The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-02

and all bis achievements died @ disappointed
man as a twice defeated candidate before
the people for the Presidency Calhoun
soured by the terrible consciousness of the
wrath of Old Hickory, finished his career in
plots and movements looking to a Southern
Confederacy; and Webster, like Douglas. after
serving the Southern wing of his party in the
cause of slavery, never recovered from the
shock of Southern ingratitude, as IN ade mani
fest in the nomination of General Scott. In
deed, there would seem to be no limit TO the
revenge of a man cheated out of what he
claims as his right to the White House. Thus.
Van Buren, who claimed a second term be
came as spiteful in being tricked out of IL as
was Calhoun in being superseded nv Van
Buren, as the anointed heir to the succession
and thus Tyler and Fillmore, in their ar1bi.
ton to get term on their own account. be-
came as unmanageable as Calhoun or Van
Buren,. To poor Pierce the White House was
so much clear gain, and so, even for one term,
he justly thought he had cause to be not only
astonished, but thankful. As for Buchanan,
after thirty years of intrigues with and humi-
liations before the Southern slave oIioarobv
for the honors and powers of the Presidency.
we dare say that his four Presidential wears of
fear and trembling under the rule of Jeff.
Davis, Cobb, Floyd, Thompson, Gwin, Mason,
and Slidell have made it infinitely worse for
him than it would have been had he been re-
jected like Calhoun, or defeated like Cass.
Mr.. Seward, therefore, in failing to reach
the Presidency, may console himself with the
reflection that, though his record as a disap-
pointed aspirant is not so grand and glorious
as that of Clay, it is (Russian America) not so
bGfren of substantial fruits as that of Calhoun
Jr Webster. Nay, more; he ought to be CRATE
tul that, in escaping the responsibilities of
Buchanan, he has escaped his humiliation and
disgrace-to say nothing of Andrew Johnson.
Philosophy is good thing under irreparable
losses of any kind, and Mr.. Seward is not only
philosopher, but an optimist. Alexander
Pope had it that "whatever is, is right" but
our happy-minded Secretary has it that
whatever is, though it may be wrong, is the
best" Leaving him in the full enjoyment of
this dogma, we are called to inquire what be-
comes of the Seward faction of New York
with his retirement from the political field (?
There is nothing remaining Of this faction to
damage even town election. 1t has nearly
all melted away and disappeared. What is
left of it, like the silver-grey CLIQUE of the old
Wing party, and the Brooks detachment of
the old Know-Nothing party, will probably be
absorbed in the omnium gatherum of the forlorn
Democracy.
With the retirement of Mr.. Seward the fierce
animosities and faction fights that have fol-
lowed the dissolution of the firm of Seward,
Weed, and Greeley ought to end. The chief
organizer of the Republican party is pretty
much in the condition of the chief organizer Of
the Irish Republic-he has (barring Russian
America) nothing but his disappointments his
mistakes, and his failures to leave to his dis
ciples. There need not, then, be any trouble
touching the succession of the prophets man
tie. Mr.. Weed may take it and sport it in the
halls of the Manhattan Club; or Mr.. Raymond
may hold it aloft, like the trowsers of Maho-
met, among the sachems eff Tammany, and it
will do no harm. As the Israelites wandered
about forty years in the wilderness before they
were permitted to enter the Promised Land, so
the New Workers have for forty years, more
or less, been travelling behind the banner of
Seward, the fife and drum of Thurlow Weed
and the ghost of Morgan. Let us rejoice that,
with Mr.. Stewards retirement from the camp,
we shall have fair field and new departure
for the Presidential succession.