Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1855-11-13
THE NEW YORK ELECTIONS.

The news from ;br>e elections, flrs Ter, lrlrate n
decided victory on tir part "f the Know E"things,
bu, ". do not know ,hn, they have muc TO boa:t Of.
The dsa.rcemt of the two wingE oi the Democrat
ic pRr,v is The true secret of their dti-n!, gl ar
not surprised To- lind ;hcn ~ badly wtrie This vii!
tenclI them Il lesson in the fu!Gre. And we ARE III
hope. they vii! bury the hatchct ana un,r on nn-
tiuna platform. Ii il now placed beyond iOubt, thu;
upon 10 other terms can they hope 10 :"i.!nph Arc
they not, for the sake OF The paramount crests Of the
courtry (which, as they believe cnn Nor. be secured
By sound Democratic po!icy,) wm- !ur-gu their
former bitterness and uute together % tree their
stete from the stigma Of Know -N"thn.isn : We
are greatly mistaken il the prearn; dci.lt si,sl! no;
SECURE such uranilnity of "con when '."y cao,.
upon 10 vote for n President. Wcu,n; he following
extract from the New York Day Book
TIE returns vf the election cu'ne i -lnl:Iv, aud
amidst the confused lna~s Of figures nd lumura that
cn:.. tu han. It j. difficult {" tell Nro is wr" nnd
what u whit From present APPEAR noes t,lr ru:irc
Know Nothing tirfr. III this county, in the caccp-
ton OF County Clerk and Sheriff, i rctrd ari the
State ticket nlsn, with H.. rTcrpti"l probably of
Sridcn. Gi!'s, tha knvw- Nothing candidate for
Comptroller, leads FlGgg by about ~. lie H. huv.
ever, Democrat, Rad n grrat drg. better on: than
Fiagg, who is well kr"wn To bc one If the Evening
Post kind ard hostile 10 every :n'er in AMI cut Of
the city, but his own and that 0t MG;n Van Buren.
lie has Mt the door ni The Cii. Ircss srry Ike 4
t"othlcss old tuli-do, and ,ruwrd every body who
came along, matter whether t!ci. uiuis were Just
ur unjust. until hr has driven eve? man. who came
TO his Office to do business, from biz Not m ucrr
we are told, uinpl"ycc about &c Comptrorr !
office. voted inr him. Thcy sceri.! to understand
that Giles was sound, rr!shlr Democrat, and waa,
therefore, to them. Car preferable. 10 fIa,c
ne uru Sy,If N n haf. Ca u md nd
Engs, and Of course Cgve them lurce voic. In
Brooklyn they also helped The aarl ticket immense
". In the adjoining towns tlc sur md republican
ticket we're hardly known aud card nf In the
town where tic rdit"E "i me Day Book resides New
I.os) the Republicans onlr got three votes and in
New CI:ecEt and Grave-end llailh received no votes
al all. Along down the Island Were the residents
are mostly Qun:ers, and have al,nc them hundreds
OF the old freed slaves, s:ro.lin. u;rut idle and vi
cions. the republican f'rkef "nF i"t lsiic"d Moth,
ing in favor of freeing r"r ran find approval
among ;hern. They scnu; ab"icriam ns they would
Mornonisn. II is "n whore uC .,,"s are seldom or
never seen that aboi:innisn hpl-i-hca ~ in Yer
mont, 81. Lawrence Co., and nfh"r placs where ne
Cruas are scarce n Chinese.
This result ot this election shows ute distinctly
that the drnucra,ic party is "in"ntly anti -ahuli'!o
and that no other pla"ln ;!iar that laid dawn by
The national administration can J. By possibility >ur-
cced. Both sections have ucau been >oundy whip
prd and the nGssrs, hy !hr -',,hnrss and Ust;nary
o, their LEADERS. are again under he rule al T;'in"rl-
~. For three years the Stat" h. been in the hands
nt the wings, when every iiD democrats have II
large majority, and threw it Gway hy ,o.in. for tw"
sets Of candidates. Il is quite mr lhlS tnmtool"ry
was stopped. and The people sh"rd he privileged I"
vote us they evidently wish s,! desire 10 VOTE I"
wit, for one .nund reliable dcImcrnf. and elect him,
Instead Of for two partisan pril fighters, and th"r"-
hy give the power nio III" han,. of minority. We
think they sufficiently whipped anw 10 lay aside
.lIer differences and come to-":h.r