The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-11-06

| The Maryland Ei~cttOn-The ssI.rcuressi-
l. bile Conflict" IN tho south.
The late Maryland election, upon q superb
cial examination, does not amount to much.
The Americans have carried the city of Bait-
more by increased majorities, and the deaega-
ton from the State to the new Congress il the
same as in the last-three Americans and three
democrats. But when we come to inquire into
the returns for the Legislature we discover that
there has been remarkable popular revolution
in Maryland, as compared with her last pre-
ceding legislative election
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"A complete revolution, for we see that the
positions Of the two parties, in both branches
Of the Legislature, are completely changed.
The general result, however, would have been
the humiliation of the American party, but for
those organized ruflian elements with which, by
brutal violence and terror, hundreds and thou
sands Of democrats aud reforners were driven
or deferred from the polls. This despotic
power of know nothing rufiianism In Baltimore,
however, is at length within the reach Of reform
from the overwhelming ascendency of the demo-
Gratis in the new Legislature; and we have no
doubt that one of the first acts Of said Legisla-
ture will be an act for the enforcement of law
and order in said city.
But the great point to be considered from
this popular reaction throug bout the State of Ma
ryland, against the late all-powerful opposition
party there, is the significant bearing of this
reaction in reference to the next Presidency
"Old Browns" practical Interpretation of VIM
II. Stewards "irrepressible conflict" has been
doing its work in Maryland, as the results
in regard to the local Legislature, charged with
the duty of providing for the protection of the
rights, interests and security of the people of
the commonwealth, do most emphatically show
To all intents and purposes, therefore, we may
safely conclude that Marylan the only Southern
State which in 1856 gave her electoral vote
against the democracy, is henceforward with
the other Southern States and the Southern de-
mocracy, whatever, in 1860, the shape which
may be assumed by the Southern opposition
S'SAShsS 40 q iCsiuCueioi party. luc kduutloI
thrown down at Harper's Ferry from the point
of the sword of +" Old Brown" is taken up, in
Maryland, as the challenge to an "irrepressi-
BILE conflict from the anti-slavery North
against slavery and the 'slave power" in the
South. Thus, the last remaining Southern State,
on the opposition side, has been driven into the
Southern democratic camp; and henceforth at
least until after the next Presidential election
the South will be unit
In word, the question of a military protec-
torate over Mexico, our Northwestern bound
airy question, the tariff question, the Cuba ques-
ton, the Pacific Railroad question, and all other
secondary questions, have been set aside by
"Old John Brown" who, in single coup
d'etat, has made John Brown the paramount and
overwhelming question for the next Presidency
North and South, in connection with the SIRE
pressible conflict" Of Stewards Presidential
platform. Perhaps something may be done by
New York and New Jersey on Tuesday to give
a different shape to the Presidential contest;
and we anxiously await the action Of their
people upon the startling question before them.