The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-06-20

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Something u tho chaos and ssrueo.i0y .on.
fusion into which our politieal psrties were
'nrC~n ,. year ago by this most wretched Pierce
admiDS stra,ion still prevail throughout the
coon ~, while here and there the general revo-
Iu" onary reaction is assuming something OF
- ape end consistency. In this State II Is
pretty evident that we are TO have three dis
tinct, wen defined, and antsgonistic parties In
! the fela for the Succession, to witt
]. The Know Nethings, or new American
| party.
| Q, The Seward anti slavery disunion party.
s. The spo1De democracy.
| Iato these three parties the bulk of all the
1 outside factions of the day will probably be
nerged-the liquor law faction, the anti-liquor
law faction, the democratic hard shells and
soft shells, the Seward and the silver gray
wings, the ultra liberty faction Of Gerrit
4 Smith and Fred Douglass the land reformers,
4 the anti-renters, the women's rights women,
and the Fourierite philosophers and free colored
Americans, inclusive. In this view, let us see,
! from present Indications the relative strength
| of these three new parties in the Empire State,
| from and after our next November election.
| At our State election Of last November, the
| vote for Governor resulted as follows =
For Clark Seward liquor law wbig ........ 156, 500
For sey nour, soft shell antihquor law demo- -.
r 1n,: Know Notinv SSssS
For Bronson, hard shell democrat. $4,000
For B. R. Wood Independent free soilsr. 1854
Total popular vote Of the State 67S,lo2
This exceeds by fifty thousand the aggregate
vote for President in 1852, and upon the same
ratio of increase we shall probably have by
November next total popular vote Of six
hundred thousand. The vote for Governor, as
distributed last year, affords scarcely an ap-
Proclamation to the relative strength Of the
parties involved, emitting the liquor question.
Upon that issue there was an ihexplicable
amount of cross firing. The result, however,
establishes the important fact that with all
the force Of the Nebraska agitation, in its first
gloss, with all the unpopularity Of Pierce,
Marcy, Cushing and Forney, with all the de-
fections of the democracy, all the novelty Of
the liquor law, and all the inexperiencs Of the
Know Nothings, whose organization as State
party had then scarcely commenced, the Sew
ard anti Nebraska temperance and antislavery
coalition were unable to muster one third Of the
| aggregate vote of the State.
| How stands the matter now ? The democra-
cy are still disorganized-the Seward coali-
ton have nothing to stand upon but the slavery
| agitation ana the liquor law. The approach
| ing election involves neither Governor nor
| Congressman. 1t is limited to several
State officers, the Legislature and town
and city officials. Nor will the Assembly
be rendered political test upon the
election of Senator. That question
has been settled. But upon the maintenance,
or modification, or repeal Of this odious and
despotic liquor law, the election Of the new
Legislature will inevitably turn, and the re-
suit will most probably give to the victorious
| party the inside track for the great campaign
| of 1856. This liquor issue cannot be smothered
up in the repeal of the Nebraska bill. Too
many substantial business intsBs1s, too many
positive individual political rlhts are in-
volved in this law to admit Of the idea that the
question Of its repeal can be sufocated in the
| ~LsA- oR 4Io 80
the Missouri line.
The liquor interest, in all its ramifcations,
will exert tremendous influence in our No
vember State canvass Where will it go? Not
with the Seward disunion coalition establish
ing this despotic law-nOt, most assuredly,
with the disorganized and unreliable democracy;
but with that party most likely to possess
the strength and the will to defeat the law
this new American party. Since November
last, it has Increased it, xngth to full two
hundred thousand men, and the work is still
progressing. Can Seward muster the fifty
thousand reinforcements, according to his vote
of last fall, necessary to bring up bis force to
two hundred thousand? Extremely doubt
full. Can the spells democracy hit upon
any plan of democratic fusion sufficient
to control in this State two hundred thousand
votes, during the remnant of the allotted exist
ence of this Pierce administration? Exceeding
ly doubtful. Can any plan of fusion be invent
ed between the spoils democracy and the Sc
ward coalition, upon any pretence or for any
purpose whatever? No. We must then con.
clude that the contest next fall will be between
the Seward party and the American party !;
and from the instincts, interests, antecedents
and fixed principles of the democracy in favor
of free trade and free liquor, we must also con.
clude that the pressure of the liquor question