New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-29
Oar Late Election.

The Official Canvass has dispelled all
doubt, if any remained, as to the result of our
last State Election That result is Wing
deft at, although we elected two of the
State Officers, half the Senate and MAORI
ty of the Assembly. But the Controllers
office, the State Department, the Senate
(virtually,) and the Canal Board, pass from
Wing control Tito that of our antagonists,
giving them the hundreds of minor Offices
on the Canals and in the Departments, from
which the Wing incumbents will soon be
elected to make room for opponents. The
Governor, the new Canal Commissioner
and the Treasurer still remain to us, with
a dubious preponderance in the Assembly,
but substantially the State is in the hands Of
the Opposition.
Manifestly, this need not have BEEN
The average majority against the Wing
State Ticket is but handful of votes
though our adversaries had the advantage
of both the Anti-Rent and Cotton nomlHa-
a portion of the Wing Anti-Renters voted
for some of the Wing State candidates in
spite of their adverse nomination, but they
did so in defiance of the party dictum, and
not in conformity herewith. Had there
been no distinctive Anti-Rent nomination,
leaving all the opponents of Feudal Tenures
to vote as they severally should think best,
we could hardly have failed to carry all our
ticket but the State Prison Inspector. So
the Cotton nomination gave twelve hundred
Wing votes to half the Opposition ticket
and only six hundred Opposition votes to
half the Wing Ticket. There were some
eight or ten thousand Loco-FOco signers of
the Cotton pledge, nine-tenths Of whom
voted for Welch and Wheaton nevertheless,
not only without any plausible assurance
that they had abandoned the Free Soil An
ti.Compromise principles of which they had
been prominent champions, but with abund.
ant evidence staring all in the face that they
had done nothing of the kind. But when
the Union Safety Committee could manifest
such utter destitutien of principle as was
evinced In the nomination and support of
Henry S. Randall, for years conspicuous
Anti-Slavery agitator, in opposition to
Judge Forsyth, who was never anything of
the sort, and when twelve hundred Wings,
nearly all of whom know how to read and
write, could be induced TO follow that lead,
it is idle to complain of the faulty or bad
faith Of others. Our Union and Safety
Conservatives meant to beat the Wing
party and diyest it of power as chastise-
ment for its addiction to Sewardism : and
they accomplished their purpose. The
men who gave their names to the Cotton
movement were but puppets, behind whom
stood such wire-workers as John Young,
James Brooks, Francis Granger, James
Kidd, and their confederates. From the
opening Of the canvass, it was evident that
these had resolved that the Wing party
should be beaten. This was the cue to
thSsA S1'oSS' niOtai, ucuuhCl~
alton of the Anti Renters, whereby hun
dreds were turned against our whole ticket
and the heavy majorities rolled up for Chat
field in Schoharie, Delaware, Sullivan, &C.,
which elected him. BY their secret machi-
nations or oyen hostility, the Wing vote was
reduced at least FIVE hundred in each of the
Counties of Kings, Albany, Ontario and
Monroe, in which Counties two Senators
and several Assemblymen were deliberately
thrown away by them. Had the Silver
Grays Of these four Counties alone sus-
taired the Wing tickets, we should have
carried the State triumphantly. We have
lost it because they preferred the ascend.
ancy Of the Van Bulens, Chat6elds and
Croswells to that of the great body of the
Wing party. They had perfect right to
- The Official Canvass viii be found on our Third