Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-11-16
SPIRIT OF THE MORNING PRESS.

The InteHigencer declares it reioices
oyerthe result of the election in New York,
because such results tend to lessen the
power of the Democratic party to control
the Government. Though wishing ex-
tremely well personally to the President
and his constitutional advisers, the editor
wishes above all things, however, to {" get
'em out o that" as he frankly declares.
The Hteihgehcer also contains very inter.
esting London and Paris correspondence.
The Union commenting on the pleasure
with which the Intslltgeneer and Baltimore
Patriot have received the result of the
New York election, says:
The foregoing extracts from two of the
most influential whig journals in the country.
furnish an Ineligible view of the Importance
which the Wings attach to the late election in
New York. 1t is worthy of remark that the
Wings have achieved "a signal victory in the
election OF the entire Seward ticket and this
result is hailed with e1ultation by the Patriot.
from the ascendancy of this wing of the Wing
party the editor hopes - for firm support 81
the principles of that party which looks to the
preservation of the Union" The times must
be sadly out of joint when a southern journal
openly and boldly puts its trust for the main.
tenance ''of the Union and the supremacy of
the laws In party which recognises the
leader Of higher -lawism AS its great head
That the power of the State Of New York, so
lar at least as its legislation is concerned, j.
placed in tie hands of the worst enemies of the
constitutional rights of the States, is not only
undeniable, but is virtually conceded both by
the i'ite[ftg>ncer and Patriot, and vet thew
congratulate the South upon the result, And
all this JOY is attributable to the fac,
that the late victory in New York was ae
hieved by the friends of the Union the
glorious advocates of the constitutional rights
of the South, who deny that the constitution
ltseII Is ehtltied to respect when it comes in
conflict with the higher law of abeitionism
- 70 have HERETOFORE considered it safe rule
TO look TO the southern States to ascertain
whether the Union was in danger from the
abolition question and we have never known
the southern people Indifferent to danger from
this quarter. But ii is singular fact that Of
late the rule is entirely reversed-the south
ern people are quiet, and contented with the
settlement OF their rights by the election of
PRESIDENT Pierce and his maintenance of them
IN MS administration; whilst some of their
friends at the North are greatly di. ouisted ard
asitated for the safety of the Union. We
should suppose that if the late elections in
North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana
and Texas, were not satisfactory As TO the
state Of the southern mind on the slavery uues
ton, that the late overwhelming result in Mis-
sissippi ought to quiet all their fears and give
them assurance that the Union is in no imIne.
tiiate danger.
" But our Viii: friends of the IutsUieencer
and Patriot can see nothing in the southern
cleo ions to comfort their disturbed minds
nothing to give them assurance that the Union
rs cafe; but no sooner does the State of New
York fall into the hands of the Sewardites
through the divisions In the Democratic mar
~, than they are filed with hope and low in
view OF this signal triumph of "the friends of
the South, marshalled and led to victory nv
the great champion Of free-soilism, What
wonderful friends of the Union and of the
South these gentlemen have got to be, Thcv
labored hard to save the Union nv DIV.
ing Sewardism the ascendaucy in the ma
tional government by the election of Gen
eral Scott; having failed in this remark.
able devotion to the rights of the South. they
now rejoice that they see accomplished in the
Empire State what they desired so much to see
IN the Union
The Sentinel inveigles against Britain s
presumed effort to Africanize Cuba, as
also against Secretary Guthlie's removal
of Bronson.