The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-01-14

the New York Css,om IIouse are the same that
control the proceedings Of parties in couxre- and
the nominations OF democratic and rcpublicsa
and Know Nothing national CONVENTIONS Toe the
Presidency.
Looking over the catalogue Of our promiaeut
party politicians, on all sides. nox engaged in
the important game Zoe the next PRESIDENCY. ihr
number who have grown rich upoa the pubic
plumber, through one channel or another, Is very
remarkable. Galphln and Gardner operations
Indian treaties and indemnilies. war indemnises
Of all kinds, fat contracts land grants 10 States
railroad land grants. bounty lands, swamp land
grants, patent monopolies. government psiniing
bogus claims Of every description. government
supplies Of all kinds tariff bills. river and harbcr
bills, &C., have all contributed TO al the pockets
Of these party leaders. and caucus and lobby
managers. II IL well known that one Onamus
Benajah Matteson. In a certain case. offered
TO secure some twenty-five votes of the
House Of Representatives upon a lobby
fund Of twenty-five thousand dollars; and yet
the last electioneering speech of Senator w. II.
Seward In our late November canvass. VA.
largely devoted 10 labored vindcation of toe
pure and exalted character Of Matteson II the
lobby transactions Of Mattcscn can thus be de-
Tended and eulogized by United States scna-
tos where, for example, IRE we 10 End bis line Of
demarcation between Congressional honesty and
official corruption.
There are many leading politicians In and out
Of Congress, Of all our existing demoralized and
rotten parties, who entertain the same charitable
views Of the lobby, and who. II they have not
betrayed themselves, like Seward, In their public
speeches, stand as prominently implicated in
their public acts. The question, therefore which
now thrusts itself upon the country Is this -
Shall any of these party leaders or party
managers, who have grown rich upon the leak
ages of the public treasury, or from their Con-
gressional squanderings Of the public lands, or
upon Galphin and Gardner claims, or swindling
contracts, or trumped up indemnities, or official
land or town lots, or upon any other crooked
diversions of their official or political influence,
to fill their pockets and enrich their dependents
be considered competent to conduct the business
and to dictate the peoples candidate for the
Presidential election of 1860?
We protest against following the movements
of any Of these party leaders, or their party eau
cusses or conventions, any longer. We appeal to
the honest, uncorrupted and Independent masses
of the people to take this important business of
the next Presidency into their own hands, and
that, too, without further delay, in a general,
spontaneous movement for popular candidate
and sweeping popular revolution. The finsn-
cial revusion Of 1857, in exhaustng the resources
ofthe Treasury on the one hand, and the expensive
legacies inherited by Mr.. Buchanan from Fillmore
and poor Pierce on the other, in swelling to
their present extraordinary dimensions the ex-
penditures and necessities of the government,
have operated pretty effectually to choke of the
lobby. The vigilance of Mr.. Buchanan has also
done much to keep the lobby vultures at re-
spectful distance In all this, however, we have
but temporary security. Let some reckless
and prodigal party politician, conversant and
conniving with the dirty trickery of the lobby,
be elected our next President, and spells and
plumber, spoliation and robbery, and bankruptcy
and ruin will become the order of the day.
Casting about us, then, for some available man
competent to represent the interrupted, unbrib-
ed and honest masses of the people, we must look
outside the circle of Our scheming and Juggling
party politicians. Among the tried and sterling
patriots Of the land, who have continued compa-
ratively poor, when they might have be-
come rich had they dabbled in the mud
dy pool Of party and lobby corruptions,
General Scott, like King Saul among the sons of
Israel, stands head and shoulders over all, and
not alone in his physical altitude but in his moral
elevation. Identified with the old wing party
when it represented the national and conserva-
tive principles of Henry Clay, and never having
swung off into the dirty excuses of the sectional
pro-slavery or anti-slavery agtators of these
evil times, and with his hands unstained by
official speculations, party subsidies or lobby
jobs, General Scott is the very man for the
honest conservative masses of the opposition
camps of all sections. We adhere to him as the
only living representative man of those sound ma
tional principles, and that prevailing popular
Union sentiment among the opposition masses,
without which there can be neither cohesion
among the opposition elements nor chance OF
success before the people.
On the democratic side, we apprehend there is
no prospect of anything but defeat upon any
candidate mixed up, North or South, with
the party sectional squabbles of the last two
years. Outside of this schedule of spois and
plumber politicians, however, there may be a
chance of union and success, and upon some
such uncommitted and popular candidate as
General Wool. We can only anticipate from the
continued ascendancy of the old party caucus
and convention system, in the choice of what
they may call the regular democratic and
republican candidates for 1860, a riotous scrub
race Of fighting sections and factions, which will
hurry the government and the Union to de-
struction.
INCREASE WITHOUT IMPROVEMENT ace