The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-16

has htsa evirced Il ere revelations " shc
Treasurer OF the Ststs of Maize aGd eIse~hers
II Is en- inevitable ailensan. upon o6r system
Of party organization and public sppoiat
ments. So thoroughly has 1t imbued the
federal government that the Pre,ident might
vith truth repeat the ssying Of the late Gar,
81 believe there Is but one man connected Win
the government who does 90. steal, and that is
pyself" The Covode Committee. got up for
personal attack upon Mr.. Buchanan BY men
familiar with official corruption for years, and
actuated BY . feeling Of anger at not being
permitted longer to revel in il, is producing
effects upon the public mind that its instr
gators little dreamed Of The Developments
Of the corruption in the last New York Legis-
lature, where Tsmmany Hall men and black
republicans all vent in together to plumber
this city; the Citations Of Elder Peck, in
Maine, and now lie explosion in the New York
Post Office, ART al Aails driven in the collins Of
the old system Of political party orgsniz ition.
The growth of the Independent press is the ad-
vance Of the power that is destroying that
great evil, and which will bring about the re-
form so imperiously required by society.
When public men feel that they must rely upon
an independent press, and not on corrupt
party organizations, for support they will be
relieved of the hungry leecbes that now force
them to plumber the public treasury.
THE GREAT POLITICAL FAILURE OF THE Day
The party press, without exception, affect TO
regard the Baltimore nomination of the Union
candidates for the Presidency and Vice Presi-
dency-Bell and Everett-as q signal failure,
the greatest Of the present day. The denocra-
tic and republican journals vie with each other
in applying all sorts of disparaging cpl
the,s and nicknames to these gentlemen, and
endeavor to show that, az candidates, they
amount to nothing. Among those jour-
nails are the Richmond Enquirer, the Alba
by Atlas Argus and Ere',ing Journal and
the New York Tribune. One calls Bell
whig, another calls him an old fogy, third
Gays be is dull, and fourth that he is "a mise
rable abstraction" The democratic journals
take care to tell us that this nomination cannot
injure their party, while it is likely to infiict
serious mischief on the republicans. The re-
publican journals, on the contrary, labor to
prove THAT it cannot possibly affect the success
of republicenism, but may do some damage to
the democracy at the South. The truth is that
both Gets of journals are partly right. The de-
mocracy may be defeated by Bell and Everett
in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee and
other Southern States, and the republicans may
be defeated by the same candidates in Pennsyl-
vania, New Jersey and Indiana.
Why do these journals take so much pains
to run the Union candidates down, if
they really amount to nothing! We rather
Suspect that it is because they find them
formidable opponents in the present state Of
parties and political complications. Bell and
Everett are both respectable and able men, and
about the safest that could be nominated, under
existing circumstances. Az for Houston, of
whom so much has been said, he would not be
by any means q safe man for President Of the
United States He is not conservative, would
be very likely TO plunge the country into war,
and furthermore, he is very much Of humbug.
We cannot yet tell what the democratic party
will do. At present it is in q state Of disin-
tegrauon and if it should continue
in that condition, and the conserva.
tive masses should rally around Bell and
Everett, these men would be found very
far from derpicable candidates. But 1t
is objected against them that they have
no platform. In that very fact consists
their strength. The absence Of platform
ia the greatest of platforms in the present crit-
cal condition Of the country for it opposes the
agitation Of the slavery question, the pabulum
Of all the politicians and demagogues, North and
South and the only source Of danger to the
Union. II is this which, above all other things,
will commend the candidates to the great mass Of
conservative voters, who are heartily sick Of
the revolutionary republicans Of the North, and
the revolutionary firceaters and secessionists
of the South. On the whole, viewing the horo-
scope Of the political heavens we think the
nomination of Bell and Everett Is good, and
that IL may turn ont highly important in its
bearing on the two great parties Of the day,
and on the interests Of the country, at crisis in
its history without a parallel since the founda-
ton Of the government
TnE STRONG MINDED WOMEN on DIVORCE