The Athens post. [volume] (Athens, Tenn.) 1848-1917, 1855-11-16
THE NEW YORK AND MASSACHU.
SETTS ELECTIONS.

the recent elections in New York and Massa-
chusetts:
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 picbald coal-
ton, than the popular reaction in this State
on Tuesday last. 1t is difficult to say which
has been mos. pontedly rcbukcd the admin
istration or the black republican arch.agtntnr
and his sedtious conglolncraiion of isns and
hcrcsies, social, political and religious.
The absurd prediction of Prince John Van
Buren,, OF Il fifty thousand soft shell plurality,
taken rs the estimate of his party would
make its defeat, compared with the general
result, the most complete and distressing: but
the signal and more astonishing 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 administration faction in this
State, in his virtual admission that the whole
concern expires 10y 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 o.! the cards ut Cincinnati
On the other hand, the black republican party
is fairly in the field for the campaign Of SO,
upon the Buffalo platform, as revised and
adapted to the affairs Of the Territory of
Kansas. Upon that test the people of New
York have substantially vindicated the doe
irnc Of popular sovereignty ~ laid down in
the Kansas and Nebraska Till; and thus they
have hit the Seward coalition and their Will
mot proyiso under the fifth rib.
How the Know Nothings contrivcd to do
this, il will be interesting hereafter to inquire.
~, tl,,t 4 -,
their Presidential hero, had good deal to do
with il, which is very likcly--some say that
many "siraight lire wings" fell in with the so.
called IIindoos, which may be true. 1t may
even be true that Governor Hunt, Daniel y.
barnard, and such men, fused with the Know
Nothngs M preferable to the Seward gang
after he had shown so boldly his cIoven foot
Mt Albany, in nvowing his purpose of di-un.
ion 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 making m
opening with this final dropping of the nd.
minlstration, for brothery reunion with the
hards. At all events, il is sufficient for the
present to know that the administration fac
ton have fallen woIully short Of the hopes of
Marcy, and that Seward has rec wed his quic.
tus in reference to the Presidency.
We say this upon the strength Of the re-
hone for Preston Kina; for even if the outside
counties yet to come in should in some inca.
sure retrieve his losses, they can hardly give
him anything better, practically, than the in
GLORIOUS Illumination o' MS pieoaIu party rs Il
' r. ofs",ll"ntoII. c-.,.
viction upon the Seward conspirators, it is the
.es" SWIM IN massachusetts, oia'e Wn'ch Seha
WI nso" PrVsuHll'uo"S'y 'uimSHhca ne car
,'vu III a"e paIn, o. ,!s GI'..' ! ne Ancr,c"h
p"'H, ~ M'"in ne IS 'noro.r" Tor HIS erection
10 me ChI'ed states senate, have now re-.
puAtu n',ii i'r ms roa,hStN ana Ior my IoHa
S Wm,hi a' e 'i,"ta 20 nre"k tilI hnow
| Notn.ng orsahiZ'li"n---lh '1I'lng |" ioI2W the
abolition Ie"sue OF Hrw4Fd-nto ten thou-
SUI" 'F"s'noh'si mere Is no'h'h9 IRe the
"soocr sccono '"ou9ht OF tIe people, IL was
! one OF inc wise sayings o. Martin Van Barren
III NM. ms pam! Gays; pu' th' ftlhce' we o"re say,
WI. tes'l'y '' W ~ Npp.e' tHr,y 10 Ine recent
elections IN New lork ana massachusetts,.
p,.vor Tr.yrssrr pr,sour. M.
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JOINT reso'"''ons III reference 10 the Bank Of
! Tennessee and Branches, have been adopted
| in the Senate and transmitted 10 the IIou.s
,rho o,,ioc, i. 70 no, ;rr,,,.,;o, mia, - da
~, '.:''','"' f,''' w w,
cc'ns inc important question: rs 10 putting
the institution in - state Of gradual lquida.
tor. The resolutions name the following
| gentlemen as Commissioners
For the Bank at Na.hyl!e-Wm. Nichol,
E HuurrH rI,lu.iiat'oh, " i,'l"'i D. nn"ppard,
For the Branch Of said link -, h,t,.n.
William r. Keith, John +. Slower, of AlcMiun,
and }, G. Wright, of Monroe.
~ for tne hranch OF sud Bank at ROGERS
~ pna', ~ ''''''e''' '""''S sewer ana 'ohh
>, r"f ,"e prancn OF sad banK nj Spafta-