New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-11-12
THE Suit.

The KnOw-NOthing plurality on the State ticket
will be larger than we stated in our last not less
than fifteen thousand, and it may go higher. That
is to say in season of general decay ahd disso-
luton of old parties. the only organized and dis
ciplined host remaining has been able to poll q
little more than onethird of the vote of our State
certainly less than forty per cent. There being
neither President Governor, nor Members of Con.
gress to choose this year, the vote is naturally
light-not more than three-fOurths of a full poll
SO that the vote polled for the Know Nothing
ticket cannot exceed quarter of the legal suf-
fraees of our people. The machinery of councils
oaths, aud passwords, of course, enabled the
KNs to poll very nearly every vote they had,
and the seven or eight score thousand votes un
poled are nearly all opposed to prescription be
cause OF creed or birthplace.
Last year, the secret organization carried nearly
all the West-Seneca, Ontario Orleans, Liyngs
ton, Genesee, Erie, Chautauque, Cattnaugas, AL
leeany Steuben, and Chemung. OF all the Coun-
ties west of Cayuga Lake, only Wayne, Monroe
Niagara and Wyoming gave pluralities against Ull
mann. Now, these four are as decidedly anti
Know Nothing as then, while Erie, Cattarsugus,
AllegaDy and Chemung are reclaimed-twO OF
them by the Republicans, two by the Softs-and
Ontario, Livingston, Ohautauque and Orleans are
nearly ted-the Republicans carrying part of
their candidates in each. And this reaction is not
the result of " fusion" of all parties opposed to
the Americans" on the contrary, there were
generally two or three tickets in the field opposed
to theirs. Erie County last year gave the Know
NOthiDgs 2,450 more than the SOfts, while Gov
Clark had GIG votes; nov the Softs beat the
X. Ms 1000, in spite of their appeals in favor Of
their Senator, Putnam, as author of the Church
Property bill yet the Republican vote is decidedly
larger rhan Clark's.
We of the City have seen at least three uprisngs
Of Nativsm. 1t ragged here in $780, then subsidet
and was forgotten. 1t broke out afresh in lS4S
ragged furiously through "A, when it twice carried
the City beaten in the Spring of 40, was laid
to rest again and forgotten. 1t started sfresh on
the basis of Ned Buntine's gull-trap in 1854, and
has just eliminated in the result of our recent
Election. Unless stimulated by some new folly on
the part of our Foreign-born population, some new
display of seDseless bgotry in the journals which
assume to be organs Of the Roman Catholics-(and
We don't see how either can excel their past per.
formances in this direction the tide will now
run out sgain.
For the focus of public interest and excitemen
is about to be transferred to Washington, where
the struggle for and against Slavery in Kansas will
tx all eyes. The question cannot be eyaded-it
cannot be postponed-it cannot be compromised.
Either Reeder, the representative of Kansas, or
Whitfield, the elect of the Missourians, must be
admitted to the floor Of the House ss a delegate
either the constitution which the Free State men
at our last sdSices, were fcS..ing at Topeka
must be accepted or rejected by Cvngress and we
see not how it is possible to avoid recognition or
reputation of the claims Of the late assemblage of
Missourians st Shawnee Mission TO be regarded as
true Legislature for Kansas. And this question
opens a ehasm which all the srts of instructors"
all the authority of councils, cannot close. In one
month after Congress shall have organized there
will be just two parties in either House-those
who desire TO have Kansas q Free State. and tAoee
who wish and work to make it Slave State.
Whoever hold with the latter can have but brief
race at the North.
Let, then, the Republicans possess their souls
in patience. Yet q little while and the clouds
which now enfoA US must inevitably break away
The laboring has been temporarily shifted from
our hands 70 Others and We have now enly to wait