The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-04
The Great Issue ofthe Approaching state
Election. What IL lit

The stern resolve which has been taken, by
the wealthy and intelligent classes in this city,
that political sway shall no longer be monopo-
lized by fighting factions, and that the arocious
"irrepressible conflict" programme of William
H. Seward shall not be permitted to plunge the
country into ruin, has awakened public con-
science, cffectually, to the pitifully degraded
depth to which rowdyism and demagogueism
have reduced u.s. The duty is recognized Of
united and strenuous efforts to rescue the State
from the incompetent and corrupt hands in
which the sources Of authority are now vested,
and to avert ON it the indelible shame Of
| having on orsed doctrines, on the eve of Pre-
sdentaI election, the success of which would
shatter our national prosperity. 1t is well that
it is so. A little later might have been too
late. Apathy, the engrossing cares of business
and divided counsels, have too long prevented
conservative men Of worth, standing, and re
sponsbility from opening their eyes to the
disastrous consequences which must inevitably
flow from neglect; but, now that they
have made move in the right
direction, their own immense personal
stake in the matter would appear to qua
rantee that they will WELD with frmness, de-
cision and endurance, the power which they de-
clare shall never again pass out of their hands.
We aueur, therefore, the most practical, per-
manent and happy results from the great up
rising VIII Oh has been witnessed within the last
two weeks.
The Importance, at the present time, of an ir-
resist,bly patriotic attitude, on the part of the
opuen, high minded and provident supremacy,
in this city, cannot be overrated. New York is
less the great metropolis of the Western Cont
nent, on account of its vast population, than
b cause its influence permeates the remotest
sections of the republic. 1t is the financial
heart, in unison with which the pulses of every
moneyed interest beat, from Labrador to the
city of Mexico. II is the reservoir of surplus
thought and intellect which plans the future,
| exats the destines, intensfes the progress of,
and gives ideas to, other parts of the Union. 1t
governs the country without appearing to do
| so, because its ascendancy is inseparable from
subordinates. 1t puts forth the careless, lazy
strength of material and intellectual giant
Yet the city of New York is the very worst
ruled city in the land. The State of New York
is the most abominably governed member OF
the North American Confederation. We
are the laughing stock and derision of the
envious and the horror of the good. And the
reason is, that the men in whom the probity
property, mental resources, and vigor of this
city are concentrated, can seldom be stimulat
ed to assume the salutary dominion they are
entitled to. 1t has grown out Of the unerring
instinct of selfpreservation alone, that they
have begun to do so now. The hundreds OF
merchants and capitalists, whose names we
have already published, could never have been
startled into political activity, if late events
had not demonstrated that the corruption Of
party organizations is complete, and that con
tinued supineness and lethargy might involve
the triumph Of Sewardism, civil discord, des
truction Of commerce, humiliation of those in
ternal and external sources from which prospe
rity flows, and the shipwreck of the welfare OF
this now nappy nation. ----
In the election for State officers, next
III,
interests of the people of the State of New
York, can be Immediately affected. The tick
cts which have been presented by the demo-
cratic and opposition conventions, are nearly
| alike in intrinsic worth, and one may be pro.
nounced about as good or as exceptionable as
the other. Both parties are incompetent to dis
charge the functions of good government, and
they have been equally committed, for many
years, to every ramifcation of organized fraud,
rapacity and injustice Therefore, it the pros
perity and development of the State Of New
York were alone at stake, the choice would be
small, and our concern little, whether one
party or the other triumphed But the impend-
ing election will have a much deeper than any
mere local Specification. 1t will, more than
possibly, be turning point, for veal OF for
woe, in the history of the whole United States
The same William H. Seward who assembled
the gubernatorial chair, at Albany, in 1899,
and, after an administration of four years. left
the State on the verge of bankruptcy, now
aspires to the highest seat, at Washington, for
the same period 1t is the confident belief of
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ment by popular vote, in November, of the
black republican ticket, and the disunion doc
trines which he promulgated at Rochester, the
question will be settled and his pernicious
ascendancy secured. 1t is to avert this ter
rible and irreparable disaster to the ma
ton, that the intellectually and wealth
of New York city have banded together,
to achieve, by their OWL strength, and
with their own means, what lether the rotten
rowdyism of Mozart and Tanmany halls, nor
the venal intrigues of the Albany Regency can
accomplish.
The following Is the democratic or anti
Seward ticket which was Nominated at SYRIA
cuse on the l4th ultimo:-
Secretary Of State D. r. Floyd Jones.