Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1859-11-12


New York EIection-Its Lesson
The Administration staked its last hope on
New York. -Four members Of the illustrious
Cabinet entered the feld, and BY their letters
10 the TsmmarJ Hall Committee Of invitation,
placed the responsibility of preserving the
Union upon the shoulders Of the New York
Democracy. Messrs. Cass, Cobb, Toucey and
Thompson wrote the letters, brim full Of "John
Brown" "bloody treason" "dark crisis and
'the greatest anxiety for the perpetuity Of the
Union, and consequently tho success Of the
Democratic partyl" Secretary TOucey was II
possible more lugubrious than Secretary Cass,
and declared that if the New York Republic
ans should triumph It would forbode intestine
discord, civil commotion, bloody insurrsctions,
and finally the ties which hind together this
confederacy OF States Secretary Cobb was
also very severe on the Republican leaders, and
pronounced them morally responsible for bloody
treason The Cabinet looked upon the future
Of the Republic as dark as black cats, unlees
the Democracy Of New York should "skin the
Black Republicans"
The Washington Constitution too, the home
organ of the President, uttered terrible Union
saving bray intended to make New York and
New Jersey trembe in their boots. Its last
word" declared that if these two States
should decide in favor of the Seward agitators
by elevatiug them to place and power deep
gloom will spread like pail oveiths country
The heart of the patriot will tremble with sp.
preheusion Confidence in the durability o
our institutions will be deeply shaken The
pillars of the Union will rock upon their base
and many will prepare for the apprehended ca
tastrophe. But it, on the other hand, victory
should perch upon the Democratic banner, thou
sands will feel as if we had escaped grea
Disaster Aud 50 on to the end of the " las
appeal"
Well, the people Of New York and New Jer
sey gave but little heed to these high officia
warnings and appeals, but went to the poll
just as though the Union was safe, and deposit
ed their ballots as independent Free Men SHOULD
do And the New York Times, far frou
party bound political journal, thus reads to tn,
Administration and the South the signiican
lesson taught both. by the Free votes of tn
Empire State.
The ELECTION IN THIS SrATE-We com
mend the returns of the late election to th
special attention of Gov. Wise, Mr.. Buchanan
Cabinet officers, the Fifth avenue Democrats
and that special section of Southern chivalI,
80 Admiralty represented by the frothy fecu
lence of the Richmond Enquirer. They MAJ
one and all read in it the results Of their join
attempt to conquer peace by bullying tn
North BY an organized conspiracy, far NOR
extended, and quite as unprincpled as tina
watch broke out at Harper's Ferry, they hav
been laboring day and night to make politica
capital out Of that affair Not only the live
; OF the prisoners in their hands, but the death
of their own citizens, have been IemOrseessl
used by the Virginia leaders as so much cap
tai towards q Democratic victory in New York
= Not satisfied with the utter defeat OF the inva
sion the deaths Of nearly all those engaged il
it, the conviction and impending doom Of tn
remainder, the universal denunciation Of tn
crime and the criminals throughout the Ere
States, and the utter absence of the smalles
particle of proof to implicate prominent men
or any considerable number of men Of an,
sort, in this conspiracy, they have done every
, bnlng III LnelT power 10 idslel upon INC WuOl
North the crime and its responsibility, and I
: terrifY our people into its practcal repudiatiol
at thl polls. We know nothing more utterl,
disgraceful than the remorseless style in whic
Democratic partissns have thus traded in trea
son and blood, for the promotion of their polit
ical ends.
The result proves how widely they have mis-
taken the temper of the public mind Even il
this city, where public sentiment is for obviou
reasons much more sensitive to political alarm
of this sort than in any other part of the State
the crusade was a substantial failure The Dem
ocratic majority even here is not $500 vote
larger than it would have been if HarPer's Fel
ry had never existed. In the interior of th
State it has created positive reaction AN
we have very little doubt that the Republica
vote is in the aggregate much larger than
would have been, but iorths most offensive en-
deavor to make political capital out of the affai
at Harper's Ferry. The main point Of attac
throughout the whole contest has been the posi-
ton OF Senator Seward Phe obvious effor
and aim of the whole crusade has been t
crush him. as a public man, in his own State
by Overwhelming him with the odium Of com
plicity in the crime of Brown. The result ha
been, that the Republicans have, by a decdet
majority, carried both branches of the Legisla
ture which is to choose his successor.