Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1860-06-04
The New York Politicians.

The. politics and politicians of the Stale OF
New York, furnish an intricate and interest
ing sui jet for the students of the current
history OF the country. The New Workers,
without distinction OF party, are, in political
affairs, a peculiar people. 1t would be a
vain and most endless task, to sketch even
the outlines of the parties and factions of
parties. that have at this time some form of
existence in the imperial commonwealth of
our confcderacy. There are not fifty men in
The State of New York itself who have q
clear understanding Of its political geology;
and To the great mass OF outsiders, the vari-
Gus formations are irextricably jumbled, the
shells and fossils of the different periods be-
ing SO hopelessly mixed, as to be ineligible
only 10 the man of science, who has made
the study Of such matters . speciality. We
have, for instance, only to examine the re-
cords Of the Buffalo and Charleston Con-
venlions, the one the initial convention Of
the Freesoiiers, the other the first part of the
final convention OF the national Pro-slavery
party, to find the names OF New Workers.
distinguished for their zeal and ability, in
both; and it would not, We are confident,
have been very difficult matter, 10 have
naturslized the Charleston Delegation Of
New York ers 1t Chicago or the Chicago Del
egation at Charleston. Very few delegates
of either company, would have suffered seri
oIsly in wear o. tear Of conscience, from the
change in professions that would have been
rtquir,d. A large proportion Of the Cagger,
Richmond and COchrane crowd would have
made themselves ct home in five minutes in
Chicago aud joined with enthusiasm IN all
the cries of the occasion; while g consid-
cradle number of the Weed and Nye
men, would have wanted but very brief
season in order to familiarize themselves
with the manners and customs. personal and
political, prevalent in Charleston; and once
acquiring the hand of the schoOl-house,"
they would have played the New York game
with the dexteri,y aud GOODNESS becoming in,
and belonging 10 accomplished gamblers. A
New Yorker IN politics has the highest ap-
probation of the ''sinews Of war" His ides
Of carrying Pennsylvania is to pour food
OF money into that Commonwealth, IL has
for some Zine been suspected that Mr.. Sew
ard understood the uses OF money in political
warfare, and tina. Thurlow Weed was the
cashier IF his war department. Possibly il
may be unnecessary 10 add that the anti
Seward men do not yield TO anybody in
puiiiicO- financial ability. And certainly il
is understood in all circles that the New
York politicians are, as Senator Iverson said
OF the Northern Democracy, IF not corrupt,
coTTuplibie-" The Southern members of the
Committee on CREDENTIALS, OF the Charleston
Convention, were hOrror-stricken ut the mas
ses OF manifest lying heaped beiOEe them, in
the form of testimony relating 10 Fernando
Woods contesi;aLd John CochRne's declara-
ton before the COMMITTEES, that in New York
anything could be pTJUsg, because '.respecta-
bic m u were in Ihe habit OF swearing to
lies" did Dot compose the nerves of the
S0uthrTuers. who. TO do them Justice. are not
often IL political discussion, or official posi-
ton, habitual liars or systematic thieves.
Oue of the Committee men from the Cotton
States declared that COchrane's cool asser-
ton cf The Tespeciabiliiy Of perjury in New
York, naade mis- fest creep.
There was one distinction between the New
York politicians ia the Charleston. and those
in tn Chicago Convention, which should not
be left unmarked The former had no sim
cere attachment for ybOdy. The latter
loved Seward. The New Workers at Charles
ton voted, with due solcmniiy, fifty-seven
times for Stephen a. Douglas, having previ-
ou>iy voted for the adoption of u rule thEt
made his nomination impossible. The alb
surdity of their steady vote for Douglas, after
providhg tfectualiy that he should not be-
nominated. toy sustaining the Tennessee in
depreciation OF the two-thrd's rule, making
il really a four-hfth's rule, was apparent To
every observer aud .Sas something grotesque
But no one can doubt the earnestness Of
the New York delegation Mt Chicago, in be-
bali of Seward. They were for him, as they
woided il, against .lhe world the Il Sd and
the deTil rtjOlced when h,s prospects were
hopeful, aud refused TO be comfCrled, when
he wGi oSefthrown. No doubt abe obsersa-
ton Of Mr.. Seward, Ia bis late letter, that the
disappointment OF bis friends at The nomina-
ton made by the Republican Convention. for
the Presidency, was greater than his own, is
the exact truth. But even the personal ad
rBiratisn aud affection with which Mr.. Seward
inspired his friends OF bis own State. was not
snanrixed with baser matter While in the
aggregate they we're willing to ''speod oceans
OF money" 10 secure his election, IL may be
Or, safned that some OF them expected 10 get
their money back with usurioas interest
IL III well 10 understand the character Of
lhe Nes York politicians just nov, for the
reason that the Baltimore Convention. Is By
The fortunes oil political var, Ia their hands.
Gu. Obs.