The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-09-30

lock snem up t0getner In oln8 sung. dovornor
Fenton has recently visited that prison, and no
doubt selected Q cell; he should be permitted
to occupy it In company with the malignant
soreheads and city onlcials II any person
should see at to institute counter investiga-
ton into the past life ofthe accusers, including
the Governor, we have no doubt that they
would find sufficient cause for their inoarcera-
ton.
The Opening OF the FAN Csnpaign In
New York-John Van Buren tn the
Field.
Thus far there has been 90 little Of public
excitement and public interest manifested in
regard to our November State election that ono
might naturally consider that It will probably,
- in Vermont and Maine, go by default upon
diminished popular vote on both sides. John
Van Buren,, however, says that this will never
do. He believes In the resurrection Of the ma
tional democracy, in the New Jerusalem and in
the life everlasting that lies before them; and
90 he is about to buckle on his harness and
take the field for three years more or during
the war. On Thursday evening next at Albany
and at Twsddle or Tweedle Hall, he will open
the fall campaign in q rousing speech, dis
closing the broad differences and the nice dis
tinctions between the Albany platform and the
Syracuse platform, which to most people are
only the differences betwixt tweedledum and
tweedledee; and, having thus broken ground
at Albany, he will proceed to stump the State
His fine capacities as a stumper are univer-
sally recognized. He knows how to disguise
the weak points of his own side and how to
bring out those Of his adversary into the bold
est relief and in the most ridiculous costume.
He is full Of telling jokes as was "Honest Old
Abe" He is a philosopher, too, and an old
campaigner, and has fought on both sides of
the negro question with equal skill. We are
aware that his greatest success was achieved as
a guerilla or free soil bushwacker against Cen
eral Cass and the regular democratic Presiden-
tial platform of 1848. We admit that that was
not much of victory, though it settled the
business for General Cass. But now as John,
with General Slocum at his back, is aiming at
a higher rank than that OF Mostly, we are conf
dent that he will come off with flying colors.
We give this notice as fair warning to the
republicans to pick out their man best qualified
to measure swords and fight out the fight with
this pioneer champion of the democracy. He
will throw down his gauntlet at Albany
against all corners from the other side, from
Scripture Dick" to Dick Busted, and they
must find their man to take up the challenge,
or admit that John Van Buren, is invincible.
We are glad to learn that he will make it as
clear as daylight that the democrats of New
York occupy one platform and the republicans
another, and that while the one party is in the
way of salvation the other is on the road to
ruin. This exposition will be great relief to
the perplexed politicians and editors on both
sides, who can hardly find, except with a mi
croscope, any material difference between the
Albany and the Syracuse resolutions. To be
sure, here and there republican dissector
has discovered something like the Chicago
shentper-shent sulphate Of copper in the new
democratic creed, while here and there, under
cover of an enthusiastic support Of Andy John
son, some prying democrat has detected a
little niger peeping out Of the Syracuse plat
form; but these things are invisible to common
eyes. John Van Buren, will lift the curtain
and show that the contrast between Albany
and Syracuse Is the contrast between Dean
Richmond and Henry Ward Beecher, or be-
tween the white man on the locomotive and the
niger in the woodpile.
We expect, too, that it will be shown in this
forthcoming Albany speech that the republican
party is a corrupt conglomeration of base
materials; that it is demoralized and cannot
hold together that the Weed and Greeley i'm
broglio has betrayed the rottenness Of the
whole concern; that ii must go to pieces,
and that Andy johnson, as his only hope
Of deliverance, is ready, like an expectant
bride, to fall into the arms of the thrice washed
and purified democracy. But against any such
rigmarole as this the republicans will point at
democratic corruptions, cliques, factions, sec
tons and cabals at Chicago, at Ben Wood and
Jake Thompson, and at democratic attempts at
burglary around and in the White House-at-
tempts not only to carry off the spoons and
plate, but the contents Of the kitchen, with the
cooks, and the master of the establishment
himself for ransom Charges OF corruption,
treachery, swindling, burglary, &C., may be ap-
piled with equal force to both sides. We shall
want something more from the democracy than
the distinctions between the Albany and Syra-
cuse resolutions, or the differences between re-
publican and democratic rascalities, to inaugu-
rate political revolution.
II John Van Buren, can show in his Albany
speech that the success Of the democracy in
our November elections will open the way to
glorious political revolution; and If he can
tell the people, with the inspiration Of
prophet or with the assistance Of Judge Ed
monds and his spiritual advisers that this revo-
luton will comprehend the quiet restoration Of
the Southern States, smooth and quiet settle
ment Of the negro suffrage question, quick re-
turn to specie payments, easy taxes and low