New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-12-06
THR RECENT TRIUMPH Nv THE
ATATR.

these facts staring them in the face, The atlas
and Argus, and kindred journals, insist that the
| Republicans met with serious check in the recent
contest while the Democrats were all but Victori-
GUS. Indeed the organ of the Regency affects to
be iubilant over the disclosures of the official can
yass. 1t 10 more ncorrgably skeptical than It's
ancient prototype who scofed at NOah's prediction
of the coming food. He simply told the patriarch
that in his opinion there was not going to be much
of shower 1t is not recorded of this antedeuvian
Soft, that at the end of his forty days aud forty
nights soaking he still insisted that there had been
no rain. or if there had that Noah and not he, was
drowned. But, our New-York SOfts, hOpelessly
submerged by the recent political deluge, declare
that there has been no shower at all, or, if there
has, that they have rode out the storm in safety,
while it is the Republicans who have been over
whelmed.
The journals to which we have alluded seem to
be irving TO make their brethren in other States
believe that the Republican party of New-York is
sadly disappointed in the result of the elections
that they expected TO carry their entire ticket
with sweeping majority. Now, everybody here
knows that the precise opposite of this is true
that it is the Democracy who are bitterly disap-
pointed with the result. OF course, the Repub-
Leans knew and insisted that large majority of
the voters agreed in sentiment with them on M.
tonal issues. But they did not forget that in the
years when the Canal Board is chosen, and the
contest turns chiefly on questions of State policy,
the Sham Democracy have far better chances of
success than in the alternate years, when thirty
three Members of Congress are elected, and when
few are brazen enough to assert, and none are
stolid enough to believe that national issues are
not directly involved in the struggle. For examples
the Republican party of New-York, arising out of
the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill in 1854,
elected its Governor and a large majority Of the
Members of Congress in November Of that year, as
it did also in the years 1856 and 1853. But in
1855 and 1857, when local issues were chiefly in
controversy, the battle went against it,
With the prestige of success in 1857, on the ques
tons of Debt, Taxation, and the Canals, to encour
age them, the Democracy this year entered upon
the contest with great confidence. Nor was this
confidence groundless, as few facts will show:
The party had not been as thoroughly united in
many years. The outstanding grievances of Mr..
Dickinson, so long its chronic incumbrance, had
been bought in and cancelled He was peram-
bulating the State in company with his rival, Gov.
Seymour, singing the old Soft song of "unOn and
harmony" Wood and bis followers had shown
their teeth at Syracuse. But looking to Interior
objects relating to the Mayoralty Ofths city, and to
the Charleston Convention, they gave an ostenta-
tious support to the State ticket claiming, indeed
that they had first nominated it at Syracuse. In
short the party had not been 10 better condition
for severe struggle since the healing of the rupture
of1S48.
The finances Of the State were in a sad plight.
The Canals were uncompeted. Theirrevenues were
diminishing The public debt had been recently
increased. The taxes were heavy, with prospect
of becoming onerous. In spite of the truth of
history, all these grievances were charged upon the
Republicans. The alleged hostility of the Central
Railroad to the Canals, its exemption from the
burden of tolls and all its manifold sins of omission
and commission, were in the face of the fact that
its President, Vice-President, aud chief managers
were leaders of the Democracy, laid at the door of
the Republican party. From the opening of the
canvass, Democratic orator, set up howl about
debt" Taxes" Depleted Canals" Rail.
road Monopoly" Republican EItrsvagance,
&c, while Democratic journals teemed with start
hing columns of statistics to prove that under Re
publican rule the State was insolvent and the Ca
nails bleeding at every pore. A constant hsrPins
upon these threadbare themes led few simple
people really to believe that our disordered finances
had better be committed TO the control Of party
whose earnest professions of economy are only
cloak for practical proaigacy and whose chiefs
feed their followers upon the drppings of unelean
legislation.
While thus dnning the ears Of taxpayers with
predictions of financial disasters, the party which
courts the confidence, and relies for success upon
the votes of foreign-born citizens, had subsidized
and sent through the State certain Know Nothing
leaders, charged with the mission of urging such
Americans % seemed TO inclined to support the
Utica halfsnd-half ticket, to 60 clear over and
vote for all the Democratic nominees while, at
the same time, they were to exhOrt such Of their
friends as felt disposed to support the whole Re
publican ticket, to "stiek 10 the Utica nomina-
" tions"-saying TO these respective classes, that
the policy urged upon each was going to be adopted
by the great body Of the Americans! This two-fold
Republicans, a large mass Of voters
In the midst Of the contest, and when the result
scenes to incline now to the one side and then 10
the other the tdings of the Harpers Ferry outbreak
burst upon the combatanis. The hard pressed
Democracy greeted the appearance of Old Brown
ks Of fha aiief