The Washington union., 1858-03-03

lIorresIoudenoe Washins stoai Inion.I
THE sIGNERs TO THE CALL Al TAsiMANY. THE
ROTTEN CrTY.-THE PURITY OF THE TRIBUNE.
THE NEW YORK TIMES ON MR. SEWARD
NEw Yosx, March /, 1868.
group Of very prominent democratic politicians from
the interior Of the State discussing Kansas matters
this morning in the reading room Of the St. Nicholas
Hotel and it both amusing and interesting to hear
tho different points of view from which they seyeray a
plauded the policy OF the administration. Internal
Greeleyte hounds y said noble old fellow, whose heart
head, aud pocket equally democratic 'why, close
by us, In Broadway they had of their Topekaite
sensls and recruiting shops where Geritt Smith alone
subscribed 81 500 month for and ammunition to
sustain abolitonism in Kansas and yet they have the
mpudence to talk about pro-slavery Intervention and
outrage r. s.Ill tell you what put In Judge 49,,
.Mr Buchanan for strategcal alone never did
s,acious thing in his life than in insisting upon
the admission Of Kansas under the Lecompton const
ton 1t has consolidated the democratic party pnrged
it of dsatfectonsts rallied national men, and completely
demorazed the opposition A shrewd ex-State official
of Gen Jackson's time assented to this, and added
'.M Seward has long since that the republican
party needed be either nationazed know nothing
lied He is, individually striving to become nation
AL Hale, Banks Co have, therefore, left him
with all OF the republican States, excepting one and al
lied themselves to nativist proscriptionism more
practicable source Of strength Douglas and his friends
meanwhile step into the very place that Seward getting
out Of aud thus there is such complete outside disor-
ganizaton that the democracy must prove necessarily t
umphant even ia the State of New York Meanwhile
the patriotic rmness of the President itself
to the of the Masses and vast
cesson of strength to the democratic party Sufficient
prominence is given, fear by the friends of the ad-
minstration at Washington" said Hon. Mr.. --- 'sto
the importance Of showing up the length BREADTH and
depth of that Topekate conspiracy which had its head
quarters at Albany 1t included the foulest kind of the
most insy treason and is the competest jus
cation of every syllable of the Presidents special
sage Oh Kansas, interposed Young American;
.'ts abolition hummng-top. Let's get rid of it
ut once, and begin Mexico and Cuba. That's the
talk, echoed halfa-dozcn voices, and the subject of
conversation changed.
Party" the New York Times of this morning publishes
article which may be regarded black republican
pcpcapns OF selfconscous roenness and profgacy AS
that paper supposed to be behind the scenes and init
matey in the counsels of Messs Seward and Weed its
statement is somewhat remarkable 1t says
There is very little unity harmony, either of prn-
cipe sentiment, in the republican ranks, and the
grounds of difference will become and more mani
fest every day Upon all leading political questions, with
the single exception Of slavery extension the democratic
and the whig sections of that party at this day just
hostile each other they They never
cordially agree upon the tariff the currency tue canals
any other leading topic Of State national legislation
And when Mr. Seward declared that upon the only aues
ton which had brought them together the battle ou,
he substantially dissolved the alliance and disbanded the
army The whig wing angry at this sudden explo-
son because If cut arift the allied force they have
no other place to go But the democratic wing took
it in very different spirit for it opened to them pros
pect of getting back into the shelterng bosom of the
L. hsr,
minds they Lf IT. and ar The door is left ejdy, the
chances ten 10 that they 'ciA ralk m.
Meantime it is not easy to what to become of
the other wing Of the republican party They forced
etry dan take and ultra ground olposoa
lare,y. and l probably finally to the Tribune platform
of making eory STATE free Stale, and Of breaking dorm
ty TIE Susa1 Cun BY riding il, inacrd of presrpng
and regulating representative character in the legal and
stitutional mode proposed by Mr.. Seward But a very
large portion Of the old whig republicans would object to
being thus carried bodily to the abolition and dis
union platform and they will be very likely to stand by
Mr. Seward in spite of his increasing conservatism and
of the fact which is still alarming to certain class
of his supporters that he has dsrmed the bitter hostility
formerly cherished towards him by the South and is
treated with the utmost courtesy and Difference by south
ern senators.
But this increasing courtesy the part of southern
ers towards him constitutes and objectionable Of
fence in the eyes of his old abolition friends They hold
all shareholders to be robbers and murderes and regard
anybody whom they may treat with cvility fit only
share the fate by which it is expected and hoped they
will be ovcrtaken."
Meanwhile the Tribune curdles. Itsermonizcs to-day
the four thousand sgners of the call to the mmany
Hall meeting Thursday night They are, it premises
respectable gentlemen Of wealth and standing They
are not it says, politicians, but nbstdntal csens
honorablecza honest izes minded citizens claiming
salaon for Aosemoral qualities that adora pripae lye" High
testimony this from such after which de-
gree Of modesty and moderation might have been en-
pected from the Fourierte backgunrs of that Jour
nal But the purity, intelligence and integrity Of the
colossal display which has been made of regard for the
President is only made prominent in order TO bespatter it
with all the bngsgate and filth which Messrs Greeley
and Dana have at command. The gentlemen who have
dorsng voluntarily the crimes plying, fraud and forge
ry. But listen to a whole sentence two Of the Tr
bunes rawlings:
"This city is rotten from centre to circumference
The subteanean vaults Of crime underlying society
where grow with applause such accessions
of respectabty, such homage to open handed yiany
Gentlemen sgners Of the meeting go In your corrupt
ing and dcmoraizns process and how long, think you
reap the whirwndf Protesting to have stake in
cety You PROSTATE the standard Of public morality pros
tute your characters, break down the barriers be-
tween honesty and dishonesty and then wonder will
you, at the rising tide Of crime and general debauch-
ery?'
Mr. George D. Butler left Saturday for Cuba. His
acquaintance represent that finding himself nearly al
all alone in his anti Lecomptonsm he has become sick
Mt heart and gone away to hide himself M. f.
Irrnxproy--We told Inv those who have recentIv