINGTO NEWS AND GOSSIP

Mr.. Seward and the New York Herald -
The Herald having recently assaulted Senator
Seward for being, as it alleged, lobby agent
for the renewal Of the Woodwork patent,
the Albany Epensng Journal, the home or
gan of Governor s., replies in the indignant
terms that will be found in the extract here
with appended. Metropolitan it for two rea-
sons; First, because, however sternly we are
opposed to Governor s. as a politician, land
no other man is more so It affords US an OPP
portunity to say, that the uniform bearing of
that gentleman, as q man, in this community
has not been such as to warrant any sane per-
son in believing him to be Of the character
personally, in which the Herald represents
him; and next, by way of showing tie Stars
readers how hugely those who not long since
combined to bring about the election of FIRE.
mont, do really love each other
As intimatsd above, we war on Mr.. Seward,
principles and his political aims, and should
scorn ourself were We to adopt the too fash
ionable e1redient of sweeping vill6cation of
him or any other political opponent in all his
relations in life, because we oppose his politics
No better expedient for furthering Mr. Sew
ards ambitious designs could have been de-
vised, than the publication Of such abuse Of
him as that to which the Herald treats him,
in the face Of the fact that, notwithstanding
the bitter repugnance which all the Southern
Senators entertain towards his doctrines and
oratorical efforts, he is treated personally, by
all Of them, we believe, as one deserving at
their hsnis all the necessary courtesies of so
sis' intercourse.
The following is the Journals article in
question:
IF the public taste does not pail and sick
en- under the daily iteration of such cIumsily
compounded falsehood and folly, its stom ach
must be proof against all that disgusts and
nsuseates- The Herald splurges and vom-
things are as repulsive to decency as to truth
and yet that vile sheet 10 not only tolerated
but accepted, by perverted judgments, as au-
thority; though its whole history has been
continuous exhibition Of twaddling contradic-
tons and absurdities, prompted by mendacity,
malice and modification. While individuais
purchase and read this " receptacIe-of undi-
gested scandal" society refuses to recognize
man who has outraged all its laws. Wealth,
however questionably obtained, generally Sc
cures to the pOssessor the privilege of living
on the borders Of civilization. Riches gives
TO most men at least an equivOoal social posi-
ton But the blear-eyed old yagabOnd Of the
Herald, with all bis besmeared gold is an ex-
ception 10 the rule. Society rejects him. To
all that is elevated or refined in social inter
course, he is an outeast. And to aveDge him
self for this provoked and merited ostracism,
he is driveling out the remains of an ill-spent
life in pervertipg paper, ink and types from
the noblest, TO the vilest uses
Gov. Seward, who, during the long period
Of his public service has passed through the
severest ordeals of political controversy with.
out the slightest imputation of improper pecu-
mary motive-whose life, In all its professional
and official aspects and responsibilities has
been one Of pIoverbisl and stainless purity
Is here coarsely asSailed as the g COUNSEL,
ADVOCATE, MANAGER, GODFATHER before the
Senate and the Courts of a measure which
Is to purchase its way through Congress with
a d" fund Of tIco hundrsa and ffty thousand
dollars, Lctth resources 10 enlarge 1T TO fve
hundred thousand, If called for" such is
the bold charge Of an habitual calumniator.
Now what are the facts!
Some fifteen years ago Mr. Seward was re.
tanned as counsel by Mr Wilson, the assignee
Of Woodworth's Planning Machine, and for
several years defended the rights of his client
in the various suits in which he became in
volved. When elected TO the Senate he with
drew from this business, except so far as bis
services were necessary in the cases which had
been prepared or were being prepared for
trial. For four or five years he has had no
professional connection whatever with the
Woodwork Planning Machine. Nor during
his whole tern of service in the Senate has
he, publicly or privately, directly or Indirect
ly, uttered a word OF syllable, in favor of the
renewal Of that patent The whole accuse
ton, In all that II asserts and in all that it
implies, is deliberate and gross-but happily,
from the Infsmy Of its origin-impotent and
harmless falsehood. The charge, 40 fer as
truth, or the semblanee of truth are concerned
might have been made with equal Justice
against Gen Cas-, Col Bell, Mr. Hunter, or
any other distinguished Senator whose IRE
proachable character, like triple mail would
repel the arrows of an assassin
4 Veteran Our neighbor, the Alexandra
Gasate. yesterday entered on the fifty eighth
year Of It's useful existence. Differing as VIC
do from it in politics, it affords US unfeigned
qualification to say, that in the hands Of Edgar
Snowden, Esq., it has exerted great influence
indeed for the weIl-being Of society wherever
it is read; the doctrines it has uniformly in
culcated concerning aught else than politics
being such as all good citizens cannot fail u
approve. We have frequently heard it sale
that the Gazette lags behind the AGES no
"fast" enough to please the taste of the g. fas
men, who entertain that opinion Of it Whit,
it is true that it carefully abstains from max
ing bogus publications for the sake of creating
sensation and obtaining notoriety, We know
no more enviable editorial reputation thai
that which its conductor has fairly achieve,
through his long connection With the Gazette
AproYOs-if be will adopt the plan of casl
payments for everything that comes into hi
ofhce in the shape Of advertisements or goe