The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-26


The old politicians, who were the victims Of
the recent terrible massacres at Albany and
Syracuse, lie about cold and stir Greeley and
Gay, the white man and the niger of the
Tribune, utter no sound and show no sign Of
life. Weed and Raymond, the big jobber and
little jobber Of the Times, are dumb and
! numb and pulseless. Mantilini Marble, the man
milliner Of the World, and Confidence Cassidy,
the butcher boy Of the argus, are, if possible,
still more dead; for modification has set in and
their remains are becoming offensive. The
Wood brothers, well known as political Jug
glers, are in the same corrupt condition, and
ought to be taken out and buried by the City
Inspector, at the public expense, in Potter's
Field The headless trunk of Ex-Governor
Seymour has been handed over to his friends at
Utica for private interment Dean Richmond
and John B. Haskin may fold their arms, like
Napoleon at Austerlitz, and proudly survey
their bloody work. Mr.. Calvert Comstock, of
modern Rome, is the only one of their victims
that has strength enough left to give final
squeak. His card, which we published yester-
day, is In fact dying squeak and confession.
it-for it was very faint-we propose to briefly
recall it to their attention.
| Mr.. Comstock, with melting moan, says
that it would have been better for Mr..
Haskin ito have left' the facts about the con-
struction Of the democratic platform ito the
confidential silence with which such proceed
ings are ordinarily supposed to be invested"
NJ - Eo~ kIa
dying Mr.. Comstock's deceased friends, Man
tilini Marble and Confidence Cassidy; for it
would have enabled them to continue their
claim to all the credit for the work. The ex-
piring Comstock forgcts In his mortal agonies
that if there has been any breach of conf
dence, the late Mantilini Marble and his
clique are responsible for it They provoked
Mr.. Haskin to full explanation of the affair,
by their garbled statements in regard to 1t;
they broke "the confidential silence" Of the
committee room, and they placed Mr. Haskin
in position where he must either tell the
truth and the whole truth or allow their mis-
representations to pass current Mr.. Haskin
wisely chose the former course, and he has
anniii'lated the whole gang. So long as the
memory of Mnntilini Marble and Confidence
Cassidy survive, so long will they be asso-
ciat,d with the carpet bags packed with the
old editorials which they spent their last mo-
ments in carrying up to Albany for the benefit
Of a certain department Of the Dalevan House.
Mr.. Comstock admits, with a dismal groan,
that he himself submitted to the committee
.'not only eleven, but several more" resolu-
tons, 10 say nothing of those prepared by
Marble, Cassidy, the Woods, Seymour, Tilden
and Others; aud rs there are only nine resol,i-
ions in the platform, we can readily conclude
how great tho Slaughter was, and how plenti-
full waste paper must have been at Albany on
he day after the Convention. o1l
But before Mr. Calvert Comstock goes TO Join
his friends in The shades below, let ns do him
The Justice TO say that his dying squeak and
confession substantate Mr.. Haskin's frank and
manly statement in every particular. He owns
up squarely that Mr.. Haskin "is certainly en-
tiled to claim the paternity Of the ninth resolu-
ton" He Is even willing to "give him GER
tiicate TO that effect, II the fact will be useful
TO him in any quarter" and If the trembling
hand of the lamented and death-smitten Com
stock can hold q pom. Further than this, the
ante-mortcm evidence Of Mr.. Comstock goes TO
show that he tried to get rid Of Mr.. Haskin's
resolution; that he thought It would be in bet
ter taste TO consolidate II with the fourth reso-
luton; that he made this suggestion In the COM
mittee room to Mr.. Haskin, who rejected 1t, and
that, not yet despairing Of this scheme to place
President johnson, Mr.. Haslin and the ninth
resolution out in the cold, he repeated the con-
solidation suggestion the next morning, but
again failed to accomplish his purpose. This
is material testimony, and II more than endorses
oil that Mr.. Haskin has stated. The ninth
resolution declares that "banishing all minor
party considerations and acting in the spirit
of an enlarged and generous patriotism"
the democratic party cordially support
President Johnson In the policy which he has
avowed" and "in all such constitutional meas-
ures as he may inaugurate." The fourth reso-
luton, which Comstock, Marble, Cassidy, Sey-
mour, Tilden and Company tried to substitute
for this broad, comprehensive and complete
endorsement, Is simply cautious and wordy
promise to support the President in his plan of
reconstruction, II he would take care OF State
rights and recognize all the recent rebels as
electors. This may mean one thing or II may
mean another. II is just such two-faced piece
of verbiage as the slaughtered politicians liked
to concoct, and II would have condemned the J.
platform before the people If Mr.. Haskin had
not put in his plank 10 strengthen IL. This may
be but cold comfort for the departing Com
stock to carry to his associates who await him
in the spirit land; but It Is the comment which
our strict regard for truth and our experience
of the shent-pcr-shent abortion adopted at Chi.
cago require us TO make upon The revelations
Of his last squeak.