The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-11-09

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Seward 4s-union Plos-"A Fe rful How"
The general result Of our late New York |
election is feelingly portrayed in Jeremiad |
of the Tribune, the cream of which is compress
ed into this short expressive sentence: "we
feel that the cause of hnman freedom hos re-
ceived fearful blow in the result of Tues
days election And mark how very thankful
they are to escape with their lives: I'VE shall
be very glad TO see that it is not fatal one.o
"A fearful blow very glad if not fatal one!''
What world of sorrow, disappointment humi-
liation and disaster, is condensed into this brief
and painful confession "Fearful blcwm 1t
may be iatal-possibly not bat the case is al
most hopeless. We shall be glad, yea, every
glad" ii we survive it.
And this is the result of that seditious gene
raj Northern crusade against the South and the
Union, started at Saratoga in 1854, and con-
summsted in Che invincib1e abolition fusion
Syracuse consolidation of 1855 1t is not ne
cessnry to await the full returns from the coun-
ties The figures received have been deemed
amply sufficient fer the agonizing confession
we have given of "fearful, if not "fatal7
OlUW W VIC CCWdIu LOiJ ~AAliuhSC. xAA0 VIII
this text we simply propose to give the mean
ing and the bearings of this ''fearfui blow
The Seward republican" party is purely
sectional and anti-slavery organization. Its
platform is, 'no more slave States, and the ex-
clusion of slavery from all the Territories"
by act of Congress Such party, organized
and acting upon such principles is necessarily
UNIT in ifc IONS 10 Cd Ia Of
| Mason and Dixon's line and the Ohio river.
Ii is also essential to the great object of that
| party--a purely sectional contest on the slave.
| ny question-that they should have the vote of
| the State of New York as the base of their
| operations. This was the test of the election
Of Tuesday, and they have lost it. The whole
plan of their projected campaign is thus des-
troyed, and their organization dwindles very
suddenly from the formidable shape Of great
overshadowing Northern antislavery party, to
the contemplate prop ortions of q mere out
side faction or political balance of power, like
that Of Birney, of 1874; Of Van Buren,, Of 1913;
and OF Hale, Of 1862.
The substantial rescue of New York (what-
everEnay be the precise results) from the Seward
coalition, following as this event does the over
throw of the same seditieus conspirators in
Pennsylvania, and accompanied as it is by
theiyedefeat in Massachusetts, breaks down the
sectional barrier Of slavery which they have
| been laboring to erect between the North
| and the South and "opens up" the
North to the American party and the
democratic party, upon national ticket
and upon national principles. 1t relieves the
American party from the incubus and the
odum of their late associations with the Sew
ard abolition disunionists, and places the
Know Nothings of the North in such direct and
decided entagonism to Seward and his parti-
Fans that there is no danger of their fusing
| again. This wholesome enforcement was only
| partially effected in Obedience the election
| of Chase; but the late results in Pennsylvania,
Massachusetts,, and especially in New York,
will be very apt, within the momentuous
| twelve months before us, to make clean divi-
sion between the Know Nothings and the black
republicans, even Of Ohio, which will reduce
of guerrillas in the Presidential election.
In this view, the American party of New
York, whether they have or have not elected
their whole State ticket have achieved great
and significant trlumph--great, because it
opens a new chapter in the manGuvres of all
parties for the succession, and because it re-
wives the late overloaded prospects Of the
Know Nothings- signifcant, because it sub-
stantially sustains the ''squattcr sovereignty OF
the Kansas Nebraska BILL and strengthens that
doctrine and its advocates in Congress. But It
is still more significant from the bold relief
into which it brings Live Oak George" as
the New York Independent American candidate
for the succession. We have no doubt that his
name and availability have had much to do
with the integrity of the American party in
this State, and that the results Of Tuesday last
will give a new impulse to the Reconstruction
OF this party upon practical, consistent aud
solid national basis in every Staten the Union,
not excepting Massachusetts
With the completion Of the returns from the
Interior we shall be better enabled than at
present to attempt some analysis of the dvi-
sion of the popular vote. Suffice it for the pre-
sent, that the back Of the Seward boa constric-
tor is broken, and that the monster lies with
ing upon the earth, under "a fearful if not
= " fatal blow
FRENCH HOSTILITY TO AMERICAN HlMIGRA-
TIoN.-We publish day the translation of an
article from the Journal des DeJas on the sub
iect of European emigration to the United
States. The article is based upon the report
Of the English Commissioners OF Emigration
which gives many interesting statistics on
the subject For instance IL anpears there
from that from 1915 TO 1851 the number of
emgrants that took shipping in the ports at
the United Kingdom was in round numbers,