The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-10-18

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OF moment
Our November Election-SingSslar Condition
or Parties md Factions.
The Northern elections of the present year, from
Maine to Minnesota, have thrown the dcmoraized
democracy into ruins in every direction The fac
tous conspiracy against the administration with
Douglas at the head and Forncy at the TAIL &C
lively cooperating with all the odds and ends OF
the opposition, has especially laid low the demo-
cracy in Pennsylvania, so that at this crisis the
only available point for the recovery Of their
position and their broken fortunes in the North
is the State of New York. Singularly enough,
too, while Pennsylvania, which in 1856 turned
the scale in favor Of Mr.. Buchanan, has been re-
volutionized in the late election, New York.
which was carried for Fremont by $4,000 plura-
lily, is now, from the intestine divisions OF the
opposition, entirely within the grasp Of the de-
mocracy.
This suspicious opening to the democratic
party is due to the selfish and dictatoria! policy
OF Seward and his man Thurlow Weed al the late
Syracuse Republican Convention. Had Seward
consented temporarily TO stand in the back
ground, or had the Convention consented to
put Weed ''into back seat in the rear car
there would have been fusion between republi-
cans and Americans which probably would have
carried their common State ticket by hundred
thousand majority. But as Mr.. Seward, for the
Presidency. was the sine qua non of the republ-
cans, and as Thurlow Weed was his indispensable
facto,eru, the prevailing desire on both sides for
practical coalition was frustrated and the result,
instead of fusion, is regularly organized battle
between the two factions for the Presidential
balance of power of the Empire State.
On the one side the contest is of vital impor-
lance to Seward, for should he fail to carry his
own State at this important crisis he cannot ex-
pcct to be considered available for 1860. On the
other side, should the American faction fail to
draw away from Morgan vote indispensable to
the future movements of the republicans, the last
remnants of the American Order will speedily be
frittered away at less than cost But with the
defeat Of Morgan by handsome democratic plu-
rality the Know Nothing managers of New York
may dictate the terms, and even the candidate, of
the opposition coalition for 1860. Between Sew
ard and the American faction, therefore, this
November contest is too sharply defined to
admit of compromise upon the State
ticket On the contrary, it is now as
important to the American as TO the democratic
party that Morgan should be defeated, while
Genit Smith believes that Morgan's defeat is
Just as essential to the triumph of the great
cardinal principles of temperance and freedom"
With the opposition forces thus divided into
three irreconciliable factions upon three different
candidates for Governor, and with the democracy
of the State cordially united upon the common
platform of the administration, there is no
to doubt the triumphant election Of the Parker
State ticket. And the inducements to the de-
mocracy to carry this State in this canvass are
scarcely less, in reference to 1861 than were the
necessities Of the party in the Pennsylvania Oc-
election settled the issue Of the last Presidential
struggle, so this New York November election.
if carried handsomely by the democracy, -
give them a Northern foothold from which tiny
may recover all the ground they have lost, and
Charleston Convention.
Thus our intelligent readers will discover the
wide distinctions between the Presidential par
ties and issues Of our November election. and
the temporary and local questions and combina-
tions which have carried these late September
and October elections in other States. While
our Seward republican clique are laboring
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the Know Nothing clique Of managers are as
actively struggling 10 secure that balance Of
power which will put them in o commanding po-
sition in view Of the fusion Of all the opposition
elements for the Presidency. In this connection
this fight OF these great factions becomes the
more interesting from the interposition Of Ger
rit smith. who is resolved that the double-deal-
inc Seward managers shall, in this contest, have
none Of the assistance OF the honest believers in
Temperance and freedom We repeat too,
that while these divisions Of the opposition in
this great State, (the ubiter Of national parties
and Presidential elections,) are most encouraging
to the democracy, the general result TO them Is
Of the highest importance in reference TO the
Presidential succession
The next Congress may still be saved by the
democracy OF New York; but upon them the
last chance Of saving il depends. The recovery
Of the Northern ground lost by the party may
be saved by strong reaction here in November,
and thus New York may play part as decisive
In the election Of 1860 as In that Of ls4l Final
". as the divisions and dcmorslizations Of tho
democracy viii account for their late disasters
in Pennsylvania. 50. we predict will the diyi.