The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-02-01
lition cOndid,.te for the overthrow Of the Know

li.ion condid,.te for the overthrow Of the Know
Nothings.
The result is perfectly astounding. There
appears to be no assignable limit to the reserv-
ed forces Of the terrible Know Nothings. Their
majority may be two or three thousand, where
they were in a minority in November few
hundred votes more or less makes no material
difference. 1t is sufficient that they have made
q clean job of 1t, and have proved that even in
Western New York, where Seward was sup
posed to be invulnerable, the Know Nothings
are not only competent to cope with him ain
gle banded, but are abuDdantly able to ront
him with all the free soil forces of the admins
tration at his back.
From this election we may form some esti-
vOiution in New York since November last.
Clark, the Seward standard bearer, and Sey-
mour, the administration candidate, polled
two thirds Of the popular vote of the State in
that contest. But the popular mind was con-
fused, and the vote for Seymour and the sue
cesses of the Seward party were due to the
pressure Of the liquor question. The present
trial Of strength in the Twenty ninth district
was fair issue upon the exact merits of the
Know Nothing movement against the combined
strength of Seward, Seymour and the admi-
nistration, and according to the result, if the
same tests were now applied throughout the
commonwealth, the Know Nothings against the
allied forces of this Pierce, Seymour and Sew
ard coalition. would carry the State by at least
Fifty thousand majority.
We call the attention Of the young men in
our Legislature, aspiring to political future,
to this suggestive view of the subject. This
election in the Twenty ninth district shows
that at this day the Know Nothings can COM
mand an overwhelming majority in this State
against all other parties combined. The de-
feat Of LOOMS distinctly foreshadows the total
extrpaton of the administration and Seward
tree soil factions next fall, from Long Island to
Dunkirk, and from the Pennsylvania line to
the ST. Lawrence-a clean sweep. It will be
another Massachusetts, election, the liquor issue
being out of the way. Let every man in the
Assembly, therefore, with any ambition for fur
Their political promotion, think well of it before
he hangs himself upon Stewards reelection.
He may give to Seward a six years lingering
death in the Senate; but the election of next
fall, as surely as the return of November will
make short and decisive work Of his supporters
in the Assembly.
We maintain, however, that in view of this
manifestation of public opinion in the Twenty
ninth district, in the event Of failure to super
sede W. n. Seward at this session, it is due to
the people of this State to postpone the election
that they (disembarrassed by the liquor ques-
tion) may have a fair opportunity upon the
specific issue of the return of the Auburn dema-
gogue to the Senate. Very few, we venture to
predict, of those who may vote for his re-elec-
ton this winter will venture to be candidates
for the Legislature next November.
The Seward party and the administration
may combine their forces throughout the State;
but the result in the Twenty ninth district
strongly tcreshadows their overwhelming de-
feat. The conservative, Union loving, indepen-
dent people are rising, still rising, aud the
wholesome revolution which they have decreed,
cannot be stayed. The administration, Seward
and Sewardism are doomed. Shall Seward, then,
he re. elected? What say our aspiring members
OF the Assembly