The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1859-09-10
Our November ElectiOM-Shau VIM. HI.
Seward be Endorsed by New York for
the Presidency!

Our November Election--shaH VIM. HI.
Seward be Endorsed by New York for
the Presidency!
The republican party, from their late Con-
yention at Syracuse, have put before the peo-
pie of New York State ticket selected from
their most available politicians of different
stripes, and string of Buncombe resolutions
which. like I" the three polar stars" of the Hon
Tittlebat Titmouse, promise everything to
everybody" and thus marshalled and harness.
ed for the fight, they appear to be confident of
an easy victory. They say that their forces
are united; they are fattering themselves that
the wrangling democracy are hopelessly di-
vided and that the rump of the late American
party is too contemplate to be noticed. But
upon the main issue Of the canvass, which they
have carefully disguised from the public eye,
the managers of our republican camp ought to
be, can be, and may be, defeated in their calcu-
lations.
! With regard to our State affairs and State
policy, we presume there will be very little to
choose as between the republicans and the de-
mocracy. On both sides the candidates for the
! State Offices and the Legislature will be second
or third rate politicians, as usual and as we
can recognize no material difference between
the practical State policy of the one party and
that of the other the struggle, as local affair,
will be nothing more than an ignoble
contest between the "outs" and the '.ins" for
the spells and plumber. The republicans make
a great show ofcandidates and professions con-
corning the canals; but we dare say that.
whether Mr.. Leayenworth and his associates are
successful or defeated, the canals, as hereto
fore. will continue an expensive legacy to the
State, land source of fat pickings and perqui-
sites to the inanciers, jobbers and politicians
charged with their management
In reference, then, to our State affairs, we re-
gard with comparative Indifference the clamor
on each side against the other 1t Is "all
sound and fury, signifying nothing But upon
the great underlying and overshadowing Issue.
which has been SO carefully put in the back
ground by the republican scene shifters. this
approaching November election of ours may
be more momentous in its consequences than
any other Of the last fifty years. This great
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endorsement or rejection by New York of w.
H. Seward for the next Presidency.
His name is not mentioned in the republican
Syracuse resolutions, nor can we find the re-
hottest allusion to him in them or in the debates
of the Convention; but his portrait adorned
he hall Of the Convention, as the image Of the
presiding genius Of the party, and We may rest
assured. in the event of republican triumph,
that the result will be claimed as equivalent to
the deliberate vote of New York for w. II.
Seward for the Presidential succession, Roches-
ter platform and ALL
And here is the rub The endorsement of
the infamous, reasonable and revolutionary
dogma of that Rochester speech, that sthere is
an irrepressible conflict going on between the
North and the South, which must go on until
all the States shall have become free States or
slave States, will have prodigious effect upon
all the other Northern States. The result will
most probably be the nomination of this most
dangerous man as the republican candidate in
1860, in which event an ''irrepressible conflict"
will indeed be inaugurated, which will rapidly
carry us among the rocks and breakers of dis
union and anarchy.
Already, by various public meetings in the
South, resolutions in view of the possibility of
Stewards election to the White House have
been adopted in favor Of the secession of the
Southern States from the Union. His nominal
uon as the republican candidate would bring
all the cotton States to this resolution. and
the result would inevitably be sectional con-
test of the most disastrous character. But let
the democracy insist upon a decision from the
people of New York in November, whether this
mischievous agitator shall or shall not rule
over us, and they may put him down at once
and forever.
The prosperity Of the North is immensely
due to our union with the South Our
farmers, manufacturers, merchants. operatives.
corporations, banks, shipping interests, &C.,
are well aware Of this Disunion and a South
ern confederacy, even if peaceably accom-
phsned, would entail bankruptcy upon thou
SANDS OF our wealthiest men. and ruin unon
tens OF thousands Of our Industrial Northern
people. But an "irrepressible conflict, like
.na' 10 winch Seward is pledged could not
long be continued without involving the two
sections in revolutionary excuses and spolia-
tions even worse than those of Mexico.
This is the entertainment to which the neo.
pie of New York are invited in the matter of
our November election. Seward is kept out Of
sight, but the success of the republican partv
this year. as it was last year, will be claimed
as the ratification by New York of that Roches-
ter manifesto and its author for the Presidency.
Let this be kept before the people, and let us
have defeat Of the republican State ticket
upon this paramount issue Of W. II. Seward
and his fearful programme of agitation, disun-
ION and revolution, for the sooner he is dis
posed OF the better will it be for New York,