New-York daily tribune., 1865-09-23
THE ALBANY sWlNDLE.

has always been considered among the most
diffeult of the known sciences; and we have
as much trouble in understanding Conven'
ton and Committee riddles, as in solving the
tricks of practiced juggler The consolation
is that the whole thing is ajuggle; and although
we are told that the ball is under a certain cup,
and have the manifest evidence Of our senses
that it is there, we feel sure that it has been
dexterously transferred to another. How to
say one thing and mean another-hOw to write
resolution that shall be Conservative in Onei-
da Copperhead in NewYOrk and Union in But
falo-how to 60 back upon every spoken and
printed pledge-how to be pro-Slavery to-day
and anti-Slavery to morrow-are gifts so emil
nently Democratic that we have ceased to give
any leader Of that party credit for the least
sincerity. The art of paltering i'll double
sense has been refined and perfected, ana we
have never had better evidence OF 1t than at
the recent Democratic State Convention.
For four years the leaders of the Democratic
party have been engaged in o war upon Aiieri'
can freedom and have been the allies OF Rebel
lion. When the contest was purely military,
and the issue uncertain, they preferred 10 assam
the Administration in every way, to ridieule lf
Generals, depreciate its victories and exaegera'e
its defeats. When the angry patriotism OF the
American people was chatting at the tardineSS ol
Mcclellan and Buell., they took the cry ana
went into power as jealous advocates OF the
war. When many defeats had saddened the
American heart and there were signs of weari-
ness, and even surrender, they proclaimed the
war failure, and, selecting IFS most conspicuous
failure as q leader endeavored to grasp power.
Men who deal thus with public events cannot
be trusted. The Democratic leaders who saw
in Lord Lyons (the ambassador OF nation
which opposed America) fit person for coun-
sell had certainly schemes Of their own, antago'
nistic to the dignity of America We believe
the purpose of these leaders-their dream and
hope and ambition-was to profit by the failure
of the war and the dissolution Of the American
Union. The growth Of the Republican senti-
ment had left them no future in the North, and,
rather than 60 into minority OF hunger and
weakness. without Office or the good things
Office gives, they hoped for a downfall OF the
Federal Union, the dismissal of the New-En-
gland States, and a consolidation with the South
as the members Of q slave-sustaining Union.
They wanted power; and since there was nc
reigning in Rome, Rome must be ruined
The end of the war, and the conciliatory
policy of President Johnson, gave them hope
Instead of going to Washington and claiming
Executive pardon, or retiring forever from
public life that had been one career Of sham
t and duplicity, they instantly claimed johnson
as their friend and brother. This man, VIII
had been denounced and assailed with bcGstl.
and indecent rhetoric, was claimed at once as
= Democrat of the school Of Seymour and Tilden
They did not succeed in Staying him in 1861
and so they would take bodily possession o
him in 1865 that they might use him as a give
of ofices-ther creature in power. In Pennsyl
vania, Ohio and New-Jersey the Democracy dix
not 90 so far, because in those States, whateve
faults the leaders have committed, they have
never been insincere. They hate the presen
change from cursing to coong-from defamation
to praise We do the leaders of the party here
or, at least, part of them, the justice to believe
that they were sincere in the same belief. i
Mr.. Cassidy and Mr.. Comstock had had theil
way in Albany-if Seymour advice had been
taken-we should have had similar exhibi
ton. But the hungry men were rayenous,
and insisted that the whole past should be
disowned and betrayed that Mr.. Marble
might have a share in public plumber, and Mr.
Haskn welcome access to the Presidential
presence. When they passed upon platform,
we were amazed. Are these men who tors W
their hats in favor of the "boorish tailor" John.
son, and find no one competent to lead unless
he has been in the hateful Abolition war, the
men who have shouted defeat at the sound OF
every gun, and cried surrender whenever Lee
army wanted soldiers, and increased taxation
by forcing upon us immense bOunty-loans
The very samel Seymour, and Tilden, and
Barnard, and Green, and Clark and Richmond,
are the very men who rose in the Chicago Con-
vention to welcome Mr. Vallandigham, and
shout hosamahs to Alexander Long. The very
same. They wear different raiment, and more
complaisant yisages, but the hoof remains
Their Albany demonstration is a swindle. If
the word is offensive we are sorry, but it is the
trne one. Mr Uaskin tells Us that be and bis