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

IS
The immense aud unpcecs denied Iaajorries for
sAe Pierce and Kg electors in this city, Baltimore,
d test, &c leave doubt Of the signal defeat Of
Gsn scott and the whig parry We write "iinous
swatir the returns from the rural districts, save
fes scattering townships, in which the so,e does
not cerre,pond with that in the sites Dat the gen
essi result Is certain. Franklin Fleres 70 cnosea
President, and William King Wee President OF
the United States, and 6e presume by very large
electoral majority.
shis result Believing that the ideas OF Political
economy and of the legitimate sphere and duties of
government cherished by the candidates now tri-
umphapt are unsound and pernicious, We have done
Ill shat We could honoraoly do TO defeat them. We
have endeavored from the outset TO make the con-
test turn the great questions Of principle and poll
cy which radically separate the two parties, and
TO win votes for Scott and Graham by presenting
them the friends Of protection 10 home industry
river and harbor improvements, and that general
system Of policy whch regards industry legiti-
mate subject OF national csneern and would direct
the energies OF free people rather TO internal inn
pfoyenent aud peaceful than to foreign
conquest and territorial expansion.
In this aim we have been bafied. Hundreds Of
Thousands who agree with us On every great issue
involved in this contest, have seen At to vote for
the antagonist candidates, or abstain from voting
altogether. Throughout the States and districts
where protection to home industry is popular, it
has been vehemently insisted that that question had
nothing to do with this In other sections,
where river and harbor improvement is universally
desired, that question was in Like manner protested
every slave State has voted against Gen Scott rs
the anti slavery candidate, Ohio and other States
have been repelisd from his support by persistent
representations that he and Pierce alike pledg
ed and bound to subserye in al things the Of
slavery.
II is but Just to the successful candidates to alb
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
Both Of them have been - Gen Percs for twenty
years and Col King for a much longer petroleum.
e0ulvOcal Of
school which denies the constitutional power Of
the government TO protect industry, or to i'm
prove rivers and harbcrs, and which esteems the
perpetuation ana ratification of human slavery
as a chief end Of the federal Union. By no
vote, no public act Of theirs, has this faith
ever been contrsvened, and in the very few in.
stances wherein Gen. Pierce has used the language
Of freedom, it was only that be might thereby sub
serve more efectually the 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 interposs objection. With many Of
their leading supporters the care is different, as
also with their most effective auxiliaries under the
lead OF GiddiDgs, who have deluded 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 10 those another
time
The majority in our city, and we presume in
other cities also, is not all honest. That in tho
Eleventh ward, for instance, is palpably sweed by
Illegal or double voting. There not the leas.
practical impeachment to the polling of twenty
thousand illegal votes in this city. AT majority
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 voters required
10 many districts. Whoever took fancy TO vote
twenty times yesterday did so with perfect npu-
nifty, and may continue TO do so al every election
until the night Of suffrage shall be guarded by
registry OF voters. How any man can oppose this
measure who even pretends 10 any respect for the
purity OF elections imagine.
Bat We should have been badly beaten in our city
without illegal voting. Our wealthy and mercan-
took little interest in the election Many who came
either voted the dead "union' ticket or else re-
Trained from voting for any electors. On the other
hand, our opponents, literally supplied with money,
OF the importing interest at their back, and the city
reform and temperance alliance diversions opsrat-
ing strongly in thsir favor. They event in to
win," and did it, though, we think, they cheated
more tbsn was necessary.
Cotton went very hard against us We hoped the
mon who have been defeating the whg party for
tWo or three years past, in order to kill Seward
must have finished their job by this time, but they
were at it hard yesterday as If they bad just be-
gun. 1t is a matter Of some interest 90 know when
they expect to get through, il ever but We DO not
mean to hurry them. There is time enough.
The new naturalization went heavily against us,
thorgA we think Cen Scott received more votes Of
adopted citizens Than any previous nhig candidate.
The new corners are nearly all deceived into mis-
but many Of them are gradually uDdecsiyed. We
did hope that many more would be this year ; but
the cry about Gen SCOTS former natysm, the cita-
tions from whig papers Of former years against
foreigners, popery, Sc., proved TOO powerful.
Patient forbeaTaDce and the avoid Of farther fol-
lies of this sort will work great change within a
few years. There sre no more honest voters than
the naturslized: unlike some others, when they
the right they pursue it. Only kindness, and the
quiet, steady diffusion OF intelligence needed to
bring majority Of the naturaized into political
dvxifh hui Of -arft-
1ens who are now, rs ever the earnest advocates Of
the distinctive measures Of the wing party. My
We not hope that this most desirable contamination
will hencetortb be steadily contemplated
Clamer against NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and deceptive,
but most posent-and bugbear outcry Of ''aboii-
tion''-haye been the nain Instruments in efTsesiug
the victory just achieved There is a majority Of
the American people this day in favor Of the mea-
sistnctivey contsndcd for ty the whig party;
the decision Of yesterday was made or false and
irrelevant issues; for we regret TO say that ma
jority Of he wings do not deserve the antislavery
character which their sdTersaries give them. They
not SO Froslayery the great bulk Of their OPP
Ponents; they will net 1--WE speak of thece in the
free States) consent to buy steal territory TO
make slave States Of; but they will do nothing hos
tile TO flayerys interest and security where IL has
already legal existence That our people are pro-
slavery, ana that nativism is an exploded fantasy,
re- nuch is proved by yesterdays yotc-as also that
our bnsiness men are prosperous, c0ntented, and
therefore indifferent to politics. FlibusSerism was
potent element 10 the contest; but introduced in
such manner that while the passion for the cop-
quest and annexation of Cuba porsr'uly aided
Pierce the cancellations conservative repu gnanoa
TO that spirit could not be rendered available the
other side Thus all things copspired 70 produce
the resut announced At tho opening Of this article
Of which result and it, consequences we shall speak
further tomorrow.
iPron the New York Express ,Fillmsre- Scott Mon.
grel) Nov, 81
All is lost except honor and to Franklin Pierce,
quite ana almost unknown man, is committed
She mighty trust Of twenty-five millions Of men IN
tkeT foreign and domestic relations he cannot be
said to be even the chosen of his parry, because
the two thirds system Of selection threw overheard
ia their convention all their really great men. he
is, however, elected, it msy be said, by acclsns-
ton. General Winfield Scott is rot 80 much de-
tested routed The hitherto inyincble sol her