The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1861-03-25

his Cabinet are traitors who ought to be i'm
peached at once. Can the Tribune escape from
this dilemmaf
"HoSEm ABE LINCOLN" AND THE SPons-
The hsrdes Of vampires that have infested
Washington since the advent Of "Honest Old
Abe" In his "Sootch cap and long military
cloak" have kept him very busy in parcelling
out the public plumber. For new hand at
the guillotine he works it with great rapidity.
averaging, big and little included, perhaps not
less than twenty heads day during the last
three weeks. "To the victors belong the
spoils." Under this rallying CRY the first regu-
lar descent In force Of the spoilsmen upon
Washington was in the wake Of Old Hickory
from Tennessee to the White House. That was
the beginning Of our modern spoils system It
worked smoothly for the democracy till 1910,
when they were swept out Of power by popu-
Lar tornado. So In l84l the victorious party,
close upon the heels Of
Old T,ppecanos, and Tyler, too,
sent from the East and the North, and the
West and the South, . mighty multitude of
Office beggars, which no man could number,
and within month they had worried poor old
General Harrison into the Congressional Gene
terry. Tyler, then, being read out of the whig
church, was relieved Of whig Office beggars,
and had, If we are not mistaken, to 60 begging
for patriots to take his Offices, on the condition
of their joining the Tyler party. In 1S45 the
democracy had it, under Polk, all their
own way again; but the Mexican war
acted as a safety valve, and Polk was
not 30 hard pressed for petty consulates,
post Offices and olerkships In 1849, under Old
lack Taylor, the hungry and irrepressible
wings again came forward. Old lack was
tough; but they were too much for him, for in
little over year they had killed him. Next
came poor Pierce; but as there was always a
smaller proportion of captains among the de-
mocracy than among the opposition, poor
Pierce lived through his four years, though he
broke the backbone Of his party with his divi-
sion of the spoils and his adoption of the
Kansas-N Nebraska bill. Next came "Old Buck;"
and who has ever survived such tortures
as his excepting "Old Buckf' He went into
the White House in the delightful realization of
his dreams and hopes and labors of thirty
long years; he went out of the White House
pretty much as sensible prisoner goes out of
Sing Sing, resolved never to come within sight
of the horrid establishment again.
But the advent of Honest Old Abe" eclipses
everything else of the kind in American histo-
ry, or any other history. The great Northwest,
en- masse, has followed him to Washington
The regular inhabitants of that city are as much
astonished and Disguised with this overwhelming
raid of republican spoilsmen as ever were the
Romans with "grand ensres" into their CAPT
tai of the Cloths and Vandals. And "Honest
Old Abe" and his Cabinet are doing what they
can to feed their five thousand men with their
five loaves and two fishes. The regular
old abolition leaders, such as Joshua R. Gid
dings, and such heads Of the Buffalo platform
as Charles Francis Adams, and such
republican knights of chivalry as Burlingame,
and such redoubtable financiers, diplomats and
military chieftains a. the Chevalier Webb, and
such fussy, idgety little cock-sparrows as Mas
ter Jenkins Raymond, and such regular un-
washed Jacobinical Bohemians as Carl Schurz,
breed as Judd, and a host Of camp followers
and scullions from rural Wide Awake clubs
and country newspaper offices, are already
among the rewarded patriots Of the grand dis
union republican victory of last November.
Horace Greeley, the founder and builder of
the republican party, and the man of all men
to whom "Old Abe" is indebted for his lodg-
ings in the White House-Horace Greeley, we
regret to say-while Tom, Dick and Harry are
coming away from Washington with their car
pet bags full of bread and cheese-is the man
who seems to stand hopelessly out in the cold
Mr. Seward is very aniable man, but he has
no bowels Of compassion for Greeley. This
will not do. Let Mr.. Seward remember what
Forney was to Mr.. Buchanan, and what were the
Of "Old Bucks" turning the cold
upon Forney. We suggest that as
the Chevslier Webb has declined the mission
to Turkey, it be offered to Philosopher Greeley.
He is conversant with the system of Fourierite
phalanxes; he has paid personal visit to
Brigham Young and his harem at Salt Lake
City, and has had long consultation with
Brigham on polygamy; so that Horace would
not be altogether greenhorn In Turkey in
Ne matter Of the customs of the country. Be-
shes, having exhausted the discussion Of Ame-
RIGA black slavery, Massa Greeley, in Con-
stantAople, would enjoy the.new field of in
quiry hat would there be offered him in the
very interesting system of white slavery which is
the peculiar pride Of the Sultan.
Cannot 'Honest Old Abe" therefore, re-
buking the ineratitude OF his Premier, do the
generous thing in detailing Massa Greeley to
the Turk?
The ISsArATE WEsr.-So far in the distribu-
ton OF the federal patronage Mr.. Seward has
provided for his friends hereabout, and the
West has had all the rest of the fat. New Eng
land, where the real battles of the republican