The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-06


comes into collision with ii will be dashed to
pieces, like ship preciptatrd by winds and
waves upon the beetlng cliffs of lee shore.
Parties have their uses and serve good ends;
but when they cease to fulfill the functions for
which they were called into existence, then dis
solution is at hand. The democratic party has
had its day, and has done some service; but its
last hour has come. 1t has become utterly cor
upt. demoralized and disorganized. 1t has no
longer any common principle. The slavery
question, which once served IA rallying ground.
is now the immediate cause of disintegration
one portion of the party standing obstinately
by one set of doctrines on the subject, and
opposite dogmas. For some years there has
been no bond of union but "the cohesive power
of the public plumber, /" and that has now become
a rope of sand. A new party takes the place
Of the democracy, suited to the times aud to the
eJigencies Of the country. 1t looms up in for
midable dimensions. 1t is the lion in the way
which scares the bold and chvalrous Henry A.
Wise
PUGnIsM AND PoLTIcs.-Ihe grand dinner
given at the Astor House on Tuesday, by the
friends of the new movement in favor ofmuscular
civilization to one fits most distinguished apos-
ties, must be regarded as the definite commence
ment of one of the most important movements
Of the age. Not that pugilism is any new thing;
on the contrary it has been one of the favorite
amusements of the elder branch of the great
Anglo-Saxon family for any number of years.
In England it has been viewed as a sport or
game, like horse racing, card playing, roulette
or thimble rigging. The nobility and gentry of
England delight not so much now as formerly
to see a brace of gladiators maui, beat and
otherwise maltreat each other; but when the
fight is over-when the Spartacus sits down to
his cold brandy and water inside the bar of the
Boxers Arms-then the British public forget
all about the matter. But that is to be all changed
by the younger branch of the family, as may
be seen by the result of the. recent contest
for the championship. In that affair the elder
branch was represented by an old lion, who,
after bullying everybody during the last eight
or nine centuries, has been humbed for once,
and now occupies the exceedingly disagreeable
and absurd position of the monarch of his spe-
cies with his tail between his legs. The eagle,
which represents the younger branch, is in the
fullest possible feather. He spreads his wings
to an enormous extent; his scream is like the
combined whistle of ten thousand locomotives;
he sDubs the lion as if the latter were a spaniel
dog. The eagle in point Of fact, is around.
Under such auspices the new movement com
mences. The effete systems of Europe have 80
far dulled the mental perceptions Of the lead
ing statesmen abroad that they fail
to recognise muscle as the most i'm
portant governmental basis. 1t has been re-
served for the United States to give to the
pugilist and his associates the political SUI
premacy which is their due. Consequently we
have this new movement engineered by the
distinguished Recorder, now on the bench, and
one of the most famous of his predecessors,
together with leading practitioners at the me-
tropolitan bar. II begins at a most fortunate
moment The country is getting on very COM
fortably, buying selling and raising good
deal; but the political parties are all in a bad
way. The whig party died long ago; the
Know Nothing organization dropped to pieces;
the democracy has not been able to survive
the tremendous shocks II received at Charleston
and Baltuore, and has gone to Its grave
"unwept unkonored and unsung" There is,
therefore, q splendid opening for poll
ticians with a small capital, and the new muscle
party precisely the sort of thing that is wanted
The persons who would be its natural leaders
have been from time to time in the employ of
the old parties, and in beginning business on
their own account they will not be utter no.
vices. The representative man in the new
party is, as matter of course, Mr.. John G.
Heenan, who Is now on his way back from his
missionary visit to the Court Of st. Giles.
The Aston House affair will do very well for
a beginning, but that is all. Heenan Is the
man Of the hour. His supporters should pre-
pare to receive him with the grandest ovation
| ever seen in New York since the funeral of the
| late lamented Mr.. William Poole. The Astor
House affair was q small tea party; but the
Heenan fete should be equal to the great popu-
lar banquets which were given in Paris in ls4s.
Will not the Common Council combine with the
governing classes, and Ak up something prime
for the Benicia Boy' Never mind the expense.
We can afford II. Go ahead.
ANOTHER LETTER FRoM Hon. MAssA GREELEY
We find In the Milwaukee Wisconsin Of the 30th
another letter from Hon. Massa Greeley in re-
lation to the sacred luminosity" at present ex-
istipg between the Tribune philosopher and
Weed, Raymond, Webb CO. The present let
A. ..-.. ,u.~;ttoc A., n or;vofo fricrd rf Croalav
at Milwaukee, and is rather piquant than other
wise. Here tis:-
INV Yosx, June 10, 1850.
The pretended letter from me 70 Governor Seward,
which you have seen, bogus presume the real letter
Is I'VE ilmeS A. long that asked once q
any Governor President though have refused one or
two. never wrote letter To any President helped
elect either before after his election. never asked
any POLITICAL OF pccunary favor Of Governor Seward,
though think have done my share 10 promote his
elcv alton. l ssked him or Weed (nor anybody
.l,cl a. CovcruOr