Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1850-11-12
THE REsULriN new YoRK.

TheteleCrapb announces the selection OF WASH
ington Huntsas Governor, and we presume that
the Aboli,ionists, AnttRenterss &c, have also
carried the Legislature, and the gallant Dickin,
son will have to give way to some 't:higher law"
champion, some worthy associate ofthe infamous
and d ngerous Seward. This triumph ofSeward-
ism in the Empire State we fear. will be a heavy
blow 10 the Constitution and The continued pre-
servation of the Union. The result, we confess,
we did not expect. after the patriotic Union meet.
ing in New York city.
We had hoped 10 see the spirit of that me citing
carried out in The eIectioa-and the firebrands OF
fanaticism cxtinguishedby the triumph Of the
friends, of The Constitution, Of a vigorous cXecu'
tfon OF the laws, apd OF he preservation of the
Union. The hopes of the patriot have been
crushed, and Washington Hunt, the embodiment
! of Sewardism and the enemy Of the Fugitive
Slave Law, has triumphed!
Even the co!ored votes were appealed to, by
an address, published in the Tribune by their
committee, TO vote for Hunt as an ''eXponant" OF
their princiP!es-and because she is pledged in
honor TO agilate the subject o! the Fugitive Slave
Law and his election wonId strengthen w. H.
| 0eFdT04 anu dtIII6 NC IbkdBQCu OlilGA ~ 1O h"oL
a Se0ardtriumPf. ;"
The moral (and we fear the politically effects
OF this election may be read by the South in the
issue of the Freesoii N. Y. Tribune:
s'Washington Hunt is well known to be hostile
10 the Fugitive Slave Law, for he has publicly
proclaimed the fact. Most of the Wing candi-
dates for Congress throughout the State are
"kuown or believed" 10 be hostile to some of the
Peace measures so called. THAI party which
the Cotton meeting pledges itself hencetorth 10
support, is not the Wing party, South Carolina
and the g~lorifers OF Daniel s. Dickinson being
Judges. In short, the Union Meeting is simply
a trap 10 catch Wings for The use OF lloratio Sey'
mour and Daniel S. Dickinson. Whatever tie
mass of the signers and auditors may have m
tended, the planners and wireworker5 had ms
end in view from the first, and. into this their
meeting at last resolves itself. Had 1t moi been
intended to operate on the election, it would have
been postponed a single week. II is san impu-
dent political trick, intended to strike down the
Freesoil sentiments Of the North through the de-
feat of Washington Hunt and the reelection Of
D. S. Dickinson"
Again, from the same Tribune:
"The cry is Down with Seward! Town with
Anti-Slavery agitalion!' The objects arc. to
throw the State into the hands OF our adversaries,
re.electD Dickinson and muzzIe the Press anu the
People with regard to Human BonGagc and its
Extension"
The black Flag of Frcesoilism hes %triumphed
and, if the fanatics can carry out their designs,
the Fugitive. Slave, law is TO be repealed, essen.
tally modified, - or nullifed-eithei Of which re.
suits will sound the knell Of the Union. We
trust that this triumph Of the revclutionists and
will open tie peoples eyes TO the dan
gers in which the country is placed, and which
threaten to divide and destroy the COnfedcracy.-
Can Mr.. Fillmore consent 10 play the second hd.
die to Seward, or will he stand up for hlmScltand
throw all his energies against the ag!tators-?-
This success of Sewardism will throw an awful
responsibility on him. as President OF the whole
Union. Will he meet it like a man, like an
American statesman?
This " Seward triumph" in New York throws
new danger over the subject and should have the
effect of arousing the South to new and united
efforts for the security OF the future. She stands
on a volcano, and all her energy and concert
will be called on. 10 project herself and save the
Union.-Eei 0hrr0r3 HUqufr1T.
In connection with this result the Richmond
Examiner very pertinentiy says: 4.
lii now pretty well ascertaincd that tile Abo
lition Wing party of New York, headed by Will
liam Seward, have carried the elections in that
State by overwhelming majoritics. Such an
event occasions no surprise to ourselves. 1t
agrees with all that we saw there, and with the
theory we have long entertained regarding pub
lie opinion and popular feeling in the North
Citizens ofthe South may rely upon it, that they
have no further, mercy to expect from the politi-
clans Of the North. The Democratic party
throughout that end of the continent have stood
by them until their prospects have been tho-
roughly and finally ruined. The Wing party
now has and will continue to have its own way
in all the country through which the influence OF
New England extends. The New York election
puts the seal on a long series Of facts, which
make it too evident that our destruction is inevi-
table, if we do not defend ourselves in future as
we resist robbers and burglars