The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-03
1he Elections-OverwheInii Defeat of Gen,
Scott and the Wing Party.

The elections are over. The great battle is
fought; and from the scattering returns which
have ecme in, General Pier,e is the President
elect Of the United States, by sn overwhelming
majority, Of both the popular and the electoral
vote. From the data before us, the triumph of
The democratic ticket is without parallel since
the days Of General Jackson, or General Har-
sisOn, leaving, indeed, even old Hickory himself,
In the back ground.
New York city has dun b. founded the wings, laid
them out stiff and cold, while it has inspired the
democrats to the most bosterous upToar Of delight,
and astonished everybody with its tremendous ex-
posion Of some IL 900 majority in favor of Pierce
And King. The Presidential ticket, too, seems TO-
have swept everything along with 1.-THE Corpora
ten State officers, Congressional, city, county tick
cts, Gen. Walbridge, and all Our returns, as far as
received indicate clean sweep, from beginning to
end, in tine city and county of New York. The
Webster movement has operated, no doubt, very
powerfully to this result; but that g. rich Irish
bcogus,'' that well known German accent" and
the scandalous panic with which the wings en-
tered into the fight have also sad great deal to do
with this terrible prostration Of the whg party Is
goes the city go goes the State; and as goes the
State, 80 goes the Union,
Though our returns are comparatively few and
incomplete, from the country at large, they axe
sufficient to justify the conclusion that every of
che three g-eat States Of New York, Pennsylvania
and Ohio, has gone for Pierce and King, by very
decisive majority. Nay, nore-our fgUres indicate
tbs. Connecticut, Rhode Island. New Jersey, Della
ware, and Maryland, have ranged themselves
IN the same column with Maine, New Hamp-
shire, Virginia and Missouri. In short there is no
absolute certainty, from the general complexion of
our t.legrsphic Dispatches up TO the time of
our writing this article, that General Scott
has carried any other States in the Union
excepting Vermont, Massachusetts, and Kentucky,
and perhsps Tennessee Even in Massachusetts,,
General Pierce has run amazingly well, lead
ing the field In the city Of Boston, with
handsome plurality over General Scott. Upon the
whole, It is highly probable that the electoral
vote Of General Scott viii be less than that Of Van
Burep IL 1910. This is Q revolution-a great, sig
niscant, and genuine revolution, between the two
great parties Of the country and in respect to the
general policy and the measures Of the government
81. Washington.
The resalt is, also, great moral Judgment Of the
people against the exhausted whig idea Of gum
powder availability; and most emphatic rebuke
the miserable policy ofradog with the abOiitonhts
npcn any terms Mr.. Webster and Mr. Fillmore were
rejected, msinly because they had given offence to
The anti slavery wings Of the Northern whig party
while General Scots availability, apart from his
suppowder capital, consisted almost entirely in his
GOOD political standing with Seward and his allies.
II was upon their imaginary strength that General
soott Was nominated; bat the deluson has vanished
into thin air II Ia The last time that the Southern
wing party viii agree to sacrifice those great leaders
who have maintained in good faith our constitu.
tepnl obligs.ions towards the south-it is the lat
sns the South Will consent TO sacrifice such men for
sbe sake Of abolition votes after this indignant re-
bake Of the people. Of q policy 70 desperate and
dangerous ]. lie the les. tine, rs ar2cbsn', that
y WI a-ty. FO'ts aPs sOr'h, - nov eoaE'i'