The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1854-11-09
THE RESULT IN NEW YORK.

There are generally two sides every question: and the
result of TUESDAYS election in New York shows that
natcsm can be arrested in its progress by united onset
M hour disposed to initiate the expedien
now so in the wing press of claiming every dem
ocrac victory as an endorsement the administration Of
General Pierce and every democratic defeat as rebnke OF
his policy because of the that TO the
overthrow of the democracy in the October elections would
have existed had any other statesman occupied the pres
Dental chair The PERIOD moreover, had come for the
success of those influences which, about every
years. contriye to poison the public mind and to be-
wilder the public judgment temporarily 70 defeat the
democratic party The union of many hostile clements
however can no be expected hold together than
that the democratic party should long be defeated and
when those who have gone this combination discover
how powerless it is for any good purpose they will be as
prompt desert it they will be eager atone for their
injustice to the democratic party An individual always
hestaes before changing his opinions admitting his
rors but it Characteristic of free people that they
ready undo hasty verdict against great prnc
pie great The New York election is evidence of
returning Nomater what have chiefly control
led the result in that State the gratifying feature
til mind of the patriot is, that in of the strong
holds Of aboitonsm the democratic party has rolled up
great vote if it has not been completely triumphant.
So too it wholesome spectacle how efectuay
the of certain little demagogues have been
checkma,ed and crushed The vote for Judge Bronson
places him below all the other candidates. and is signal
and significant commentary upon the base passions and
vupera,ons of those who assumed lead his cohorts in
the campaign To these every other considera-
ton had become subordinate personal hostility Pres-
dent Pierce The vocabulary of Bilngsgate exhaust
ed for epithets against him. and claiming be gen.
temen did hesitate the vles of reproach
against the Chief Magistrate Of the republic Protesting
superior kind of democracy to all Others and assa
ing the eminent champions of democratic principles
because they would not join in the crusade against the
President these did hesitate themselves to vote
for and to combine with the violent enemies of demo-
cratic principles in the State Confident in the
of this system of defamation and hypocrisy, because
they had polled respectable vote year ago. and be-
evng that the people ready to support Judge Bron
simply because General Pierce had appointed another
person Office in his place. they looked forward to diff
erent result from that which greets their eyes But
there another view of this part of the subject The
Washington Union for months contended in the teeth
of the btterest denuncations of the Albany Argus and
few kindred prints that these corrupt leaders could not
keep the democratic party of New York from coming to-
geher and that the nauseous abuse of an honest and
straightforward Executive like Franklin Pierce would not
and could not excite any other sensations in the minds
of intelligent democrats but infinite and ineable disgust
and Indignation
We told them, too, in these columns tha. the democ-
racy of the other States in the Union regarded the
guilty of this systematic detracton of the American Ex-
ecuve with feelings not far different from those which
always entertained for noisy and reckless caumnators
and we said furthermore that the democratic party Of the
State of New York would be certain to sympaihze with
the prevailing sentiment Of the democracy of the country
The sequel proves that right Thus has the Wild
and INSCRIPTIONS warfare upon honest public
man been rebuked and defeated by popular decree such
as the country has not witnessed in twenty years
But this subject suggests other views, which will be
treated of on another occasion.