New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-01-14

id it, worst against Gov Hun. in 81 and most
Of the Wing State Officers IN 81, yet the City
majority against them was small Why should
We have anticipated large majority against
Gen. Scott We knew ne would receive
many votes hitherto cast against Us We did
not believe he would lose many vote. usually
given 10 Wing candidates. On this latter
point se ere deceived Tae Mercantile de-
lection We very heavy. n our own city aud
elsewhere Are We culPable Tor NOT antici-
patiEg it
But suppose we had done sO--snd hsd pro-
claimed, on the eve Of the Election, that the
Wing party vas betrayed by , National de-
lection and Gen. Scott irreyocably beaten:
Would Mr. Gardner and other grumblers OF
bis class have been better satisfied than they
now are Would they not, on the contrary,
have held us responsible for the succeeding DIS
ssters Would they not have said with plau-
sibility-" There vas no serious detection till
you created i; By your grOandless suspicious
sud vindiotive denunciations Would they
not have charged us with fomenting division
and neutral distr1st in the Wing camp and
thus rendering further concord impossible
To our mind. it il clear that, had we done "a
Mr Gardner now says We should have done,
We should have been accused Of producing the
detection and disaster We are nov blamed FOR
not predicting.
One other point We did not anticipate.
and were utterly unprepared for. 80 enormous
use of money as was made by our opponents
in the late contest. We appeal to intelligent
Observers to confirm our syerment that this
was by far the most corrupt Election ever
known in our State We do not say the prof
lgate use Of money was confined 10 one party
but we DO cay that az least three-fourths Oithe
money sent out from this City and Albany to
influence the result was used on the side Of
Pierce and King II is not so easy 70 deter
mine shere il came from bat We bslisre very
much oft was contributed by great Mercan-
tile and Manufacturing houses in Europe,
through importers and foreign agents in this
City, to prevent return 70 Protection by our
Congress and effect the ovcrthrow of what
little incidental Protection is now afforded by
the Tariff Of 10 We thought that, when it
became evident that money was being poured
out through such men az A. Belmont TO Sc
cure Perce's election, counter American
feeling would be aroused but We were dis
appointed.
Mr. Gardner goes on to find fault with what
he terms our deserton Of the Wing cause since
the election He thinks we ought rather TO
collect our scattered forces. and endeavor
to hold the adversary in check until better
times AL this may mean something beyond
tault-fnding, and il may not. Our ideas on the
subject are briefly as follows: /. We feel that
we were not merely beaten in the late contest,
but betrayed; and W. want TO understand with
whom We are TO act, and for what and with
what safeguards against FIRE in the rear
before We plunge into another struggle ?.
Gen Pierce is the President elect of the United
States--not Of part only, but Of the whole
people-and, while there is no probability that
We shall ever belong TO his party, We protest
against any headlOng, factious opposition TO his
rule. Let him be quietly inaugurated; let
him select such Cabinet as his unfettered
judgment shall prefer; and let him develop the
policy which he intends to pursue and then
let us al approve or condemn as shall seem
right The indications now are that the better
influences in his party are likely to overbear
the worse, az least in the outset of the new
Administration, and We would do nothing that
might even seem calculated to weaken their
ascendancy. 3. There are certain great ques-
tions ofpractical benefcence, like the suppress
sion ofTppling the Reform Of our City Coun.
ellis, the Improvement Of Popular Education,
&c to which we would wish more Immediately
10 draw public attention, leaving National Pol.
tics in allegiance for the present. For every
thing there is q proper time, aud We hold this
not the proper time for needessly reviving
party contentious. That is all