Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-16
WASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Herald, OF Thursday last, with even more than
its characteristics sslf-complaeency, attributes
the recent Democratic victory in the New York
State election to ats otca mn xsssee saying:
"It strikes us that, IL the credit Of this Demo
cratic victory belongs anywhere, 1t belongs espe-
dent, common-sense policy which II broug at TO
bear upon this late canvass, and to the influence
Of its extensive circulation among all parties and
classes Of our independent thinking people"
1--WE did it IA says the Herald-at tina same
time savagely denouncing the Detroit Free
Press, the New Haven Register, the Washing.
ton Uuon, Richmond Enquirer and other
Democratic journals that have intimated that
some credit for bringing about that result is
due to the Democracy of New York! Did We
didate for Presidents very great man--snd
then unmake him with breath ASKS the
Herald in effect No! you simply made fool
of him; and after gaining his confidence, when
he declined being bled to death--black- mailed
by your strikers-Jou exposed him to the world
in the nakedness of his folly-that's all. George
Law, with oil your putting was never brought
nearer to the Presidency than you brought
George Washington Dixon before him; and the
We made John c. Fremont, too, says the
Herald; taking him up unknown and friend
less, and so bepufhng him as that we came
within an inch Of beating James Buchanan and
the Democracy with him. Those who know
the details of Fremont's history, however, know
well that Thomas Hart Benton made him all
he really is as public man; while the specu-
lators and schemers of the Northern Fedora,
anti-slavery party by their expenditures Of
money, cunning, mendacity and demagoguism
made him, temporarily, dangerous foe to the
Democratic party cause. In SO doing, it was
Judged prudent to buy up the Herald with
promises Of various considerations Mariposa,
and influence in shaping the policy of his ad-
ministration with reference to persons, being
among them. In the impudent article from
which we quote above, of course the Herald
claims the credit of carrying New York in the
last presidential election. Yet who does not
know that while vehemently urging Fremont's
claims for the Presidency, it as vehemently op-
posed Mr.. Seward and his friends-who were
Fremont" in that election there-and who
triumphed as candidates by larger msjorities
than were given in the State to Fremont.
But this is an old game of the Herald, which
will not fail to claim to have saved The Elect, if
it lives till the day of judgment. 1t is worthy
of note that the Heraid's touch-embrace-is
really death to any person or cause it espouses,
Notwithstanding the insolence and impudence
of its charlatan boasts. For years and years it
has assumed to build up and pull down men
and measures before Congress; and the result
is, that it is proverb among the members that
as the Herald advises or predicts, SO Congress
never acts.
Of late it has professed to take the National
Democracy under its wing, as it took Fremont,
greatly to the disgust of men of mind and per-
sonal character identified with the Democracy,
who besides being well aware that its pretended
friendship is hollow-that it would sell the cause
of Christianity itself for sixpence in the way of
fattery, for Bennett himseIf-are indignant
that Benefits mendacity should have taken
its last turn-that of patronizing the party of
Thomas Jefferson and And. ew Jackson,
Ere the end Of the session, so universal will
be the indignation manifested by the Democracy
Of Congress against the efforts Of the Herald to
puff itself into notoriety as the patron Of the
Democratic party, as that Bennett will claw off
on different tack with as much precipitancy
as latter furnishing the rusty buttons of that
never-to-be-forgotten diplomatic coat he clawed
off from his support of the Pierce Administra-
ton, on realizing that notwithstanding the
HeyalfS protestations of favor for it, that
would as soon have thought of going to a States
prison for an American representative at the
Court of ST. Cloud, as into the sanctum sane
he al fnek bo al; IL A.
New York Herald The moral of the Demo
cratic party organization is, thank God not yet
reflected in the politics and ethics of such a
newspaper as the New York Herald, whose
embrace has so far proved death, sooner or
later, to whoever and whatever it has consist
emily favored.
The PHILADELPHIA PosT OFFICE The
Pennsyiran,an, last week, knocked into the
middle Of next week the assailants of Postmas-
ter General Brown on account of his election to
comply with the directions of Congress upon
the subject of the location Of the new Philadel-
phia Post Office, rather than to set the law of
the land at defiance in order to crafty few
property holders striving to induce him to give
them an opportunity to besecch Congress to re-
woke their action in the premises, and favor
their individual speculations.
That journal (the Pennsylranian) says, on
the subject:
The PHILADELPHIA POsT OFFICE BUILDING
The decision OF Postmaster General Brown, in
favor of proceeding with the alterations OF the
pennsylvania Bank Building, in order to tit 1t
for post office purposes, is fully and heartily en-
dorsed by large majority Of the business peo-
pie OF Philadelphia. This fact no one will ques-
ton, who is at all familiar with that class Of our
citizens The getting up OF petitions is a trade
in all large cities, by which men earn their liv-
ing, and therefore II Is not safe at all times to
act upon representations conveyed through these
popular channels. Besides, petitions left at the
corners Of the streets, to be signed by any one
passing, may be filled with names, the owners
Of which would be d ilicult to find. BOYS too
are sometimes induced TO append their sigma
lures to petitions without knowing caring
what the prayer may be contained therein
School urchins are iably'misch ievous. and
with pen in hand are not to be trusted. They
may set down more than one name When the
purport Of petition Is fairly stated, and only
men asked To sign, then II may represent public
sentiment. But this was not the case with the
petitions for removing the the Post Office in our
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