The New York herald., 1862-10-17

for CoAgress.
The philosophy of swindling is very curious
and presents many interesting phenomena. In
Europe. for example, we find political and
financial swindling often combined in single
crime. The cases of Mires, in France, and
Roupel, member Of Parliament, in England, are
illustrations Of this fact In this country, on
the contrary, the Political and the financial
swindlers are different persons. belonging to
different classes, and our Schuylers and Hunt
ingtons are not politicians. In Europe, more
over, the political and financial swindlers, if
detected, arc sent to prison or to Botany Bay.
In this country, ON the other hand, we have
separate punishment for each class, and send
our financial swindlers to Sing Sing, if we can
catch them, and our political swindlers to Con-
gress, if we can get them votes enough.
Fully aware of this nice distinction, Greeley,
the prince of political swindlers, is attempting
to foist DR.. Orestes A. Brownson upon the voters
Of New Jersey as "a friend of the admnistra-
tom and a candidate for the next Congress.
DR.. Brownson's nomination was announced in
the Tribune some time before it was made, and
long before the majority of the republicans Of
New Jersey knew that the versatile and variable
Doctor had settled among them and had his local
habitation at Elizabeth. From this circum-
stance, and from the fact that Fremont, the mill
tary pretender, visited and held close consulta-
tons with the Doctor, we conclude that his no
mination originated among the New York radi-
Gals, and that they are the authors, and the New
Jersey republicans the victims, of this extraor-
dinary attempt at political swindling. 1t is due
to DR.. Brownson to say that he seems to lend
himself to this swindle most unwillingly. In
his speech accepting the nomination, delivered
at Elizabeth on Wednesday evening" he honest
ly confesses that che had never wished to be
nominated for any Office nor to hold any one"
Evidently, therefore, the nomination had been
forced upon him by the radical managers in
New York. who could find no other available
candidate of their ultra views. 1t is consequent
ly the duty Of every man who has any regard
for the Doctor to consult his expressed wishes
and vote against him. In strain of modest
and truthful candor DR.. Brownson gives very
good reasons for such vote. "With all respect
to the convention which nominated me-" says
he, 81 think wiser and better choice might
have been made" We cordially agree with the
Doctor, and, if the Doctor knows himself, no Jer-
seyman ought to refuse to take him at his own
estimate. II am comparatively stranger in this
State" he continues; 81 am in no respect except
that of residence, identified with New Jersey"
Could DR.. Drownson plead more earnestly to be
elected to stay at home? Are there so few men
left in New Jersey that a comparative stranger
must be sent over from New York to be forced
unwillingly into an Officer Is a man 'in no respect
identified with New Jersey" fit person to re-
present that State in Congress? Such an idea
is absurd. Such nomination Is an attempt at
swindling.
DR.. Brownson speaks of us not unkindly as
"hs friends of the HERALD" He calls us
friends because we opposed his nomination, and
now oppose his election. He is too wise man
not to know that those who push him forward
as the representative Of political swindle are
practically his enemies. He himself says that
che is certain his nomination was not made
from any attachment to him personally" If
the Doctor will take friends advice, there
FORE he will make one more speech, and then
withdraw from politics and retire into private
life. What other act could be more noble or
more satisfactory to all concerned! DR.. Brown
son admits that che is a man against whom
many things may be said" and said truly. 1t
is not for us, his friends, 10 say these things but
he cannot expect his opponents to be so for
bearing. Our animadvcrsions are directed, not
at him, but at the political swindlers who have
forced him into such o humiliating position. He
has right to his opinions, such AZ they are, and
we do not envy him their possession or seek to
deprive him of them. We know, as we'll as he
does, that he is bitterly opposed to the present
administration. In the last number Of his
Reuie,o he makes the most violent, the most
able, the most insulting attack npon the ad-
ministration that has ever been written He
collects all tho mud which the radical aboi-
tionsts have thrown at Mcclellan and Buell.,
compacts it into single heap, and nings it
savagely at the administration. He accuses the
President Of being under the influence of seces-
sion sympathizers. He charges that the
Secretary of State made secret compact with
the Southern rebel Commissioner, lie asserts
that one of the members of the Cabinet desired
to initiate Cromwell or Louis Napoleon, and
dissolve Congress by coup d'etm. He sums
up all the radical assaults upon the President
and his advisers in single article. He gives
these attacks REIMBURSEMENT of his name and
the sanction Of his deliberate judgment. We
have not the slightest desire or intention of dis
putting his statements at this time. No matter
how greatly we may differ with the Doctor, we
content ourselves at present with holding him
responsible for his expressed and reiterated
opinions. We contend that believing as he does,
DR.. 0restes A. Brownson cannot recommend
himself, or allow himself to be recommended,
to the voters Of New Jersey as ga friend of the
administration" without dishonesty conniving
at and assisting gross attempt at political
swindling.