The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1855-10-14

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Chase, the abolition fusion candidate for Gov
ernor, in Ohio, is elected by a large plurality
over Medill, democrat, and very probably BY
majority Of some two or three. thousand over-
both Medill and Trimble, independent This
result is claimed by the Seward fusionists as
tremendous victory; but, compared with their
eighty thousand majority in the State last
year, it is tremendous loss. In the same
ratio Of loss another such election will reduce
the fusionists to decided minority in the
great State Of Ohio Had the independent
whig and Know Nothing, conservative move
ment commenced a little earlier, they might
have done the work this season. Their great
mistake was in awaiting the action Of the con-
yenton which nominated this abolition fusion
Chase ticket. The anti-administration con-
servatives should. have kept aloof from the
Sew ard fnsionists, and should have taken the
field from the start in behalf of the principles
Of the Union and the constitution. ~ :
In Pennsylvania the success, of the demo-
Gratis is the natural result of the attempt to
fuse the national and free soil Know Nothings,
the old wings, the free sellers proper and The
radical abolitionists, without any common
principle Of action, except free soil and o COM
mon eleventh hour candidate for Canal Com
missioner The incongruous and diverse ma
terials that had carried the State with such a
rush the year before, as to lead to the belief
that they were absolutely Irresistible, had been
quarreling over the blunder. The effort Of
the Know Nothings to elect Simon Cameron to
the United States Senate had much to do with
the alienation Of the whig and Know Nothing
conservatives from this free soil and pliable
Know Nothing and Know Something coalition.
That Cameronian experiment, In fact, was the
entering wedge to the dissolution of that
mongrel alliance of which,, in Pennsylvania,
nothing but the scattered fragments now re-
main. 1t must he remembered, however, that
considerable numbers Of whig conservatives in
as the choice between two evils SO that the
h result is no test of the actual strength of the
Pennsylvania democracy, nor any proof of a
returning popularity to the administration.
The net results Of all these late elections
are that the Know Nothing or American order,
with its present organization and proscrptive
principles, will not answer as the basis Of a
great and homogeneous national party-that
\ the abolition league in the North, though
broken in Pennsylvania, still holds the vantage
ground in Ohio; and that the democratic party is
rapidly coming together again, while the con-
servative elements Of opposition to the Pierce
administration are still adrift, North and South.
Beyond these fixed facts, everything in refer
enee to the campaign for the Presidency is still
in doubt. We believe, however, that, North and
South, an overwhelming majority of the Ameri-
can people are in favor Of the Union and the
constitution; and that decided majority are
in favor of new administration at Washing
ton. The politics and parties of the whole
country are still in a state of efiervescence and
revolution, and nothing short of three or four
months Of the approaching Congress will put
them into definite shape for the great battle
of sc.