The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-10

Scott, broad, deep 3nd dts juci; and the general
suf pici, that he latter, + elected, would be-
GONE the pliabt M rpm a. Of W. II. Seward
snd bis sntislav y designs, allied tie whole
country TO The support of he more adroit New
but was not party triumph on
the tide Of P cree. 1t was POPULAR uprising
the outburst Of popular evolution--the first
bold dash Of the peops If m tasir oil party
shack es; an all our subseque t political re-
actions have been but the sshing advances of
this rev lutionary movement Of popular So
vereignty."
1t was thought, On the election of Pierce,
from the ute pr stration and oemora'ization
OF the national wbig p rty, that there was an
open course for the Glorious democracy for at
least twenty y srs to come. But the de usion
was short. The popular verdic' was set aside
and reversed. The fata free coil spoils policy Of
the administratio spoiled he " ole calcu 10 D.
The democratic split which fol lowell in New
York was but the precurs r of political revul-
sion, compare with which that If 1852 was no
thing more than the overture to the epera-a
suggestive movement of the popular mind,
which can now be unders God as utterly re-
CARELESS of Baltimore conventions and old clap
trap party trammels 1t was mistaken by the
Washington spoilsmen for an old fashioned party
triumph Of the Van Buren, regency-the diffu-
zion Of independent opinions, by railroads and
telegraphs and through the resistless currents
of the independent press, having been ignorant
ly overlooked.
The consequences of these fatal blunders
Of huckstering and narrow-sighted politicians
are before U.S. The Generalization and disin-
tegration of the late wing party have been rar
out" Of the administration party, from New
Hampshire to Missouri, in the recent cleo
tions. At this moment the drift, the rubbish,
the fragments Of the overwhelming democratic
cohesion of 1852 are swallowed up among the
ephemeral factions of the hour. Within two
trous defeat of Scott in the one case was not
more fatal nor more ignominious than the over
whelming triumph of Pierce has been in the
other. The only difference between the two
partiesis, that the one perished from starvation
and the other from o surfeit.
The reconstruction of parties was the next
proceeding, and the presence Of four distinct
State organizations in this November canvass
was but the natural consequence of the album
dance of the waste and loose materials in the
field. But no one Of, these four parties has
been organized with reference to the revival of
he 10 - thu Ill xrhs r<u
the continuance Of the Cabinet party. The bulk
of the wings have been shufled together for
Northern anti-slavery alliance for the Presiden-
cy-the soft shell democrats simply In reference
to the holding Of the spoils-the hard shells in
view Of some new national organization and
the Know Nothings in contemplation of mo-
nopoly Of the public Offices by the natives, to
the total exclusion of foreigners and the hu.
initiation of the Irish and the Catholic church.
The old wing party, the old democratic party
and the administration, have all been literally
crushed out"
Let not the Cabinet organ at Washington
fatter itself with the returns for Governor Sey.
mour. Beyond the votes of John Cochrane and
his fellow Office holders, the administration has
had no more weight in behalf Of Seymour than
the King Of the CannibaI Islands It was that
veto of the Maine Liquor law last year that did
the business Clay, Webster, and Fillmore
wings, and wings who lsbored and struggled
day and night for Scott have, upon the liquor
question, voted for Seymour and hard shells,
whose bitterest feelings are those Of inten Q
disgust for the Cabinet and Kitchen Cabinet
preferring even bad liquor to the despotism Il
the Maine law, have stood side By side with Il 9
Sachems of Tammany Hall for Seymour. 4
does the platform Of Seymour, Of an acquie-
scence in the Nebraska bill, with . protest.
tally with the standing Of the Kitchen Cabins q
as understood in the South. Let the Cabinet
organ cancel all other issues, and make
Governor Seymour's veto Of the Maine Liquor
law the national test and platform of demo-
cracy, and it may claim his vote for Governor
as democratic victory. It would be rank in
Justice to the liquor interest, wholesale and re-
tail, wing and democratic, to place it upon any
other ground.
The most striking and significant feature of
this election is the Know Nothing vote for Ull-
man and Scroggs. Taking the field at the
eleventh hour, and canvassing the State in
silence and secresy, in mystery and darkness,
the vote which they have polled is positively
1t is an exaggeration to suppose
it oil their own. The repulsive Saratoga, Syria
cuse and Auburn wing coalition resolutions have
swelled the vote of Ullman with no inconsidera-
bic accessions from the silver grays, and the ami
mosities between softs and hards resulted o. a
last expedient against Seymour in the transfer
Of the bulk Of the hard shells, we suspect, 10
the reputed Bengal native candidate, with
sprinkling Of old hunkers on the temperance
question for Clark.
The general result furnishes us with three
valuable conclusions. First, that the Seward
fusion in New York has exploded;
second, that there can be no reconciliation be-
tween the hard and soft divisions Of the late