The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-11-05
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.
NEW YcnK, t,y ednesday night
November 5, 1855


one side and the whole combined strength OF the anat
cal revolutionary sectionass the lnownothing Irish
haes and the dscontented aud dishonest OF the demo-
cratic party the other has been fought and the tele
graph has long since announced the result as far as
known. Ii have not been successful a We hail
right To expectf have To deplore trifng
yersesf have 10 lament that disarction and dscord
in ranks which enabled enemies 10 capture
some of strougholdswe have, nevertheless. to
oice great victories splendid triumphs,
where the overwhelming force Of the democracy united
aud honest bore down all opposition and scattered their
mongrel and Ill conditioned foes.
1t must be conceded that the State ticket the de-
mocracy defeated Morgan beats Parker probaby by
majority of between 10 600 and 10000 and the rest
of the ticket shares similar fate This result Is not at
tribuabe 10 falling OF in the democratic strength,
but 10 the utter deseti0n Of their distinctive dogmas by
the know nothngs who may be said TO he dead,
party, the old tories of revolutionary times, TO
the exceeding exetion and activity Of the aboitioniss
and the abandonment by his friends of Gerrt smith
The for the desertion OF GerI Smith is manifest
Since the publication Of Mr. Stewards violent abolition
harangues, the most ultra abolition fanatics found that
they could take no exception to his doctrine 1t
quite revolutionary quite outrageous quite Grim
na that OF Gerrt Smith they could desire, and
Stewards party much stronger and more numerous than
that OF their quondam Chief they joined the army by
which Mr. Seward intends to against the South
under the pitic flag which Wendell Phillips and Lloyd
Garrison have long since bosed
In this city aud Brooklyn Kings county, the democratic
electors rallied braveIy round their honored standard
bearer Amasa J. Parker The total vote cast for him
So, 251 which, after deducting the total abolition
VOTE so 092 the total know nothing vote 1854 and
the total Gerrit Smith vote, l22, gives him majority
all of l3l5j There Is certainly nothing discour
aging in this.
The congressional elections considering the fusion of
the opposition and the lamentable dissensoDs in
ranks, have been, the WHOLE very favorable to the
democracy The returns from the first Soaring 81 dis
trct not complete but they warrant the belief that
the fusion candidate has been elected His personal
popularity in Richmond county, arising from private and
local reasons caused him TO far behind the vote cast
for governor. Had democrats not scratched him very
extensively he would necessarily have been reelected
The majority against him trifng.
In the second aylors district another of the fusion
lists has been elected. The unhappy split in the demo-
cratic ranks and the persistence OF the Vanderbilt organ
zation in running Mr. h. G. Ltchheld against the regu
lar nominee of the party after it must have been concu
svey obvious that the result must be defeat and the loss
the democracy of the seat in Congress- the causes
this Had the democracy in this district been
united they could have elected their candidate by $500
majority.
1t due Mr. Taylor to state that he is in way
countable for this result Weeks ago, when he found
the Vanderbilt party determined TO oppose him
risk and that the division in the democratic vote
must be ruinous he offered TO withdraw ii Mr. Lch
field would do likewise, and thus give the democ-
racy the power to nominate candidate whom
both organizations would unite and thus insure
success. In discharge of what Mr.. Taylor felt TO
be ''hs duty to the party, to the administration, and
the country" he wrote letter expressing his willing
make 'any sacrifice required at his hands in
friends to withdraw his in favor OF any gentleman,
other than Mr. Lchfeld who might he acceptable to the
party and consenng TO abide by the decision of con-
venton properly called 10 nominate another candidate,
Mr. Lched and his friends refused to accept this
sonabe and magnanimous proposition, and to their OBJ
stinacy be entirely attributed the triumph of mis-
cradle opposition minority The advocates of the ruleor
ruin policy pursued by Mr.. Ltcheid and OF the claims
TO regularity Of organization of the Vanderbilt commit
tee have much for; and regret to add that
if my information be reliable us believe it TO be, Mr.
d. s. Dickinson and his immediate followers chief
among those advocates. The policy that defeated
| Taylor in Brooklyn defeated Corning in Albany, and
very defeating Sckles in the Sd congressional
district
most powerful combination was made to defeat Mr..
Sckles. Everything that ingenuity could devise, in
doitable energy execute and deadly luminosity prompt
tried to give the seat to Mr. Walbrdge Mr.. Will
hanson 1t did not matter which succeeded provided
Sickles beaten 1t is positively asserted by parties
who state that they present. that of the
combined opposition held last Sunday evening at
the Astor House, at which the chief of Mr. Wabrdges
supporters, and the most inveteate enemy of Mr..
Sickles present and that offer made by that
gentleman get his followers to support the republican
State ticket if the republicans would unite Walbridge
and withdraw Mr. Williamson. The fight was
| one Mr.. Fernando Wood used all his power, and he
\ was defeated. The regular nominations of Tammany
Hail. both in this district and on the county ticket
have been boldly and honestly supported and the
question forever, trust, decided to which organ
gation--that of Tammany Hail. under the leadership
of Isaac " Fowler or that of s'the regulars
der Mr.. Wood is recognised legitimate by the
masses Of the democracy The election of Mr. Sickles
and that OF Mr. Waterbury for district attorney the
especial objects of Woods and Mr. fuckers opposition,
and in BOTH although aided 10y the republicans and know
| nothings he has been utterly defeated.
In the fourth fth and sixth districts good democrats
| have been elected Mr.. Thomas Barr succeeds John
Kelly and John Cochrane and VIM, b. Maclay have been
elected by their respective constituents by handsome
aortes Ia the seventh district fusionist has defeat
ed General Ward and in the eighth the aposate Horace
f. Clark has been chosen by the republicans and know
/ nothings and is claimed by both "a gain for their
respective parties The nomination of Mr.. Herrick by
the democratic convention did not meet with general APP
prevail / learn that many good democrats declined to
vote for MIR IL aud thus Mr.. Clark was passvey sup
| ported.
In the ninth district, rejoice to say that believe
that victory glorous yctorys Haskin is
beaten by that noble old democrat Gouverneur Kembe
aud the democracy of Westohester Rockland and Put
nam have brilliantly vndoated their honesty and fdel-
ty their party Kepbe elected and Haskin is de-
feaed crushed out and repudated utterly The thanks
of the nation due to the valiant democracy Of the
ninth district They did their duty and they did it well
Kemble's majority Is not large. do not suppose it
much exceeds hundred and fifty. But when you re-
member the odds against which he oughtan unscrupu
ors league Of black republicans dishonest Americans
and renegade democrats amply supplied with money by
Hasln's masters-even this small majority is
| markable The Evening Post figures Mr.. Kcmble ma
jory AS while the Commercial Advertiser is sorry
to say that Haskin beaten by about siy votes 1t
Is enough for to know that he beaten, that reach
cry in representative of the people has been gnaly
punished and that truth, honesty and fidelity have been