The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-11-20

Our late Northern elections have brought out
Mr.. Seward and Mr.. Douglas into bold relief, the
former as the most conspicuous opposition candi-
date, and the latter, among his followers, as the
inevitable democratic champion for the next Pre-
sidency. And it is very remarkable, very sigui-
ficant, and very suggestive that while these late
election victories Of the opposition, from Maine
to Minnesota, have been achieved by the active
cooperation of the black republicans and the
Douglas renegades against the administration,
very significant, indeed, that these elections should
be considered quite as advantageous to the trail
tor who has nearly destroyed the Northern de-
mocrocy as TO the republican party, which appro-
PIRATES oil the solid results Of his treachery
This extraordinary anomaly, however, Is ad-
Missile Of simple solution. The apparently
hostile interests which have thus combined to
work out q common resul; In each and all Of the
Northern States have been moved by q common
interest and common understanding. The facts
cannot be otherwise. A coalition so systematic
and 70 cordial and extensive as that which these
late elections have betrayed between the
Seward managers and the partisans Of Doug
las il an impossible thing upon any
theory Of political accidents, local causes or
spontaneous combustion. II l. coalition which
can only result from preconcerted arrangements.
and from the common basis Of mutual adyon-
tages TO the high contracting parties
Thus, ~ we indicated on the near approach
Of our late State election In predicting the over
whelming defca, Of the democracy. VIC believe
that all these late Northern opposition victories
are due to sort OF Presidential bargain and
sale between Seward and Douglas, and their re-
spcctive agents, financial and political Though
their courses have been In opposite directions
heretofore. there is wonderful affinity Of cha
racter between these two ambitious politicians
Seward Is an unscrupulous demagogue and lobby
jcbber, and 80 IN Douglas: and the former does
not adhere more faithfully to bis cardinal princi-
pie, that the end justifes the means, than does
the latter. Politics too, like misfortune and ad-
versity, bring together strange bedfellows; and
II Il not more unnatural TO End Seward and
Douglas in the same conspiracy than to discover
Mr. Bolts and Captain Tyler unds the same
blanket
The Cincinnati Convention made rebel
Of Mr.. Douglas lie left II az the Van Blu
rem delegates left Baltimore In lSis brood
ing upou revenge In the summer Of
1857 at Chicago, at q railroad convention, we
find him personally cheek by jowl, intercbanging
compliments with Mr.. Seward. Shortly there
after the Little Giant" addressed his impudent
dctatorisl letter 10 the President concerning
paltfy Office at Washington. Next, the home
organ CT Mr.. Douglas at Chicago broke the
ground OF rebellion upon the Kansas question !;
and next with the hot haste Of a disappointed
dictator, we find him casting down the gauntlet
Of defiance and war TO the administration with
the reading Of the Presidents Message
Our readers will remember, that for some time
after the full ripening Of this Kansas revolt the
chances In favor of Mr.. Douglas becoming the
champion, al least Of the Illinois republicans,
were very promising that some Of the leading
organs Of Mr.. Seward In this quarter lsbored
very earnestly TO secure his republican baptism
in Illinois, and that they we're very much disap-
pointed at biz failure to secure this admission
into the republican church. We presume, how
ever tina, In exchange for the republican victories
achieved With The assistance Of The retainers Of
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