The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-02-28

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their early ciseon.nuAncs We are no, positive that gov
si IA esry future should the HERALD continue VIII dis
the folly Of maintaining them.
Such stuff as this, from newspaper assuming
10 be the great central organ of the universal
democracy, and the official mouthpiece of the
President and MS Cabinet, may be very salts
factory to M. Wendell and the lobby; but il is
hardly calculated, at this crisis. to bs of the
slightest service to the administration The
New YORK HERALD il an independent press.
OF its own free will it has come forward to the
rescue of the administration and the democratic
party from factious discords and sectional
issues and troubles which threaten to both the
administration and the party, the most
serious consequences. Some of the most promi-
nent captains of the party, with number of
newspaper organs ana numerous camp follow
ere at their backs, have bolted from the admi-
nistration upon the great overshadowing issue
Of the day; and the party defections and de-
moralizations existing from the Atlantic coast
to the Western frontiers Of Kansas may we'll
excite alarm az to the recuperative powers of
the demoralized democracy Of the North.
At such a crisis the interposition of the third
estate, the independent press, in support of the
administration, rational mind would accept as
most important acquisition in behalf Of the
policy'of the President and the reunion of the
party. But from the Stiffness and insolence of
such party organs "a the Washington Union
and its Northern echoes subsisting upon the
drippings Of unclean Legislation, one would
suppose that neither the success of the ad-
ministration nor the interests of the party nor
the interests of the country are of the slightest
Importance to these democratic newspaper
spoilsmen, provided they get the spoils.
We charge upon these Northern spells Or
gans Of the democrat the responsibility for the
present embarrassments of the party and the
administration. What are the facts? When
the Kansas-Nebraska bill was brought forward,
about the only Northern newspaper that had
the moral courage to come out boldly in its
support was the New YORK HERALD. The
Northern organs of the democracy were alb
sorbed with their little thimble-rigging cliques
and tricks for the fat Offices jobs and sinecures
of poor Pierces unfortunate dispensation.
Next. after the passage of the bill, while the
anti-ssvery league Of the North were raising
funds by millions. sending out free State emf
grants by thousands TO Kansas and newspaper
correspondents to infeme the local contest into
q sectional quarrel, what we're our Northerp de-
mocratc newspaper organs about, fat and lean'
Wrangling and squabbling over the public plum
der Not one Of them was found liberal enough
to incur the expense Of Kansas correspondent
with a view 70 counteract the teeming Kansas
misrepresentation Of the anti-slavery agitators.
But, on the other hand the NEW YORK
HERAID-the slave of no party and the tool Of
no Observation-Disclosures out upon its account
Kansas correspondent Of its own, faithfully to
reflect the doipgs Of both parties, and to expose
the misrepresentation alike of pro-slavery and
no slavery border ruffians We have done this,
from time to time, to the present day and at
this very moment the only Northern newspaper
accounts from Kansas giving any color of JUS
tice or espedency to the policy Of the admins
tration are those from the special correspondent
of this journal.
From this simple statement of facts we may
truly say that, if the time has not yet arrived
when the people may dispense with such things
as governments, the time, at least, has come
when the government may safely dispense with
all such superfuities as official spoils organs,
newspaper plumber oliques and their confede-
rate lobby squads Of miserable spoils and Office
beggars. For example, we have seen quite
enough Of the qualifications the follies, the
blunders the ignorance, the insolence aud the
plunder-mongering instincts of the Washington
Union to satisfy u that it is as useless to the
able administration Of Mr.. Buchanan as it was
powerless to save from its crushing downfall
the wretched. imbecile and Auctuating admins
tration Of poor Pierce.
THE INEBRlATE AsYLUx-Me have before III
a letter from tie Corresponding Secretary of
the New York Iuelriate Asvlum To his Excel