The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-13
The Election and Its Results-The Van Burel
Free Sellers and the Seward COalition-Th
Know Nothings-What Nexts

The Election and Its Results-Thc Van Buren,
Free Sellers and the Seward Coalition-The
Know Nothings-What Nexts
The extraordinary and complicated issues,
and the curious party combinations and com
plications of the late election, have very natu-
rally brought about the most surprising and
singular results. The vote for Ullman, the
Know Nothing, is very remarkable and signif-
cant; the vote for Seymour is made up Of an
unusual fusion of party antipathies; the vote
for Bronson simply shows that after having
been nominated in spite Of himself, he was
dropped without his consent; but the vote for
Clark, coupled with the overwhelming coalition
wing majority in the Assembly, is the most Gu
rious and sug gestive of all. The horse jockey
had his finger in that pie, at all events.
The contest for Governor was q contest of
coalitions Of the most homogeneous and hetero-
geneous clements upon each Of the candidates
except Bronson. His vote, though small, was
formed of consistent and untransferable stuff
1t was pure hardshell, sticking to its candidate
at oil hazards The vote for Ullman was ex-
planned in the very first returns from the polls
In advance Of any advices from the interior, it
was evident that, from some preconcerted ar
rangement, the bulk Of the hard-shells had
gone over to the Know Nothings and their man
| Gilman; and from the falling off in the wing
vote, it was just as plain that the mass Of the
Know Nothings themselves were from the
wing camp, and that the silver grays or
antiSeward wings had Joined them upon
! Ullman. The vote for Seymour, ex-
ceeding by thirty or forty thousand
the vote of the administration soft shell party
last year, is explained by the Maine Liquor law
and by the concentration upon him Of men Of
all parties and factions with whom the liquor
| question and the defeat of said law was the ali
absorbing issue. And so rice rersa Of the vote
for Clark.
But the most curious feature Of all these CO
alitions and combinations is in the fact that
while the vote between Clark and Seymour is
very close, the Seward-Cla coalition have al
most swept the State for the Assembly. And
the secret of this contrast is furnished in the
little extrac. which we give elsewhere in these
columns, from the Albany Register. From this
disclosure it appears that many whig votes upon
the Governor were snapped off for democratic
votes for Assemblymen. 1t was joint-stosk
operation, by which the administration faction
| contributed their votes for the benefit Of Sew,
ard in the Assembly, In exchange for Seward
whig votes upon the Governor, for the benefit Of
| the Kitchen Cabinet and the Custom House. This
was treachery to Clark in the house Of his
friends; but as it has probably secured the re
| election of Seward to the United States Senate
the generous assistance, when called upon, Of
| the administration free soil faction, should
never be forgotten.
The speech ofBenjamin F. Butler last spring
| in the Park. in which he declared that he would
rather vote for W. II. Seward for President
than for Stephen A. Douglas, had forewarned
us of something of this kind from the Van
Buren, clique. We were also admonished d