The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-24
Our November state Elccston--Thc Great
Issus Before the People.

/ Assce NfsVrc thc People.
| Tire late terrible abolition emeutc at Harper's
Ferry, in tho midst of an unsuspecting slave
holding community Of border slave State, do
mands from the people Of the North prompt
and emphatic Reputation. Itso happens, how
ever, that the Northern States, excepting Massa-
chusetts, New York, New Jersey and Wiscon-
sin, have held their elections for the present
year. and that. excepting California, all these
concluded elections indicate the prostration Of
the Northern democracy, and the strength OF
the republican party as q sectional anti-slavery
organization. Had this Harpers Ferry cxplo-
sion occurred in September, we should, no
doubt, have had different report from Penn
sylvania ard some other States; but still, to the
great Stale of New York is reserved the oppor-
tunity and the power for rebuking that Presi-
DENTAL programme Of her arch -agitator which
would involve onc-half the Union in the ERE
and slaughter Of servile instruction, and
both sections in all the horrors of q civil war.
The Stale of New York, in our November
election. may, If she will, in this important view
of the subject, inaugurate a great and bene6-
cent revolution. Thus, the defeat of our
republican State ticket, upon the test ques-
ton Of Stewards infamous and bloody
Rochester manifesto, might be made
result Of the highest moment to the peace
and stability of the Union. Under other cir
cumstances We might confidently predict this
result, for we know that an overwhelming ma
iori,y Of the people OF this commonwealth are
10 In Tvt,np anil f,n nl>l tiov ~ kkn
federal constitution.
But. elias the trickeries, trcacheries and I'M
scrupulous sharp practices Of the Albany do
mocratic Regency for the ascendansy in the
Charleston Convention, the rufdanisms and
eorruptions Of Tammany Hall, and the impla-
cable psBonal feuds between this clique and
the equally INSCRIPTIONS clique Of Mozart
Hail. all taken together, with the general drift
of the late Northern elections, and the over
whelming defeat of the New York democracy
last year. leave very small margin for de-
mocratic triumph this fall. Indeed, we still
carry the day; but let not the friends of law
and ORDER and sectional harmony, North and
South, in view of such a result, conclude that
there is no hope for the Empire State.
Demoraiized, disorganized and broken TO
pieces. as the democratic party of New York is
to-day. from long continued system of inter
nal abuses. corruptions and factious quarrels
over the spells, it can hardly be expected to
come cordially together upon fortnight's no.
tice. Nor is it to be supposed that, upon
sudden alarm like this from Harpers Ferry,
the elements Of our disbanded American party
can all be brought to the rescue. Their hos
tility to the democratic party, and their bitter
enmities against Mr.. Buchanan s administration,
are perhaps as strong in the aggregate as
their infexible spirit of party revenge against
W. II. Seward and his Albany engineers But
with these considerations before us, we shall
not be disposed tothe conclusion that with
republican victory in New York in November
the issue of an irrepressible conflict in 1860,
in the shape of a Presidential contest between
| two monopolizing sectional parties, will be
fixed beyond redemption.
On the other hand, 1t will be some time vet
before the comprehensive and all important
lessons involved in this affair at Harper's Ferry
viii be thoroughly appreciated in this section.
A current which has been long and steadily
flowing in one direction cannot be suddenly
reversed. Thus, perhaps, the first positive re-
action from the North against the reasonable
sectional programme of Seward and its bloody
tendencies will have to come from the new
Congress which meets in December. But there,
upon the momentous question of the organiza-
ton Of the House, the republican party may be
brought down from the bloody platform of
Seward, OF reduced, by the formation of new
opposition party, to the insignificant dimensions
Of a mere abolition faction, like that Of Brney,
Van Buren, or Hale.
Thus, while we would admonish our law
abiding and conservative readers of the North
and South not to expect too much from the
demoralized democracy Of New York in No
vember, against the republican party in power,
We would also advise every member of Con-
gress, of every party, who is opposed to Sew
ards revolutionary and disunion principles to
prepare for the organization of the House.
Let this organization be made the test question
of the reconstruction of the republican par
ty, or the organization of rival opposition par
ty, and before the end of the present year the
great battle Of 1860 will be taken out Of the
hands of Seward and his followers. In the
meantime, let the people Of New York remcm-
Der that upon this great issue depend the
peace and safety of the Union, and they may
still accomplish enough in November to init
| ate the good work Of a reconstruction of par
ties in 1860, under which the slavery agitation
| will be crushed out
The PULPIT on THE "IRREpREssrBLE Con-
rLET."-We had expected that the recent out
break at Harper's Ferry would have been