The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-10


in good Eastern, export and speculative demand Southern
was in good request, and prices sustained Wheat
rner with free sales, including purchases for
port Corn was comparatively quiet, while sales
made without change Of moment in prices Pork was
heavy, with sales Of meas II elS IL elS and Of primo
at $40 So Sugars Hrm and In good demand, with
| sales OF about $500 bids. Cuba muscovado at full
prices 800 hhds meado 1t &c., and 900 bags Brazil 81
Coffee firm, with the sale Of the Addison Chid's
cargo 400 Ro at 1lIe, with other lots TO the trade.
Freight engagements were moderate, while rases were
Triumph OF Wiuiam II. Seward ~ the
Late Hleotion.
The result Of the State election Is sufficiently
apparent, already, to indicate beyond doubt,
that the great "irrepressible conflict" hero, whe
gave the key note to the Brown rebellion at
Harpers Ferry, has come out victorious from
the conflict Arch Beelzebub of American poll.
tics as Mr.. Seward undoubtedly is, he surpasses
in the craft for which he is remarkable all of
his contemporaries. Van Buren attempted to
make the slavery question q dividing line in
the democratic party, but he signally failed.
Seward wrenched from his hands the capital
that could be made out of it, and has monopo-
lized it ever since. Sumner, Chase, Wilson,
Giddings, Gerrit Smith, and Hale are but
satellites, revolving round the greater aboli-
ZIONIST sun, and vainly attempting to fly from
the centripetal force that controls them. The
name of Seward taints everything which be-
comes associated with it. He is the most un-
scrupulous adept in pecuniary and political
profigacy, that the United States has ever
produced Upon his advent into Office,
in his native State, he found it in
debted $5,0OO,OOO. He left it, at the end of
an administration of only four years, owing
s25,000,O00. He had inaugurated the reign of
bribery and corruption, and nearly bankrupted
the wealthiest member of the American con-
federacy. In 1852, when Winfield Scott stood
before the country as a candidate for the Presi-
dency, his supposed Identification with Seward
dragged him into the dust Yet the demagogue
has survived, and now presents himself to the
country, endorsed by the vote of day before
yesterday, as the only great champion of the
black republican party for the chief magistracy
Of the country, after 1860.
The recent registry Of voters in the city of
tropolis, over one hundred thousand persons
entitled to the right Of suffrage. In the whole
State, there are about six hundred thousand.
It appears, however, from the election returns,
that less than two-thirds of these presented
themselves at the polls. This has been mainly
owing to the utter state of demoraliza-
ton into which parties have fallen. The
-
who have RETAINED from voting, probably con-
stitute the most conscientious, honest, and con-
servative portion of the whole community.
They have been perplexed, partly by the exc
cradle character of most of the candidates of
all parties offered to their choice, but princi-
pally by the degradation Of the leaders of the
democratic and republican Regencies. Be-
tween Thurlow Weed, and the scandalous job
bling operations, of which he is the representa-
tive, on the one hand, and the rotten, Judas
Iscariot sel6shness of Cagger, Confidence Cas-
sidy Co. on the other, they have been palsied
into supineness and inactivity, preferring rather
to do nothing, than to cooperate with iniquity
of any kind. Had they been able to see one
ray of light; could they have reposed conf
dence in any representative organization, they
would, we think have made their influence
felt; but they recognized that at a critical pc
Rod in the history of the State and country,
it was their duty to feel certain Of the founda-
ton upon which they were building The con-
sequence has been the loss, by default, Of an
important election, and victory in behalf of
the most atrocious disunion dogmas that ever
have been sprung upon the public.
The elections in Michigan, Wisconsin, Massa-
chusetts, Illinois, and other Northern States,
lesson as that which may be derived from New
York, namely, that there is paralysis of feel
| ing throughout the North, growing out of the
| decay of parties, which restraints the better
portion of the community from going to the
polls. It is within bounds to estimate the
! number Of good, cautious, patriotic men, who
have abstained from voting, at the late cleo
| tons, as at least eight hundred thousand. Had
| they taken part in the recent conflicts between
the demagogues of parties, for official position,
| the results would have been entirely different
| Should they continue to refrain from doing So
during the coming two years, William II. Sew
ard will, in all likelihood, be the next President
of the United States. They hold the next Pre-
sidental election in fact, in the hollow of their
hands They hold in their hands the perpetual
ton Of the union between North and South
They are SO completely the arbiters Of the fu-
ture destinies Of the country that whether there
shall be peace or civil war, is subject to their
| decision.
We do not believe that there is thoughtful
upright man in the North, who doubts that
series Of outbreaks, similar to that which was
recently witnessed at Harper's Ferry, would