The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-06-19

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its steps. On the other We find merely a bitter
and inconsderate partisanship giving itself
up TO the guidance OF revengeful and
corrupt Office hunters, taking step in
direct opposition to the jealous feeling
Of the country, and establishing an innovating
precedent which, If allowed to stand, will car
ry us logically and BY natural development to
perfect revolution in our government, and the
establishment of that worst and most bloody of
all tyrannies the tyranny of single delbera-
tive assembly.
The motives which animated the instigators
Of, and led the House to, this unworthy step,
are already apparent and will constantly be-
come more and more transparent to all. The
vote of censure on the President is based on the
revelations supposed to have been obtained by
the CovOde Committee. This committee was
gotten up by Forney and a few of his fellow
spoils hunters, with the ostensible object of
proving corrupt connivance ON the part of
the President and his Cabinet in the prepara-
ton and support of the Kansas Lecompton con-
stitution and set Of Jealous political partisans
in Congress authorized its appointment because
they believed it would be good political ma
nGuvre. When the investigation was ended
the managers saw that it had failed, and so they
hurried the House into passing the vote of CEN
sure before the evidence was produced. How
this was brought about is pungently exposed by
Mr. Winslow, in the minority report of the
committee. Here are his Words
Moot NJ tho cborper exarined were foprdos - $780,
communications; others upon information from
persons destitute Of character and without poston-dis
placed Office holders, disappointed Office seekers, yenai
placemen, adventurers, mercensry Swiss-whose pocs
were bounded by loftier motives than SELF interests.
All the evidence which, unexplained, raised suspicious
against the administration, was, by means TN
known to the undersigned regularly clcgraphed to the
Northern papers and when the evidence was not OF that
character it was invariably garbled and distorted
The official evidence, which we have now re-
ceived in the voluminous printed report of the
committee, shows that Forney, instead of being
the self-denying patriot he assumes to be, was
a constant solicitor for one of the richest
placers of official power and spoils-the editor
ship of the organ and the printer of the Post
Office blanks. II is also clearly proved that
there was not the slightest foundation for the
insinnations of Ex-Governor Walker that the
Lecompton constitution was prepared by the
Cabinet in Washington and sent to Kansas to
be adopted by the Convention. The whole
fabric. so Iaboriously constructed by the mana
gers of the Covodc Committee, has thus fallen
to the ground.
The House Of Representatives, in passing the
vote of censure on the supposed strength of
evidence which did not exist has done dishonor
to itself, and established precedent in our po-
litical history full of danger TO our form of gov
eminent, to the Institutions established by our
fathers, and to the liberties which are so dearly
cherished in the hearts of the people. From
such position il must necessarily recede, and
any party and any public man that, blinded by
passion, struggles to prevent a recantation be-
fore the people, will incur all the odium that be-
longs to the wrong that has been committed,
and will be consigned with it to merited con-
demnation. II is not the President that is to be
righted by the expunging Of the resolution of
censure; il is the honor of the House itself which
is to be vindicated, and a precedent removed
which, if allowed to stand, can but work the
most mischievous evils in the State.
excellent behavior of the vast crowd which
filled our streets on Saturday, and welcomed the
Japanese Embassy with such hearty enthusiasm,
is the general theme of discussion in the press
and private circles. 1t is with the greatest gra-
tiHcation that we are able to state that there
was not the slightest disorder at any point on
the route; the Bowery and Broadway comport-
ed themselves with equal dignity and sobricty:
the roughs of Mott and Mulberry streets were as
quiet and polite as the upper ten thousand in
Union square
This state of things is more rratifying TO us
from the fact that at Baltimore and Philadel-
phia the personnel Of the Embassy received posi-
tive rudeness at the hands Of the rowdy classes
which abound in those cities and are quite
paramount TO the police or any other authority.
We learn from the most reliable private sources
that the New York reporters. 30 far from color
ing or frightening the facts in the case, toned
down their accounts, and omitted TO mention
the most fragrant. outrages committed on
the route of the procession. From time
immemorial civil authorities have been noted
for stupidity but the Common Council of Phila-
delphia outdoes any other example Of official
opacity which history has given us. Without
sufficient escort, they dragged the Japanese
over three or four miles Of their sprawled out
village. subjecting them to the insults Of the
rabble who ran by the side Of the Ambassadors
carriages: and, in one or two cases, attempted
to remove some Of the attaches from their equi-
pages The Philadclphians treated the ENJOYS
of the Tycoon as If they had been so many wild
beasts carried about in show, and gave them
a most unfavorable impression of the people to
whose government they had been accredited.
The departure Of the Embassy from Philadel-
phia was also very badly managed, and through
ou, their stay the provincialism of the place
was demonstrated IN the most disagreeable man