New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1855-02-07
YESTERDAY At ALBANY.

HE ne ELbC1lON of WV DE-" ARD W spo
seat be now honors in the American Senate,
though rendered morally certain at the polls last
November, is yet an event 80 Fl. in itself and 20
auspicious of good for the future, as amply to
ju.tify the fluctuations Of which ii has already
been the impulie. Before this theet shall be
opened BY half it's million readers, the glad It'd
ipgs will have been flashed from State to State,
and II have been the theme of lively congratu
lations by q large proportion Of the American
People. Those who pretend to regard Gov. S.
az q sectional man, cannot deny thai his triumph
or defeat was and ia a subject of wider aud
deeper National interest than that of any other
Senator now living could have been. On the
praiIies of Iowa and Minnesota the first
rude lodges Of Ksn,as ard Nebraska-in~the
gorees of the Sierra Nevada aud by the cascades of
Oregon-.he chances Of bis reelection have been
eagerly csnvassed in squatters' cabins snd around
the wstcbfres Of encamped bufalot uuters-in
whale. chips doubling Cape Horn and by Ameri-
can travellers meeting IN Egypt or Palestine.
There is no other man remaining in the public
service whose personal fortunes excite 80 wide
and lively an interest do those Of Gov. Seward.
In the present instance, however, the public
interest in the result Of yesterdays election was
based on considerations Of far higher than iDdi-
vsdual concern The Rights of Mantle equal
and inaliepab,e Right Of All to life, liberty, and
the pursuit Of haPpiness-to voice in framing
the laws by which and elec,ing the rulers by
whom they are to be governed-wss involved in
the struggle now SO happily ended at Albany
The advocates of Caste based Oh Color and Of
Caste based on diversi.ies of creed or Of birth
different ss individuals and as hOsts bat animated
BY common spir't-were mutually engaged in
tho work of preventing Gov. Stewards reelection.
They could not agree that any designated person
should be chosen Senator but they could heartily
agree q at Gov. S. should not be. Their highest
hope was 10 defeat any election and leave the
State but half represented in the Senate at the
opening Of the next Congress. They have not
succeeded even in rendering the contes! osten-
sibly q serious one. His majority on the first bal
lot was in either House decisive-there was no
Joint Ballot, simply because the emphatic agree
ment Of the two Houses produced the case in
which the law prescIioes that none shall be had.
Il
Tuepdsy in FebrusJy rs that on which each House
shall proceed to the choice Of a Senator, and by
one O'Clock the whole business was concluded,
the nominations Of the two Houses pared N
joint Meeting found to agree, Gov. SewIi de-
clared reelected, and the two Houses had ad-
jouned, amid the acclssnations of enthusiastie
thousand proud Of the days work done for New
York aid for Humanity.
We rejoice that there is no room for even
pretepte that Gov. Seward's reelection has been
secured by any shadow of concession on the part
Of himtelf or his friends. He stands to-day
unequivocal and decided an antagonist Of Slavery
and the Influences which ,onspire to empower aud
diffuie il as he ever wac, and none will even
assert that be has prOpitsted an enemy or secured
vote by modifying or seeming tn modify the
views hitherto cherished by him on this head
which have been so widely and veheuently stig-
matted Though quite number of those who
voted for him, and whose support was iadsPens.
able to his success had been inveig LsdingO Know
Nothing" lodges and were thought to be coz
mitted and pledged to the most intolersns Nstiv-
lam, Gov Seward has maintained a position of
scriptive dogma. Untrsmmeled by a pledge,
undegraded by even vote catching eXplana.
ton or apology, he Is reelected for term
which does not expire till 1861, at which period
we may nationally presume that Slavery will have
ceased to rule our National Councils aud Nativsm
will have run its rapid race and died out again as
ii has repeatedly done ere now. Gov. S., we
have no doubt, will should life and health be
vouchsafed him, serve out the term for which he
has been reelected and will discountenance any
efforts to make him a candidate meantime for q
higher station.
With new term of ak years thus before him,
secured by no pledges, won by no solicitations, he
has an arena for usefulness and tenure of ser
vice which may we'll satisfy generous ambition.
If this should be his last public trust be will not
feel, Dor should be, that his merits aud services
have been inadequasey appreciated, nor his aspir
atoms bafled. That be will maintain TO the last
his attitude of devotion to Human Freedom, from
whatever quarter sssailed, there is no shadow of
doubt. And We will leave in the Senate no man
who will have done more to clothe its delibera.
tions with dignity and grace the personI rela-
tons Of its members with unrufled ameniy and
unaffected urbsnity and courtesy than himself
Indeed, his fault, % far - one may be de-
tected in his pact Senatorial career, has been that
Of too general Difference to the influences which
bear away in the tainted atmosphere of the Sen
ate. The vice Of the time 10 Compliance, and
from this vice Gov. Seward las not been wholly