The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-22

did not intend to make war against it, He
hoped that by-gones would be by cones, and that
the administration and all the democracy would
soon be cordially reunited throughout the Union.
And yet, at the same time we have every reason
to believe, Mr.. Douglas was actually nego-
tiating with the secret and open enemies of the
administration here for the ways and means
with which to meet his political and financial ne
cessites in Illinois in opposition to the admin is
tration. These negotiations, we also believe, en-
braced certain financial arrangements, and the
groundwork of a responsive political coalition
between the Douglas faction and the Seward
party in New York and Illinois.
We all know that upon the first impulse, after
the Kansas bolt of Douglas in Congress, and in
consideration Of his services to "bleeding Kan
sas," that some Of our leading Seward organs in
this quarter pleaded hard for the adoption OF
Douglas as the champion Of the republicans in
Illinois That plan of operations was rejected
don the idea Of still turning Douglas to a good
account, both here and there. Mr.. Douglas want
ed money! hundred thousand dollars From
the legal documents in the case, it appears that
of this sum he raised fifty thousand dollars, part
from Fernando Wood and the balance from one
Of our numerous professional money lenders The
other fifty thousand are not accounted for, but it
is very likely that the Seward political interest
of New York found it to their advantage to sup
ply the funds. The mystery in all these sympa-
thctic Douglas and Seward movements in Illi-
nois, at Syracuse, in Tammany Hall, and in the
Congressional cases Of Clark and Haskin and
others, certainly admits Of no other explanation
than that Of secret understanding, financial and
political, between the Seward and Douglas prime
managers in New York and Illinois
On the part of the Seward managers the OBJ
iject was and is to destroy, root and branch, the
Northern democracy, with the aid of the Douglas
detection; while the object of the Douglas con-
spirators is simply to destroy en- administration
which they have failed to rule. Starting upon this
basis Of secret understanding between the
Seward and Douglas managers, we can account
at once for all the otherwise inexplicable doings
Of our Tammany leaders here and at Syracuse,
and also for the cool and contemptuous manner
in which the republicans at Syracuse rejected the
overtures of the American faction for a common
State ticket. In Dean Richmond, Peter Cagger,
Erastus Corning and the Central Railroad and
in the Douglas conspiracy, our republican scene
shiftcrs felt that they had secured allies that
would serve their purpose much better than the
slippery Know Nothings and their good for
nothing balance of power in the Southern States.
In word, Mr.. Seward could not trust half
and-half affiliation with the Know Nothings, and
there was no necessity for it when he could do
without ii.
AT length we begin to see the working of the
game The Seward party Of this State are conf
dent, because they know the weak and salient
points of the democracy, and have secured them.
In this view il is probable that the anti -Tammany
faction Of this city is as rotten as the Tammany
faction, and that the professions of the one of
love and constancy to the administration are
not whit better than the cold shoulder and
Douglas resolutions Of the other. On both sides,
in regard to the administration, we can now
discover the evidences, more or less, of the most
barefaced impudence, imposition and trickery
decentralization, land with more intimate compli-
cations here between the interests Of Seward and
Douglas,) which Frustrated the Pennsylvania
democracy in October, will bring the New York
democracy down to the dust in November. Their
Douglas managers have betrayed the present
administration too soon, and this clique and
that clique have commenced too soon their
dirty plots and schemes for the spoils of the sue
cession.
Mark the consequences. They do not involve
the destruction of the administration, for that
survives and, as it has shown il can flourish re-
CARELESS Of the party; but in these premature
schemes, tricks and intrigues Of factious jobbers
and leaders for the succession. they have already
destroyed their chances in the destruction of the
party. In this view, the work which was not
done in Pennsylvania will be done in New York
in our November election, or there is no truth in
the overshadowing facts, Developments and
signs of the times.