The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-11-05


orders have been received rcm England both for pro-
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The Election-Its Results, and their Causes
and Consequences.
The extended returns Of our State election,
which we publish this morning, confirm our an
ticipations Of the probable result. Notwith-
standing the $4,000 plurality for Fremont and
The sixty odd thousand for Governor King last
November, we were satisfied some months ago
that the great issue of the Presidential cleo
ton" bleeding Kansas had died out, and
that the practical issues touching the spoils and
| plumber corruptions Of our last winters Seward
| Legislature, and the pressure of this financial
| reyulsion, would operate TO give the democracy
the ascendancy in this November contest, with
anything like discipline, confidence and exer-
ton on their part.
| The substantial confirmation Of these opinions
| is in the results before us. The Know Nothing
party has diminished to mere remnant. which
viii most probably disappear altogether in
our next election; and the eighty thousand
1 plurality for Fremont has vanished like
dream. Nor will it answer to explain this
remarkable falling off with the plea in behalf
OF tho republicans of too much confidence in
their strength and too much Indifference to the
secondary issues of this election. The fact is
that the diminution of the republican vote is a
positive and permanent diminution The ire
| mendous Kansas excitement, which gave them
| their prodigous vote of last November, has
passed away with the causes which created it.
and the confidence of the people in the Kansas
| policy Of Mr.. Buchanan has diverted their at
| tention TO other subjects of q more practical
character.
II there are sixty eighty or a hundred thou
sand voting republicans of last fall who failed to
vote in this last election the fact only shows that
| they have been reduced by the course of events
TO the position of Indifferent neutrals. and that
they are awaiting the political Developments
OF the future upon which the reorganization of
parties for 1860 will be made. The next step
of these neutrals will be guided by the practical
eMgencies and Developments of the times. The
Kansas question being, substantially settled
against slavery, these femont delinquents are
at all events lost to the Seward anti-slavery or
| ganization of the North. Nor must it be for
| gotten that. in addition to the Kansas collapse
| the denominations Of the last Seward Legisla-
turc have done much to confirm the disgust of
| the independent Fremont men-original demo
Gratis especially-with the miserable trickeries
Of Sewardism.
The dsintegration of the Know Nothing par
ty, and the lamentable falling off in the vote of
the republican party of this State are thus
equivalent to great revolution in the opposi-
ton camps The opposition elements against
the democracy are thus thrown all adrift and
their reorganization will now depend very
much upon the financial policy of the admins
tration and the proceedings of the coming Con-
gress in reference to the commercial and ;inan-
cial measures and policy Of the general govern
! ment. For some months after the assembling
| OF Congress there will doubtless be n terrible
| contest between the Southern fire-eaters aud
the conservative democracy upon Kansas: but
as the inevitable destiny of Kansas is the dcsti-
| nv of free State, and ~ the conservative de-
mocracy North and South. will be satisfied
with this solution. the worst that can be feared
rom the iirc-caters is their secc ssion. not from
the Union, but from the national democratic
party and the administration.
With the Kansas question thus happily dis
posed of, and with the troublesome fre-eatcrs
| thus happily purged from the ranks of the al.
ministraiion party, the future policy Of Mr.
| Buchanan must be mainly directed to those
practical financial and commercial questions
arising from the heavy pressure of this uniycr-
sal revulsion. Upon these great and comprc-
hensive issues will depcad, not only the re-
| organization of the dormant materials of the
opposition, hut the stability and future success.
! or defeat of the administration democracy.
Our November election IL "a substantial en-
dorsement Of Mr.. Buchanan's Kansas policy:
! but this financial Revision il working every
| where among the people and the politicians OF
all parties, aud they are awaiting the dcyelopc-
/ menis Of the coming Congress. Nothing now
in the shape of political parties is fixed; but
everything, and every party, and all party
| principles are undergoing the first processes of
general revolution and reconstruction.
GOVERNOR WALLER AND THE ApMrSIsrR,-
TioS.--lt is now definitely and authoritatiyely
understood that neither Governor Walker nor
Secretary stanton IL to be removed ON account
OF tbe rejection Of the Oxford precinct of John
son county and the MCGEE county frauds from
the returns of the late Kansas election. The
Governor transcribed his instructions and The
technical limitations of his official authority in
the premises, a. il appears; but the technical
wrong may be- justified in view of the great
moral right aud the ends Of justice which the
Governor by his action has INDICATED.
The President will hear the Governor and
the Secretary in their defence, and he will sub
nit the question Of the propriety or improperly
of their conduct 90 the decision of the Senate
upon the simple question Of their confirmation
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