The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-10

&c III v al DuTen ana William H. orWhIu arc
,st at This moment 10 An extremely embArrass-
ing situation. The elections have turned out
hndly-things are working decidedly against
the negroes. White men are as much respected
US black men---tbe government is worth a. much
as it ever wac The three months martyrdom
|. Of psssmore,Wiilamson goes for nothing. That
dclectable Humanitarian who went 10 prison To
aid the cause Of pigeerdom has dad his lapJr
| for bis pains He has found out, poor soul, that
such lodges don't take in these art times IL
! is certainly no way 10 electioneer, that OF get
tiog into contempt Of court and getting into
contempt With every body, TO excite u little
sympathy for the cause of black republi-
cansm. The restoration of the Missouri com
premise was another failure, and very bad
failure it is, too Restoration was evidently
100 big word for the elections--the people
could not understand it. Gen. Pierce thought
to please the North by putting Reeder Into
Kansas, and to satisfy the South by turning
him out. All he has succeeded in doing is to
get the squatters into quarrel, himself into
pretty general contempt and into q very general
minority. He is operating on Custom House
scraps in Maine and New Hampshire has gone
into liquidation in New York and Massachu-
sets, is repudiated in Wisconsin, never had
any business in Ohio, is agent for Buchanan In
Pennsylvania, wrecked on the coast of Lake
Michigan for want of harbOrs, and is paid out
as deprecated paper in the entire South where
the true coins of democracy are reserved for
the new partnership of 1856. In fact, his only
triumph is in the defeat of Gen. Scott, who, by
law, was entitled to thirty thousand dollars
from the Treasury, but has been cheated out
of two-thirds of it by the President. General
Pierce will now be able to place his entire re-
lance on the South, who will use him as an
old blanket, to keep off early political frosts
until the sun of the next campaign shall rise,
and then be thrust aside to rot in his wonted
obscurity.
John Van Buren, went into business this sea-
son on large capital of fifty thousand excel
lent counterfeits; but he squandered it all by
Matching up wager against the king, and is
now bankrupt again. But the Prince is 'a
man of the world" and by many is thought to
do the best business while picking up round"
the little odds and ends belonging to his neigh
bors He is a political confidence man, and
the trick he played on Pierce, by which he re-
lieved that functionary of nearly all his spare
Offices, and his character BESIDES is proof that
he is just now without a rival in that line.
As for poor Mr. Seward, who followed the
Trilune into the heat and burden of the fight
to recover that Malakoif Of political humbugs,
the Missouri compromise, and then followed
it out again, swearing vociferously that there
was no such institution to be re- TAKEN he is
the most pitiable object on the surface Of Ame.
rican politics. His Justice, Equality and Free
donna brilliant conception-w which he set
down in New York to fight slavery out Of Vir-
ginia-to demolish the patricians-have come
out Of the contest like Don Quixotte in several
similar encounters, not quite up to his expecta-
ions. His engineering was bad, his guns of
TOO light calibre. In truth, his forces were
90 safely posted. He thought to save himself
by getting out Of the range of the enemy's
works, forgetting that if he was beyond their
reach they we're hey ond his
At all events in General Pierce, John Van
Buren, and William IL Seward we have three
very prominent and three very mach defeated
individuals The union of their force, so often
hinted at, would bring either of them about On
a par with John Tyler, 50 tar as supporters are
concerned, though il would sadly fail to come
up to that gentleman in character, patriotism
and service to the country. Johns fifty thou
sand, including my fathers vote" is undoubt-
edly the greatest loss; and if we superadd to
this Johns loss OF confidence in the President
and the Presidents loss of confidence in John,
and Johns fears about the effects of Stewards
course upon the integrity OF the federal union.
the position of the Prince becomes very pain
tul. The political reader is reminded by it
an interesting coincidence--cf that rcmarka-
bic lamentation of the ex-President many
years ago: "My sufIerings i iutolcrable."
The ELECTION or DANIEL E. SicKLEs-A