New-York daily tribune., 1859-06-04
THE DRnoCRATIC sCRImnAGE.

The blend manner 10 which Mr. Dean Richmond.
chairman Of the Democratic State Committee.
evsosd the request Of Mr. Fernando Wood in be
half If tbe acgrieved Hards, for May meeting of
that Comn,itee in order that they could lay their
complsints bsfore IL, is characteristic specimen
Of soft tactics The Astor-Housc Hsrd,, it will
be remembered. h,d arranged for their second
meeting on the 3lst os May. The main point of tho
ex Mayors epistle Of 'he llth, the request for
a meeting Of the State Commirtee ere the ad-
journed Hard copcave Of the 3lst In response
10 this Desn tells his freed Fernando that
be got bis plternal missiye Just as he leaving
" for NewYork." Meaning thereby, DO doubt,
that be got il jost he wss leaving for the
metropolis or that be got it and then just lett-s
distinction without difference IN Soft ethics.
This prefstory remark is seemingly thrown out ss
an for Deans ten days deIsy in responding
TO FernaDdos special notice. period just within
the requsltion of the Code, in which Nr. Csgger is
SO well yersed. But, as Wood lives in ew-iork,
and dated his letter in New-York, it is difficult to
see how Rcbmond's instantaneous leaving for that
same New-York could delsy his response to
Woods letter-especally as all facilities for
speedy transit would be afforded, no doubt, 10 the
yice-President of the Central Railroad But Rich
moDd probably jourpeyed ieisurely along. caliog
upon Seymour, Stvker, Csgger and Church by
the way, and laying before them the loving letter
of the eX-Msyor. These visits along the route Will
account for the ten days delay in responding to
the urgent message of the Astor Hirds, as we'll As
4 a 6 a.. n,r
tral President tells the ex-Mayor that be and
his Soft colleagues on the Committee are waking
up to the importance Of an efficient campaign next
Fa-that he has consulted with such of them as
he has seen (rather indefinite as to the number)
and from what be knows Of those he has not seen,
he is that they will be happy To any sagges
tions from the tx-Niayor or anybody else in reis-
ton to any subject of interest to the New-York
Democracy. The Vice-President, having thus got
over the predatory portion of tue ex-Mayor's mis-
siye, now sidles up toward he point of the Hard
epstle. And how gracefully be turns it by inform
ipg the eager Astor. House Committee that notice
:" will be given of the time and place of the next
meeting of the State Committee IS soon as
"agreed upon :" ETC., etc.
To this special plea-this ccnfessing aud avoid
ing as ante Code lawyers would call 1.-THE Hard
Committee, in their recent meeting at the Astor,
rejon, in tones alike remarkable for grief and sim
plcity: "Your Committee has not yet been in-
formed of any meeting of the State Committee,
"nor does any notice sppear to have been taken OF
our respectful request that such meeting should
"be called by the Chairman during the present
month" Artess Hards! How long, ye simple
Zones, will ye love simplicity 7" saith the voice of
the wise msn. Do you imagine you can corner
Richmond Seymour, Stryker, Cagger, Caurch,
Fowler * Coz And SO, as would seem from the
resolution you adopted at the close of your Com
mittees report, you going to make another eff
fort to draw or drive the Soft leaders into tight
place
We can assure Mr. Fernando Wood that, though
he could manage Thousand policemen with Ma
poeonic skill, and get a denomination from Tam
many in the face of an opposition in his own party
embodying great talent aud great numbers, and
could poll u vote that astonished friends and FOES
and could display cnyiable science in Ward scrim-
msge with the Hon. Daniel +. Sickles, yet if he
dreams that, even when aided by the tact Of Ed
WIN Croswell and the energy Of Auburn Birds,l,
he is stcb for his Soft antagonists in the black
art of political chcane, then be has mistaken both
his own capacity aud theirs In such a eeniest he
will fsil as uelorioLsy as did Dame Partington ia
the fight with the elements at SldmOuth.
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