New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1861-04-01

Of no wickedness within human ability at all to be com
! pared with il. We know Of no mischief that can
measure with Il. We know no sorrow snch. az the
spectacle Of il will kinde in the soul Of large and
true man. Emnenoe Of infamy yet in this case the
inevitable result of organization and Of cir
cumstances. The elder Van Buren, and bis cOpartners
had reduced poics 70 mechanical meshod, and pro-
duoed from exact mechanical results. Necessity At
the ripe time brought the people of the State relief
from the tyranny OF the Old Regency in the person
Of unedncsted type-seter II do not use these as
words of reprosoh whose perception Of the corrupt.
biles of human nature was intensified into inspirs-
ton and whose capacity for organizing the materials
of political party arose to genius. Neglect Of his
youth, and organic defect of logic and want OF mental
breadth Natures malicious compensation for her lavish
dowry of cunning) disquaEfyiDg him from statesman
ship and disabling him from public and ysble lead
ership ike that OF Hamilton and Seward, enabled him
TO give the undivided forces Of highly snete nature
to his peculiar work. His equipment for this WIS
complication it included mystery and seeretiyeness
that wine nor passion ever betrayed, and that never
communicated to those most interested more than
it wss profitable that they should know-and that
exaggerated, through the Imagination, the popular sense
of his power. He lsidthe rails The Wing patty came
into power. Then this mans mission was performed,
and be should have disappeared. For the Reform prn-
cipes of the Wing Party, and its faradvanced preg-
nancy with the great issue of Anti-Slavery, made
vention-packng, wirepulling caucusng, ballot-box-
stufing, coalitions and bribery, wholly unnecessary.
He, consequently, was wholly unnecessary. 1t
was suPerhuous in bin TO stay. WOrse-it was sIn-
passingy misehievous. For political contact with gen.
temcn Of education, family, and wealth, Matched an I'M
patience Of his humble estate and bred in him gradu
ally an ambition for social distinction and necessarily
need Of wealth. His extraordinary talents for combi
nation and command now encroached step by step upon
the individual activities of bis party, until at last he
engrossed them He contented himself at first with the
obsequous bending of the power of the Legislature to
the vanity and the interests of rich merchants and with
engineering through Conventions the nominations Of
distinguished influential men to Offices Of honor and
profit Then through the decent medium of contract
he reached his hands into the Treasury of the State and
loaded himself with comparative riches The tide OF
wealth in NeY- York rose higher and higher. While
his luxury grew apace and bis artificial wants over
grew the limits of prudent life, by memorable law Of
God the soul that traicked in other souls and made
merchandise of mems weaknesses and necessities
itself sold to the horrible lies that political parties
are but the avenues to ofcethat principles but
appurtcnsnces 10 pares--that social wrongs social
rghts public interests, reform, progress-all are only
parts of great mechanism, out of which crafty and
strong men make money. Distinctions Of politics as
well as of mor7llty, became COMPOUNDED TO him. He
took bis political adversaries into speculative ccpart-
nerships in both branches Of the Legislative Lobby.
The representatives Of the two factions his party had
warred with and overcome in this State, were his
associates in network Of fraudulent railroad grants
Upon slave SOIL he standard bearer of Ant-SayeIy
warfare plotted with plantation oigarchs how to get
the Federal Government TO establish useless naval
station upon their common property. With the varied
interests of corrupt land grants and schemes of rail-
roads TO the Pacific through cottongrowng regions,
he cheerully tangled and tied up his integrity, and
compromised Repubcanism with the captains OF that
Slave Power whom tue rank and file of his party must
inevitably face in battle. Charged solemny, as
political trustee with the care Of the Erie Canal and
the fostering of the States revenues be repeatedly con-
spired with the managers of a rival and hostile
Transportation interest to effect the sale OF that inn
PeriNl highway. For price, be took the job Of
repeating the law With imporod tois Pail.
roads cauyng freight in competition with
the Canals and successfully brought the People to the
necessity of imposing upon themselves grievous d.
rect taxation BY frequent and heavy gambling
purchases of the stock and the bonds OF the New
York Central Railroad and the acceptance OF pension
from ts treasury in the form of a commission upon
passengers sent over It's line from the Castle Garden
Emigrant Depot, Of which he was the manager, aud
his interest the profits Of its great printing patron
age he has for years kept himself disabled from per-
forming bis dnty TO lis Party and the Public, in the
controversies inevitable between the rival admnlstra-
tons of State and corporate channel OF commerce
disqualification complete aud without remedy HE
sense of the fitness OF the officer to the office,
never clear, became utterly lost. To thieves
and discredited rogues, faro dealers, and
delaalters, baplppts, and drunkards, he has
over and over again committed, through esucuses
and conventions the public property and interests
The men who follow him to State and National Con
yentions and whom he takes in his train to Inaugura
TONS TO create BY betting and camOr public sent-
meut in favor Of Cabinet appointments friendly 70 Or
ganzed schemes uron the Treasury, are persons whose
brutality and repuriyeness are a measure OF The de-
ersdation to which Dictatorship has brought the pocs
OF the Empire State. The qualifications even ior tne
Executive char, which Clinton, Marcy and Seward
honorsd have ceased TO DO genius, craftsmanship, ana
integrity. They have become money. The measure
of men claims 10 imposant otfoes, has ioE long
time been the measure Of their seryces0leneSs Ia pro
noting ieyerish schemes to make money anu TUG
.alvaton Of iDFeriled money was the impulse 70
the recent painful spectacle ofthe Persste endeaVor
to sell to tue Slavery Propagandists tbexePubiiean,
ism Of this great State in the lush OF its victory and
the pride OF rs power Wa l not Justinsd' MI
Weed in saying to you last week, that the power you
possess ought 10 be destroyed and the Office you have
usurped ought 20 be abated
Mr.. wees you have named slO,Oco az the cosi oi
making me your enemy" a. you seem de'erlhlheu
TO eslI me- / viii put ysry small pnee upon my
he axta Of vOUF