The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-09
1874
w ing gain IN these
counties. ....... 9IUo

Or nearly equal 10 IouhS . maJofiy VA 'he S'"N'
But while this merchandising antreht faction
thus stands responsible for the actual majority Of the
wing claw and-order" candidate II Is yet quite GER
tain that the coalition Of the wings and the anti
renters, could not alone have defeated Mr.. Wright
To secure the temporary ascendeney OF the wings
in the State u wider surface il not clover deep"
Of shame, was needed. Aboltsnists, natives, agra
rams, equal-rights-men, Fourierists-eVery most
peslilent and reckless form Of law-hatlng faction
numerous enough to trouble the peace OF any small
neighborhood- in to swell the chorus which
the wings and the anu-renters led of. The wing
party Of the Empire State, with all its hish-toned
conservatism, with its ''all the intellect" and Fall
the decsncy" boasting, has fairly laid itself down
at the feet Of the few thousand disturbers OF the
public peace, who laugh to scom its pretensions,
and so has dragged itself along through the thick
est mire Of Jacobinism up to the gubenatorial
chair
But the best Of the whole matter is, that in thus
setting at naught the established points in their own
party creed, 10 order TO construct political plat
form upon which every shape of social disorgani-
zation could mount, and 80 pass on together with
them into a temporary ascendency-in pursuing
this course, the wings Of the State Of New York
have already become Disguised ,uih their allies and
,cih each other Even wing principles-easy and
convenient as is their virtue-have not been found
elastic enough to stretch without some wincing and
discomfort over the whole batch of social and po-
litcal hereses from Fourierism, with its gratuitous
land distribution on the one hand to natiyism, with
its prescription Of our adopted citizens, on the other.
While the Tribune Office REDEEMED with illumna-
lion, the Enquirer and the Express, and the Com
mercial Advertiser we hear) shut up and barred
their windows in sullen chagrin. But this is only
the beginning. Already the anti-renters put forth
very clearly their understanding Of the part which
they have played in gaining this wing triumph,
and thrust forward, without delay, their claim to
the lions share of its spos. Here is the view
which the "Freehoder," the leading anti-rent organ,
takes of the election and of its results:
at is great anti-rent triumph and will have a
most bene6cent influence upon the future legislation
of this State II will teach State officers and all
politicians that the people, the toIlng millions, and
not the millionares, the drones OF community, hold
the political power in this country, and know how
to exercise it for their good.
From appearances, the next assembly will be
| nearly tie between the wings and democrats. IL
So tre shall hold The balance Of poicsr IN that boddn
adpaniaye Of tohich shall not be sloc 10 Gpaii our
selves"
Such is the object for which the wing party of the
State of New York has in this last election, "6led
its mind" For this-for the triumph Of the anti
renters, a triumph which they already boast they
will use for their own ends--for the election Of
wing governor, who, if confident report errs
i mt etapdo NJ this nj pledua1 and bouDu
to lend himself as the instrument, to bring by his
official PARDON the anti-rent ring leaders out of that
prison. which their msdeeds have so fully deserved,
and whose letter promising all this was poraded
through the anti-rent district from stump to stump,
in order to secure his electionfor two years. as
tendency thus truckled for, and thus bought, the
wing party of New York has been content to throw
its preferred and strongest man overheard, to go
into the field under banner not its own, and finally
to break up its internal harmony and put "rancors in
the vessel of its peace" in order to win shortlived
triumph by alien hands, and for alien uses Such
is the result which the wing journals, and among
them the National Intelligencer, down ''tri-
umph of those principles which the national pros
peritp and all that is sound and conservative in private
as well as public concerns, must ever depend!''
Yet we know the nature and the habits of the
wing party quite well enough to understand how
they will bear themselves in view Of their "trfs
umph, such as it is Alreadythey gil the air with
their shouts of victory, and proclaim that the adj
ministraton has lost the confidence of the country
and that henceforth the destinies of the Union are
irrecoveraby WING The whistle ofthe wings has cost
them so dear, that we can afford at least to let them
blow it, Were we disposed, however, to interrupt
their jubilee, we would bid them remember their tr
umph in the State Of New York in the autumn of
1910. Then, as now they elected their governor,
and in 90 far, revolutionized the State. Then, as
now, they were allied with the abolitionists, but
they had not yet sunk to the agrarians and anti
renters as well Yet, what notes of triumph, bois-
ferrous and long-lrawn, then rose upon the air;
what professions and Examinations, what songs and
hideous, What day Of jubilee proclaimed
as opening long ofascendency in the Empire
State But what was the end Of il alp At the very
next election, the democracy served the wing gov
ernor with its writ of ejectment, and Mr.. Seward
went speedily down into the recesses Of private life
When the wings shall find the Joy of their triumph
too great for endurance, we will bid them ponder
little also over the course Of thingsin November, 1874
They may remember usefuly how confident they
we're during the summer and autumn Of that year,
that New York would 60 for Clay. They may re-
member how boastful Of success they were on the
evening of the day Of electionhow even the rising
sun of the next day did not dspel their conf.
dence--how they made their loud brags and laid
their heavy wagers-and how after the evenings
mails had brought in the second days news, Mr..
Webster came forward to tell them from the win
dows Of the Astor House, that all was right, and at
the other end Of the city, Mr.. Frelinghuysen, from
the balcony Of the University, meekly proclaimed to
them. amidst their vociferous spplauses, that
when he went to Washington to help administer
the government IA Vice President, he should
90 fully resolved with the blessing Of Provi-
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