Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1857-01-09
FROM NEW YORK.
CORRESPONDENCE of the Richmond Enquirer.

correspondence Of the Richmond Enquirer
| New YORK, Jan. 5, 1887.
| NEW YORK PoLITICs-CAUsEs OF DiscuRp-THE
CANALS ASD RAILROADS Is OProHrIoS-THE
| HERALD CUTTING Up THE SEWARD PARTY By THE
Roors-GgsERAL DiscoRp-A CHANCE FOR THE
| DZMoeRAcY-THE RESISTANCE ATTITUDE OF THE
SoUTu-LEr 1T MAIN1AISED, SC, &c.
| To the casual observer everything in this great
State looks gloomy FOX the Democracy and the South
To those, however who understand the character OF
the Northern mind, the elements Of d!sorgansasion
are already observable. You know am Difficult,
to convince on this subject as any one, and ye.
firmly believe that, at the next election, the Repub
oan party will be reduced 10 a lean and exceedingly
| hungry majority, to be followed by eventual over.
throw.
Looking over the local contests for the last four
years in the States of Pennsylvania and New York,
with those of New England, very singular
result, but which has very natural cause. TIE
result the constant ebb and flow ot public opinion,
aud the the entire abseuce OF any settled poll
teal principles among the people. One year the
State Of Pennsylvania gives Il Know Nothing mnjn
rity OF 30,0UG. Neat year the same pupua'ion vote
against their previous measures by 10000 majority,
being change of 10,0UD votes! In New York the
same thing takes place. Throughout New England
we hnd the same fluctuations The people Of this
State have no Immediate practical interest in the
abolition idea 1t is not based principle but "a.
Their on popular passion, which every day seeks and
fluids some new escaped passion which has a false
foundation and capable o. being undeceved.
The Know Nohnga and Republicans are engaged
in bite. feud. Every day tho breach is getting wider
and wider, to end last in lnvrera'e hostility Ths
10 one element in our favor. Then the leaders Of the
Republican party are engaged III tilt with the Her.
aid which hos got into their camp, and is cutting up
their said leaders Seward and Bennett are in deadly
opposition. The country press and the city press keep
up the ancient local war. The rail roads oppose
the canals and the canals the rail roads l have
hsard i; suggested, that cause Of Fremonl's
success in the State account Of understand
ing tina, all the leading corporations Of the State
should combine in ole immense company. ~ nIess
they do this SAY the Republican leaders "the local
jsaiousies will defeat Us. "a. they do It,, say the
Democrats, the people will join u.s." The dis
appointed offceseekers and unaeiu! office holders,
will do their part Of the work. In the meanwhile
Mr.. Buchanan viii pass the State over in the forna-
ton of the Cabinet and ssieuting our foreign re
representatives..
Below all this, ia the compact, vel! organized Do
mocracy OF this city, with clear majority OF 3O,U0o
to 90 into the rural districts with II the South only
maintains firmly, but with dignity, the fixed detornl
nation of resistance even 10 dissolution aud civil war,
to the election o. the Republican candidate in lSb,
the State will be revolutiunized. have taken pains
to obtain the best information on this subject, and
there doubt but what the resistance party OF th-
South checked the Fremont t1e. IL was the money
sent from here that carried Penusyvania And It Is
of vas; importance that the determined yet patriotic
tone ot the South should he maintained This done.
and can reclaim New York.