The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-03

pocket of "Booby Brooks" Lastly, as regards
the Breckinridge men, there ought to be no
such party; It is ridiculous in county cleo
ton. All sections of conservatives who want
to be on the winning side must attach them
selves to Mozart Hall, as the centre of conser-
vatism. 1t was the original nucleus Of nation
ality in this city, and Is now great party. 1t
| has the prestige Of success, and its victory of
last year is the earnest and the pledge Of its
triumph this fall.
w. II. Seward sad His Pilgrimage to
KaAsas-The Republican Candidate for
| 1864.
Our readers will remember the melancholy
proclamations Of the Chevalier Webb and Mas
ter II. Jenkins Raymond, from
| Sweet Auburn, loveliest village OF the plain,
with the first shock upon the nerves Of Mr..
Seward of the nomination of "Old Abe Lin
coin" by the Chicago Convention. Thus we
were told that the mind Of our ambitious Sena-
tor had suddenly undergone great change
complete revolution that henceforward party
politics and the Presidency were as nothing to
him; that Greeleys treachery at Chicago had
| left in the heart of his victim ian aching void
the world could never fll;'' and that in short,
Mr.. Seward, at the close of his present term in
the Senate, would withdraw from the vanities
Of public life, chang up his fiddle and his bow"
and seek some compensation for his great po-
litical misfortune in joining the illustrious re-
tired list OF such philosophical politicians as
| Martin Van Buren,, John Tyler, Willard Fill
| more and Franklin Pierce.
These were our first dismal reports from
| ''sweet Auburn touching the nomination Of
the Illinois rail splitter over the head of the
great prophet and apostle of the republican
| party But, as the elastic young widow RECEIVERS
| from the shock of her great bereavement and
| soon falls into the good old way Of resignation
! and hope, so we were soon given to under
stand that Mr. Seward, though grievously
| wounded by the remorseless Greeley, still
| lived, and had no idea of giving up the ship.
| Thus the confidential Chevalier Webb indig-
nantly brushed away the idle rumor of the
hour, that Mr. Seward would not be a candi-
| date for re election to the Senate, and gave his
| enemies to understand that he was not thus to
be disposed Of The reaction had commenced.
The fainting ct Of the Senator had gone of, and
with his first speech Of his Western tour he
doubtless caught new and inspiring glimpse
Of the White House just beyond the rosy vista
of Lincoln's administration.
Having made his appointed pilgrimage to
Kansas, as to the Holy Land of Freedom"
and with something, as he tells US, of that hum
BILE veneraton with which year ago he had
approached the Holy City Of Jerusalem, Mr..
Seward turns his face homeward, and after
giving the Missourians in st. Louis scoring on
the freedom Of speech, be proceeds to Spring
field, Illinois, the home of 'Old Abe" The
train made but brief halt there; but the peo-
pie were clamorous for q speech from the dis
tinguished Senator, who, after a little conven-
ional chat with "Old Abe" came forward on
the platform and made q speech with point
or two in it worthy some especial notice.
Mr.. Seward said, The State of New
York will give q generous, and cheer
full, and effective support to your neighbor
Abraham Lincoln. / have heard about COM
binasions and coalitions there, and hare been
urged from the beginning 10 abandon this jour
neg and turn back on my footsteps. Whenever
I shall find any reason to suspect that the ma
jority which the State Of New York will give
for the republican candidate will be less than
sixty thousand, may do So"
Here we have the admission from Mr.. Sew
ard that, although his confidence il unbounded
In the vote of New York our coalitions and |
combinations In the way of union electoral |
ticket have frightened his retainers, and they |
have been urging him to come home. This
should encourage the parties concerned In this
union ticket to persevere; for we shrewdly sus-
pect that Thurlow Weed Is one of those watch.
full sentinels who have been admonishing Mr..
Seward to retrace his steps. But our enthusiast
tic Senator next observes that New York "will
sustain your distinguished neighbor, because
she knows that be is true TO his great principle
(the irrepressible coniict), and when she has
helped to elect him, by giving a. large ma
iority a. can be given by any half dozen other
States, then you ,ciR find that she ,ciR ask less,
erac' less, from him. and support him more
faithfully than any other State can do.p
This declaration that New York will task
less" than any other State was made In the pre-.
sence of Mr.. Lincoln, and private despatch on
the subject informs us that this was the espe-
cial point In Mr. Stewards speech on the coca
sion. We construe it to mean that he does not |
ask to be appointed to the Cabinet Of "Old |
Abe" but that be is looking ahead to the sue
cession. From New York, at every stopping
place all the way out to Kansas, the popular
receptions which have marked this pilgrimage
Of Mr. Seward have been sufficient to justify
him in the belief that he is ia reality the idol /
of his party, and that the way is clear and
smooth before him for the high reward In |
1854 which slipped through bis fingers in 1860.
The "irrepressible conflict thus looms up
into palpable shape Mr.. Lincoln is to pre-
pare the way, and Mr.. Seward himself, as the