The New York Herald Newspaper, September 3, 1853, Page 2

WEW YORK WASIG POLITICS. The Curtain Lifted---Lo! and Behold! jenra, ‘but Pull View of the Pipes, Ropes, and Wirepullers. ‘Wires Thurlow Weed versus Dr. Foote-- Seward versus Fillmore. HIGHLY AMUSING REMINISCENCES. CURIOUS HISTORY OF ANTI-MASONBY, Rennes ROMANTIC INCIDENT IN THE LIFE OF JUDGE THOMPSON, de, de, ke THURLOW WEED’S ACCOUNT OF THE ROW IN THE ‘WHIG NATIONAL CONVENTION OF 1848. (From the Albany Jonraa! ; Dr. Foote has weakened his material falsehood by it wish gratuitous misstatements. He saya that ‘‘no violent debate eprung up after Gen, Taylor's nomination;” but that the Convention “ and without debate, proceeded to nominate candidate for Vice President.” é Now, see how utterly this statement is at variance the truth. We quote from the proceedings of the Convention, as reported for the Philadelphia North American:— = After the nomination of President, snd while very great eontusion prevyziled, an unsuccessful attempt was wade te adjourn. Winally, amid all the noise, and all eyes being directed upen York, Mr. Collier, of N. Y., got a hearing, this Dearing being especially given him, as great anxiesy wae Set upon ihe result io New York. 7 Mr. Corziun, of New Yew, said he fad done ail in bia pewer to oppose the nomination of Gen. Taylor. All would bear witress of this; but since the nomination had Deon made, it would recsive no opposition from biw. He should submit cheerfully, and be trasted bis colleagues ‘would do the «sme. What he required of the friends of ‘the Genera), (to submit to the Convention. abide by himself, There should be no rebellion against this Convention by himself. He was slaw and order ‘aud oppored to all rebellions, aud without proceed tox farther, be would nominate Millara Fillmore for Vice i. Mr. ALIEN, of Masrachusette Cesired to be heard. With- us wiehing to commit his State, he must exprear his dis- probation of the nomination. The compact discipline Tithe South has obtained: its ead, (Hieses from some * © © T pronounce, then, the whig party (Bisses, lousder and louder, and seme cheera Thave struggled and hard to preserve the whig par- ty. and I would have strugaled so long as it were worth Preserving. Under the Providence of (4, txe dissolution aay be for the benefit of humanity. !: is vet inyrodable ‘that it will thus result, (Htsses, and cries of “bear,” in which the spesker’s voice was so drowaed that the sat down ) Mr. Ch ate, of Mass., was londly calied for, as Mr. Al- Jen took bis seat; but the floor was (aes to a delegate foow Ohio, (dr Campbell ) who said he wished to offer a resolution, inquiring if it was possible ror the whig party ‘to endorse this nomination He wished © know if the wcmination would be accepted by the nomines as & whiz —whether he would oppose tne extension of poe! . Se, free? (Hisres and applause.) Whe he ‘*was im fever of the ytective polis)? The Carr members were upon the tivor at the same moment, in the midst of which » motion was made to go into a ballot fer the Vice Presicenc: Mr. Jepnsox, of Penn. id he had been the uncom pro. mowing frierd of General Scott. He had here to learn— (Cries of order, order Cmarnmay— genth man is outof order; and Mr. J. ‘wee silenced amid the loudest cries of order, and the greatest confusion. Mr. Galloway, of Ohio—Do I understand it to be out eforder— (Cries of order. Rap,,rav, rap. Hear nim.) Cuam—The gentlemar trom Ohio will take his seat. Mr. GarLoway—I appeal. (Rap, rap ) Caamman—The gentieman can take an appes!, but 1 sBall confine him to the strict question. Mr. Galloway tried to be heard; but amid the disorder there was nothirg undersiandadle ‘Ories of sdjourn—rap—till ove 0’clock—rap. Mr. GaLLoway moved to suspend the o-der of the day fox three hours. Cres—Not debateadle. Mr. Gatoway—I wish to give my recsors. Mr. Fowisr, of N Y—QOne hour. ‘Taree hours: No, no, no. Cuarmuan—The rule is not suspended. Cuims— We move the order of tne day—that is, to pre- eed forthwith to ballot for Vice Presiient. My. Baantronp of Tenp., moved an adjcurmment till me o'clock. Not carried. Recess of half an hour. Cnes of “No, no.”” Cuammax—Not carried. will net be bound by the proceetings of “Then you don’t belong nere’*— peak” —Mr. Biown, of Pean., screaming order at ‘the top of bis v ) Mr. AsuMuN—My colleague ba beg that be be heard. He is a 4 mest de beard. Mr SranieY—As a Southern man, I too beg that he may de beard. Lie’ll express uo’ but bis own senti ments. They’lldo no harm here or elsewhere, aud I — they won’t burt him. (Cheers ) . Witsox—As a whig, I 2 to ita procresiog: be bound by it ef “That 1 é tte be heard. ] Mr. W: -Isit it ont of or on the pro- | seedings of this Convention’? ( lez, order.”” Rap, rap, rap.) Re Carine the gentlemen «ill A Voice — Is be (itr. W) a whig identified with enorber ps “Cries of “no,” “no.” This, though qnite sufficient to discradit Dr. Foote, ie but a faint description of what actually occurred. We never witnessed a more vivlent or exciting seeue. At least a dozen delegates sprang to t feet, upon chairs, benches, and tables, clamoring at the top of their voices. And yet Dr. Foote effirms that “no vi- olent debate sprang up after Gea. Taylor's nomina- tion,” &e., de. Dr. Foote surprises us by saying personal and political friends,” at B whow J conversed previous to the assem! Convention, Knew my intention to suppe i acandidate for Vice President.” This is , passing strange. See what Mr. Fillmore's tet organ SAys on this subject:— bat Mr. Fillmore had fix y. On the contrary, it “ fi ‘scores ot lo, “wit wo Mie rez or troller bad been ur was his pur) ose on the ‘These tacre are well & bly the editor of the 2 a f them. ae the editor of the Rochester orgaa Mi; Filmore did not want the offfed o: ving atut, the editor of the Buffalo « his fayvi; bat when his name Convention the latter waked out, saying b deserve it. ? There i¢ other evidence, hows Was nvt in favor of Mr. Filimo Q, by asons we gave last week, in President. wn to bis friends ‘a vening Jowrnal may have Di D for Presiden Jon M Cl tinguished We conferred with Dr. Foote v Gen. Taylor's nomination wa the convention upon stea_of Missouri, or any other Nort ware and Mr. Cla of the worthlesen' Mucomber and Parme who had Most ftir and upon whose conscien game that Mr. Craudall hear (whieh is also mierepresented, replied. And kn hood or pride, be « mach as we des: whigs who may not ters, that we do it in self defence, silently endoring, for more tha» stantand envenomed abuse tiser, New York Express, aud nals. DR. FOUTE'S EXPLANATION From the Baffalo Commercial Advertiner, A 12. 2% tn his quotation from my card, published in paver jast week, Mr. Weed finds it conve omit that I said “ the motion to tale 4 rece ‘warmly and successfully resisted.” This. and analy. is proved by the long citation from the Phi Apbia North American. The scene wes, a8 Mr. says, violent and exciting:— = At least a dozen delegates « rf f theirs, benches, and tabie ng voleon, And yet Lr, Foo) ieme that o epreng up after Gea Taylor's nomination Precisely #0. There was no debate at al @r moderate, There was a regular row, nei violent her more nor less; but no more worthy of being dignified web declared all this out of order; sad 2 dozen | | I repel é om this dor, and | the name than the yoolferons solicitations of the crowds of porters, runners, and hackmen that travellers at a railway terminus. The only juestion the convention was a motion to ad of the speakers addressed themselves and each seemed to be clamoring indepen- dently. Mr. Weed may call this a debate. I do not. Which of us is right or wrong is noe mee disputing about. The motion to adjourn or take a recess was, as! said, warmly and eric Ne resisted, and the convention proceeded quietly to nominate a candi- ate for Vice President. Mr. Weed flodsit “ strauge —parsing strange,” (rare and felicitous qnotation,) that I should sapport Mr. Fillmore for the Vice Presidency, “ whllpthe editor ot the Rochester organ eays Mr. Fillmore did not want the ‘? How. ever strange it may seem to Mr. Weed, and however much opposed it may be to what he 13 accustomed to see rs his present associations, it is a fact that a man is £0) sup) for office solely from a convietion that, if elected, he will honorably and faithfully serve the public; and I am very firmly ersuaded that if Mr. Weed shall be us a ay years longer he will be still! more astonished in fam e Way. But, to come back to the falsehood with which he set out, Mr. Weed says “ there is other evidence that Dr. Foote mae nae to ee of ee = Vice President, rrp upon his inexhaustible repository of rich inventions, his ima- gination—he ds to sftirm that I was in favor of Mr. John M. Clayton for President, which “Fracr” —I will allow him the benefit of his typographical display—would ‘shut out Mr. Fillmore, or any other Northern man, as Vice Prestdent.” That Mr. Weed was inclined to favor Mr. Clayton is true. In fact, he'was ready to support almost saheay that he thought was made lastic stuff, and I listened to his scheming speculations about Mr. Clayton and others precisely as I was forced to listen, at that time, to scores of other intriguers, without feeling any obligation to assent to or dissent from their views. Beyond this tbere is no foundation whatever for Mr. Weed’s assertion. In regard to my Presi- fe .| dential preferences and my action in the Philadel- phia convention, nothing is better known than that, after ascertaining that Mr. Clay had no chance for the nomination | did allin my power to promoie the nomination of Gen. Scott. I voted for him at every balloting, even the last one, when everybody knew that Gen. Taylor would be nominated. lamy efforts in behalf of Gen. Scoti 1 was actively op- a by the personal and eves friends of Mr. ‘eed ; the very same men who affected last year to be Gen. Scott's original, peculiar and exclusive friends, but who, in June, 1848, sneered at the gal- Jant soldier and accomplished gendeman, ridiculed his personal character, and scoffed at his services and principles. One would suppose that even Mr. Weed, with all bis hardihood and desperateness, would hesitate about the charges he’ bas preferred in the face of facts so notorious as those I lave men- tioned. He says :— ress, distinct, unequivoes!, reiteration of the ted, stands opposed to Dr. Foote’s positive de- There Iam will should stand, and I appeal g | to the public, to the candid and ingenuous men of all parties, to jndge between us. 1 have known Mr. Fillmore for eighteen years. I bave been honored by his friendship, and. in the unrestrained familiarity of political an@ social intercourse, I have had ample op- portunity to learn and admire the purity of his prin- | ciples, and his apright, firm adherence to duty, re- yardless of persona! consequences, In all this time Tiare never known him display any bit! wards a political opponent, or suggest any co' | political action that could not, with honor to himself, publiched to the world. So knowing and esteem- ing Mr. Fii'more, is it probable, nay, is it possible, that I could have made to Thurlow Weed, his bitter enemy, one that I knew to be such, the remark that Weed bas faleely imputed to me ? In the tone of a scourged spaniel Mr. Weed, who once boasted that he was ‘a dog in forehead and a deer at heart,’’ whines about ‘‘the constant and enyenomed abuse of him by the Buffilo Ad. vertiser” and other journals. The other journals referred to can answer for themselves. For myself and the Advertiser I say this: two years anda half ago, after an absence of eighteen months, I resumed the editorial charge of this paper. I had been abroad during the exciting and perilous sum- mer of 1850. Residence in a foreign land had softened in my mind the rities engendered by former political and personal controversies. I sin- cerely desired to live quictly and do all I could to heal the divisions that threatened to rend the whig party asunder. While so snusged Mr. Weed asaail- ed me — and wantonly with false accusations. led them, and drove him from every position | he aseumed. This is what he so complacently refers | to, in the above extract from his paper, as having oc- curred three yearsago. The attack then made upon me wes made without the slightest provocation on my pert,and when I supposed i was co-operating with Mr. Weed. Then, as now, he relied—I meaa bo pan—on his reminiscences to 31 his asser- | tions. These J was able to prove vend then he characteristically fell back on a garbled report of a | private conversation. The gentieman referred to | promptly put a quietus upon that, by his own decla- ration, showing Weed’s gross misrepresentations. So much for that matter. For nearly eightoen montbs past I have taker stive part in politi and since my return from in June last gaged in duties rill not soon be i Ty erroneous and Exot tical statements in the Jowria! respecting the con: “: | firmation of Mr. Everett as Minister to England. | There was nothing envenomed or abusive in tae ar- ticle. It aimed to correct errors and rebuke pre- | sumptuous ignorance and conceit. Mr. Weed’s re- | ply was the personal attack on me which the readers | of this paper have seen. These are the simple facts. | ab! | How far they justify Mr. We: can judge. It is ine grea to a proper s self-respect to | be obliged to defen: ainst a common stabber of reputation his assaults, with a basevess th scorn, dips his weapon in venom. State owes so much to the w Weed. He was taken u fed, and supported, ra hereby to gorge ‘y men against who: | terfy maligna, What one | potrons has he not deserted? | Granger, Tracy, Fillmore, and ho: swer. Mark, foo, the shame'ess bagness | who, in defiance of that | sacred, scruples not t cial intercourse if b: more effect to d bravo would oone in the as Thurlow fosered, 1 and now such things were true, tempt of every honorable man | versatione to which he is 0 to | garbled, or, as is provable, oftex | suit bis pu’ @, he should be av. There is nosafety with bim. 4 cowardly, unrestrained by any honora’ | Be pegs @ wilpese whea conversing | private, confidential letters, ald be reclai uly § or jancied pre ity, they may be sentence w Opening, n it wil nts in the examine the b ther intrigners, &e., &¢. ‘ow two individuals (Dr. F. and ourself) | r falsity of this paragraph. | y what a man who hus and has perceptions 200d, th | langyag i o truth and fal | sng gestion | the listener to we thonght we! no! beoause he 183 weo ined from Judge Saunders the evidence the. Gen. Taylor cordially urged his friends to support Mr. Clay if he should be inated, and that, ou the other hand, he, ifelected, would b2 a wily Presideat, is most true. But what measnre of con- tempt will limit the public scorn for Dr. Foote if We produce from his own an editorial, a short time before the meeting ) Whig ‘National Coa: vention, urging the nomination of that same Mr. Clayton whom he now stigmatizes as being “ made ‘of plastic stutf/” . If our recollection be not greatly at fault Dr. F. wrote sach an editorial. There minst be readers in Buffalo who remember it. At any rate his files will show our error or his pees, We will now further expose the -pretext of Dr. F., that he was in favor of Mr. Fillmore for Vice: Presi- dent. The evidence, it will be seen, is furnished by the “Dr.” himeelf :— Int d to my Presidential preferences end my action atthe iladelphia Convention, nothing is better known than that, after ascertaining that Mr. Clsy hed no chance for the nomivation, I did alin my power to promote the nomination of Gen. Scot: In first ese it t. Clay as President Dr. Foote lost sight of Mr. Fillmore as Vice-President, for if,as he says, he had Mr. F.’s confidence he knew that he would not accept the nomination with Mr. Clay. And subsequently, in “doing all in his power” to nominate Gen. Scott, he posemprily did all in his power to prevent the nominativa of Mr. Fillmore, inasmuch as in the nomination of Gen. Scott, a Northern man, hailing from New Jersey, for President, would have necessarily thrown the Vice Presidency into a Southern and slave State. It was with Gen. Taylor only that Mr. Fillmore could be nominated, and Dr. I’, opposed Gen. Taylor to the bitter end. Until after a President ‘was nominated all Dr. Foate’s action was inconsistent wigh bis now pretended desire for Mr. Fillmore’s nomination. And finally, when the name of Mr. F. was brought out, Dr. Foote felt so ‘little interest in the result that he walked out of the Convention, (as be admits,) and when asked to re- tum and aid us in putting him through, replied “Yas. J suppose we -must, but he don’t deserve it.” ‘The whole, simple truth, touching this point is, as we stated it at first, that Mr. Fillmore considered the chances of success 0 much against us, on account of the great bitterness between the rival candidates for President, he did not want or expect a nomina- tion. Hence Dr }'cote, like others, went their way, without thinking of Mr. I. until his nomination was sprung upon the convéntiom. Foote’s falsehood con- sists in pretending that he was for Mr. Fillmore as Vice President before be left Buffalo; and his folly sticks out even more prominently by now insisting that he sapponed: Gen. Scott for President throngh- out, and of course rendering Mr. Fillmore’s nomina- tion for Vice President an impossibility. So knowing and estveming Mr. Fillmors, is {¢ probable, it poseible, that I could have msde to Taurlow G, hie bitier exemy, and one I knew to be such, the 1k that Mr. Weed has falsely imputed to me, Yes, it is “probable,” and “possible,” and true— strictly, sternly, sacredly trae. He knows it; we know it,and Mr. Crandall, if he heard what Dr. Foote said, knows it. But it is not unusual for per- sons of equivocal veracity to “tell a lie to bide an- other,” as Dr. Foote has done here. We were not “Mr. Fillmore’s bitter enemy.’ We had been for twenty years, up to that hour, and for months after- wards, his warm, sincere friend. We were his friend when, almost single handed, we urged him as chair- man of the Committee of Ways and Means in the Honse of ole « “tear wea his friend when we inter- osed, successfully, to prevent his committing the fatal error of reporting against separating the Cariff from the Land bill; his friend when, in spite of But- falo influences, he was made Comptroller; his friend in daily consultation and counsel during the Presi- dential canvass of 1848; his friend in suggestions which secured him the confidence of General Tay- Jor; his friend, finally, long after, as we now know, falsehood and delusion had made him our most un- deserved enemy. We make no falie professions of friendship. No man is left in doubt on this point. When we like or dislike, confide in-or distrust a pub- lic man, there are no concealments. When we ob- | tiined ev.dence that Mr. Fillmore had deeply | P° wronged us, we refused him our hand, as we refuse it to every pertidious man. No one in the Stave owes so much to the whig party Thurlow Weed. He was taken uo, fostered, fed and eu ported, raised into power, aud enabled thereby to gorge Bimself with wealth by the very men agsains! whom he | bas turned and now bitterly maligus. What one of his early friends bas he not deserted? Lat Mosers. Spancer, Granger, Tracy, Filmore, and hosts of others, auswer. We recognise and gratefully asknowlege our * ligations to the whig party.” A lively and abiding | sense of its confidence and kindness sustains and cheers us. How far, by a diligent and zealous devo- | tion to that party, its confijence has been requited, | is not for us to inqnire. If more of its “ wealth” had | been coveted, we could have enjoyed a further en- | gorgement by azcepting the propdsitioa of Messrs. Foote, Jewett & Co. to become associated with them in the State printing. But baying uo affiuities in | that direction the offer was declined. But Dr. Foote charges us with “ deserting" Mesers, Spencer, Granger, Tracey and Fillmore. Is this trae? Let each, or all, ‘ answer.” Our acquaintance wi 1824, and for fifteen years tucial and politica! r c » while preparing for the then idential elec supposing idate, and b party, or where have Relations of personal fi vee z broken hetween Mr. G: ¥ and ourself for thirty years. ‘These relations still exist. In 1533 we were iven to the painful aii ive of choosing between | Messrs. Granger and ‘ard, both valued friends, ag candidates fur Governor. A sense of what thea seemed best for the whig party governed our action; and Mr. Granger had the justice to acquit our mo- tives if he did not acquiesce in our judgment. We have since differed on the slavery question, but ¢ fered as friends. When and where have we “ bitterly maligned” Mr. Granger? The charge of being Mr. Fillmore’s “enemy” has been disposed of. That relati only remains. With this gent! wn longest, we have held m 13. OF much of past association with erish agreeable recollections. To his high intellectual gifts aud many generous sympa thies we are no stranger. Of his defects, if th into Tyler's € .@ quarrel with us wonid app it of whose hatred we were ambitions, Mr. i ed that we nm » away from went so far an, then in Con Business, however, r @ national capital, * we called upon the S: Tr d to see us, and a that ONTRADI ION FROM MR. TOV | by p lar. its substantial a ned, Mr. Weed doe undertake to controvert any of | the facts tred. He confines himeelf, so | for as the q nat iesue i¢ conserned, to repeating well | with emphasis oo—that he was 1. Town- | chi in procaring the confirmasion y of iat Le baffled the conspirators and conspiracy, simply by the manufacture of a smail amount of pnblic opinion, such as he fabricate at Albany, when to subjec 3 macions h | ence. Now we dare tay his state as referred ‘partner’ of 2 rea under th xtire at Poindexter Commission Mr. Brooke knows all this and yet he attem prsto ak Townsend to say, as he ¢ sitting in New Yi n better than we d Ik out of it by asking Mr. ld with entire acouracy that he never “got ny or exhibit harzes against Mr. Curtis, We remember that Mr. Brooks did not consider himeelf “STberall. licity on that eee | asion. He re im addition to | xnensea, & nating; but two | | levant details into which he | thon of his f the Collector, Tea tdablahed ob ofhce eae ae en of doing that work, and Mr. Curtis could not, in fair- | bess, take itaway from them. Whether that cir- ‘cumstance had connecti any ion with the conspiracy to reject Mr. C. was then, as now, matter of con- to say that Mr. Brooks’ “pay” was not ‘‘entrasted” to us. Differing in that, as in other respects, from this ‘‘artfal dodger,” while we cheerfully went to Washington to serve @ friend we paid our own expenses. THE CASB OF COLLECTOR OURTIS—MA. PARMELED'S BTATEMEN'. (From the Buflalo advertiser, Aug. 8.) ls ition to the confirmation of Mr. Curtis med in its character, aud had its The great Kentuckian had * The Origin with an to Mr. Curtis, growing out of latter in pro- invincible the a | ae instramentality of the curing nomination of General Harrison in 1339. And it was strengthened and exasperated by the nomination of Mr.C.aa Collector, over Mr. Clay's candidate, R. C. Wetmore, was no conspi- racy against Curtis—no in’ tion demanded— no committee appointed—noth’ to investigate. Mr. Clay made no secret of his hostility. He avow- ed it without reserve, both inthe Senate and out ; and his strong will and great force of character communi-ated his hostility to several whig Sena- tors, who at one time were inclined to vote against the confirmation. The nomination was referred to the Finance according to the uni- form practice of the Senate, and that committee made a favorable report, after dae consultation. There were no official charges against Mr. Cartis, for he had been but a few weeks in office when the President sent his name in. Mr. Evans was a member of that committee, a warm friend of Cartis, and at no time had he any ages that the nomination was to be rejected. And there is not another pom in the United States, besides Weed, who doubts that George Evans understood the temper and purposes of the Senate of the United States as well as Thurlow Weed, of the Fourth ward of Albany. Mr. Clay could have defeated Curtis if he had pressed his resistance, for he was almost sa- preme in the Senate during the session of 1841. But on an appeal to his magnanimity, he waived his op- position, and Curtis was confirmed. Weed had no raore agency in producing that result than in the negotiation of the treaty o! Tilsit. Those who recol- lect the terms of sneering, witheriag contempt ia which Mr. Clay uniformly spoke of him, will need no proof on that point. Lhe commission, which Weed pasisis in calling a committee, was appointed by the President some time in the spring of 1841, not many weeks after Mr. Curtis was inangurated as Collector of the port of New York. There were allegations of frauds and abuses in the Custom House, under the edministra- tion of Jesse Hoyt, and on application fron New York, representing that the public interest de- manded a perquisition; the Executive constituted a Commission, consisting of Governor Poindexter, Mr. Kelly, of Obio, and, we think, David Russell, of this State, to look generally into the manner in whi the affairs of the establishment had been conduct Whether Mr. Russell acted at all with the commis- sion, we do not -now recollect. If-bhe did, it was only for a short time, as Wm. M. Stuart, of Mary- land, was named in his stead in the course of the sum- mer orantumn. Fhe commissionentered on its duties not a great while after the appointment; butformany months no progreas was made in the investigation, ‘There was no authority conterred upon the Board to take cognizance of the conduct cf Collector Cartis; and nothing was heard officially from the body, on that subject or any other, until a long time after his con- firmation. On the 1]th of January, 1842, some five months after the nomination of Curtis had been con- cnrred in by the Senate, Messrs. Kelly and Stuart made a report, and Goy. Poindexter made a mumori- ty report on the 20th of the following April. These reports were made to the President, or the Secreta: ry of the Treasury. The commission never re. ted to the Senate or the House at all. Wh. should it? Congress had no control over the Board, nor was it in any way responsible to that body. In the month of January, 1842, Mr. Pierce, now Presi- dent of the United States, moved a resolution in the Senate, calling upon the Secretary of the Treasury for the report of the commission. This resolution was laid on the table on the 10th of February. Sub- | sequently it was taken np and considered; and Seth | onthe 2kth of that month, amended and adopted. On the 10th of May following, the President sent a message to Congress covering the two reports above alluded to. Thus, some eight months after Mr. Cur- tis’s confirmation, was the commission heard from by Congress, for the first time. And this was Weed’s committee of the Senate, of which Gov. Poindexter was cheirman, and before which the charges against Mr. Curtis were disproved ! ‘We have said thatthe commission—which Woed afirme was a committee—had no authe to ex: amine into the conduct of Collector Cartis. In sup- port of that assertion, we may state, that dering the winter following his confirmation, a resolution was oGered in the Honse—by Richard W. Indiana, if our memory is t to modify the authorit ° on was acting—extend its ju tion, in fact to embrace for the purposes of its scrati exiod during which Mr. Curtis had fil office of co.leetor, The disposition of this we do not now re ave of on thay but enough on this topic. So far as Weed’s s\ t this Gansaction is concerned, we submit ipped him as bare as a Shanghae c nt of the shell. EMATION. [ By Advertiser ] Ta the Albany Journal of Wednesday, Mr. W: recurs to the matter of Mr. Everett's confirmation, and makes a feeble attempt to oreak the force of the | | plain narrative of the facts in the case, which we presented in correction of his cock-and about having changed the predetermined ce: the Senate, by a percel of tr: ntnewspapers. Wi stand as it ght well affurd to ft by Mr. Weed’s repli are incontestible, that the m, and that be opposed to it were absent at the time vote was taken, cannot but be regarded as con- sive as to the inaccuracy of his statement. kuown to ti Weed says. We repe: that the evalitiea Senate to rej Eve: bays beea ful but for the course pn Senators M The elem Hue2ess way astice and e@ prompted awakened through néria, Wil I us in Wai 4 - ation was acted upon. There was no secrecy about it. The purpose of certuia Southern whigs to v fn et Dt in at an y day of ion, the question had been repeatedty earpestly discussed. There was no moment ting that whole period when be would have been firmed by a full Senate. Of this his trie vinced, ané they ali along despaired «an opportun t ive who wot nputation ightened and 1 who composed the Senate of the 41, needed instruction from any source, 924 es | from a meddling political intrigner, upon | rave import as that now nuder om. Mr. Weed’s implicatian i Barrow, Bayard, Henderson, &e, of avting honest! tthe path id hardly conceive c sald fee eseated i bject ; but we ventu should arise to ant auch an irring testi. he rather irre- isting up ati night and placing his coramunications ina hag at {fown's Hotei joes hefore sunrise, although this wns a very wimevessary piece of relt-sac i athe mail which was to carry ir cious productions did not close uatil four o'clock in the afternoon, Bt he seems to have heen in a condition of general obfageation, aud pro- bably supposed that the value of the letters de vended npon his sitting ap al! night to write them. e are willing to admit the truth of his story ao far as writing and posting go, and we are not sure that some of the letters did net get into the papery and the writing of letters is true, ¢ unpery letters published | ay ‘Sj that tue wisdom demanded Judge Thompson's Gl | blic as the fact of his no- | | } find their way back to the seat of government. It is in he chest produced upon the. Senate that Mr. Weed fa so egregiously mistaken, and when he talks a “powerful public senti- ment booming into pebiagloo, | as a consequence of his Lg excites only derision and contempt among his 3 Nor are we dit to doubt that he had the in- terview of which he speaks with Messrs. Morehead and Mangum. They ure courteous, highbred gen- tlemen, and no doubt listened civilly to his sugges- tions respecting the effect of Mr. Everett's rejection. Of course it could not have entered their heads that a person properly introduced to them would so far violate the proprieties of social intercourse as to Tatatued ibe flightes’ euapicion of the bebits and tertame suspicion character of Weed—if bad ey him eae ple of so far disregarding the rules w! ern, intercourse of gentlemen as to parade in the co- lumns of a newspaper what they aes say in the rivacy of their own room, and r the implied injunction of secrecy which always governs the free interchange of opinions and sentiments in social life, it is quite cone that they would have greeted hin erent manner. a wit oa wg that the editor of the Journal should not have profited by the severe lessons that have been taught him on this pak A and again has he been castigated for his viol of the proprieties of life in this way; but he really seems to be incorrigible. Practically he refuses to acknow- leage any of the obligations which every man of breeding and reputable character im Lepon him- self in mingling with his fellows. No consideration of decency or self-respect ever restrains him from publishing the most private conversation. Nothing of that description is sacred with him. One would imagine that coarse associations and the lack of pro- per culture in early life might have rendered him careless and neglectful in this regard, but of late pees he has had oI tunities to acquire correct nowledge on the subject. He has, however, never availed himself of them; and now has no more just appreciation of the decencies of social intercourse, than it he had lived a!] his days among the root dig- gers on the Pacific slope of the Rosky Mountains. WHIG POLITICS BEHIND THE SCENES—THURLOW WEED’S DISCLOSURES. [From the Albany Evening Journal, August 31.) NEW YORK STATE POLITICS. A well infornicd and reasonably impartial writer sketches the last twenty-five years of the history of the whig party of this State, in the New Yore He- RALD. This writer falls, however, into some errors of tact, from which he of course drawa erroneous conclusions. He mistakes the motive of the “Seward organs” (it such they are to be called) in their re- view of the past. No division of the whig party is sought. It is desired only that the party may learn to avert future evil by discovering the causes of past division. Itis deemed better, if needs be, to forego present success than to achieve it with the elements of immediate destruction within our camp. The fate both of the democratic and the whig parties of our State, teaches this lesson. It is true {that Messrs, Seward and Fillmore came first into public life as anti-masons, to which faith both remained steadfast to theend. And their gene- ral views of public policy, inclading the slavery question, were coincident up to the election of the Jatter as Vice-President. Jn 1838, Mr. Fillmore, who wasa delegate to the Whig State Convention, sup- ported Mr. Granger for Governor. This caused uo shade of unpleasant ieeling. for it was a fair, open question, on which whigs ditfered amicably. ‘The history of the anui-masonic party is briefly but truly given. There is, however, an incident connect- ed with that history which may as well be stated, as the political power of this State, and perbaps of the nation, turned upon it. The anti-masons, as the Herald says, were friends of Jobn Quincy Adams, aud supported him for a re- election. Thongh impelled to a separate organiza- tion in Western New York, they desired not to alienate themselves or be driven from their State and national political associations aud sympathies. Jn 1828, @ national republican, or A State Conyention, assembled at Utica. The delegates from ‘Western New York urged the nomination of Francis Granger for Governor, for the reason that, beside his fitmees and qualifications in all other respects, of the West in favor of the State and electoral tick- et, the vote of New York would be cast for Mr. Adama. Several delegates, not anti-masons, saw the wis- dom of this course, and united with us in urging it. But the delegates trom the southern and river coun- ties, numerically stronger then than now, prevailed. ‘The late Judge Smith Thompson was nominated for Governor, with Mr. Granger for Lieutenant Governor. Returning home, resolved to do all in our power feeling that no effort could either eontrol or resist. ‘The anti-mwacons claimed that in offering a gaberna- principles, with whom both the State and national Vickets could be carried triumphantly, they should not have been repulsed. In Genesce, and indeed ia | mest of the enti-masouic counties, the rank acd file | cn imasons were at Jeast half democrats. They were ready to go with us zealously for Mr. Adams and for Mr, Granger; but when the latter was re- ed distinctly for his anti-masonic sympathies, , together with thousands of whig anti-masons, ed. A storm was inevitable. After a brief tation, it was determined that we should hasten ward, and endeavor to avert the b'ow. Judge Toompson had been nominated without his knowledge, and meny doubted his acceptance. ‘The | convention appointed the Hon. John A. King, of | Queens; George Tibbetts, Lsq., of Rensselaer, and | the late H. W. Delavan, of Sax a, & committee to | apprise the Judge of his nomination. Judge Thomp- | | seu was understood to be ther as Saratoga Springs, | whence the committee repaired. \ We came to Albauy by express, and here learned | iat the committee, not finding bim at Saratoga, as { cf expected, had proceeded to Poughkeepsie, | Judge Thompson's residence. Taking the evening boat, we met these gentlemen on the dock, waiting | to take the boat. Complying with our request to | return to the village, we apprived them of the condi- tion of things We-t. ‘This dashed their high hopes: for after a long sitting,they were congratulating them- selves upon haying exturted a reluctant acceptance of the nomization from Judge Thompson, and were unwilling now to return to bim with such unwelcome tidings. It was certainly embarrassing, awkward | acd painful, But all turned upon the decision of the hour. Success or defeat depended upon the view which the Judge should take of the question. It ; was not yet known that he hed accepted. ff he ad- hered to bis acceptance, all was lost. If he declined, st he eo todo, the Stute and electoral revo ea Ww pi uly midnight. Mr. Delavan thought that as the nomination had been accepted, it was too te to recede. Mr. Tibbetts hesitated, but did not olject to a submission of the case to the Judge. Mr. | Kong insieted that it was due both to the nominee | | and to the canse, that the fucts be presented. latter gentleman also concurred with us in belie The | eclension. - The committee therefore went at a late hour, to, harge a disagreeable duty. Judge Thompson” called from bis bed. The proposition was stated, discusved, and, most disastrously for the nominee bimeelf, and for th ti leclined. W duty f himveelf in a fu fuscd the antimasonic accepted that for Lieutenant-Governor. masons nominated Solomon Southw! The result was, for Governor and vote on the eh ticket was cece 140,783 AGMA. 6.66. ..00++185,415 | Buren was elected, though lacking over aajority of the votes cast. That blunder | cost us a ya-unble triumph, end gave the “ Albany | | Regency’*a long lease ot the political power of the State. it is hoped that this “ remiu k from cer! io be ef 4 whith The noml- do 4 to the voted the abolition The 3 explanation. vot limited to this 8 i ascendancy in Ver- | exerted & controlling influe in Penneyl- said per Ohio, ludiana, Michigan, Massa- | Gonned 4 Island, more or +s extensively. 0 ail men of fore- It wns evi cast, that it would tell npon the then Presidential *. Politically, most of the anti-masons were | and ivterual improvement men. Theirpolitical titics were with Mr. Clay, who, in 1832, was re- warded as the candidate of the whigs for President. Jeisonally we were warmly attached to Mr. Clay, i ke the antimawns with whom we acted, de- sired to sce the way smoothed for his support. With an eye to such a contingency, when at Warhinglon im the winter of 1628, we had trequent conversations with Mr. Clay, and with bis confidential friends, the late Senator Johnson, of Louisiana; Judge Clarke, then a member ef Congress from Kentucity, and Col. Erwin.of. Tennessee, on the. # , phe lll mest others, when a young man, Mr. Cley had joined the lodges, he had for any years ceased to attend them. All that was asked of him was to forbear taking partin the “ exeitement,” as it was called, and especially to write no letters on the subject. It was believed that Mr. Clay conld, with entire pro- pristy, adhere %o thig understanding. And it was ° his nomination, by concent:ating the whole strength | for the ticket, we encountered a burst of popular | torial candidate of entirely souud State and pational | | held and s | or ask it, nor shall I fee! permitted to decline if the believed, on the ether hand, thus standing aloof would fool at inert the great body vn donal pelle a poco ply ir national pt ‘The question, however, grew more and more ex: citing, and took and deeper hold of the litical mind. A ar conviction had been ¢ throughout the Union , the “hi. was unworthy of confidence; that the al ic~ tion and murder were fabulqus; and the “ex- citement’’ was artificially created for: effect. Mr. Clay, who bad abstained from interference with the a, was falsely charged, by the then powerfal Jackson part; and preas, with making a corrapt bargain with ‘anti masons. Efforts were made, sim 7, bY Po - litical friends hostile to anti: , to convince him that the ‘ Morgan excitement” was factitious and insincere. These causes combined, induced Mr. Oy to Te omudlath yee That na, for pu ion, repudiatin, > letter alienated antimasons from Mr. Clay, and led to the nomination of late iat Wir a8 their ae ee reece uct tiae whén’-tbe cootness commenced between the respective friends of Gov. Reward 5 bay that it was at the Presi- s wi a Wate: for Viee-Proxident. That nominatios, it » al- ent on the subject; but some of the New York whizs charged the defeat of Fillmore, ss a candidate, to the ia- trigues of Weed and others, with whom he usually coope ra'ed, At the State Whig Couventioa, in 1 Filmore was nominated for Governor, and care was to ex: cluds from electoral ticket the peculinr friends of Gov. Seward. Neither Goy. Seward nor the editor of the Eve- ning Journal opposed Mr. Fillmore’s nomination for Vice President im 1844, Nor did either attend the convention. Mr. ereling aaah was warmly sup- ported by the late Chief Justice Spencer, to whose influence, we beHeve, he was mainly indebted for his nomination. The “exact time when the coolness” of Mr. Fillmore towards Gov Seward “commenced,” might be “ fixed,” but we do not feel called upon to do so now. it was, however, anterior to 1844. It will be remem ered, a)A0, toat at the whig State co2- vention in 1846, when John Young was nominated for Gceyernor, the result was efivcted by the induence and ex- ertions cf Seward and Weed, agaist tho.e whigs who were oppored to union with the antirenters. Mr. Fillmore’s name wae wed on that oczasion, as @ candidate agaiast Mr. Young ; but it wan not unceratooe that he was dis- pleased with the nomination of Young which was then gexerally exvected to secure the votes of the anti renters, without which the suscess of the whige was impracticable, The result here referred to was produced by the pasest falsehood and the grossest delusion. The Journal of Commerce, Courier and Enguirer, Ex- press and Herap, then created the same furor | ‘about anti-rent that has siace been excited at the Castle Garden on the slavery question. Then, Gov. Seward, the Evening Journal, and their friends, were stigmatized as encouraging dishonesty, outrage and murder; though all the principles we contended | for, upon the anti-rent question, have since been re- cognized in the Supreme Court and affirmed by the Court of appeals. And though misapprehended and maligned in New York for what was said about anti-rent in Goy. Se vard’s first message, it has since | been reiterated without offence to his assailants, by the late Gov. Wright and the present Gov. Seymours This journal waa ever opposed to the nomination of Jobn Young for Govertor. But our views were obstinately Haline presenta in New York, whose press created, by their daily perversions, a stifling at- mosphere of blind prejudice and passion against us. Surrounded by this malign atmosphere, we repaired. tothe State Convention in 1846, There, as at intervals before and ginse, those who were interested in exciting the jealousies of Mr. Fill- , | more, had him in their keeping. We could not ascer- tain whether he was or was not a candidate. Mr. Young’s friends claimed that Mr. Fillmore was for | him, and produced letters from Mr. F. recommend- ing his nomination. This seemed conclusive on that point; and yet the New York, Long Island, and some of the aye eens persisted in urging Fill- more, and Ffllmore only. Though Judge Harris was the candidate ot this and some adj ig counties, we did not then ex- ct or press his nomination. But to avoid the certainty of Mr. Young’s nomiration, if the tion was held between him and Mr. Fillmore, Grho had stultified bis own nomination, we repeatedly and earnestly pressed the New York malabation to unite with some forty devoted and reliable wile delegates in favor of another candidate, on whom opposed to Mr. Young could agree; and to show their pooh readiness Tear harmonize with ae York, se pames were , among which we re- member those of Washin; gion Hunt, Onden Hoffman, William Duer, Ambrose L. Jordan, te late John C... Clark, and the Jate John M. Holley. These, and others wererecets and finally, tuiling in all efforts to agree with Mesers. Ketchum, Maxwell, Hone,. Hoxie, Brooks, &c., of New York, and Mr. Young’s nomination being agreed on, not willing to vote for it, we substituted Mr. Fillmore’s Albany Postmaster asa Senne in our place. But anxious to add cha- racter and weight to the ticket, we warmly concurred in the nomiuation cf Hamilton Fish for Lieutenant Governor, and as warmly, at the next State Conven- tion, urged him inst Mr. Young, tor Governor. Bat, politics, like poverty, make ‘strange bedfel- lows.’ Messix. Ketchum, Maxwell, Brooks, &c., who denounced us for eye (as we did not; John Young, on account of his auti-rentism, even af- ter his pardon of the anti reuters, “wheeled about and turned about” to become his close political confederates aud allics. Notwithstancing the hue and er , they raised about him, he was “a good pale conservative tle moment they found bim useful. Jokn C. Wright=IHis Position as a Candidate tor Comptroli or ler The anxiety for “new men,” started by the Pough- keepsie Telegraph, and seconded by the Aloany -At- las, may bave been considered as acquiesced in by the present State officers had they remained silent upon the subject of @ renomination. We find that Comptroller eee is out in the papers, as will be perceived trom the following note, addressed to a gentlemaa in the western part of this State in re- ly to an inquiry whether he abandoned the field in favor of “new men.” Tac Syracuse Convention will also be obliged to Messrs. Chatfield, Randall, Ben- , Ange! aud others, for as fall an avowal as that elow:— Avbany, August 20, 1853. My Drax Sin—I have your letter of a revent date, and thank you for the frankness with which speak of the probable action of the Syracuse don. vention iu reference to nominations for late officers. Iwill answer ina spirit of equal frankness, be- cause | desire that my own position should be fally understuod by my friends. I have, on various occa- sions, and to many gentlemen in cenversation upon | the subject, stated substantially what I am now about to say to you. Indeed, I did not suppose that eny misapprehension did or could exist upon thesub- ject. Jom not now, and never have been, a candi- date for e by any act or agency of my own. f never solici'ed a nommation for office, and I never shall. 1 do not believe in or act upon the doctrine that any man has ciaims for political favors which do not originate with and are not put forth by his pay. Srietids voluntarily, and without solicitatioa on his part, and I hold it to be c.jually the duty of every man to permit such use of luis name as his friends may ceem fitand i ace « to the subject of renomination, I hava i hold but one langyage; | do not seek releren) cuse C on deem it proper or nec it. 1 certainty sha!) not he deterred cepting it if tendered by the coavention certain profesing de! hreatened vance to bolt the State I regard the success of t thoroughly united in th nence of its sound principles, as vastly more import- ant to the State than th onal position of aay man, or pr ither in or out of office; and I desire to be cous'dered by my democ da as seeking; through the action of the 8 vention only, its unity of nony of action, and the nomination shall traly reflect the wishes of the sound demo y of the State. If the use of my name at this time by my friends is deemed accomplish these ends I am not at li- #0 ite fi election of any other democrat for the office of Comptroller the greater harmony of the party and its saccess js to be at- tained, { shall most cheerfully concur in the roguit,. and bend my best efforts, now as fore, to se cure the election of the democratic ticket. Jam, very taly, your friend, J.C. Warunr. Oars Caba Correspondence. Havana, Angust 19, 1853, Rumors of @ Conspirary Discovered Among the Negroes. Havana is jull of ramors this morning that a con- spiracy has heen discovered by the government to exist amongst the slaves aud free colored population, having extensive ramifications with those in the interior. Some forty persons, chiefly saulattos, have been arrested here, and the investigations are going on with extraordinary activity. Iam of opinion that it is nothing more than a trick, often resorted to by the Captains-General to afford them an op portunity ef distinguishing themselves by displaying ! their zeal and activity in preserving the island to Spain, perhaps by shooting a few hundreds of the poor negroes; infuse -a wholesome sort of fear into the souls of the Creoles as to what they might expect should an insurrection really break out among the ney The ramor is in eve ‘8 mouth, but I cannot believe that any plan of inearrection nad been really formed hy the colored people. babs . jj Qttttlttt jt “=<