The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-04-03
The Central American Imbrogiio-The ADJ
mJDistTstion and the Fsish'ess Leaders and
Organs Of the Democratic Party.

an Dteres pg article, explaining and vindicating
tn posi- n of the administratio In reference to
the present complications of the international az
fairs o icaragua. We a so present the other side
of tn icture, from another Washington organ Of
the emocratic ireeat ng and filibustering school,
fr u which it appears that in this Central Anne
ric, business "Mr. Buchanan is the victim Of
splaced confidence" and the "dupe of Ouse-
ley's artfui diplomacy"
The first of these articles, 30 far as it relates to
the vipdication of Mr. Buchanan, is q clear and
satisfactory statement; but in reference to the de-
mocratic leaders, cliques and intrigues that have
in this, as in other matters operated to embar-
Union, in its culpable silence, deserves itself to
be classed among these faithless conspirators.
The accusations and insinuations of the organ of
the fire-eaters and fllbus.ers were pointed and
offensive against the administration, and the
Union n its defence of Mr.. Buchanan, should
have thrown The responsibility in the premises
where it belongs. But in doing this, some promi-
Dent democratic Senators and members of the
House would have suffered, and the consequence
would, probably, be very serious to the Union
lobby jobbers as candidates for the Congressional
printing spoils and plumber
This Congress printing wi explain, at once,
the whining, imbecile and double-dealing policy
of the Union, as democratic organ under the
patronage of the administration. 1t is an organ
which fights the black republicans and all the
other opposition factions with remarkable
alacrity it has signalzed itself with very
savage warfare upon Senator Douglas and his
partisans in Illinois, and upon Forney and his
confederates in Pennsylvania; but in regard to
such disorganizing democratic leaders in Con-
gress as Mason Toombs, Brown, and others of
the Senate, and their partisans in the House, this
Washington democratic organ has simply played
the sneak and the turnkey. We have every
reason to believe that the failure of Mr.. Douglas
TO support the claims of Cornelius Wendell a,
candidate for the printing of Congress had
much more to do with the course of the Union
against Mr.. Douglas in the late Illinois cam
paign than either the wishes of the administra-
ton or any considerations of party policy.
A newspaper thus controlled by the petty per-
sonal spites and schemes for the spoils of its
proprietor instead of being of any value as an
organ OF the administration, is dead weight
carry. The democratic organ at Washington
of the fire eaters and fllibusters does not mince
matters, nor attempt to blow hot and cold with
the same breath. 1t frankly confesses its lack Of
faith in the administration, and the President
thus knows exactly where to find it. Like For
uey's Philadelphia Press, it has ceased to be a
smooth-faced conspirator, and has become an
open and defiant enemy Of the administration.
So with the Richmond Enquirer. From an
equivocal and suspicious support Of the Presi
dents policy in the outset, it has gradually un-
masked itself, until it stands as conspicuously
opposed to his leading recommendations as any
organ of the black republican camp. The milk
in the cocoanut' in the case of Forney may be
charged 10 an unfortunate application for place
in the Cabinet: in the case of the Washington
organ Of the flibusters, to various disappoint-
ments in the matter Of the government printing,
bookbinding and advertising, and the difficulty
with the Richmond Enquirer may be traced, not
to Lecompton, nor to the tariff, nor to the Cuba
question, but to some foreign mission, we are
not mistaken
These three democratic organs, or the mana
gers thereof, having failed to draw the high
prizes which they expected, have only followed
the old familiar way of soured and disappointed
spoismen in their assaults upon the administra-
ton: but the Washington Union holds an equally
degraded position, as a shrinking, halfway
and teacherous supporter Of the President
and his domestic aud foreign policy To
whom may he more Justly charged
the defeat in Congress of the wise and seasouable
recommendations Of Mr.. Buchanan in reference
to Central America than to the Southern demo
cratic leaders of the Senate? And were not
Messrs. Mason. Toombs, and other Southern
democrats of the Senate. equally guilty with
Mr.. Grow and bis republican confederates Of the
House, in the defeat of the Post Office appro-
priations? And yet this Washington organ of the
national democracy has permitted these and
many other acts of treachery, disaaection and
disorganization on the part Of the Southern
democratic leaders and cliques concerned, to
pass without word Of special complaint. And
wherefore? Simply because Mr.. Wendell prefers
to play the turnkey for the votes Of these men in
the matter Of the spells and plumber of the public
printing
Mr.. Buchanan is a good natured man bat we
apprehend that if the Union clique of lobby job
bers expect to use him and the Southern demo
cratic enemies Of his administration in Congress
at the same time, and for the same ohiect-the
public printing-the parties concerned in this
game will signally fail. The faithful newspaper
organ of the administration can no more be den-
tilted OF affiliated with the disorganizing Southern
freeaters, African slave traders and fillibusters
than with Forney and his little rebellious squad
Of disappointed office seekers