The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1859-03-29
THE HERALDs NODE OF CRACKING" IT'S

THE HERALDs MODE OF Tracking" IT'S
FRIENDS.
The Herald is a political nondescript; and
changes its views So fast that it is impossi-
BILE to keep up With its politics. 1t is at
this moment industriously pushing the interests
of the "old-line wings" Of the South, and has
undertaken a task likely to be as profitable and
successful as that which employed Sisyphus so
many years, but which viii employ the Herald
not near as many days. Some infatuated person
of that obsolete fraternity, with almost as little
knowledge Of Virginia politics as the Herald, has
written to it from Richmond-of all places in the State
the one least rejecting Virginia politics-that Cog
gin will come near carrying that ancient domin-
ion Of the democracy for the opposition and
the Herald goes into ecstacy at the prospective
downfall of the old democratic Gibraltar. Some
enthusiastic ex-know-nothing of Kentucky has
written the susceptible ex-know-nothing organ of
New York that the old party of Clay is about to
rise from the ruins of the know-nothing party in
Kentucky and the Herald forthwith proclaims a new
resurrection of whiggery in the land of the founder
of wing politics. Upon this silly intelligence from
shallow and infatuated correspondents i'll these two
States, the ex-know-nothing, ex-blackrepublican
organ of New York builds q fabric of prophecy
which would be alarming, indeed, if the Her
AIDS powers of diyination were not the gen.
eral laughing-stock of the reading public. If
these two States should go as the Herald is
weak enough to believe they will go, and if
the skies should fall, why, then, the Herald sagely
thinks " We may conclude that q reaction has
taken place in the South which will restore to this
new opposition Union movement at least those old
wing States of Delaware, Kentucky, Tennessee, North
Carolina, and Georgia, in addition to Maryland, which
the democracy have failed to conquer
Thus, from the data of a few silly letters received
lucky, the Herald works out the astounding result of
a divided South, a revived southern whig party, an
overthrown southern democracy in at least six, it
may be eight, Of the fifteen southern States, and a
fair field in 1860 for a triumphant northern black
republicanism-unless, indeed, the conservative and
patriotic masses of all sections should rally
around the Herald office, yand George Law, or Gen.
Scott, or Simon Cameron, or John G. Fremont, or
some one or other of the Herald's monthly changed
candidates for the presidency. With nonsense and
absolute simpletonism like this, the Herald is daily
oOicStatihS ITO ApoNioip "h' tNiiy AS Htho puoiiS anu
yet the Herald claims all the while to be more thor
oughly versed and profoundly skilled in the intrica-
cies and secrecies of American politics than all the
rest of the American press besides. The idea that
the oppositionais going to come near doing in the
day of their calamity aud degradation what they
never did in the day of their power and strength
TO come near carrying Virginia with such a man as
Goggin, who has already drawn off from the battle
ofdebate with Mr.. Letcher, is worthy of the Herald.
The idea that Crittenden and Marshall-after eau
GUESSING and hob-nobbing for two years with Sew
ards party in Congress, Notwithstanding "the ire
pressible conflict which the leader of that party rep
resents to be going on perpetualiy between the slave
holder and the negro worshipper-the idea that Crit
tenden and Marshall are likely to succeed in rallying
an opposition strong enough to beat the constitutional
democracy in Kentucky, is about as preposterous as
the Herald's whilom predictions Of George Laws
success in the heyday of its know,nothing enthu-
siasm.
No. less unique is the Herald's mode of support
ing Mr.. Buchanan's administration. 1t "demoralizes,
divides, corrupts, and drives out of power the dem
ocratio party, on which alone Mr.. Buchanan can de-
pend for support, every other morning in the year.
4 lsLlisb HIS CdDluet, VII DuCldndn b CHOSEN ana
trusted h~elp-mates in administering the government,
at least once every month, giving them names and
characters which the veriest old scold of a cook
or a scullion would hardly apply to a dog. 1t
cracks up the black-republican organization as in
vincible throughout the North, especially in Mr..
Buchananls own State, where it seems to delight in
picturing the affairs of the democracy as in a state
ofsad and irretrievable ruin. In Virginia, the strong
est of the democratic States, it represents affairs as
in not much better condition, and takes peculiar
pleasure in publishing, i'll flaming capitals, that the
candidate of the democracy repudiates the measures
Of Mr.. Buchanan declaration which its own re-
ports of the debates of the candidates do not sus-
tain, In Kentucky it magnifes the Buchanan and
Douglas emeute; and, in spite of the most positive
endorsement in county meetings and State conven-
ton of the whole policy of the President, Cuba and
all, it refuses to believe that the administration has
the cordial support of the democracy, or that the
latter won't be whipped out of their boots. In the
South at large, which gave an almost unanimous
electoral vote to Mr.. Buchanan, it sees a detection to
the old wing interest of half the States that went for
Buchanan, with the prospect of a worse time coming
And this it calls backing the President. 1t
backs" bin by representing him as deserted by his
aunnorters and fbeee as divided deunoraliyed and