The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-12

Fremont swept over the North like fire on the
prairies, and with his eighty thousand majority
over Mr.. Buchanan in this State he carried in q
heavy republican delegation to Congress and an
overwhelming republican Legislature
But the same Seward contrlvanoss which
comprised the defeat Of Fremont through
transfer Of several thousand opposition votes to
the democracy in the Pennsylvania October
election, when fifteen hundred or SO of these
votes would have carried the State for the OPP
position--thc same causes, We say, wh2Dh thus
resulted in the defeat of Fremont, resulted in
packing our last Legislature with an unscrupu-
lous gang Of Seward spoilsmen, stockholders
and Spectators The disclosures Of the investi-
eating committee Of the last Congress, including
the expulsion of Matteson and the corrupt
proceedings Of the Seward oligarchy at Albany,
were all Of piece, and the results are before
Ills in the returns of our late election. The
democracy, in the popular vote, have gained
little or nothing but hundred thousand or so
Of our Fremont men Of 1856 have cut loose
from the corrupt Affiliations of Sewardism. and
are awaiting the Developments of the future,
in the form of q corps de reserve, which has taken
10 part in the late battle.
In view however, Of the practical victory to
the democracy from this election-whch has
gone by default-the cool impudence Of our
democratic contemporaries is positively insuffer-
able. When the democracy nominated their
State ticket at Syracuse, the general idea was
that it was nominated under a conviction of
inevitable defeat; nor did the party entertain
any hope, or pretend to net upon any regular
plan of offensive operations, until this Journal,
in series of articles upon tlle subject, from
day TO day, introduced confd pnce, discipline
and system into the camp. This journal was
the first to indicate democr attic victory, and
the first to assign those rem sons for this belief
which carried conviction TO. the previously in
credulous masses of the part 3.
The influence Of an in dependent popular
Journal like the NEW YORK HERALD among the
masses Of the people has been illustrated in
more than one, or two, or hree of our presiden-
tial elections, and in its course in regard to
various presidential cand idates from time to
tine. Take George Law :, for example. The
HERALD picked him out, brushed him up, and
brought him forward Ms IN experimental indie
pendent candidate. He soon became grea
and wonderful man, and formidable aspiran
for the White House. He was courted ant
caressed by co,nmittes ;, and conventions, AM
Legislatures But this sudden exaltation RUNE,
him. He bee anne too large for his presidential
brooches: and 20 we : ook them Off and he wa
Instantly ira nsformO again into an ordinar,
every day lortal bearing the simple unoficia
name of G ,orge L,w. Thus 1t WAS with tn,
republican party of 1856, and thus it is will
this party of 1851. Despoiled of Its presidential
breeches. II sinks back again into its origina
dimension &.
We ad nonish our fgrsorant imbecile ant
seii-conc' tied democratic organs to look thu
fact- OF Ne past and the preseu. in the face, and
to deal ht aerlly by them. We admcnlsh them tina
from the eorruptions of the Seward o,igarcby
this late New York State election has gone by
default md that force exeeeain one hundred
thousand .men now stands in the rear Of the de
mocraeJ of this commonwealth. In the position
OF arm" neutrality. Mere apparent majpritic
amount 10 nothing as basis Of psGti<. al calcu
lat'ons. The divisions and deficiencies oil he az
grega'e State vote of this year. az conpup,s wit
the vote OF last year, will tell the true a or,
OF the, we know enough to assure the Ia N,
eracy u this State that their present ascend "
ey is o1e Of suferance. and that a tremepdo
populsr majority still stands behind them. I,,b
new snocratic Canal board and the h,,,nc.
OF power secured by the democracy in both
branches Of the Legislature shall be proved ac-
cep!able to the taxpayers of the state. tho
PARKWAY hold their ground; but If they fan
shot OF their promises and the public expeet,.
ton. they will sink u suddenly as they have
rstn exalted,
Such are the facts and the philosophy OF our
State elections. The Seward oligarchy Il en-. |
phatically rsbuked; but there Is a reserved |
corps In the popular vote exceeding one hun
dred thousand men, who are calmly awaiting |
the deyeiopements of the next twelve months |
and the course Of the independent press upon
he doings and the merits Of the several parties |
ofthe day.