Daily American organ. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1856, 1855-02-10
WASHINGTON, ID. G.

SATURDAY.. FEBRUARY 10, lsb5.
yESPAsIAN ELLIS, Editor.
X. M. HEATH, Assistant.

X. NJ. HEATH, Assistant.
Senator Seward-The Administration.
AS we predicted, the Foney and Pierce
presses at the South, are seeking to cheat the
people there into the belief that Seward owes
his election to the American party" when
only tDelUe votes were given to him by mem
bers who professed to be "Know-N othings,"
and of which number not one was genuine
national American
If this new order of arithmeticians can figure
out the election of Seward by the American
party" when not one genuine American"
voted for him, and when he only received the
votes of twelue bogus Know Nothings, out of
one hundred and twenty members, they
will show as much skill in arithmetic as they
have exhibited in political trickery and de-
ception.
The whole scheme by which Seward was
reelected, through the wire-workings ofhis new
coadjutors, was as well known at Albany be-
FORE and at the time Of the election, as 1t was to
the conspirators themselves in Washington.
We published yesterday letter from AL
bany, addressed to US, and dated on the day
before the election, confirming the views and
predictions we had published on the Saturday
before; and stating, amongst other facts, that
tDty custom-ho,tse officers, from New York,
were on the ground, completing the arrange
ments! Yet the administration presses have
the unblushing impudence to say that Seward
was elected by the Known Nothing" party!
A distinguished member Of the Legislature
Of New York. whose letter we have just re-
ceived, speaking Of the election Of Seward,
says:
"The Assemblymen were elected on purpose
to consummate this net, previously arranged,)
and everything and everybody were sacrificed to
bring such an event to pass. Please remember
that the national men yoted against him, and that
the Democrat from the strongest ward in New
York city voted for him, and that others declared
they would vote for him necessary"
"These Democrats are of course deadly hostile
to principles, but they voted for Preston King
and Sanford f. Church, Frcesoiers and Barnburners
and administration men, as you know. If the facts
are analysed, nothing can be made by our enemies
out Of the result"
Thus speaks one of the most reliable and
best informed men in the New York Legisla-
ture; and in further confirmation Of the fact
that coalition was formed between the Sew
ard Wings and the Forney and Pierce Demo
Gratis, and some bogus Know Nothings, to secure
Soward's election,-we extract from the speech
of the Hon. Erastus Brooks, of the Senate Of
New York, delivered on the day afterwards, as
| follows:
Senator Brooks said, in reference to the
election:
Sand he could tell the Senator from the twen-
tysixth that there was rejoicing to-day in Virginia
over the election of this same man to the United
States Senate Yes, sir, the friends of the admin
istration in the Old Dominion are exulting to-day
over that event. And I'll tell you why. 1t could
be used againt the Wings there. The administra-
ton friends would say to them, the Wings of
New York have sustained Seward and you must
sustain us his opponents There has never been
a greater fraud, continued Mr.. b., than this same
senatorial election. Everything was sacrificed to
secure the election of members of the right stamp
to the Legislature, and once here, everything has
been done to seduce these men from their alegi-
ance to their constituents. Members have been
beset in the Legislature and out Of the Legislature.
They have been taken up stairs and down stairs,
and in Che ladies chamber, as the nursery song
says. They have been Toasted, and wheedled at
those Hastings and defrauded Of their honest
complished, and he wished the managers and per-
petrators thereof much joy of the result"
Yes, and it is true, that the administration
party in Virginia, as well as in Washington,
REJOICE at Stewards electionl They sent Jffty
custom-house officers to Albany to influence
and procure this result These Janus-fa faced
hyprocrites, who profess to be alarmed for the
safety Of the South, who shed crocodile tears
over the progress of hnaticism,-who warn
the South against the Vaccinations Of Seward,
e. I'd omne genus, these very administration
hucksters and tricksters canvassed, election
eered, and intrigued TO promote his election.
Well might Senator Brooks excaim, after
denouncing these frauds and chicanery, that
"he wished the managers and perpetrators
thereof much joy Of the result ~
Do our Southern friends ask us what motive
prompted the Forney and Pierce party to aid
the election Of Stewards The motives are as
transparent as glass. They hare staked all
upon the success Of Wise an Virginia. Ami
Inflated at the North, and in the West the ad-
ministration isWithout hope but from the South
To carry the elections in Virginia, they are
straining every nerve; resorting to every expe-
dent taxing all their ingenuity bringing into
requisiGon all their chicanery.
Like drowning men they catch at straws.
In the language of one Of our Carolina CORES
pondents, they have squandercd their whole
capital--all their stock in trade, ercept Niger
isnir If niggerism won't sell in the market
at the South, at a large profit they are hope
lcssly insolvent and must quit business. Hence
they cry out lustily, that the Know-Nothings
are abolitionists They secretly planned the
reelection Of Seward-they sent up swarm
Of custom-house officers to Albany to carry out
the arrangcmeuts--the made three Of their
s9tt members OF Assembly vote for Seward to
insure his election-they kept back the residue
Of their forces for the second balloting--the
coalition and fraud succeeded on the first trial
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