The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-10-26

John Van Buren the Issues or tine esats
Election.
We publish elsewhere the speech delivered BY
John Van Buren, ct TsmmaDy Hall, on l2Sk
inst, on the subject of the issues involved in the
fall election It. will be found TO be a compre-
hensive and well considered document. with
much more substance and much less rhetoric
than such oratorical effusioDs usually contain.
No man understands the political history Of this
State better than John Van Buren,
The main point on which he joins issue with
his opponents is on the financial bearings of the
contest He shows, beyond dispute, that each of
the two political parties of this State he's had
fixed, settled policy in matters of money, from
which policy neither has at any time departed for
any length of time: the Seward party to spend
money, the democracy to save it. From the
very start Mr.. Seward and his followers treated
the State as a cache d lqu-to be MIXED per-
petually for the comfort and support of the
party and SO thoroughly have they adhered to
this policy that after plunging the State into
debt to frighful extent for the completion of
the canals, they are now as far as ever from
being complete, and the State has actually this
fall been forced to suspend payment Vote after
vote has been procured from the people for
the expenditure of more money on thcss canals.
Each time, it has been well known that the
money went to building up the party in this
and the ether counties, to aiding the schemes Of
fortunes of contractors whose services were Of
to the party, to anything in fact save and except
the purpose for which the money was voted-the
completion and enlargement of the canals. All
that has been voted is gone. The canals are
again in the old position. Again will the reppbli-
cans say to US, as they have 80 often said" Ii
you won't vote q couple Of millions more. these
canals which have cost us SO much money, aud
are the pride and glory of the State, will be
utterly useless, and the expenditure on them viii!
have been thrown away" And again, 10 Doubt,
the money will be voted, and, if the administra-
ton Of it goes into the same hands as usual it
will 60 where the former sums went, into the
pockets of the republican wirepullers, aud after
a time the canals will be as needy as ever.
Impecuniosity is the cardinal feature of the
Seward policy in this State. Whatever views
they may have entertained with regard to slavery
or masonry, or the tariff, they have always been
consistent on one point-they have always wanted
money. However their hearts have been lace
rated by sympathy for the slaves at the South. or
has always taken one shape cry for money.
Ne spuffiing parsons unctuous lament over the
benighted condition Of the heather Of Borrioboola
Cha is more surely followed by hat and whine
for pence, than the ardent outburst Of republican
patriotism by an appeal to the public for few
more thousands
This malady of the republican party-this
species of pecuniary s@yriasis-seems to have
reached climax last year. Never before in the
whole history of the country, WAS the pursuit of
money undertaken with such unblushing ELTON
terry, or carried out with such unrelensing ava
rice, as by the republican majority in our Safe
Legislature during the session Of 1857. To oh.
tain money they sacrificed all their old party ties,
all the great principles which underle democra.
tic government and all the guarantees which
eighty years of successful social organization az
ford for the permanence Of the institutions Of
this republic. They diregarded alike the Gu
treaties of the constituencies they were robbiog,
and common considerations of prudence for their
own safety in case they should ever be in mi.
nority. Nor did they finch in their work
till they had actually swelled the taxation of this
Stately the enormous sum Of 1887 ,l64 81, in
single year. One hundred and twenty five per
cent did they add to the State taxation in single
year.
II i not necessary to repeat in this community
the long list Of the outrsges perpetrated on the
city OF New York with the sole view of obtain
ing our money as well as the State's for the con-
summation Of their political devices How
they wrcsted from Us that natural control over
our own affairs which is inherent in every assem-
blagc of freemen how they undertook to do for
us what the people Of the old colonies would
never suffer the English Kings to do for them,
they assumed the expenditure OF our money for
City Hall, and for the Central Park, and how
they usurped the control OF the Port Wardens,
and the appointment and direction of the police;
these outrsgcs are yet too fresh in every ones
mtmory to need repetition. They arc the natu-
raj and consistent elimination Of the Seward
policy In this State.
II now remains to sec whether, at the election
which comes Off in few days, the people will
decide to affirm aud pcrpctuate this dynasty of
stockholders and plunderers, or will restore the
State into the only hands in which the peoples
money has ever been safe.
MERCANTILE AGENcrEs.-There are in this city
three or four peculiar establishments known az
mercantile agencies. There are also one or two
in Boston and Philadelphia Those here are con-
Quoted on n very extensive scale some of them