The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1857-12-08

EN- YORK HERALD, IT. !
victory achieved upon the very threshold of his
Kansas rupture with the administration!
But, leaving these questions to be answered
by the parties concerned, we hold that the defeat
of Mayor Wood was an ominous defeat of the
democratic party, and that, coupled with
the present Northern democratic defections on
the Kansas issue, we have before us the pro-
gramme and the materials by which the demo
cracy, as national organization, will most pro-
badly be wiped out of existence in 1860. Gov.
Walker is substantially sustained in his posi-
ton by Senator Douglas, and is actively and
vehemently supported by very considerable
number of our democratic journals of the North
and Northwest. What follows We suspect
that, although Mr.. Buchanan will come off I'M
scathed the solution of this Kansas question,
settle it as you may, will involve the dissolu-
ton of the democracy, North and South.
Make Kansas slave State, by any process
whatsoever and the Northern democracy are an
initiated; make Kansas free State, upon the
fairest possible terms, and the Southern fire.
eating wing of the democracy fly off at tan
gent into open rebellion. In either event the
South VIII be borne down in 1860 by the supe-
rior pressure of the North, and Northern ad-
| ministration will succeed to power.
| In this connection there may be something in
the results of the last years State elections wor
thy of observation, as compared with the re-
suits of November, 1856.
From comparative table, which we have
made up with some care, we find that the fol-
lowing are the deficiencies in the popular vote
| of 1857, as compared with the results of the
| Presidential election Of So
Free States Democratic ,ote. Opposition
| ls56-presidenal. ............Q541l 3 1,429, 583
ls57-State elections ,6sl 1,0l2,65l
| Deficiency .................... 99,427 4ls,932
| S'are states. Democratic. Opposition.
| Is56-PresidentiaW ............ 436,770 S6s, $40
lS5'-State elections .......... 96,3oS 3l0,3l4
deficiency .................... 4o,4e2 5s,5se
These comparative results, North and South,
are very suggestive. Passing over these South
ern deficiencies as only natural loss on both
sides, We see that in the Northern States there
is falling off in the opposition vote of nearly
one-third, or about thirty per cent, while the
Northern aggregate losses to the democracy
are less than ten per cent Allowing margin
of ten per cent for general apathy this addi
tional twenty per cent Northern loss to the OPP
position may be charged to the transition state
of our Northern Know Nothings, and the subsi-
dence till within the last week or two of the
Kansas agitation. But the important fact in
connection with this opposition loss is this-it
| is not a democratic gain, but balance of power
| lying in the rear of the democratic party-a
| force Of opposition reserves, awaiting the issue
of events. For instance, the democrats carried
this State in our late November election by q
plurality of over $4,000 But their vote in this
election was only some 800 less than that of Mr..
Buchanan's, while the deficiency in the opposi-
tion vote was over 10000.
This deficiency, and all these Northern oppo-
sition deficiencies, are made up Of these re-
serves, which can only be called out by the ex-
citing issues of Presidential election, or an ex-
citing party test question upon local affairs.
Our late municipal election was test of this
kind, and the result informs US that a serious
| detection has lately crept into the Northern
| democratic camp, and that in appropriating it
to their advantage the opposition have hit upon
practical plan for the complete extinguish-
ment Of the democratic party in 1860. The
mutiny on Kansas among the Northern de-
mocracy affords the same golden opportunity
to the opposition for a general combination
upon national affairs as did the OBJECTIONS in
Tammany Hall for holy alliance upon fishy
democrat against Mayor Wood.
Let us watch the working of this Kansas
coup d'<tat of Gov. Walker. We entertain no
fears concerning the administration. Mr.. Bu-
chanan's policy is the law as he finds it-he
cannot go behind the record. lie must take
the Developments of popular sovereignty"
as he finds them; and whatever may be the
issue the responsibilities in reference to Kansas
belong to Congress, and the consequences to
the democratic party. That these consequences
will lie disastrous, we can scarcely entertain a
doubt, so long as we believe that in this Walker
coup drtta and its affiliations, and in the result
Of our late city election, we recognise the be-
ginning of that general bolt from the Northern
democratic party, and that general fusion of the
boilers with the combined opposition forces,
which cannot fail to sweep everything before
them in 1850.
TnE PRINTING or CoSGREss-A GOVERN
MENT 0rrcE.--One of our morning cotempora-
ries objects to our plan of the establishment of
government Office for the government print
ing and on the ground that such an Office
would be but an infirmary for decayed party