The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-08
New York and ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Recoll
AgalMst tMe Sew rd AMtI.Slnyery Coalition.

against tho Seward AntI.Siavery Coalition.
Nothing in our political elections since the
removal of Judge Bronson from the New
York Custom House, has fallen with more
telling effect against our Pierce administra
ton and w. ii. Seward and his piebald coali.
ton, than the popular reaction in this State
on Tuesday last. 1t is difficult to say which
has been most pointedy rebuked, the admins
tration or the black republican arch-agtatol
| and his seditious conglomeration of isms and
| hereses, social political and religious
The absurd prediction of Prince John
| Van Buren,, of fifty thousand soft
she'll plurality, taken as the estimate
| of his party would make its defeat, compared
with the general result, the most complete
and distressing; but the signal aud more as
tonishing overthrow of the lofty calculations
of the Seward alliance are OF far higher and
more general Importance. The Prince has
given the true view of the value of the adj
mnistration faction in this State, in his virtual
admission that the whole concern expires by
act Of limitation with the term of Mr. Pierce
and that in the interval the democracy will cast
about them for new shuttle and deal of the
cards at Cincinnati. On the other hand the
black republican party is fairly in the field for
the campaign Of SO, upon the Buffalo plat
form, as revised and adapted to the affairs of
the Territory of Kansas. Upon that test
the people of New York have substantially
vindcated the doctrine Unpopular sovereignty
a. laid down in the Kansas aud Nebraska bill
and thus they have hit The Seward coalition
and their Wilmot proviso under the fifth rib.
How the Know Nothings contrived to do
this, it will be interesting hereafter to inquire
Some say that George Laws popularity, as
their Presidential hero had good deal 10 do
with it, which is very likely-some say that
many straight line wings fell in with the So
called Hindoos, which may be true. II may
even be true that Governor Hunt Daniel D.
Barnard, and such men, fused with The Know
Nothings, as preferable to the Seward gang
after he had shown SO boldly his cloven foot at
Albany, in avowing his purpose of disunon
crusade against the South. Some say
that good many soft shells voted
with the Know Nothings with the object,
first OF shelving seward, and secondly of max
ing an opening with this final dropping of the
administration, for a brotherly reunion with
the hards At all events, it is sufficient for the
present to know that the administration faction
have fallen wofully short of the hopes of
Marcy, and that Seward has received his quie-
tus III reference to the Presidency.
We say this upon the strength oil the returns
actually received. There is little 10 hope for
Preston King; for even il the outside counties
yet to come in should in some measure retrieve
his losses, they can hardly give him anything
better, practically, than the ingloricgs humili-
alton OF his piebald party as Presidential or
ganization.
II anything We're wanted to force this con
yiction upon the Seward conspirotors, it is the
result in Massachusetts, State which Senator
Wilson presumptuosly imagined ne carried
in the palm Of his hand, The American party
to whom he is indebted for his election to the
Y. ;. Senate, have now rebuked him for his
treachery; and for his loud boasting that he
intended to break this Know Nothing organiz-
atl9r--in falling to follow the abolition league
ofSewad--into ten thousand fragments There
is nothing like the sober second thought" Of
the people. II was one of the wise sayings Of
Martin Van Buren, in his palmy days; hut the
Prince, we dare say will testify that IL applies
exactly TO the recent elections in New York
and Massachusetts,,
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