The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-04
TIE EFFECT OF TIE ELECTION.
Opinions of the Press i'm Regard
10 the Result.
PIE GENERA STAMPEDR,
SgE. Sc. xc.

The immense aud anprs csdensed najoriGies for
che Pierce and Krg electors in this city Baltmore,
Dssret, &c leave no doubt Of the signal defeat Of
Gsn Scott and the whig parry. We write without
awaiting the returns from the rural districts, save
fes scattering townships. in which the yo:e does
not cerrepond with that in the cities but the gen.
esal result is certain Franklin Pierce ia chosen
President, aud William King Wee President OF
the United States, and se presume by very large
electoral majority,
This result. Relieving that the ideas OF Political
economy and Of the legitimate sphere and duties of
government cherished by the candidates now tri-
umphant are unsound and pernicious, We have done
al shat we could honorably do TO defeat them. We
have endeavored from the outset 10 make the con-
test turn on the great questions Of principle and poll
cy which radically separate the two parties, and
70 win votes for Scott and Graham by presenting
them as the friends Of protection TO home industry,
river and harbor improvements, and that general
system of policy which regards industry as legiti.
mate subject Of national concern and would direct
the energies of free people rather TO internal i'm
provenent and peacsfu deveopement than to foreign
conquest and territorial expansion.
In this aim we have been baffed. Hundreds of
thousands who agree with on every great issue
involved in this contest have seen TT to vote for
the antagonist candidates, or abstain from voting
altogether. Throughout the States aud districts
where protection to home industry is popular, it
has been vehemently insisted that that question had
nothing to do with this canvass. In other sections,
where river and harbor improvement is universally
desired, that question in like manner protested
~ not at issue. And while nearly or quite
every slave State has voted against Gen, Scott rs
the anti slavery candidate, Ohio and other States
have been repealed from his support by persistent
representations that he and Pierce alike pedg-
Cd and bound to subserve in al things the uses Of
slavery.
IL is but Just to the successful candidates to ab-
solve them from Any active part in tue double deal
ing whereby they have largely proGted No Kane
letter swindle stains the complexion Of their triumph
Goth OF them have been-Gen. Piercs for twenty
years and Col King fer much longer petroleum.
equvocal and consistent disciples OF that political
school which denies the constitutional power Of
the government 20 protect industry or to i'm
prove rivers and harbors and which esteems the
perpetuation and fertilization of human slavery
as chief end OF the federal Union. By no
vote, no public act Of theirs, has this faith
ever been contravened, and in the very few in
stances wherein Gen. Pierce has used the language
OF freedom, il was only that be might thereby
efectually the uses of slavery. They
both stand clear on the record with perfect right
to pursue that course which their inclination
prompts. and to which has any plausible
claim to interposo an objection. With many Of
taelr Leading supporters the care is different,
also with their most effective auxiliaries under the
lead Of Giddipgs, who have deuded thousands into
belief that the wing party has ceased to be whig
m principle so that the questions of protection and
internal improvement have ceased to be party
Issues But we must do justice TO these another
time.
The majority in our city, and we presume in
other cities also, is net sil honest That in the
Eleventh ward, for instance, is palpaby sweled by
Illegal or double voting. There was not the leas.
practical pped linen to the polling of twenty
OF the polls there was little challenging, and at
many OF them any man whose appearance did not
subject him to suspicion voted without question.
Not even the residences OF the yoters required
IN many districts. Whoever took 8 fancy to vote
twenty times yesterday did go with perfect inpu-
nifty, and may continue to do so AZ every election
until the night Of suffrage shall be guarded by a
registry of voters. How any can oppose this
measure who even pretcnds 10 any respect for the
purity Of elections we cannot imagine.
Bat We should have been badly beaten in our city
without illegal voting. Our wealthy snd mercan-
tile wings generally kept away from the polls, or
took little interest IN the election Many who came
either voted the dead "union'' ticket or else re-
hand, our opponents, literally supplied with money,
were very sctive throughcus. They had the bulk
OF the importing interest ut their back and the city
reform and temperance alliance diversions opsrat-
ing strongly in their favor They event in to
Win,' and did it, though, we think, they cheated
more than was Necessary
Cotton went very hard against us. We hoped tho
men who have been defeating the whig party for
two or three years past, 10 order to kill Seward
must have finished their job by this time, but they
were at it as hard yesterday IS if t1ey bad just be-
gun. 1t is q matter of some interest 60 know when
they expect to get through, il ever; but do not
mean to hurry them. There is time enough.
The new naturalization went heavily against us,
thong we think Gen. Scott received more votes Of
T1pted citizens than any previous rhig candidate.
The new corners are nearly all deceived into mis-
taking the shadow Of democracy for the substance,
but many of them are gradually undcceived. We
did hope that many more would be this year but
the cry about Gen SCOTS former natiyism, the cita
tions from whig papers Of former years against
foreigners, popery, &c, proved TOO powerful
Patient forbearsnce and the avoidance Of farther fol-
lies of this sort will work a great changs within
Few years. There are more honeg. voters than
the naturslized unlike some others, when they zee 4
the right they pursue it, oaly Kindness, and the
quiet, steady diffusion OF intelligence needed to
bring majority Of the naturalized into political
accord with that large majority of our native citi-
1ens who are now, IS ever, the earnest adyocntsg Of
the distinctive measures or the whg party. Ny
We not hope that this most desirable consunlmation
will hencefortb be steadily contemplated
Claner against natiyism-insinoers and deceptive,
but most posent-and bugbesF outcry Of ''aboi-
tion'-bave been the main Instruments in efTscsiuS
abe victory just achieved. There is majority of
the American people this day in favor Of the mea-
sistinetyely contsadcd for by the whig party;
the decision Of yesterday vas made on false and
irrelevant Issues; Tor Ve regret 10 say that ma
Jority Of The wings Go not deserYa the anislavery
character which their Anniversaries give them They
are not 50 Froslayery rs the great bulk Of their
ponents; they will not 1--WE speak OF thegc IN the
free Ststes) consent to buy steal territory TO
make slave States Of; but they will do nothing hos
tile TO fi3yerys BtereEt and security where IL has
already legal existence. That our people pro-
slavery, ana that natiyism is an exploded fantasy,
- much is proved by yesterdays yote-as also that
orr husibess men are prosperous, contented, and
therefore indifferent TO politics, FlbusSierism wa.
potent element IN the contest; but introduced in
such manner that, while the passion for the con-
quest ana annexation of Cuba powerfully aided
Pierce, the eonscentious conservative repugnancs
TO hat spirit could rot be rendered available on the
other side. Thus all things copapircd to produce
the result announced at the opening Of this article
OF which result and it, consequences we shall speak
further 20. poTroW.
IPron the New York Express tFAlmsre- Soott-Noa.
grel,) Nov. 9.
All is lost except honor and to Franklin Pierce.
quite rev and ALMOST unknown man. is committed
she mighty trust Of twenty-five millions Of men in
Der forf1c Ha he
sd to be even the chosen of his own parry, because
Tho two thirds system OF selection threw overheard
ia their convention all their really great men He
IL, however, elected, it may be said, by accsns-
ton. General Winfield Scott is not 90 much de-
feated ss routed The hitherto inyncible sol lier
kss a lalt net biz Waterloo. It 81 not 20 much a