The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-29

miniSZ0oOn, sustained by the country, Will 60
steadily on with its great designa Thus, with
the expiration of the present term Of Andrew
johnson, we may find, a. in the time Of Monroe,
all old party lines obliterated, and he may be
reelected without opposition; or, from his re-
tirement we may have, with three, four, or
half dozen candidates. regular scrub race
for the succession, % in 1894.
Much Ado AAeut NetAing-Whe Killed
Cook Rebins
The war has left us large residuum Of pug
nscity yet unexpended, which certain of our
politicians and editors appear to be now in
tentIy working into use for the adjustment Of
their personal quarrels. Perhaps, indeed, these
gentlemen may have been engaged in . free
fight among themselves for the past four years;
but it Was not until the far resonant thunders
of battle ceased to shake the welkin that we
could distinguish the shrill treble Of Greeley
and the double bass of Thurlow Weed handy
ing charges to and fro of having defeated
Wadsworth."
"You did it," shrieks Greeley in white
heat Of anger, only surpassed by the Wilderness
Of his great coat "You did; it, by your
abominable machinery and bargains, by your
intrigues for Broadway railroads and other
lobby jobs, and by the wink given to your
subservient henchmen. tn quoque," retorts
Thurlow, with long fore6nger shaken mena-
cingly. i" Tu qsoque, tell you, which is pure
German for you're another It was not |,
but you, who defeated and killed the republi-
can Cock Robin of 1862; you, by your 'imme-
date emancipation schemes and placing UNI
conditional niggerism as paramount to I'M
conditional loyalty"
Now, Of course it is all nonsense that these
two gentlemen are quarrelling about; but in
the clamor they raise, and the Importance they
seem to attach to it, they can only be likened
to two of those dun-cOlOred flies, known to
anglers as dung flies, adhering to the glowing
other as the dust rises behind them in suffo-
eating clouds:-"What great fellows we are,
brother fly What fuss we are kicking up,
and how rapidly we impel this vast machine
by the fury and pertnacity OF our chickering's"
1t is in the interest OF peace, therefore, and
pestilent contenders, and to save the public
any further diatribes from their respective
press that we now propose to tell them the
true secret of General Wadsworths defeat in
his race for the Governorship-a defeat for
which we hereby assume the whole respsnsi-
bility, and are willing to give certificates to the
two parties chiefly in interest that it was neither
Greeley's unconditional nggerism nor Weeds
conditional lobbying which had the decisive,
or even the slightest, effect in producing that
result. The whole matter was quietly arranged
in a conversation between Prince John Van
Buren, and ourseli, aud the following was its
moda,s O,,erondi:--In the fall of 1862, after the
State nominations had been made, Prince
John Van Buren, called upon us at Fort
Washington for our opinion aud advice upon
the immediate situation of affairs; and, not
finding us at home, forthwith hurried down
to this Office. The Prince wanted to know
how the cat was going to jump
and what should be done to make it
jump in the right direction for the best inter-
ests Of the whole country. 'I.et Seymour come
out Internationally for the Union and the war
TO sustain the Union" was our reply. "Let
him ignore all minor issues"-for the time was
not then ripe for emancipation to be talked
of-"and, placing himself fairly aud squarely on
a war democratic platform in a speech which
you must send him down here to deliver, he
shall have our support, and will be elected in
spite of all the Wadsworths and all the uncon-
ditional niggerism from here to John o.
GrOats"
The astute Van Buren, acted on our hint, and
Seymour-for he was then tractabe, being q
candidate--came down and delivered the re-
quired speech. as per order given; and it was
this that elected him, and that defeated and
politically killed the republican Cock Robin of
that year. Had Seymour possessed the back
bone to have adhered to the principles which
we then put in his mouth, and proved true to
the war democratic platform on which, under
our advice and with our aid, he was elected, he
would never have lost the Governorship to this
day, and might possibly have been elevated
last year to yet higher and more conspicuous
position. The right stuff was not in him,
however. and he soon backslided from our
teachings. Events and the folly of the South
brought the world round in 1868 to the policy
which General Wadsworth had prematurely and
injudiciously advocated during the preceding
year; while the Governor, elected by the adop-
ton of our advice, crawled, crablike, back as
public opinion progressed, and finally took up
his dismal abode in that limbo of lost politi-
clans known as the copperhead shent-per-shent
democracy.
And now, after this full and complete setting
forth Of all the facts ~ they occurred, let M
hope that those two belligerent cutie fish of
the republican party, Messrs. Weed and Greeley,
will forthwith cease TO discolor the waters Of
journalism by the exuded bitterness and black
ness of their respective gsllbsgs. Let Weed
stick to his nsshpots at Albany and Washington,
while Greeley continues his amusing essays a.
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