The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1863-01-27


has at length ended by the election Of Mr.. Cal
licot We imagine that roth democrats and re.
publioans will congratulate themselves upon
this result Mr.. Callicot is q democrat, but
having sold himself to the republicans he was
elected by republican votes. II is significant
sign Of the moribund condition of a party when
it is forced to select such candidate in order
to achieve petty triumph The republicans
will be happy because they can claim to be
victorious. The democrats ought to be equally
happy because they have encountered glori-
Gus defeat, and because the republicans have
secured disgraceful and disastrous victory,
Callicot's election is to the republican party
what Dead Sea apple Is to the man dying of
thirst-fair to look upon, but turning to bitter
ashes when tasted. To the democrats, on the
contrary, it is remarkably like sour grapes
1t is very evident that Mr.. Callicot regards
the Speakership as mere matter of specula-
ton He has sold himself for the advantages
connected with the Office, and has received his
price. In this respect he Is far more acute than
| Mr.. T. Jefferson Boyer, Of the Pennsylvania
Legislature Mr. Boyer informs US, in a COM
munication published on Sunday last, that ex-
Secretary Cameron offered him twenty thousand
dollars for his vote on the ballot for United
States Senator, and that he accepted the offer,
but not the money, and voted against Cameron.
This was of course, an admirable bit of
strategy; but it strikes us that Boyer should
have pocketed the twenty thousand dollars and
then delivered his anti-Cameron vote. This
din0 hav hoo in Oh aroor1-
ance with the recognized rules Of honorable
warfare-that supplies should always be OBJ
tanned from the enemy If possible. Nor would
it have been at all opposed to the morality of
Wall street, where stocks are sometimes pur-
chased and paid for, but not delivered. We
give Mr.. Callicot credit for better acquaint-
ance with the art of war aud the principles of
finance than Mr.. Boyer. New York generally
manages to keep ahead Of Pennsylvania. even
in such transactions as these. Now that Mr..
Callicot has obtained the advantages for
which he sold himself to the republicans,
we shall be greatly surprised if he does not
double his gains by selling out the republicans
to the democrats. This patent, back-action
process would give fine finish to the affair and
comfortably complete the nice little arrange
ment all around.
We are quite sure that so keen, shrewd and
capable an operator as Mr.. Callicot will imme-
diateiy perceive the benefits which will accrue
to him by this retrograde movement In the
first place, he has already secured all the adj
vantages of the Speakership by his election.
These advantages he can retain, even il hs re-
-. xl~a So In bo
second place, by giving the democrats the
ascendancysin all the committeeman NO de-
mocrat will refuse to serve, caucus resolutions
to the contrary notwithstanding-he will regain
his standing in his party and be ready for any
chance of advancement which may occur in the
future. Among these chances that Of being
able to sell himself again at some subsequent
period should by no means be overlooked In
the third place, Mr.. Callicot will thus connect
himself with the rising party, instead Of
becoming a raw recruit in the ranks of q
party which has been defeated in every
recent election, and which will be 80 terribly
beaten in the next Presidential campaign that
it will never again be heard of, save by the stu
dent of political antiquities. A man of Mr..
Callicot's talents and discernment will undoubt-
eddy agree with us that Judas Iscariot was
great fool, and that his name does not deserve
to be recorded among those of remarkable
rogues. Although Judas was more clever than
Boyer, since he certainly accepted his thirty
pieces of silver, yet he was very deficient in
the true art Of knavery, or he would have re-
joined the disciples instead Of hanging himself,
and thus made certain not only Of his silver
but also of his salvation. 1t is just this silly
mistake which we wish Mr. Callcot to avoid
Instead of committing political felo de Sc by ad
herring to the already defunct republicans, let
him hold on TO the advantages he gained by
selling himself for the Speakership and then 90
back to the conservative party again, aud SO
work out his political salvation.
THE RADICALS WORKING FOR NAporEoS.-Th
Emperor Napolcon's influence over his people
win be vastly increased should he be allowed
to intervene in our affairs. The inference to be
drawn by the French would be altogether in
favor of their Emperor's might and our weak
ness, and the fact itself would be considered by
many as an argument against our institutions
That the great republic of America should be
forced to accept the mediation Of France to be
saved from ruin, would be a source Of grAtifca-
ton md boast to the latter, and, IS result the
powe Of Napoleon would increase tenfold.
The French people will respect him the more
became his very act Of mediation will prove
the existence of his influence. II is well known
that lis Majesty has taken the initiative as re-
CARDS intervention in our affairs; and should
our government accept his mediation, backed
by thu of other European Powers, to Napoleon
alone will the credit Of the joint action be
accorded by oil Europe. Should the radicals
call ulpn Napoleon to offer mediation, as we
have reasons to fear they will, this action would
he addAg to the influence and power Of the des-
potic gdsrnment of France. The troubles of
| the radisls bid fair 20 help Napolaon out 0 c