New-York daily tribune., 1842-11-09
The Election.


Kiags County, and we suppose beaten in the
State. The storm Of yesterday, violent IN tine
morning, was agains. US but the battle was hoo'S
fought Notwithstanding. The Wings are dishear'-
ened, their opponents inspirited, when an kieclio'
opens with tempest but men proved mem
-eIyes no fair-weather politicians yesterday 'P
TO the close of the Polls sc were lea 10 oeheye'
BY tho report. which reached Us from most o. the
Wards that majority of the Whig County ticket
was carried. The returns which came IN through
ta. evening proved that we had been grossly mis-
ioforr,sd The Loco.Focos have carried the City
nv handsome naiority--neary 1000 for Bouck,
and smaller alorities for ,he Iest of their Ticket
Miehael Walsh excepted, who is beaten by the
psr6dy Of the wire workers he has graphically
described who printed the ballot. with the name
Of NJ H Van Dyke, who had been proposed by
the Nominating COMMITTEE but rejected at the
County Meeting, and Walsh nominated in his
stead Some Of the party refused to submit to
this, and voted for Walsh so that think neither
ia elected. We presume ROBERT Smith is elected
to the Assembly as well as ]. PHILLIPS PHGyIx
to Congress from the Third District, and no other
Wing candidate from this City.
This Election has proved strikingly The keener
instinct Of the Commercial than OF other classes in
the pursuit Of their interests. The question OF
Protection or No Protection 10 Home Industry for
the first time entered directly into the canvass IN
this City The Loco-Eoco party here-as il
skulked from doing elsewhere in this State and
Vermons-as it still skulks from doing in Massa-
chusatts and Connecticut-placed itself directly
on the ground Of absolute Free Trade. This posi-
ron boldly taken in direct hostility to the interest
of the Mechanical and Producing Glasses, has at
trac,ed to 1t the support OF the Foreign Importing
Interest of course. and with that the votes of
large number Of Merchants, of Clerks and almost
the entire body Of Seamen, who not unnaturaly
though mistakenly imagine that the Protective
Policy s unfavorabl. to extensive Commerce Ihc
Shipping Interest, though it insists on Protection
10 the utmost for itseh-for Reciprocity in tb'
Foreign and Prohibition in our Coastng and Inter
nal Trade--ye: fencies rec Trade IN every thing
bit Shipping to be for It's interest, and hundred
Of votes have on this ground been transferred from
rhe Wing to the Loco. Foco Tickets. On the othc,
hand, the great Mechanical and LaboriDg Glasses
Of our City, whose interest, whose prosperous cx
istence ia involved in the maintenance of Tarih
which shall DC virtually If not expressly Protective
are slower in compreherding the Introduction of Il
new element into our POLITICAL contests, slower il
applying the tost OF self-intercst to questions
az they arise, and slowcri acting upon convictions
Of personal advantage. Thus we see the Whie
candidates for Congress running behind in tic
Third District, or Conmercinl Wards, and generally
wherever local question has not operated in theil
favor Thus see the Wing vote diminished and
the Loco-Foco increased, especially in the First
Second, Fourth, and Seventh Wards. We mos,
undoubtingly believe that Commerce here mistake>
its ultimate interest i'll the pursuit of apparcn
immediate advantage, while it grievousy overlook.
the general good. But the evil thus incurred is il
the nature of things but temporary. This contro
versy on Protection is now bat commenced |
Commerce and Navigation place themselves DELHI
eratey in the attitude of demanding Protection yc1
conceding noRe 10 Production and the Useful Arts
the good sense of the larger number will in due
time apply the proper corrective. For every Ship
per who on this question abandons the Wing party
there will be ten Mechanics and Artisans uttracted
to its standard. We could never better afford To
wait year for public sentiment to ripen on SO
plain point.
The most unfortunate feature of the question as
now presented is the dishonest facility with which
our opponents shape their creed to their position
and the requirements OF the local sentiment II
could have had throughout the State the plai.
issue OF one-sided Free Trade or Protection whicl
the Locotecos were eager to make with us here,
we should hnye carried New-Yorl by so 600
But. though the very genius, the fundamental prin,
ciple of Loco-Focoism is in deadly hostility to an,
Protection of Industry other legislation to pro.
mote or defend the interests of the People, vet il
the Agricultural Districts we are every where
cheated, juggled swindled out of the advantage.
of our position this great question by the impu.
dent and lying pretensions of our opponents thai
taey are favorable to Protection, liz effect if not in
terms. and even that the Wings are It's enemies
This cheat in the nature of things cannot answer
but once.
We trust no Whig is discouraged, we know .he
majority not disappointed, that, in season o
general reverses 70 the Whig Cause, and in the
face of disastrous results in other States we have
be expected that we should at the first effort, un
dsr such discouragins circumstances, demolish tbs
$4,000 majority against US last Fall. We have
only to wait now until Loco-Focoism shall under
take 20 do as it stands pledged majority O
ita supporters to do in regard to the Tariff aud
Internal Improvements, and not the State only
out Inc Union Will rise ia overwhelming strength