The republic. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1849-1853, 1849-10-10
T H E R E ? u BLIC
WASHIN GTON:
MORNING. OCTOBER 10. is4e.
New York Politics.

All ewes are now turned with interest
to the approaching election in the State OF
New York 1t is an election OF State oifi-
GERS merely but there are many points OF
view in which il is one OF national import
ance To great extent, it will be an IN
dex to the popularity of President TAYLOR
and his Administration. General TAYLOR
received the electoral vote of New York
against an opposition, when united, OF SUI
perior numbers. The forces of Mr.. VAN
buren, and General CAss far exceeded
those of General TAYLOR. Their division
gave us the State in lS4S; their reunion,
we believe, cannot take the State away
from us in lS49.
The Hunkers and Barnburners have
come together without the cohesive ce-
ment of common principles, purposes or
predictions. The Hunkers hate Mr..
VAN buren,, senior, as bitterly as ever.
They condemn him as the instrument of
their defeat at the last Presidential cleo
ton. 1t is owing to him and his house
that they are now exiled from the pleasant
pastures of patronage, and driven from the
cribs that have so long accommodated
their stalled oxen. The Barnburners hate
General CAss, and the elite of the distin
suished Democrats of Richmond, with all
the intensity of feeling which marked the
menace of SILAs WRIGHT to THOMAS
R1TcHIE in 1914, when the great New
Yorker wrote to the ardent and veteran
l'Virginian that " he should rue the defeat
of Mr. VAN buren, to the last day OF his
life" Either of these parties would fly
off from the union at once, II 1t was well
assured that its results would enure to the
benefit of the other. AT the prospect of
General CAss's taking the vote of New
York at some future day, what scatter
ing there would be among the Barnburn-
ers If the future should open prospect
of Mr.. VAN buren, in the Presidential
chair, there would not be left a corporaPs
guard of Hunkerdom in the great reunited
Democratic party.
| But it is not merely on grounds personal
to Mr.. VAN buren, and General CAss that
the parties hate each other. There is
great restiveness among the Barnburnlng
branch of the Democracy at the dominion
of Virginia principles (as they are humor-
lously called in the national Democratic
party independently of the injury which
they think Mr.. VAN buren, has suffered
at their hands, and of the disrepute into
which these men have fallen by their sor-
did abuse of the federal and State patron
age, the young Democracy feel that they
cannot stand up among the intelligent
people of New York on the narrow,
/ restrictive, and efiete notions of the Vir-
GINA Democracy. They know the men
who have had the management OF VIR
GINA for fifty years, and they know the
state in which they have kept her all that
time. With greater elements of wealth
and power than any other State in the
Union, the interests and the progress Of
Virginia have been sacrificed to a set Of
men who have been amusing her people
! with stuff about the resolutions of '98 and
, the alien and sedition laws, instead of APP
, plying themselves to the development of
! her agriculture, manufactures, mineral
r wealth and industrial interests. While,
! by the adroit use of these ancient topics,
! with the aid of an unmeaning outcry about
e federalism and the war of 1912, the Rich
. mond elite have kept their own mouths to
T the crib, they have kept poor old Vir-
e ginia's nose to the grindstone. Less has
been done in Virginia for the interests Of
y labor and industry than in any other State
in the Union while there has been more
: political nonsense talked, written and cir
. culated there than in all the other States
put together. The people of that State
> have been so frightened by distractions,
scare-crows, and political raw-heads and
= bloody bones, that they have been for the
= last fve-and-twenty years neglecting their
!. business to look after their Liberties and
+ they have been paying rinf to keep them
|, advised as TO the state of their liberties,
out of which there has been made very
2 profitable business.
y The Barnburning Democracy of New
!, York are Disguised with these antique
? and mouldy humbugs-and they enlarged
e their platform little at Buffalo, so as t.
Re comprehend, not only the Free-Soil ele
Z ment, but few other principles, beside,
"eternal hostility to the Alien and Sedi
h ton laws''-''everlasting fidelity to tn,
it resolutions OF '9S'-and 'tinnumerabl,
IN hurrahs TO the war of 1872" BY far thu
Z; larger number of votes in the Unitec
e, States have been born since the war o
1912 was fought; and as to the resolu