The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1854-11-08
Our State Election - s''-n'ios He5ans-
Who Is Governor

Our State Election - - a-niipg Rc5ans--
Who Is Governors
TIE ciioa is v tae rk Is dols, ana
from the returns woich we have received, Danes
Ullmon, Know N,'hing, il rot Seymonr or
Clark. has been elected Governor of New York.
The Know Nosung, Nv + ally asso5lsbta
lie natives. a, ftr Jud b oason. he appears
to have ret eve me ely Gem ,limentary woe
sufficient di iuse tie practical Withdrawal
o. BIZ nlG from b clnsa ass.
li,w ar We 10 sccoul. for this unexpected
and crusbing taught upsn the Ssward abo-
lition coalition! WY Is it ,h.t Clark fals
behind the or iinary VIII 'te 20 far, and wbaT
has become Of the vote Of the democrats hard
shells? The fig ures for Ultima t, II the story.
The lulk of the Know NothiDgs is from the
wbig party-the wing silver grays who are not
of the Know Nothing rat ,rnity, still preferred
one of the order to disunionist Of the Seward
coalition. Ties, re awful losses to Clark.
The democratic hard SHELLS, having foreseen the
drift of tie battle il he even. Of their adher-
ing to Bronson, sagacously dropped him. and
threw he mas o her airy into the scale of
Ullman. They epp-ac to have taken this course
as t e onl, choice between two evils--Clark and
Seymour. They could not vote for Clark, be-
cause o. his an,i-slavery afiiliatioos; they did
not wish 10 give Il g drop o. cImGrt to the ad-
ministration which it would derive from toe
election Of Seymour-they kne that the con-
servative old Judge was out of the question;
and So by common consent-perhaps by pre-
conc' rted arrangement, including circulars or
special messengers 10 all the bard she'll clubs
throughout the State-they have thrown the
bulk Of their vote for the candidate of the
Know Nothings
This extraordinary result proves that the
administration at Washington has had more to
do with this election than we had supposed.
The intense oisgost Of the hard shells concern
ing the spoils policy Of The administration has
done the bu :iness. u Ullman is elected we are
indebted to the administration for whig Know
Nothing Governor, elected by democratic votes
Does this 10; Us if tie two divisions of the New
York democracy can ever be reunited upon
the basis Of the present Cabinet coalition at
Washington. We think not. And we appre-
bend that the results of yesterdays work in
New Jersey, Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin
tell substantially the same story, in letters
perhaps as myst riOus, but still as startling
and significant as the al cieht handwriting upon
the wall
The dullest pui il in the dirty work Of party
politics can now understand the meaning of the
hue and cry" of the Albany Journal, the
New York Iritunr, ard the lesser Seward or.
gans, against Darrell Uiman. 1t was there that
the shoe was pinchiug them al the time. Hence
the perseverirg eiinr.s TO get up the impression
that the candidate of the Know Nothings Was o
Jew, German Jew, the descendant of Hindoo
mother, a Bengal tiger by birth, o Dutchmau by
education in fact an, thing but native born
son of the sod. The revice has proved dead
failure. "The stone which the builders rejected
has become the head of the corner" perhaps
The Seward coalition is crushed by the one O.,
all men whom they affected most to despse.
The Saratoga, Syracuse and Auburn resolutions
were little too strong and little too fast, not
withstanding the hulabaloo on the Nebraska
bill.
Assuming, from the returns received, that
Ullman is the Governor, we entertain no
alarm concerning his election as tri-
umph of the Know Nothings. This order
is now upon that high career which has not been
inaptly termed "Young America upon SPREE"
But as its principles are unsound and incon-
sstent with the spirit Of the constitution and
the genius Of our republican system, the frater-
nifty Cannot last. in leachins III SOILS they
viii be reat into fragments from internal
squabbles and dissensio, s, and tue order will
pass away as one of the short-lived wonders of
the age. In the meantime, SO far from feeling
the slightest approximations concerning the cleo
ton of Know Nothing Governor of New
York, we regard the result rs great victory
for The Union upon the vital and all important
question of slavery. II is the breaking of the
backbone Of the Seward disuoion conspiracy
Tor 1856, from the quarter which was least al
ticipated at Syracuse.
We must recur to the subject again. Pos
sibly the full returns from tie outside coun
ties may change the figures # our present foot
lpg up; but taking the Ieturns already
received as q specimen, we think there
is precious little hope for Clark even
among the possibilities of the case. Our
readers will deciphcr our present returns for
Lieutenant Governor, the State officers, Con-
gressmen, Asse mb.ymen, Mayor and officers of
the Corporation for themselves. Our reports
are too meagre for any satisfactory common
tary. We are satisfied, however, to state that it is
possible there may be majority against Seward
in TIC Ass emily. Should this be so, the arch
agitator will hardly have any further use for
an anti-Nebraska House Of Representatives at
Washington; for New York, in securing the
advantage of Union man in his place 10 the
Senate, will find it comparatively easy to up
set his scheme for the Presidency.
Fellow-citizers according to our returns
Daniel Ullman or Horatio Seymour is Cover
nor, and Clark and the Seward disuoion coali
ton are defeated. 1t is one of the most ex-
traOrdinary incidents of the wonderful pOlitical