The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-20 00:00:00

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LONDON, TUESDAY, Nov. 20.

Tar Stabs of New York has declared for
Mr. Liisool.n, and the election of that gentleman
by the popular vote is thus made secure. This is the
meaning of the telegram published yesterday, an-
nouncing Mr. Lnicoui's election. The vote of
the State of Pennsylvania, reported two or three
weeks ago, was fatal to the hopes of the Demo-
cratic party, as far as tho election of either of
their candidates was concerned. But still one
chance remained. If New York could be brought
to vote, as it had so long voted, for the Demo-
cratic candidate, the election of a President by
the people would be made impoadble, and the
question would be thrown into Congress, to bs
decided by States. In the present excited state
of the public mind such a reference of this mo-
mentous issue would have been most dangerous.
In the House every• device would have been re•
sorted to so as to cause delay, and while the daily
sittings would have been occupied with scenes of
violence the country would have been a prey to
the most intense excitement. AU this is now
happily averted. The battle has been fought in
the constituencies with a full consciousness of its
importance and with a severity before unknown,
and the result is most decisive. The 120 electoral
votes of the South were of course all pledged against
the Republican candidate, and if but 32 of the
183 electoral votes of the North could have been
added to them, the election would have been
transferred to the House. But the renun-
ciation of the Democratic party by the North
has been meet remarkable. It has not, how-
ever. been sudden. In 1832 fourteen of the
sixteen Free States voted for the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency. In 1856 only five
of them gave their votes on the same side. This
year the progress of the Republican party was
early seen. First Vermont and Maine, and a
month later Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana
declared against the Democrats, and lastly New
York has taken the same side. Mr. LINCOLN has
received 17 votes more than were necessary to
secure his election.

Now that the election is decided, we may look
for a greatly improved tone in the domestic treat-
ment of the affairs of the United States. for the
last few months a stranger to the tactics of trans-
atlantic parties might have been led by the language
of a portion of the American press to believe that
the Union must certainly be broken up if LINCOLN
were elected. The Democrats sedulously incul-
cated this belief, pretending that adherence to
their policy wee absolutely necessary to retain the
Southern States within the confederation. The
merchants of the North have been told that
universal ruin must overtake their corre-,

spondenta in the South if any attempt was
made to circumscribe their tenure of slavery.
Pseudo.commercial reports, in which mercan-
tile facts were fraudulently manipulated for
political purposes, have been foisted into the New
York journals, and the electors have been bidden
to remember that the question they were called to
decide was continued prosperity or universal ruin.
To the South the most reckless language was ad-
dressed—with what motive is inconceivable, since
its pro-slavery vote was safe. In the very hearing
of the negroes the Democrats imputed to Mr.
Link:tics and his party the fixed intention of
violating the constitution in order to abolish
slavery and raise the negro to a political and social
equality with the white man. If the Southern
negroes, who hang upon every word of a white
man which can affect their interests, have believed
this, and in the disappointment which is in reserve
for them should rise in insurrection, the blame
will be justly chargeable on the Southern Demo-
crats, who, for party purposes, resorted to dangerous

But if this danger should be got over, there is
very little to be apprehended from the threats of
sereenon which have been so loudly uttered by cer-
tain southern demagogues. Communities of the
iigli.-ssixon race show a marvellous facility
in aoluicecing in the result of a downright
party struggle in a fair field. And thee,
is still left plenty of margin for the Democratic
party. it can hold the new Passim= in cheek
in a variety of ways. It has a majority in the
Senate, and it will for some time be able to oppose
him with a considerable force in the House of
Representatives. it can hardly hope ever to re-
gain the aggressive power it has had for the last
forty years, but in a conservative attribute it will
be strong. The cry of secession has been useful
for party purposes ; but the course which it
Involves will not suit Southern interests. The
peat alaveowners know very well that it is no
part of the policy of the Republican party to
viJlate that part of the constitution which forbids
every Mate to interfere with the internal concerns
of any other State. The present victory merely
signifies that in the wide-spreading " territories " of
the Republic, not yet sufficiently peopled to be
formed into States, slavery shall have no
legal existence, and consequently that they
shall not grow up into Slave Status. The
South, f:overnor Urn 11ER and 31. Born
notwithstanding, sill acquiesce in this decision.

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They dare not go out of the Hike sialt their
slaves, for they have nowhere to go to. They
are • great deal safer in the friendship and
alliance of
.the North, whose bayonets would be
ma readily fathoming to suppress • servile in-
sanities as to prevent a diriolution of the Con-
federation. Long before nest Mach, when Mr.
LINOOLN removes to the White House, we shall
find that all parties have adjusted themselves to
their new relations, and are imposing for a herm-
its., campaign with the old wordy weapons.