New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-05-11

nv clutch sll the Offices and spOils WHOM an un-
scrupulous avidity can reach. Finally, stick at
nothing, and win 81 sll hazards. Now, 10 addition
10 these pssent articles. there was secret article
known only 10 the chiefs Of the coalition II was.
while cir giug the song Of " union and harmony"
10 wsce unceasing war on Daniel 8. Dickinson and
his friends, wesribg toward them smooth lace
and friendly mein when necessary but always being
-ure 10 stab where the blows would be most
efectuAl
Such were the articles in this famous compact
between fiery Barnbunerism on the one side aud
frigd Hunkerism on the other-two factions pos
sessipg sharply defined ckaracteristcs the former
being radical revolutionary, impetuous, and having
3 good deal Of that generosity and magnaniiniy
which usually accompany reckless courage; the
latter being cautious, timid cool and aSeunding in
those selfish qualities which ever attend stony
hearted conservatism And yet these factions,
with no more inherent affinity than the lava which
spout, from the crater Of Etna and the snow which
clings to its sides have, BY their common lore OF
ollice and spois, and their common hatred oil Dick
inson and his friends, organized and kept in the
field for seven eight years, one OF the most pow
erul political parties in any State OF the Union
The respective branches of this c0aEtion-It has
never been anything but a coalition-have been re-
markedly faithful TO the pledges mutually gwen AZ
IFS organization. They have been especially true
70 the secret article which declared war on Dick
inson and his adherents. In whatever other clause
Of the compact, express or implied there may nave
been breaches Of faith or occasional iaehss TINS ar
tcle has been carried out, always aud everywhere,
10 the letter and to the knife. Let US go little
into detail on this point.
A sort Of coalition was patched up between the
New.York factions in lo49-the year after the
Sage Of Lindenwald ran down the Great Mchi-
gsnder," as the Barnburners used to call our
old friend Gen. Cass. In this arrangement Dick
inson and his followers were seemingly counted
in" But Marcy Seymour aud Stryker' the ne
gotiators on the part of the lunkers we're Jealous
of Dickinson. Who BY his course IN the Senate, had
won National" reputation They plotted to
ioresta his possible reelection to the Senate They
were successful; for even if the party had been
able TO elect Democrat when his time expired,
he would have been thrown overheard, and mainly
through the influence of Marcy and Seymour In
l55l-2, the Barnburners entered into special
agreement with Marcy to make him their candidate
for the Presidency on condition that he would de-
vote his long head and strong hand to the work of
demolisbing Dickinson and his followers The
Softs" (fOr it was about this time that the part
nership of which we have spoken WAS formed)
pushed Marcy for the Presidency-the bunker
portion of the coalition in good ialth--the Barn.
burner portion. not with any hope or desire OF
securing his nomination, but to use him to prevent
the nomination of Cass, which would crafty oil
phases of the coalition; TO kill Dickinson, which
was heartwOrk for Marcy; and to procure place
and pelf for themselves, about which they cared
quite as much as either defeating sod Cass' or
slsugbtering Scripture Dick" as these irreverent
factIonists were wont to call the eminent states
men of Detroit and Binghamtop.
The sequel of this Marcy agreement is history.
Cas- was slain at Baltimore. Pierce went to the
White House. Marcy became his premier The
Dickinsonites, now known as Hards," were
slaughtered from Montauk to Niagara, excepting
that here and there one Of them, by getting on his
knee. and swearing featy to Pierce and Marcy, was
permitted to touch the spoils with the tip OF his
finger, while the Softs tucked up their sleeves
and plunged their arms into the Treasury to their
shoulders So it was during the Pierce-Marcy
Administration. And it has been pretty much the
same under Buchanan. The brazenficed
Softs. Who at the Cincinnati Convention, plethoric
with past fayors, leered at Pierce with one eye,
while slyy winking at Buchanan with the other, in
prospect of favors to come, have coolly thrust
aside the ever.fsithful 1iards, and now control
the Federal patronage in this State almost as ex.
clusively as under the Pierce Admin strstion. The
few Dckinsonites who hold Office have been tor
tured almost to death BY the persecution Of the
Softs-as witness the amiabe Collector Of this
Port-wbile the hOary occupant Of the White
House has on several occasions been terrified
quite out Of his wits by their fierce denunciations
of bis Hard pets in bis very presence.
Well--all these difficulties are to be adjusted on
satisfactory basis" Exactly so! The Hards.
the genuine "Iia,d Hards" as they delight to call
themselves, are TO be considered and rewarded,
now or hereatler-or. SUCH we learn, is one Of the
leading articles in this proposed reunion. We
doubt not that this is so for il always was so. In
the freshly-renembered reunions of l349, 1852,
1853 1855 and 1856 (for there have been FIVE for
nal reunions in ten years., Dickinson and his adj
herents were TO be considered and rewarded, then
or thereafter The striking popularity Of the case
was that these hertafers never came. So often
and go successfully had these cheats been practced
and so patiently and so long had the Hards submit