The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-06-01


his master will have, the more money it will
cost France, and the moro humble pie some one
will have to eat some day, when destiny &C.
cowplishes its Inevitable work
Ths R~,as Of tho Knsw nsshiag F~casA
IN a0sAon.
With our latest telegraphic advices from
Washington we furnish our readers to-day, full
length, the now manifesto of the rump Of the
Southern Know Nothing faction for the organi-
cation of great peoples Party of the
Union" 1t will be seen, however, at glance,
that this new admixture Of political principles
Is nothing more than the old repudiated Phila-
delpbia K. N. prescription, eighty diluted with
swill milk and lukewarm water. 1t is dish of
balderdash, moonshine, humbug and affected
piety, purity and patriotism, which no man but
a regular Aminadsb Sleek, with a dark lantern
behind him, can read with the sanctimonious ma
sal twaDg to which the subject is entitled. A
more miserable composition of political pru-
dery, cant, stuff and tWaddle we have no recol-
lection of reading during the last forty years
tits somewhat remarkable, too, that while
Messrs. Crittenden, Humphrey Marshall, Win.
ter Davis, and such of the shining lights of the
South American brotherhood, have been en-.
gagged at Washington in this new plan for
great peoples party" ignoring the niger en-
tirely-it is somewhat remarkable, we say, that,
away up yonder at Buffalo, Willard Fillmore,
through his right hand man-General Gusts-
vus Adolpbus Scroggs-should be building
new Buffalo platform for the opposition
forces of all factions, with nothing but
the niger, bleeding Kansas" the "slave
power" and the "slave oligarcby" to stand
upon. Leaving the parties concerned, how
ever, to account for this remarkable discrepancy
between the Know Notbings at Washington and
their brethren at Buffalo, We proceed to the
broader question of the true policy of the OPP
position for 1860.
Gen. Wilson, in late speech in the Senate,
and Mr.. Sherman, in recent speech In the
House, on government expenditures, retrench.
ment and reform, have hit the nail upon the
head. Mr.. Buchanan is not responsible for the
crushing effects upon the country and the trea.
sury Of the late financial revulsion; nor is he
for that public nuisance of Mormon
dom and other expensive legacies inherited from
poor Pierce and his predecessors. And yet, let
1t be made apparent in 1860 that the expendi-
lures Of Mr.. Buchanans administration have
been exceedingly large for the peace establish
ment, and that the pockets of the people are
ufftring, and must continue to suffer, under
such state of things; and let the opposition
factions combine upon one candidate, for q
democracy will just as surely go to the wall as
in 1910.
The lessons of the past are the best admoni.
lions for the future Since 1923, whenever the
niger question was out Of the way, the money
question has ruled the roast. The first election
Of General jackson was secured upon the cry of
'retrenchment and reform" A horrible dis.
closure of the corrupt condition of the admins
ration Of John Quincy Adams was the fatal
parcel which broke the camel's back. Tobias
Watkins, an accounting officer Of the Treasury
Department at Washington, was found to be
or In q deficiency of four thousand
dollars $4,000 to the government. The whole
country was reused to indignation, and this I'M
heard Of crime Of Watkins was punished with
The expulsion OF the whole administration to
which he was attached. OF course at this day
Thurlow Weed, the Chevalier Webb and Orsa-
mus Benajah Matteson would consider four or
i've thousand mere snack; but poor Watkins
Hourished when the expenses Of the government
we're less than thirteen millions year.
In 1882 the country was too ndsh Of funds
and bank accommodations and speculations,
and too full of the bank monster, to interfere
with Old Hickory; and In 1886 the opposition
forces we're divided upon too many candidates
TO do anything, or to expect anything, and the
revulsion had not yet come. But in 1887
Il did come, and In 1910 IL swept
Van Buren, and the democracy out Of power
with the force OF tornado. In 1874, the money
question being adjusted, the niger was
brought into the foreground, and being on the
popular side Of the niger issue-the anneSa-
ion Of Texss-the democracy slipped in their
candidate by the skin of his teeth. In lsis. the
opposition rallied upon Gen. Taylor, sinking the
niger as much az possible, and old Zach was
elected. In 1852 the feeblenees of Mr.. Fill
nores administration and the Niger heresies
If Sewardism brought the democracy again
nto power with q tremendous rebound; but in
$50, having carried the Niger little too far
% the north of Mason and Dixon, they escaped
crushing defeat through the assistance of Mr..