The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-10-03

The Progy anime of ". n. Seward and the
Elections scr the Assembly,
As mat ers now stan !, the NEST vulnerable
point 0 tack Against the Sewa coalit onists
is in t elections fer the Assembly. The Sc
nate elected last year is secured. The election
of the coal on nominee for Governor is count
ed u on BY an overwhe m n Plurality. 1t Is
even supp,s d among the Seward leaders that
with the concent alton of the mercenaries upon
Raymond, nd W his lie ges ia he behalf
there can sc rec y be doubt O BIZ success,
wha ev,r tn, Know Moth pgs my esolve upon
in thei m. ser. US grand State councillor con-
vention o. pointed t. m ct in tn city to-mor-
row NOR ing. ut we shall see.
In any event, there is one Io.at in the
Novemb.r coatet wher; the ranks of the
coalitioniss may be pierced and home
thrust given to the arch-agitator himself
namely, n the elections for The As
sembly. The suing Legi. lature will be
called upon to choose I'm ted States Senator
to fill the vacancy which will soon occur from
the expiration OF the present term of w. II.
| Seward. II his heterogeneous and seditious
| free soil, abolition, aad Maine las alliance,
| projected at Saratoga, adopted a. Syracuse,
| ard ratified ly tn seve, al factions of outside
mercenaries at Aul urn, is successful in return
| ing ubs antial Seward majority to the As
| sembly, he will of course be .triumpbantly re-
| turned to the Senate, and his d,sunion pro-
! gramme for 1856 will thus have surmouuted
the last remaining obstacle to its complete Or
ganization
But, onthe other hand, if by any combination
of hostile elements, a majority of members
should be returned to the Assembly opposed,
upon any conditions or equivalents, to the re-
turn Of Mr.. Seward to Washington, victory
Of incalculable Importance to the peace of the
Union and the material prosperity of New
York will have been achieved. The confidence
Of the South in the public sentiment of our
great commonwealth will be restored, the plans
projected for the withdrawal OF large proper
ton of our domestic and foreign trade will be
abandoned, and the grand scheme for seditious
sectional crusade against the South in the next
Presidential campaign will be crushed out"
with the expulsion Of the arch-agtator from the
national councils. The country will hail the
act as an act Of deliverance; for with the loss
Of their chief his abolition mercenaries may be
readily dispersed. His prestige destroyed, their
power will be broken, and they will be scattered
again into separate squads Of mere bush fight
ers, boisterous and full of wrath and treason,
but comparatively despicable from their weak
ness and Generalization.
The overthrow Of Seward upon the question
Of his reelection to the Senate.is, we repeat
from the apparent existing state OF things, his
only vulnerable point Of assault in our NOvem
Der elections. 1t is the heel Of Achilles, which
has not been immersed in the Internal bap
tism of Saratoga, Syracuse, and Auburn. Here
he may be directly reached through ma
jority in the Assembly. But the Immediate
question suggested is, how is this to be done ?
The Seward forces are COMMUNICATIVE dem }
Gratis are divided. The spoils policy of the
administration has reduced the latter to one
half their real strength at the ballot boxes for
the two democratic factions though numbering
each hundred thousand votes, count-puttipg
each upon separate ticket-but an aggregate Of
hundred thousand against the common enemy.
How is this loss Of hundred thousand men to
be repaired and overcome? Only by the indie
pendent action of the people-the conservative
constitutional and Union loving people Of all
parties in the electromagnetic the return of
the special instruments of Seward to the As
sembly.
And why cannot this be done? Are demo-
cratic Maine law men bound to elect Seward
candidate where on opposition man is Just as
sound upon the temperance question? Are
the Know ohings re ,uced to the coalition
allegiance, to Sc ard himself though Clark
may be acceptable, and thou b Raymond may
swear the necessary oaths to good standing
with the Order? We .hink not As we under
stand it, the humbugging toady .sm which our
Senatorial demagosue has manifested towards
Archbishop Hughes and The condding
Irish Catholics, for some years past
has made our unfortunate Senator a special
object Of contempt to the Know Nothings. His
late declaration of war against them on the
floor of the Senate, has certainly made up an
issue between the parties. This issue is so
broad and well defined that, we presume, til,
candidate which Mr.. Seward has magnanimous-
ly consented to give the Know Nothings for
Governor, does not bind them to his instru-
ments for the Assembly. Upon this question
another day or two may, perhaps, determine
the loss or gain to Seward of heavy detach-
ment of voters, drawn almost entirely from the
wbig ranks, and decisive, il may be, OF the poll
teal complexion OF the Assembly.
Have the silver grays, the Webster and Fill
more men, who could not trust even Gen. Scott
in 1852, as the candidate of The Seward inter-
est-are these Webster and Fillmore conserva-
tives really sold out? or have they vanished
into thin air, like Macbeth's witches? Or have
they surrendered because of the weakness of
their numbers, and from fear of betraying it,
as on several occasions heretofore Or are they
"nursing their wrath to keep it warm for
word and a hlnsg aoainsf the bnmiliatin r norn.