The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-27

Ff.sIsiai Evils az tho Ce.nsxy-wlluam H.
seward.
Now that we are fairly ont of the woods, and
the country begins to see daylight on the
slavery question, ii would be almost amusing
but for the memory of black republican
roeoeries, to gather into birdseye retrospect
the manufactured fury with which large por-
ton OF our newspaper contemporaries have en-
deavored to lash different sections of the Union
into collision with each other upon the very
paltry issue of Lec0mpton and anti Lecompton.
The Kansas trouble, with its motley adjupcts is,
after all the clatter, dead and gone, and
although it's ghost will be forced to stalk until
after the fall Congressional elections, 1t will be
heard Of but very few months more. All
parties will look back at Is in 1860 as upon q
political nightmare, and knsves and asses will
unite in derrecating the folly of having taken
part in it's excitement. The dark financial
cloud which has fer some months overshadowed
the horizon will have developed into tempest
before the next Congress, and by 1860 white
and black niger aaxisties will be swallowed
| up in the moment0us questiOns-"W reduced
Tie treasury to It's impoverished condition! and
under what captain can we most safely ride out
| the etorm.
1t Is easy to perceive that the mere prudent
presses of the country, In bringing forward
candidates for the Presidential succession, have
an eye, thus early, to the effect which the names
Of their favorites may produce In the alarm
which will be excited by the anomaly of q na-
tionai debt created in time Of peace, and nearly
doubled expenditure with decreasing revenue
Secretary Floyd, Governor Wise and John Sill
dell, Secretary Thompson, and Stephens of
Georgia, Thompson of Mississippi, and Howell
Cobb, Daniel S. Dickinson and exSecretsry Of
the Treasury Guthrie, Vice President Brecken.
ridge and Jefferson Davis, Secretary Toucey
and Postmaster General Brown, have been, Sc
parately and severally, trotted out as safe
men;"an a score more Of aspirants will appear
in time. The Charleston Convention will have
| to perform the delicate task of choosing from
among them candidates for the Presidency and
Vice Presidency who are, at the same time, I'M
saturated with "nigger," and whose antecedents
afford q guarantee that the national finances
will be restored, under their auspices, to
healthy condition. The united opposition will
have to select either William II. Seward him
self, or else John Bell Chase of Ohio, Senator
Crittenden Governor Banks, or one of two or
three others of like kidney; and the triumph of
either of these latter over the democratic can
didate will be mainly attributable to the infu-
ence at the North of Mr. Seward, who would
thus become the inevitable Grand Lama and
anointed high priest of the Union from 1861
until 1865. Now, as Mr.. Seward twenty years ago
came into power In his native State under cir
cumaances very similar to those which may
elect an opposition President in 1860, the
course which he then pursued at Albany, and
which always has been defended by himself and
his friends, may be regarded as the index of
what he would do, on large scale, at Wash
ington, II the appliances were at his command.
In the month of May, 1887, all Of the
banks in New York, and nearly all in the
Union, stopped specie payments The none
tary crisis of that and the succeeding
years has had no subsequent parallel
until last fall. As usual, the entire odium was
thrown upon the then dominant party, which
fell to the ground with crash and on the LIST
of January, 1889, William II. Seward assumed
the gubernatorial chair at Albany. lie came
into power with flying colors, and amidst the
ringing applauses OF the multitude who had be-
come satiated with the rule of the Albany
Regency. Notwithstanding the hard times, and
almost suspended animation In commerce and
trade, the finances of the State proper never
L. NJ
Seward found it indebted, upon his advent to
Office, s5,O0OO0o. He at once inaugurated,
however, his political system, which, rs was
said at the time by one Of the first men in the
State, consisted In purchasing supporters,
pensioning dependents and rewardlng follow.
ers." His administration only lasted until the
end Of 1872, and he left New York, after an
s25, OOO,0 II was asccrtained, after he was
succeeded by Governor Wright, that had his
iniquitous plans been entirely carried out, they
would have involved an expenditure OF nearly
sixty millions Of dollars. lie proved himself to
he the most interruptions adept In pccuniary
and political proHigaoy that the United States
had ever produced. He had inoculated nearly
every township with corruption and bribery,
ard nearly bankrupted the wealthiest member
Of the American confederacy. New York has
ever since staggered under the burdens which
Sewardism In finance and Seward depravity
among public men have fastened upon 1t.
In the United States Senate William II.
Seward has been, for over fifteen years,
the arcb-fend Of American politics. Not
q scheme for robbing the treasury can
be named with which be has not been
more or less associated. The lobby regard