New-York daily tribune., 1862-11-07
WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN.

III. albany EreRiHg Journal in announcing
the election of Seymour, comments as follows;
Tii. result is the les mory.ng because It ~ss not
.o.e.bc unexpected la the present terrible ers q tho
country, NewYok should occupy no equvocL position.
That she does will einbsass the Government and give
heart to its euemies.
"A" this should have been, becsuse 1t might have been,
avsr,ed Although uuquesionsby Induced by slrn. de
sire 70 give emphasis important pIiucpe the n NINA
tsn BY ne Rpub'raH UHca C0nrsafioH o gehde1Gs ot
coaceaed gaoHby pifrioisv and pysora! corfi. tu n
rJeme pryy ries ig (fof ard hone tho less ,u
because tie example hld been &c. by tie Demooc party.
Lat erample reiiled By ell ordinarily 81 syuPsly
with that party and II advantage Lad been taken Of th, &
ne and ticket pre.entedno patriotic. fos that could
no, be- bu-les distinctly partisan she re.u, OF las, year
would have been repeated With greatly increased emphasis
ana sisrfcauce But the syacuso Convention far from
taking elyautare Of he popular desire diresfisd a. and
compelled parry contest when the position Of tie country
10 nsce.sties snd suents of tLe Almusstion,
sn he ao-.esous of prudence Oni patriotism, a. dictated
different policy.
The ro,4l il viaf zoe JssyeG al n, hn bu, which We
Hoped sye1ted by hard and enefs of,snrA
,ion.n
These structures acquire certain force
from the known character and consistent
attitude Of their author. He tried hard TO de-
irat the nomination Of Gen. WadswOrth
His appreheusions of disaster from that nomi-
nation are not aitstthoughts, but were freely
expressed in due sesakn. Ii many Of his most
intimate and devoted friends have not either
by positive action or BY determined inaction
contributed to verify his predictions, .ten they
are grossly beed.
1t is quite possible that candidate for
Governor might have been selected by the
Union State Convention who would have been
elected HoratiO Seymour for example, would
have obtained a rOusing majority. Ii We could
have united on some other person more Ge,o-ed
10 and trusted by tue cJngenial intefe..i 81
Slavery and Rum, we might have "cut under '
the Democratic organization aud secured a
signal triumph. There happened however to
votoel Temperance bl and publicly expressed
the opinion that the Union ought to be given
up il it could only be saved by upse;tiug
Slavery. Had our ConyeDtiOn been held first,
we might possibly have secured that gentlemen
Tor our leading candidate. "a il was. Sc were
forcstalled, and had TO pick aud choose from
among such material as was left.
That the voters who chOose 10 be represent
ed in Congress by the Woods, by Brooks, by
Ilerrick, by Herman, &C., rather than by tho
rival candidates. would have preferred for
Governor any hearty supporter Of the Admin
lstration and the War, we see no evidence.
Among those We confronted at the polls, We
do not know one who did mol supper. Seymour
as the Peoce candidate, hostile to Emancipa-
ton, to the President, to tie Draft, 10 The
War Taxes, &C., &C.. and whose election
was somehow to put an eDd to the War. If
one Of them CHERISHED any solicitude for the
speedy overthrow of the Rebellion, he kept
that aspiration locked within the rccesses Of
bis own breast, while all his denunciatons
were reserved for "niggers" ard "Abol-
tiOnists."
Let US be willing 10 learn something from
the experience Of our neighborI.
In Ohio, Union State ticket was last year
selected from tho ranks Of the two old parties,
with an eminent, lifelong, popular Democrat
Ut its head. lie voted the Union ticket thi,
year; 80, we presume did the other Democrats
elected on the ticket With himi if there were