New-York daily tribune., 1858-09-14
NEM-YORK Politics AT WAsHlyGToN
PRESENT POSITION OF MR.. SIMULTANEOUSLY
FOR CAUTION-TRUE HISTORY or THE REGU-
LARS AND PEOPLE 8 COMMITTEES CoNcisELy
nee Of The y. Y. Tribose.

Next only after the contest in Illinois the SUBJ
ject Of most interest here in Democrat.c- Admins
ITO, ion circles is the condition Of the Democratic
party IN your State, County and City, Mr.
Buchanan realizing very keeny that he could III
afford to lose the Congressional votes which were
, found 20 useful in the passage Of LecOmptOn. 1t
il against this rock that Mr.. ScheI has been but
ting hs head. at imminent peril OF brIin-softening
and YOU NAV RELY on it that unless the Collcc tor
pursues different course, he will be left 40 official
head to butt with
On the Presidents return from Bedford, some
weeks SINCE he undoubtedly prevailed on Mr.
Cobb to forego his opposition to the Collectors
course, and confirm the ma jOrity OF appointments
and removals which Schel would send IN on his re-
turn 10 New-York. But neither the President
contemplated nor could any man in his senses have
believed TINT Schell would send in a second time
the names which had been returned disap-
proved. Ii was wretchedly bad taste, to say the
least of it, and to man OF Mr.. CO5b's sensitive
pride, All insult never to be forgiven.
The immediate consequences OF this act IT would
be impossible 10 conjecture. The detection of
Doupas scarcely embarrassed the Administration
more and if is now openly confessed among g in
siders" at the White House that, if the NewYork
Congressional delegation choose TO protest against
the removal of their best friends and the appoint
ment of their worst enemies Mr.. Bucbauan will
not feel in position to justify him in neglecting
their remonstronces.
This statement should be- looked on rather as
| friendly caution than threat. 1t is serious
TRUTH and told by one who would somewhat rather
see the Collector win, if he could win hOnoraby,
than he beaten BY such dubious opponents.
! therefore have some warnings for Mr. Schell, and
the warnings must be directed against some who
profess themselves " his most particular friends.
/ While Mr.. Schell was not III a controlling position,
or at least while his authority seemed questioned,
it would have been unfair to hold him responsible
for the actions OF who had little fear OF disci-
plipe or any corrective power before their eyes.
But now that your Collector sways over his own
department an undisputed scepter, men are COM
PEELED to hold him accountable for all the known
and public misdoinGs of his subOrdnates; and
should he fail to correct them he cannot shake from
his own shoulders the guilt of a tact participation
With the history of the Regulars" from the
time of their formation by Fernando Wood, during
! his contest with the late Lorenzo Il. Shepherd,
! Edward Cooper, Peter b. S~ecny, Joseph NJ.
Marsh, Nicholas Dmond and Company every
New-York politician must be iamlar The
Regulars" when first formed, were secret and
sworn corps of Ward janissaries, charged with the
double duty of watching and reporting all move
| ments niInical to their leader, and organizing,
commanding and leading forward the ell-known
troops of 'Trayelers," or Bogus Voters, who
used to do such admirable service in the days that
are gone by-let us hope, forever.
| When the Wilson Small aud Savage Committees
| were both thrown out Of Tammany Hall by the
! action of the Sachems: and when under n com
promise proposed by John Kelly Union Commit
| tee was formed, having Edward Cooper for Chair
| man: and when Mr.. Wood found that be could not
control this latter body, as be- and his Lieut.. Kelly
| had hoped, il was then Mr.. Kelly reorganzcd the
Wilson Small Committee to proceed to Syracuse
and there contest their own compromise; while, al
the same time Mr.. Wood extended the secret
charter of the Regulars" and gave powers for
| establishing Ward Lodges which local bodies
| should hereafter elect the Regular Delegates,
who. previous TO this concession, had been selected
| or "invited" only by the mere will OF Fernando
| Wood.
| When the Cooper and Small Committees were
united by the action OF the Syracuse Convention II
became necessary that each should throw over half
| IFS members in order tn reduce their numbers 10
the proper limit; and the of the Small Com
| mittee whom Mr.. Wood selected as the victims OF
! this sacrifice embraced every friend OF note that
Collector Schell had in that organizations leaving II
pure resduum of .ffy.fu supposed Woodmen or
- 'Forcsters" as the Small quota to the fusion
Among the prominent Schemen thus thrown oyer'
board. we NAV recite as illustrations Wm N. Me-
Intyre, L. j. Barr S. +. Golden, $. =. Russell, ).
! ID. Dillaye, NJ. l.. Harris, Weary Drake Parsons,
| and many Others whose names will come freshly 10
| the Collectors mind. All these at the time
swore roundy that Wood had been talthless to
Them and that he should repent it To the hour Of
| his DEATH. But what was the result of ths mag
! nanimOns vow
Within three weeks after they had thus been
made .Jonahs, and thrown over to tighten the ship,
We find Fernando organizing these Identical men
ms Il bogus Peoples Committee under Dan
| Wtter one of his old Police Captains; and Tor
| the sole reason, on Fernandos side, that the union
forced by the State Convention had given hlm no
more satisfaction or hopes of resuming power than
| the union first brought about by the agile and
! treacherous diplomacy Of Lieut.. Kelly. Ihis WIZ
| ter Committee was then, as now, mere banding
together of Sore Headed politicians without any
constituencies behind them, and the tueaS non
iucendO principle was never better shown 'hah ID
! their name.
| This fact became So patent that the prominent
Witter and wtlcss men at once began wormlng
themselves into the local Lodges Of Regulars =
then first established under Fernanio's amended
| Charter: and when this was sufficiently done 10
| give the thing an air OF p'ausbihty. "Reellsrs
| Committee was called together. and IN this the
original Sore Heads of the Wittcr body consented
TO plsy star.engsgements alternately ,-pow appear.
| inc at the Regulars" on Tuesday evening, and
rehashing the same small-tslk and driVel Tor the
Peoples" on the ensuing Thursday.
But in view of Mr. Dickinsons interests and the
| approaching State Convention II has n0w become
necessary, as We learn, to end this double farce,
and onsodstc the two hogsheads of moonshine into
one burning and shining light. Ii Is IN this work
that the energies of the Custom House, If not Of
Collector Schell, have been spent; while the only
effect has been 10 dsOrganize the party and throw
dlseredit on your Collector.
How much better, yea, and more profitable
would il have been, if these particular friends -
OF Mr.. Schell had remained strictly within the or
Sanization-remsined faithful TO s! the compro-
mses made and continued 10 hold such position OF
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