The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-11-24

worthy Of the aIacrty and intrepdity with which you
have sustained your and contributed the su
stantiAl results OF the campaign.
When ON former occasion before the election We an
pealed to BY ali the high and urgent considerations
which govern the actions of enlightened patriotic
men did with full apprec alton of all that you
would be called TO encounter and the great and
labor you would DO expected TO perform You entered
the field with what TO minds less determined than yeur
would have been great dscours gsments You b sd
suffered for four years from the depression and political
disqualification OF an unnatural coalition disguised under
the deceptive but allaring phrase of 'unon and har
mony = Prominent politicians heretofore acting with
the national democratic party Of the State quitting their
seeking the al lance Of the free soil faction and ming
70 carry with them into its ranks all within the reach OF
their influence or the alurements Of thsir official
POSITIONS had not been altogether unsuccessful The
science the insiRcsy the INSCRIPTIONS desire of dom
Mon and the resort to violence and 20 obtain it,
on the part OF the free soil leaders and their
allies, had rendered separation Is unsyods ole as Il
was desirable; and you had boldly not rsshy, severed
the chain which bound us to the Promethean All
some and was misrepresented by others BY the free
soil demagogues and the minions Of power the
ton counterfeit minority, denounced "ootng,"
and threatened with punishment rebellion The mid
and time serving hsstated and the interested among
those whose sympathies in direction seeking
office In the localities were content to bear serviude
they could win the spois All the engines Of power in
the national and State brought bear
against The federal administration forgetting its an
tecedents. FORGETTING its claim to nationAs, dsoardng
the tue friends and uniform supporters Of the principles
under preten1e adherence to which It had obtained
power and taking to its confidence and association the
most malignant and of the free soil leaders,
denounced the honest movement Of the democracy OF
the State, and elected from official stations we'll
kown democratic incumbents who, In the exercise of
the inasn.Ss rights Of opinion and action dared
OF nadonalism. An eminent and capable democrat,
whose purity Of life and consistency Of public course
stood proudly In con rast with the free soil factonists
prescribed, hunted down. and removed with . sum-
mary nsolence, which has parallel In political his
tory. The power the Custom house. with all les mesns
OF and intimidation brought out with the
utmost hostility. Every man within the scope Of It's
vengeance threatened, and all who hung in expsc
money raised by CONSUMPTION upon official retsinsrs
and by the hope Of Interior Yards The army Of post
ensd many quiclensd to unusual efforts
to tain free sosm parayEed In their repugnance
to it. Members Of Congress, protesting national feeling
until the appliance Of governmental reward favor
between them and their duty to their past opinions
associations, took the field active instr amsn,s of
ton' and the old national faith the heresy of rregu
arty" The abject doctrine Of passive obedience which
fathers resisted, and which q great and free
nation have exploded both in faith aud practice
openly avowed by authority or enforced by
asspotsm In all departments Of the State government
every Independent national democrat Who refused to sue
cumb to this odious tyranny was instantly thrust from
office at whatever sacrifice to the public interests and
the subservient ens Of brief authority posted along
thoroughares to render mental service and
votes this great between pow or and principle
body OF patriotic men entering such contest under
such circumstances with little preparation without
ganzaton with restricted and relying solely upon
their principles and the honest impulses Of the people
with such combinations arrayed against them with all
the accessories Of wealth. official position travelling
saries nerant orators belchng personal caumnes
ready alike to insgate violence practice i'm pos
ture and stimulated by government encouragement
and patronage-would have regarded result tar less
favorable q substantial vistory. The Cabinet at
Washington, and its subsidized press there echoing
the groundless and mpudent assertions of their free
soil orators and presses here, Affected mu,h to
deride our weakness to denounce position. They
said We should not present show Of strength, and
they kindly awarded In the majesty of their prssump
ton, overwhelming defeat and political annihilaton Bat
whn these interested and Wanting predictions all
overthrow and reversed by the cual resut-when
votes than the free soil faction and its deserters
from the national party, but atyng results in of
the details and in nearly every drecton-how great is
present moment and how cheering for the future
Permit recall Of the fruits of this great VIC
tory.
George W. Clinton, the first of the nominees on the
national democratic ticket leads the free soil and coan
ton ddate, Isaac vsrplanck than three thou
free soil opponents the entire ticket for State
officers To the Senate the national democrats elect
eight, and the free soil and coalition but two. To the
Assembly the national democrats elect decided msjo
the coalition. In i've If the senate districts
where tie "united democracy" SO called, presented
their nominations, the democratic candidates de-
feated and wings elected by the detection Of the free soil
leaders, and in each Of Them land particularly the
Columbia and Dutch district aud the We stchsster and
Rockand distrct,) with such open exhibition of their
instincts that they substituted the of the whg
didate upon their printed ballots
1t will be recoected that in the State Convention of
September last the delegates felt it their duty
to separate from faction which aimed to seize
troll Of that body by the aid OF spurious conteted seats
and the introduction Of band Of mercensry rowdes who
employed there they had bee in the city OF New
York and in New Scotland in the county Of Albany to eff
feet by violence what they had not secured not
carry by the democratic voices In the districts ded
majority of the national democratic delegates had been
elected to that their there
could only be frustrated resort to spurious contested
Seats the element Of force the seductive high
officials In the State and rational governme who the
in the history Of politics. such
to veto and the honest voice of the democratic
localities That positions undsnia BILE and our
course unavoidable and sanctioned by ell high considera
tons of duty to the national democratic and to
respect appeal to the results in the as
sembly districts in The recent contest In the State
convention, the city of New York presented, or
ought to have been, by sixteen delegates Tammany
Hail. desecrated by violence and dshonored by political
prostitution. sent s sixteen delegates claiming regu
ay under the &gis of that honored but now and
forever degraded name, bach ed by auxiliary armed
force. The returns this election show national de-
nine of them by votes ranging from two to four to
the free soil and coalition candidates; and
the remaining Eve districts showing for the latter
humid ed votes And the great city through all periods
the stronghold Of sound constitutional principles,
evnced its undated attachment to the national cause
by aggrep majority for the national deK ocratic
candidate Secretary Of State of /, seven thou
sand votes and upwards Of three Thousand the wing
candidate Not the least gratifying Of the results this
locality was the triumphant electon to the Senate
his free soil and wing competitors, Of Thomas j. Barr
n arnan of the regular Democratic General Committee
which, driven by violence and outrage from TAmmany
Hail. asserted their just claim to be regarded
the representatives of the national democracy of the
city claim now confirmed by the ballot pox and
dorsed by the people And to this expression may add
the phatc results in the Fifteenth and tsenh
wards From the former, John Van Buren, appeared at
Syracuse its pretended representative, now as on
former occasions and 1t has evnced i appreciation Of
that uafouneed pretenson BY vote Of than three
to for the national the free soil ticket in the
latter Mr. oochrane Surveyor Of the Port who protested
TO speak by authority in the convention, pronounced
spurious delegate by vste Of than two
In the city and county ofAbany entitled four delegates
whence the coalition also presented their contestants
national democrats show large msoss In three of the
Assembly districts; and In the COUNTY of Coumba from
which two spurious delegates claimed seas-one of them
the person of the government postmaster at Hudson
the NATIONAL democratic majority exceeds four hundred
votes The Batavia district in Genese, the residence Of
Mr. Rsdsld the present Collector OF the ppt of New
York. repudia the unounded claim Of the free soil and