Washington sentinel. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1853-1855, 1853-11-26

yentlon, the city of New York was represented,
or ought to have. been, by sixteen delegates.
Iammany Hall, desecrated by violence and dis
honored by political prostitution, sent its six
teen delegates, claiming regularity under the
mgis OF that once honored, but now and forever
degraded name, backed by an auxiliary armed
force The returns of this election show ma
honal democratic majority in eleven Of the six
teen districts, nine of them by votes ranging
! from two to four to one over the freesoil and
coalition candidates; and the remaining five
districts showing for the latter, with single
exception, less than majority of one hundred
votes. And the great city, through all periods
the stronghold of sound constitutional princi-
Piles, evinced its undated attachment to the
national cause by an aggregate majority for
the national democratic candidate for Secretary
of State Of nearly seven thousand votes, and
upwards of three thousand over the wing candi-
date. Not the least gratifying of the results in
this locality was the triumphant election to the
Senate, over his freesoil and whig competitors,
of Thomas j. Barr, chairman the regular
democratic general committee which, driven
by violence and outrage from Tammany Hall.
asserted elsewhere their just claim to be re-
garded as the representatives of the national
democracy Of the city-a claim now confirmed
by the ballot box, and endorsed by the people.
And to this expression, we may add the EN-
phatic results in the fifteenth and seventeenth
wards. From the former, John Van Buren,
appeared at Syracuse as its pretended repre-
sentative, now as on former occasions, and it
has evinced its appreciation Of that unfounded
pretension by vote Of more than three to one
for the national over the freesoil ticket In
the latter, Mr.. Cochrane, surveyor Of the port,
who protested to speak Shy authority" in the
convention, is pronounced a spurious delegate
by vote of more than two to one. In the
city and county Of Albany, entitled to four dele.
gates, whence the coalition also presented their
contestants, the national democrats show large
majorities in three of the assembly districts;
and in the county of Columbia, from which
two spurious delegates claimed seats, one Of
master at Hudson, the national democratic
majority exceeds four hundred votes. The Ba-
tavia district, in Genesee, the residence of Mr..
Redhed the present collector of the port OF
New York. repudiated the unfounded claim Of
the freesoil and coalition delegate to seat in
the convention, by vote of nearly three to
one for the national ticket. The returns show
| similar results in the counties of Orleans and
Cattaraugus, and in the cities of Rochester and
Troy. To these we might add other counties
and districts, indicating similar results and all
tending to show to the conviction of any un.
prejudiced mind, that deliberate and nnar-
thorized claim to seats in the State convention
was a part Of the machinery by which the free
soil leaders sought to neutralise and overcome
the rightful numerical superiority Of the ma
tional democrats, in defiance of the popular
expression, and in derogation of the will Of the
democratic localities
i One of the causes which led to the settled
conviction, on the part Of the national democ-
racy Of the State, that all professions of "union
and harmony" by the freesoil leaders were hol-
4 low and insincere, and were only the device by
which they sought to erase the recollection Of
the revolt of 1913, to enable them to reenter
the democratic party, with unchanged views
and aims, and to rule and domineer over its
consistent and faithful adherents, was the ne
! farious attempt, by unjust accusation and a
mischievous, maleyolent, and harassing i'm.
peachment to PROSTATE and destroy capa
| BILE democratic State officer, whose intrepid
| fidelity to the national cause stood between
them and their Interior designs. The verdict
of the democracy upon this question is one of
the most significant Of the results Of this con-
test. Mr.. Mather leads his freesoil and aboli-
ton competitor several thousands in. the ag
gate vote; and in the county Of his official res
1 idence, in his own county, and even in the res
ident county of his competitor, his vote is
largely in the ascendant. So true it is, that
yindictive personal assault rarely fails to return
and plague those who resort to it, and to honor
the intended victim.
No man can doubt where these facts place
the national democracy of the State. The ac
! tual majority the returns exhibit only family
demonstrates their real strength. The great
body Of the democracy maintain now the atti
tude of their heroic devotion to the national
nominees in lS48. The few who acted with
them then, but who, from interested or ambi
/ tious inducements, have since formed an ALI
ance with the freesoil leaders, SO far from being
sufficient in number or influence to PROSTATE
| the national phalanx or impair its energies
have simply reduced the aggregate coalition
vote. With all the aids Of prominent deser
| ton, and the auxiliaries Of power in the State
and national governments, they fall twenty-three
thousand votes below their aggregate Of that
/ year. And this descending course is exhibited
even under the temporary additions to their
vote through the custom house and official ap-
] pliances in the city Of New York, and in such
counties as Otsego, Greene, Franklin, Duchess,
Oneida, Sullivan and Tioga, which in ls4S
ranged proudly by the side Of the friends Of the
national democracy, but which, misled now by
! the false cry of "union and harmony" the
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the local press, and calculating desire of local
Office, deserted their old cause and standard,
and threw in their majorities to aid the waning
| fortunes of the coalition. But such results are
only momentary exceptions to the generally in
creased majority for the national cause; and
these counties, resuming their national afini-
ties, will return at the earliest occasion to their
natural associations. Had the national admin.
| istration, following out its supposed sympathies
and associations, taken its position with the
national democracy in the contest through
which we have just passed, the great body Of
the former freesoil partsans SO far as they
claimed to act with the democratic party, would
have added their votes, with few exceptions,
to the national strength, and the democratic
party united, not normally but in fact, upon
the great principles they have ever avowed,
would probably have carried the State victori.
ously, even over the wing candidates. View.
ing, therefore, these results in their true light,
it cannot fail to be seen, here and throughout
the Union, that freesoilism and the coalition
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