The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-01-24


Revolution-Shall Seward be- Re-Elceted.
The Know Nothings, it appears to be well
ascertaiDed, can command, at least in the more
popular branch of the Legislature, majority
against the reelection of W. Fl. Seward to the
United States Senate. They will thus have
the power of postponiDg the election in the
event of finding themselves unable to carry
through their own candidate. Maoifestly,
the next best thing to q conservative sue
cessor for Seward, is to throw over the election
to the next Legislature but still the general
impression seems to be that the Know Nothings
failing upon candidate Of their own, will con-
sent to Stewards reelection
Against such suicidal and ruinous course,
on the part of the Know Nothings, let them be
warned. Let them remember that w. a. Sew
and is the great stumbling stone to their future
prospects as national party, aud the great is
cue upon which their soundness upon the
slavery question in this commonwealth is to
be tested. Re.elect him, and all the work Of
the Know Nothings in New York, and the
North, will have to be done over again; su-
persede him, or postpone the election for a sea-
son, and all that has been achieved will hold
good and the field North and South, will be
open for the harmonious and uninterrupted
progress of the new political revolution.
The advances of this popular reaction, under
cover of the Know Nothlngs, are rapidly ex-
tending in every direction. In the South par
ticularly, the progress Of Know Nothingism is
! scattering to the winos the finest estimates Of
| the old party hucksters and politicians OF the
dey. In North Carolina, the people en- niasse,
seem to be enrolling themselves among the
my sterious Know Notbings. In Virginia the
contagion has spread from the lowlands to the
bills, and from the hills to the mountains and
their valleys, until the whole State swarms
| with the invisible Know Nothings. There the
reign of the Richmond Junta and the spoils de-
mocracy is ended. Henry A. Wise hears their
death knell and his own in the winds, whether
they come from the Chesapeake or the Blue
Ridge He is fighting now, not for victory
but to cover his retreat, while the Know No
things are multiplying ihevcry hole and corner
OF the State.
In various other Southern States this strange
and extraordinary popular revolution is as ra-
pidly going on. The old fogy politicians
see nothing, hear nothing; but they feel
that great changes are working, like a
groundswell. from the bottom of public
opinion. George Sanders, upon his ar
rival at New Orleans, discovers that Cabinet
candidates for the succession, 0stend arrange
ments and Baltimore conventions are obsolete
things-that there is an irresistible under
current at work all over the Union; and that
as the rod Of Aaron swallowed up all the rods
Of the Egyptian maRicians, SO are these Know
Nothines swallowing up the old political par.
ties Of the country.
This astonishing progress Of Know Nothing
ism in the South proves the satisfactory
soundness Of the national platform of the order
upon the slavery question beyond o doubt
Requirements Of whole regiments of slave
holders could not be secured To doubtful
| cause. Southern men discover in this Know
Nothing revolution the principles Of their con.
stitutional safety, and the extinguishment of
Stewards Northern anti.slavery coalition. The
general movement has acquired momentum
which cannot be stayed. 1t must 20 on. II
will eliminate in the great campaign Of '56,
and in the establishment at Washington of a
new set Of men and q new order Of things, in