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

In, then, consists the evidence" In the late
election, Of ere urning reseonr"
We have It. "EurekG % II is here. Ger
tain little demagogues have been checkmated
and crushed. The vote Of Judge Bronson
places m below all the other candidates
That's it. Info tunately, however, the vote
for Clark, % some extent, and tn vote for I'LL
man, to very or at extent, explain the small
ness of the vote for Bronson. Governor Sey-
mour had vetoed the Maine Liquor law He
stood upon that veto. All men of all parties
whose interests made the defeat of Clark, the
Maine law candidate, the paramount and single
issue Of the contest, raj led upon Seymour.
The democratic hards discovered that upon this
issue there was no middle ground, and no
chance, therefore, for Bronso,. And yet, with
all their hereditary democratic antipathy to
the contracted doctrines of native American
ism the hard shells, preferring the election of
Know Nothing to even constructive vote
for the administration, went over 10 the num-
her, perhaps, of fifty thousand for Ullman.
Notw thstanding this stunning fact, the face
tious Cabinet organ says of the Bronson men
that their corrupt leaders could not keep the
democratic party of New York from coming to-
gether." What delightful reunion of the
democracy, to be sure What brilliant pros
pect is before them and the administration
with this conjunction which, with the aid of
the Maine law veto and the wings, gives the
reunited democracy something over one.fourth
of the popular vote of the State We already
see the good results of the reunion in the re-
Tow xho nut ~ h1u rp1
members thus far reported, the administration
and its reunited democracy have eight; next
year they may have nine /; and at this rate Of
progress, in the course Of fifty years they will
have a working majority in the lower house.
Is not this an "evidence of returning reason ?"
Nor is this all The Cabinet organ reminds
its readers that it has told them heretofore that
the democracy of the other States would re-
buke the calumniators of the administration
and that "New York would be certain to SYM
pathize with the prevailing sentiment Of the
democracy of the country" Right again. We
say right, because for all practical purposes
the administration has been vindicated in New
Yerk with the same democratic energy with
which it has been sustained in New Jersey,
Pennsy lvania, Ohio, Indiana Illinois, M,chi-
gan, and elsewhere And thus, we repeat, in
the very language Of the Cabinet organ, "has
the widest and most INSCRIPTIONS warfare
upon an honest public man been rebuked and
defeated by popular decree such as the coun
try has not witnessed in twenty years."
Let the Custom House rejoice. Let Tamma-
ny Hall he illuminated. The hards are done for.
"They could not keep the democratic party of
New York from coming together" What if
the Know Nothings hold the balance of power
What if at single blow they have annihilated
the succession? We are content-we are con-
soled that in the probable election of Seymour
there is evidence that New York is returning
to her reason" and the honest Dutchman to
his lager bier.
Speculation, RevuIsion and Rascality In
Trade.
Henry Meiggs, one Of the most esteemed citi
zens OF San Francisco, California and not long
since member of the Board of Aldermen ,hasjust
fed from his home, after having failed in bust
ness and forged securities to an amount of not
less than two millions of dollars Had this oe
CURED before Robert Schuyler destroyed pub
lie confidence in the honesty Of respectable men
the event would have given rise to loud outcry.
and much establishment. But we have passed
the stage when sudden conversions of honorable
men into scoundrels can excite surprise. We
have learnt within the last twelve months that
the most esteemed characters are not proof
against notation: that in Wall street as well
as in the Five Points, If we would preserve in
dividual probity we must diminish opportuni-
ties for vice. Our best safeguard against being
robbed by our banker, or assaulted by our cler
gyman consists in depriving both Of the power
to injure us.
It is less with q view of excusing such men
as Schuyler and Heiggs than in order to put the
public on their guard for the morrow, that we
would draw attention to the close connection
which exists between the explosion of gigantic
frauds like theirs, and the general condition of
trade throughout the country. In prosperous
times when stocks are high, business flourish
ing, real estate productive, and all our re
sources in process of lucrative development
the Schuylers and the Heiggs are honest men,
and highly respected members of society. 1t
is only when money becomes scarce, and
tegrity is put to the test, and the unprincipled
seek to repair the ravages Of hard times by re-
sorting to fraud. There is no surer symptom
of the peril Of our position than the shipwreck
of our leading citizens. If there be any who
in spite of bank failures, commercial embar-
rassments and the general decline Of values,
still hope that we have weathered the storm,
we hid them scan narrowly the caaea NJ Schuvler
and Meiggs: proper reflection thereon ought to
convince every one that 1t must have been no
ordinary pressure which induced such men as
these to barter the high consideration of their
fellcw-ctizens and their own peace of mind for
the wretched condition Of disgraced fugitives
from iuatico