The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-11-09
From our New York Correspondent.
NEw YoRK, Nov. 7, 1886.


"We may be disappointed by the ultimate result
I'm New York; but we do not feel defeated. We
never felt more confident in lives, that have
Truth ard principle on our side; and that We have
only to display the energy which they inspire, and
to reunite and rally the democratic party in New
York, TO recover any ground we may have lost in
the Empire State. We go for determined spirit
ana an energetic action svepohsrs."
These words, from Thursdays "Union," arc
words Of the right sort. They speak spirit which,
among the democracy Of New York, is almost uni
versal. few weak ones, or false ones, may fatsr,
but among the great, honest, and steadfast masses
of our "lion.hearted democracy" the word is en-
phatically "so suRREsDERl" Our over-con6dence,
our total want Of organization, and divisions
in our party are what have defeated us.
The divisions we are prepared for; give
US, then, but three months to organize and
prepare, and ready and able to fight the bat
lie ever again with the same men and on the same
issues, and win the victory. No mistake about this.
We see what has beaten US, and, SO far from being
discouraged, 30 full Of fight as at this
moment. Only give US a chaneei
Now that the smoke has cleared of, and that
we may look clearly the field, il is easy to see
that democratic triumph would have been nothing
short ola political miracle, and for such events tho
age is past The party appears to have been in a
state Of almost total disorganizstion. In every dis
trict where democratic majority existed, the ut
most efforts were made by democrats $50 called)
to throw it away. On full fair vote there are 81
Of the "a congressional districts Of the State next to
sure for the democrats In sirisen out Of these 81
districts, 1t appears, on careful examination of the
returns, that there organized bo, either open
or secret. But this was not all. The loss Of our
members Of Congress was not the only mischief
The whole of our State ticket, from governor
down, was everywhere scandalously sacrificed to
these boiling candidates. In the staunch old county
Of Suffolk, for instance which for 20 years has not
elected wing, no fewer than four stump candi-
dates were run, in the desperate determination to de.
feat the regular nominee for Congress, DR.. Lord,
(unsuccessfuly, we still hope.) The result APP
pears in majority for governor reduced to one
quarter Of the vote in 1874, whig assembly man,
and woful falling off in the entire democratic vote
Err uno disco Take this as sample of the
whole State. Why does Montgomery 20 400
for Young against $50 for Wright in lslp
and Hsrkimer fall off 300 morei Simply be-
cause the friends of General Petre, the stump
candidate in the district, sacrificed governor
and everything else to pile up for him that
enormous majority Of 1900 votes say nothing
now against Gen. p; but If he were the best man in
the Union, he has cost the party too dearly As for
the assembly districts they cut and carved into
small pieces by our divisions and splits all over the
State, even in this city. When before was scratch
of 5000 votes-or the third part of 6OOO-heard of
in this city Of Irregular nominationsi' Never until
this election in which one of the democratic cand.
dates for assembly was scratched that enormous
number of votes behind his ticket All this shows
widespread and irrepressibe discontent in the
party with the nominations. Everywhere the most
obnoxious men were run, and Mr.. Wright was
forced all over the State to drag the weight Of a
ticket which swamped him, and would have swamp
ed any man in the country. @
In my letter of the 4,h inst, published in Thurs
days Union, am made to say that in Chemung,
Herkimer, and Orange, "the party ascendancy in
the State hos been sacrificed for the sake of msera-
BILE triumphs Of regularly nominated candidates" I
wrote "orer regularly nominated" &c. Y.