New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-11-09

OF course exist to ensure or aggrsvste it, but bad
management Is often at the bottom even Of these
Good OF bad lesdiog rg,nization. generaiship,
determines whether the favorable or unfavorable
influences shall be overruled to highten the tri-
umph or intensity the di,aster. There is great
blame to be devOlved somewhere foc tue extrsor-
binary result Of our receut election let US each
set forth frankly his view Of the causes Of that
result, so that whatever Of tbem are likely
to be repeated may be avoided o. amended in tue
future.
OF course, so far % the result was surprise.
we rest no blame on any one out OF the mystic
circle Of the Know. Nothinqs" Not knowing
who these were how could we gu-rd against
their Vaccinations In hundreds Of cases, tue
Wing circulars and ballot. were 10 COED faith con-
fded to former Whigs, who we're undoab,ingy
expected to present and distribute them st the
polls but who in fact concealed or destroyed them.
There were voters enough who went TO the bal
lot-bo1es on Tuesday intending to vote the Wig
State Ticket, to have elected Ci'rk and Raymond
triumpbantly. But at very many polls no Wig
bills, ballots or vote. distributors could be found,
while at Others Know Nothing" State ballots
were handed out from Ostensible Wing boxes,
and voted without . suspicion Of their true char
acter. Sometimes they were examined, aud
their true nature discovered; but the bewiliered
voter was told that these were the only Wing
ballots to be had-that the Wings were all going
them-that this or the Rum ticket must be
elected-and finally they were persuaded to aoat
with the current. Some refused to DO this, aud
either discovered Wing ticket somewhere, or
were obliged to go home without voting. Thus
was Ullmann's vote swelled, while Clark's was
diminished to a still greater extent
But let us look still deeper into this business:
When in 1852 Franklin Pierce was elected
President over Gen. Scott by an electoral ma
jerity perfectly overwhelming, it was manifest
that the old party issues were completely out
worn and impairment, and Gen. Pierce WAS
chosen President, not because the rule or
the tenets of his party were preferred
by majority Of the American People,
but because is was generally believed that his
election would afford q safer guaranty against
Slavery Agitation than Gen. SCOTS would. Other
considerations had weight in this or that quar-
ter, but this was the controlling idea. And
when that election was over, the Wing party was
bygone affair, and its Democratic counterpart,
by moral necessity, was ready to tumble into
pieces whenever rudely shaken. This was de.
monstrated by the Hard and Soft disruption 10
our State, the perfectly independent but similar
schisms in Maine, Missouri, California, &C.,
&c. In short, both the old parties were dead
and needed to be shOveled under, whether from
regard TO the purity aud sslubrity of the stmos
phere or to having the ground clear for such ac-
ton thereafter as circumstances might demand.
Now came Douglas with his Nebraska bill, Gre
atipg an entirely new commotion. This trans
formed leading pacfcators of 1902 into wanton
agitstors, and made Anti-Slsvery conservative.
A lew formation became henceforth inc gitable
The South took ground for Douglass bill; the
North very generally rose against it. In State
after State, the antagonists Of Slavery Extension
set aside old party differences and party orgauiza
tions, and united on the REPUBLICAN platform to
insist on the legal exclusion Of Slavery from the
Territories. And, wherever that ground was
and frankly taken, the People have en-
phaticslly said, Amen
New-York, almost alone among the Free States,
bssitated and held back. Her people wished to
Join in the general movement but too many Of
her politicians were net ready. They admitted
that the old shell must soon tumble about our
ears if we did not leave it, but guessed it might
be patched and propped up SO as to stand auo-
Their year-and there were important points to be
made in that year. They smiled on the Fusion
in Maine, New. Hampshire Ohio, In
diana, Iowa, &c, bat did not see why il should
be initiated here just yet; for were not we Wings
in power here and had We not certain prospect,
through the operation of the Hard and Soft feud,
10 remain SO Why, then, should we take the risk
Of contermsrch in the face of our adversary
Why divide the loaf when we might enjoy the
whole Why not carry the State just once more
under our old name, appropriate the accruing
gpOils and then see Whist should be donel So
the Fusion movement, begun by men rather out
side of our party was feebly prosecuted to an IN
satisfactory non conclusion. The Saratoga Con-
vention went as far as was advisable without
stronger backing, and adjourned over to
await the action Of the party State Con-
sentiOns. The Wing State Convention at
Syracuse followed, passed capital resolves
al pointing to Fusion, and proceeded to
nominate an entire Wing ticket This was like
asking your friend to join you in picnic and
your,elfeatipg up all the mutually supplied viands
before be could arrive The Silver Grays, gal |
vanized into new life by these short sighted blum
5ers, at once started into preternstural activity.
We had insisted on Fusion and nominated an en-
tire Wing ticket They portrayed and dilated on
the enormity of Fusion, and eoolly proceeded to
form Fusion State ticket-a Fusion of all sorts