The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-05-31

IKE the scroll Of the prophet Nothing so
plsintive. or norbidly melancholy, hss
been written since .Gethe's "Sorrows
of Wsrter," In which tho stately gloom
of Q broken hearted poet, dark and
moody, pouring itself out in bitter wailinss
over human life, is pictured with graphic effect
The political prose poet Of Auburn Is shadowed
forth uttering the same cry Of deep anguish
and despair-the same story of wrongs and
woes without remedy. The text Of this fune-
raj Grafton is portion of recent speech of
Greeley's-"The past il dead; Let the dead
bury 1t, and let Its mourners, If they will, 90
about the streets" Weed Indignantly asks,
"Is 1t In good temper or taste to rebuke thus
an army ofrepublicans for msnifesing emotions
of regard and regret for dead chieftain, who
had led them through 30 many conflicts to so
many triumphsi Was II thus in 1s4s, after the
Philadelphia Convention, when Mr.. Greeley
incurred dead statesman, that he was
sconed at by the friends of Gen. Taylorw The
palpable effect and intention Of this Is to exas
perate the already infamed disafecton Of
Stewards republican army. Like Mark Antony
over the bleeding corpse Of Julius Caesar, slain
in the Senate Chamber BY Brutus, Thurlow
Weed then goes on to recite the long catalogue
Of brilliant deeds and patriotic services Of bis
hero, enumerates the wounds which covered
him at Chicago, and paints the ingrattude and
treachery by which he fell in colors of the
deepest dye, calculated admirably to work up
the republican party to revolt, but artfully
concludes With faint praise of Lincoln as
"honest and honorable" just a. does Webb,
who says he was not a party to the fraud, and
calls him "the now honored representative of
the republican cause master stroke of sly
irony. When Antony dwelt upon the stabs In
Caesars body
Which, like dumb mouths, did ope their ruby lips,
To beg the voice and utterance Of his tongue
when he portrayed his genius, his virtues and
noble achievements, and the "ingrattude" Of
the friend whom he so dearly loved-"unkind-
est cut Of all"-when he read the will Of the
deceased Emperor, loading the people with ia
vors and, when he had thus wrought his audi
ence up to the highest pitch Of frenzy, he ex-
claims
Good frienos, sweet friends, let moi stir you up
To puch . sudden flood Of pnutiny.
they that have done this deed are honorable;
What private griefs they have, alas, know mot,
That made them DOT They are wise and honorable,
Ana will. NO doubt, with reasons answer you.
come not, friends, 10 steal your hearts away
The sequel showed how successful he was in
stealing their hearts, and how Brutus and the
other conspirstors became baffled fugidves,
and were declared to be enemies Of Rome.
Such Is the fate foreshadowed for Greeley, Lin
coin and the rest.
Weed IL leagued with the Albany Regency
for the overthrow Of the republican candidate
and the election of Horato Seymour, for whom
the New York delegation, under the lead Of
Richmond, expect to obtain the nomination ct
Baltimore, where they will cheat Douglas, -
they intended to do from the beginning, which
Is evident from the fact of their voting for the
two-thffds rule, which they knew rendered bis
nomination impossible. Had Seward obtained
the nomination at Chicago, then the Albany
Regency would have played into his hands,
and shared the federal plumber. As Seward
IL out of the way, Weed Il Co. are playing into
the hands of The Regency, In order to parti-
cipsts In the spoils which win fall into the
hands Of Richmond, Cagger, Cassidy & Co., In
he event Of Seymour's election. The Atas-
Argus accordingly fans the flame Of discomfort
among Stewards followers, and maintains with
them the eSiente cordiale, in coming out, by con-
cert, on the Same day with the Journal, In Q
glowing eulogy on Seward, which, as our
readers viii see, Il - friendly Is anything that
could be written by arspublioan journalist
warm a. the Grafton Of Weed himself
The mod,s operandi Of defeating Dickinson
and getting the nomination for Horatio Sey
mour, under the wing of Guthrie, is by making
representations TO the Convention that the Re-
gency can elect Seymour, and no other man, In
this State, with the aid of Seward votes, which
Is plausible enough, considering that the repub-
lican Regency and the free soil democratic Re-
gency are in unison on the slavery question,
and have always played into each Others
hands In the State elections, and the distxibu-
ton Of the local spells. The distinction be-
tween them In only the difference between
tweedledum and tweedledee, and Seymour for
President will answer the purpose of Weed
nearly - well a. Seward. The corrupt ar
rapgements Of the two Regencies in the.Sate
developed in the last Legislature were only
preliminary 70 the wholesale corruption on .
larger 'scale-the foretaste of the banquet
10 come, should Seward be elected. His de-
feat at Chicago spoiled the programme; and
the best that can now be done to repair the dis
aster Is 10 secure the nomination Of the next best
man, and divide the spoils under his plant and
supple sway. What success may attend the
plot time win tell
The effect Of these schemes will be 70 de-
moralizs and utterly rout the republican party