The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-11-10

try Of oil parties and sections will justify the
removal of Fremont.
| Thurlow Weed or to DEMONSTRATIONS
Disclosures In Party Tactics and News
paper Organs.
The venerable Thurlow Weed, of the ALBANY
Journal, is Off to Europe. Read the compliment
| tary notice Of the man and his mission which
| we publish to-day from the columns of our
semi-religious contemporary the World. He has
enlisted in the public service as volunteer ann
bassador to England and France, to thwart the
| reasonable Vaccinations Of our Southern rebel
| plenipotentiaries, Mason and Sldell "Gong
as private citizen, he will be free from the
restraints Of official etiquette, and can notice
the existence of the rebel diplomats and coun-
teract their schemes without any implied recog-
milton Of them by the government" Happy
| thought-commendable enterprise-success at
tend it.
But our modest and partially pious cotem-
porary has not told one half the story. Be it
our pleasant task to supply his deficiencies We
grant that Mr.. Weed is patriot, but he is also
a man of business Granted that he is long
headed man, and more than a match for Mason
and Slidell, with Yancey thrown in. Father
| Weed is not chameleon to feed upon air. His
extensive knowledge of American politics, his
deep insight into the tricks and plots of party
managers, and his Invaluable experience as our
republican Warwick, the king maker, he has,
in all his political undertakings, invariably used
to some practical purpose for the benefit of
number one. Number one is his number So in
this mission. 1t is not undertaken as a self
sacrificing venture for the public good on the
part Of an old patriot retired from the tur-
moils Of political parties. No. Mr.. Weed is one
of those old birds that are not caught with such
chaf He has other irons in the fire, and plenty
hands being full.
Incidentally connected with his patriotic mis-
sion (may the wing of the Prophet shelter hm)
Mr.. Weed, in setting out for Europe, has started
| upon new tack and o new programme as q
] party leader and President maker. AS some
incidental compensation for diplomatic SER
vices, he will be charged with the purchase of
arms, blankets, &C., and perhaps few war
steamers or gunboats. But inside of all this,
and under the rose, his private mission is to
arrange some European correspondence for o
New York metropolitan Journal in which he
has become Interested and through which he
expects to lay his pipe and arrange his wires
for>the next Presidency. Rome was not built
in day.
The World is the journal in question, and
here We break right into the marrow bono.
This terrible war has made sad havoc among
our rustic newspapers. Even our leading party
organs at Albany-the Aaas-Argus, and the
Joennal-are willing away under the over
shadowing influence and popularity Of our me-
| tropolitan dailies. So the Atlas-Ayys.s clique
have given notice of the projected removal of
their traps to this city, and Thurlow Weed
having made lodgment in the World is also
coming down to Babylon. In this connection
! he has been dabbling Of late very actively in
| the exceedingly dirty waters of our Corpora
| ton politics. How, for instance, did the
World get from our city councils the award
Of our Corporation advertising? The venera
BILE Father Weeds finger was in that pie. He
had been playing with the democratic ring and
the republican rump, giving the Times and
Tribune the cold shoulder. Upon this point
the whole case hinges. Mr.. Weed being q
co-proprletor in the World, desires to make it
pay. The Corporation advertising will give it
a lift Good. 1t is secured, when, presto
down comes the veto Of Mayor Wood. How is
this? Wood is not in the ring with Weed, or
else Weed for once has been counting without
| his host.
! Lord Thurlow, however, is not the man to
be bluffed off by a Veto 1t is understood that
he has his wires all arranged so as to carry this
Corporation advertising into the empty cash
box Of the World over the head Of the
| Mayor and his veto. This done, combination
Of democratic and republican managers Of the
ring and the rump is to be brought to ope-
rate for the defeat Of Wood for Mayor. An in
teresting programme this; but what will be
! the end Of it neither prophet nor astrologer
can tell. Weed being absent, some Of his
| wires may be broken; but, at all events he
will keep the World moving, though considera-
bly, pruned Of its superfuous piety.
With the World kept moving Master Weed will
return from Europe-not to Albany, but to this
city-and to the World, for the delicate manipu-
lations which will be required to secure to Mr..
Seward the Presidential succession. The impla-
cable hostility Of Greeley to Mr. Seward has ia
booed the Tribune and the "little villain" Of
the Times is too tricky and slippery to be trust
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