The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-10-20

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authority.
The above facts furnish another illustration
of the readiness with which means are found,
through the aid of the politicians, to get round
the provisions Of the most stringent charters,
and to defeat the precautions taken to prevent
unauthorized expenditures Of the public money.
The Water Commissioners of Brooklyn have in
all their proceedings eyinced disposition to
throw off the control Of the city authorities,
and it is for the interest Of tho public that they
should be taught that an act of the Legislature
obtained by unfair influences will not be al
lowed to override constitutional safeguards.
Our November Election and the Next Pre-
sidcncy.
The State of New York is the only remaining
hope against Northern sectional struggle for
the Presidency. Within the last twelve months,
including New York, it may be said that every
Northern State this side the Rocky Mountains
has gone by the board. All these late North
ern elections, from Maine to Minnesota, indi-
cate a general sectional crusade in 1860 against
the peculiar institution" of the South, or, as
designated by our republican organs, the
"slave oligarchy" and the ''slave power.' This
crusade by the republican party, as a sectional
anti-slavery organization, can only be prevent
ed, we apprehend, by popular reaction
against W. H. Seward and his revolutionary
Presidential programme in our November State
election.
The prospects for this popular reaction, it
must be admitted, are anything but encourag-
ing or satisfactory. The moral effect of all the
late elections goes against any such reaction in
State where the republican party is consider
ed firmly seated in power, and as possessing
the resources for popular majority equal to
all demands. On the other side, the treache-
ries, trickeries, corruptions and debaucheries of
the Albany Regency and Tammany Hall have
SO demoralized and disorganized the democratic
party that It has entered into tho work of this
campaign without confidence or courage, but
full of the symptoms and fears of crushing
defeat. And yet the New York democracy
are now called upon to suspend for few
weeks their local quarrels and personal feuds,
in order to rescue the State and the Presiden-
tial election from the control Of sectional
disunion agitator and his followers; and this
good work may possibly be done.
In the first place, although the party was in
disordered, dispirited and wrangling condi-
ton last year, the democratic candidate for
Governor received some thirty-fve thousand
votes more than were cast for Mr.. Buchanan in
the State in 1856. These votes were, doubt
less, to o very great extent, drawn from the
dissolving American party. But there were
still in the same electi0n some sixty thousand
votes cast for the American State ticket. These
sixty thousand votes of party now disbanded
may be welded to turn the election one way
or the other, or halfand-half as arranged by
the silly triumvirate Of Ullmann, Scroggs and
Brooks, In their late Convention at Utica. We
have reason to believe that very few Of these
sixty thousand Know Nothings have any faith
in Seward, and that large majority Of them
can never be brought to support him for the
Presidency upon any terms. Why, then, if
they would dispose Of him, and place him on
the shelf among the political fossil remains of
an age gone by-why not at once turn the
vote of New York into rebuke, instead of an
endorsement OF his Presidential pretensions?
In the next place, this recent abolition affair
in Virginia should act as a warning to all con-
sentative, law-abiding and Union-loving men Of
the North in reference to the disunion tenden-
cies and dangers Of the slavery agitation. We
dare say, now, that the Southern States in the
Charleston Convention will repudiate every
thing in the way Of a candidate or platform
which does not clearly afford some positive Sc
curities Of protection to Southern slavery. It
is very probable that the democracy at
Charleston viii thus be constrained to accept
candidate and platform so decidedly pro.
slavery as to encourage the republicans Of the
North to confne the Presidential contest to the
''slave oligarchy" and the "aggressions and
demands of the slave power"
The result of contest of this character
would unquestionably be the defeat Of the
South, and the election of an anti-slavery Pre-
sident from the North; and this result would
doubtless be the signal for secession and revo-
lutionary movementsin the South, which would
soon ripen into civil war But this sectional
battle for the next Presidency may be prevent
ed by the conservative people of New York in
our November election, and by the simple act
of casting their SURFACES so that they shall &C.
cure ajudgment from the Empire State against
W. H. Seward and his abominable disunion and
insurrectionary principles. Otherwise we may
as well prepare now as next year for the most
embittered, perilous, mischievous and disas-
trous sectional agitation of slavery, morally,
politically and financially, North and South, in
all the history Of this vexed question. Let
Seward be rebuked, and the South may be con-
vinced that she is still secure under the shelter
ing wings Of the constitution. And we call
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