The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1852-11-27
Our Utica Correspondence.

BSrnbtu~ers and the Democracy- Candidates for
Congress IhroWn Oveboard-The Candidates
for the Cabinet.
The result Of tho election of last Tuesday il indeed
overwhelming. There are, in reality, few men who
expected to see the whig party routed so utterly,
although, after any denouemst has transpircd there
are always enough who say, 81 predicted it."
These same persons, had the result been precisely
the opposite would have been the first to assert that
they always secretly distrusted the chances Of Gen.
Pierce. We have been amused here in the rural
districts, at reading in New York newspaper that
a sudden discovery was made, the morning after
the election, that the employees in your custom
house were all democrats and that the collector Of
the port had been imposed upon in appointing them
rs wings So it is, that the strongest side has al
ways charms for the weak and venal, and the sue
csssful army carries away from the battlefield all
the camp followers and Migrants in its train-evsn
the soothsayers.
That General Pierce was destined to succeed Mr.
Fillmore was, however, go generally believed by
cool and experienced men in the democratic ranks,
that an active struggle has been for time past,
going on in caucuses, held in back parlors and
village lawyers Offices, throughout the State rels-
tive to the spois. The little chquss and coteriss
party have been active in parcelling out place and
power, and making capital for their respective
leaders and for themselves. The three divisions
bunker, barnburner and soft shell-into which the
democracy have separated, have occupied them.
selves quite as much in laying plots, forming coa
tioDs opposing each others movements, and secur-
ing here and there fanced slice of the great po-
itcal LOAF as in the active, open labor Of the cam
paign. The victory has rather come into their
hands rs necessity of the times than as the fruit
of desp6rato exertiOn
Aesns. Seymour and Church being elected, Is
your correspondent predicted, the new Albany re-
gency will commence its frat session at the capital
exclusively soft shell and barnburner-whst
might be considered . chocolate. colored COM
plexion-haf dingy white and half pure black
Marcy will represent in its councils the soft shell
faction, while Church, Randall, Benton and WEIGH
will maintain the barnburning interest. Mr.. Gas
sdy, Of tho albany Aaas, will preside at the organ
administration hostile to the old bunker party and
your Tammany hunkers, with the friends Of the
Albany argus, and of Daniel S. Dickinson, in tho
rural districts must soften their shells considerably
or look out for the application Of the and the
peiae forte ct dnye
Your correspondent, in the course Of long ex-
perience among politicians, remembers few in
stances of . CLIQUE or alliance Of men formed for
the advancement Of their mutual political purposes
which has remained unbroken as long as that which
was entered into under the advice and leadership Of
Governor Marcy, in 1850, and which is to this day
triumphant IN every particular, Two whole years
have the members Of this embryo regsnsy-poli-
ticians though they be-kept absolute faith with
each other The trophies of their successes lie
Senator Dickinson to retirement they have defeated
the re- nomination of Lewis Cass, and they have
retarded the enlargement Of the canals which would
have demaCed the railroad interest, in which sevs
raj oil them are large stockholders. II is they
did not obtain the nomination Of VIM l.. Marcy for
President, as Baltimore, but they did not, in fact,
desire intend to do so. Some of them used his
name to defeat Cass, and others supported him on
that occasion in order to obtain his entrance into the
cabi net of the next President. Nor did they sue.
coed last spring in making the Atias-thas support
er OF the proviso corner stonethe State paper but
that was matter of little import. Marcy, bitterly
oIpoIed as he was to the Argus, was satisfied with
sho wing new proof Of his good will to the barn
burners, by making the attempt, and 50 securing
their fidelity to Seymour, at Syracuse. The pur.
poses and objects of the regency, then, have
far been admirably conformed to BY its members
and fsmiliars, and in the whole programme no
noticeable flaw has occurred. How tar fortune may
serve 1t hereafter, remains to be tested. 1t
will have to manage adroitly to secure, in
opposi0n to the hard-shelled hunkers, the distrbu
fifth of August boys from their anticipated custom
house appointments. Undeniably, the power Of
the State administration will, after the FIRST of Janu
airy, be almost entirely in their hands, and from
by the old regency, on the day when he refused to
appoint Flsgg But, on the other hand the stub
born opposition manifested by Pierce during the
whole course Of his life, against coalitions with the
free soil nuisance, in any form-the eminently ma
toDal character Of tho man and Of his position
present elements difficult for them to oyerreash
seduce It viii be bitter struggle for it will be
the last trial Of strength between the uncontamina
ted hupkers and the free soil and soft shell strength
of the State; and the patronage Of the general ad-
minstraton is the best hope Of the former, driven
as they are from every State department.
just now, too, they are especially exssperated by
the defeat Of several Of their candidates for Gen.
gress, who have fallen victims to the per6dy of the
balnburpers The in this district is one Of the
most noticeable Of these MIR. Moulton, the demo-
cratic candidate, nominated after hard struggle
in the caucuses and conventions, is an inAexibls
hard shell, pledged to the support Of the compro-
mne, and especially obnoxious to the soft shells and
barnbuTners. At Baltimore, il will be remembered
by your readers, he WAS a Csss man to the bitter
end, and an active opponent Of VIM. L Marcy aud
his friends, the twenty-five coalit0nist delegates
\ Such man must needs be made an example Of
the regency required it at the hands Of the Oneida
faithful, and promptly has the demand been an
swered. Tue county was worth fourteen hundred
majority for Pierce, had there been splitting or
selling on the democrstio side; and not only the
electoral ticket but also the State and Congressional
might have had it-especially the latter-since
Joshua Spencer had been nominated IS an indie
pendent whig candidate. la other counties, thers
an effort made to give the Presidential ticket .
handsome support. In Oneida, all the contest was
upon Governor. To make votes for him. Moulton
was sscrifced outright, and the electoral ticket
sold, (thcugh to less degree) at every poll; and
you the result Ia the county, Pierce has about
l.l00 majority; Seymour has 800; and Matteson
| (S.wa,d wbjg,) goes back to Congress by large
majority. And thus one Of the most dangerous and
influential Supporters Of the "bgher law is sent to
Washington from district By no means fanatical
upon the subject Of slavery, through the votes Of
protesting to be the especial advo safes Of "union
and harmony" in tho democratic ranks, and Who
while they say, bail, bro.serw cannot resist the
gorious opportunity Of stabbing bunker "ander
the fifth rib" when the opportunity presents itseIf.
Another very provoking instance Of the immoa-
tiop CT national democrat occurred 10 the Twenty.
Smith knows bis unsverying Attachment TO ma
tioDal principles and TO the compromise measures
Of 1850. On the other hand, Ar Bennett is Sew
srdie OF the purett water, and the barnburners Of
ChensDgo, Coitlrnd, and Broome, openly supported
him at the polls The latter is elected and the
former reaps the reward Of bis consistent opposition