The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-10-11
The Result I'm Pennsylvania-Nsw York
the Fori0rn Hope.

The Result I'm Pennsylvania-Nsw York
the ForiOrn Hope.
The overwhelming defeat of Foster, the de-
mocratic Union candidate for Governor in
Pennsylvania, throws the whole weight of the
Presidential battle upon New York. Pennsyl-
vania is irretrievably lost-the great West pre-
sents no satisfactory signs of rescue-the
New England States have been abandoned to
the enemy-our Northern conservative forces
arrayed against Lincoln's election are, in fact,
routed everywhere, except in New York, and
New York is their forlorn hope.
We are thus, in all probability, very near the
contamination Of that reactionary anti slavery
revolution which was commenced under the
fatal auspices, to the democratic party, of poor
Pierces administration. Poor Pierce was
blinded by the splendor of his election. He
could not comprehend it. He could not under
stand that ii was the result Of a general upris.
ing of the conservative masses Of the whole
country in support of Henry Clay's great COM
promise measures of 1850. Had he accepted
his election upon this basis and adhered to the
will of the people, he might have secured from
his administration new lease of power to the
party supporting it of twenty years duration.
But poor Pierce was not equal to the occa-
sion. He was a vain man, and foolishly be-
lieved in his own personal popularity; he was a
caucus, small beer, managing politician and
believed that he could do anything with the
spoils. Having been nominated under the die
tation Of the Southern democratic managers at
Baltimore, he imagined that he might venture
upon any experiment, however desperate, that
would secure him the decisive support of the
South for second nomination as the candi-
date of the democratic party. There was an
other man, possessed of the came fatal hallucina-
ton at the same time, Mr.. Senator Douglas;
and between the pair of them and their cabinet
and Senatorial advisers, they quickly tore the
democracy into fragments with that nice little
electioneering expedient for the Cincinnati
Convention, the repeal of the Missouri compro-
mise.
Within few weeks from the passage Of that
BILL the democratic party in the North was pull
verified under the heel of our popular elections.
There was an instantaneous anti slavery reac-
ton In this section 30 terrible In its effects that
it carried CONSERVATION into the heart Of the
Southern democratic camp. So It was that the
Southern managing politicians of the party, in
order to save the party from absolute annihila-
ton, threw overheard, at the Cincinnati Conven-
ton, both Pierce and Douglas, and took up a
candidate who, from having been on the
other side Of the Atlantic Ocean during
the session of Congress Of Is53-54, could
prove a satisfactory abb on that never
to be forgotten Kansas-Nebraska bill. That
dlJi saved the democracy In 1856, and,
from that escape, with anything like a reasona-
BILE amount Of common sense among their man
aging politicians, they might have made good
their party's occupation Of the government for
two or three unbroken Presidential terms.
No sooner, however, had Mr. Buchanan deliv
cred his inaugural and proclaimed his Cabinet
than the war Of the democratic sections and
factions, and oliques, and rival Presidential as
pirants. commenced. to rule or ruin his admins
,raton. These disgusting and disastrous family
squabbles, after again turning over, as In 1854,
the House Of Representatives into the hands of
the opposition. eliminated in the disgraceful
scenes of confusion. rebellion secession and dis
solution which marked the Democratic Colven-
tons At Charleston and Baltimore. the last OF
that utterly demoralized camp of spoilsmen
we are, on the very verge Of a new order Of
things simply involving the subjugstion OF the
Southern States to the anti-lavery sentiment Of
the North. or the revolutionary alternative Of
an independent Southern eonfederacy.
Between the broken and disordered columns
Of the Northern conservative forces the united
legoDs Of the anti slavery alliance have thus
far met with no check in their onward march,
uader the Gag Of Lincoln and Hamlin. The
"old guard" of Pennsylvania, which rolled
back the tide Of victory in 1856, have been
ignominiously routed. under the guidance Of
their treachefous leaders. There Ia no hope
remaining for the defeat Of Lincoln but New
York. and New York is forlorn hope. The
truly brave ard patriotic however never sur
reade. while there L. even fo-lorn hope. Let
tie various party elements concerned 10 cur
Union electoral ticket set 10 work acw as II
Tie tLheoiAVe r-vr u Nle >Af1eeN y. AAe
country were in their hands.
To lhis end let no more New York cortribu-
tons be wasted upon Pennsylvania Doubt
less today the big and little Forneys Of the
Philadelphia democratic organs are laughing
IN their sleeves while jirgling In theft
pockets the New York MONEYS pu
into taeir hands to be used IL behalf Of
Fosters election. We have had enough Of
this. TIE big and little Forney. Of Pennsyl.
vanis have n W their State Into he enemys
possession. and pocke,ed the fees OF their
treachery. New York alone remains 70 con.
front the enemy; but that We shall have the
iibe7ali.y, the labor. the activity aud the
urion amorr all the factions concerned neces
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