The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-12-28

seward Banks, Ch lse and Others OF the repuo-
lcan camp, and with Crittenden. Bell and others
Of the rump of the Know Nothing brotherhood.
or course, as Mr.. Buchanan win be out of the
field in 1860, his administration on all sides, is
thus regarded a machine 10 be used. or as al
obstacle to be removed from the Presidential
track; and thus upon the tariff, a general bank
rupt law, the Pacific Railroad, the ilibustering
question, Cnba, Mexico, Contra! America, we
lind az many strings to the party bow in Con
gress az there are party candidates for 1860.
There is an old proverb which says that
"When rogues fall out honest men get their just
deserts" but in this business Of President making
honest men must take their place in the field, or
the rogucs will fall in and carry off the spells
for which they are SO ravenous. The honest
body Of the people, in other words, must antici-
pate these party conventions of huckstering
sposmcn. or the old rule of " the cohesive power
Of the public plumber" will, perhaps, in the next
canvass, reduce the general government to
general asy lum ofvagaboud politicians and lobby
iobbers whose demands will sink us into general
Bankruptcy and in that common ruin which must
ultimately follow continued carnival Of
scbeming demagogucs and their hungry Migrants
Of the lobby.
In view of popular reaction against these
downward tendencies Of our effete political par
ties, il is only some such man rs General Scott,
who stands detached and above the caucus
machinery Of every party, and whose name,
character and eminent public services of half a
century afford the best securities to the country
it is only upon such a name that the people can
anticipate and break down, and ride over, all
the rotten parties Of the day, and all their in
genious devices for reaching the public treasury.
And this is the very time for such movement
on the part of the honest and independent
masses of the people, when the democratic and
the opposition parties are PROSTATE and helpless
from their late debaucheries. Otherwise, as the
ruin of every government destroyed may be
traced to its scurvy spols politicians, so may
the ruin of ours--the fairest ever framed by
mortal wisdom-be precpitated upon us from
the same causes, willie yet we are dreaming of
security and peace.
From the inflated corruptions which now rule
the roast in Congress- our State Legislatures,
our Corporation councils, far and ner, We may
safely say that we have arrived at that critical
point from which the next step is mob law, or a
| military despotism, or peaceful and wholesome
revolution by general and independent uprising
of the people. And why, in behalf OF this move
meut do we adhere TO Gen. Scott as the proper re-
preventative man? Because he is tied to no party
He has only been the dupe of party managers in
conventions and in elections. But be bears his
wrongs and his poverty as bravely as his laurels
ard his honors. He is above such small re-
veuges as those which have been betrayed by
Van Buren,, Fillmore, Seward, Douglas and other
mousing politicians. He is not such fool as TO
hold that political donors and offices are his by
divine right nor such knave as to make his
personal disappointmcnts public calamity. lie
is the man for the crisis; for, standing untouched
and uncontaminatcd by the party corruptions of
these evil times, be is eminentiy the man for the
people. They have only to start him as they
started Jackson, Taylor and Harrison, and he
will be found young enough and strong enough
10 set Us the standard bearer Of popular re-
volution.