The Portland daily press., 1862-11-07
The Great Democratic ~ Victory.

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The Democrats have carried New York.
They have elected their candidate for Cover
nor, and they have also elected a majority of
the delegation for the next Congress. Having
thus gained great victory in great State, it
is only fair that the victors should have all the
honors that such a victory brings with it
What these honors are can be better under
stood by considering the elements which are
embraced in the victory; and the character
of those elements can be very safely inferred
from the men who have been thrown upon
the top of the wave by the great struggle
through which the State has just passed. OF
Mr.. Seymour, Governor-elect, we need say
nothing here except that, since the rebellion
broke ont, his course has not been such as to
encourage and strengthen the government in
its efforts to crush out the rebellion, and to
maintain its own integrity. He is unquestion-
ably conditional Union man one who would
be glad to see the Union preserved if it can be
done consistently with the most friendly rela-
tons to The rebel States, the continuance of
the slave institution uninjured, and the success
of the Democratic party; but before he would
see the South severely crippled, and before he
would see slavery permanently injured, he
would say to the Southern States, 'Wayward
sisters, depart in peace and before he would
see the rebellion crushed out by a Republican
administration, or by war that may rebound
to the glory of a Republican administration,
he would perhaps welcome jeff Davis to
Washington, accept the Montgomery constitu-
ton, and thus spread the Confederate govern
ment over the whole Union-thus mixing it up
with Northern democracy, making IL dom-
nant in the present free States, and raising to
political resurrection those effete and offens-
i've men that were killed off by Lincoln's cleo
tion, and entombed at his Inauguration.
But there are three jewels in the crown re-
emily won by the New York democrats, of
more than usual brilliance, and to which they
are justly entitled, and from which they can
no more escape than can shaggy dogs ear
from the burs of burdock. We allude TO
three representative men-proper and fitting
representatives of the dnimus of the organza-
ton in that State-who have recently been
elected to Congress from the city. And
/. BEN WooD. The Democrats have elect
ed him. At the last session of Congress the
question of his loyalty was raised, and that,
together with his probable expulsion, were
pending at the adjournment, and will come up
In course in December. He is the solitary
man who voted with Vallandigham against
the resolution of Mr.. Crittepden, declaring
hat
forced upon us by the disunionists of the
South" and he has proved himself one of the
most unprincipled men that ever dsgraced
seat in the federal legislature. Let the Dem
ecrats have all the honor of electing him.
They have got him, elected him in full view OF
his well-known disloyalty, and he is their es-
pecial representative, and they are response
Bile for his political conduct.
2. JAMES BRooKs.-Not originally nomin-
ated by democrats, but by "conservatvesn-
heaven save the MARYLAND afterwards adopt
ed and supported by democrats, their own
Candidate loyal man-having taken himself
out of the way. And who is James Brooks?
He is the shameless traducer of his own New
England birthplace, who has shown as much
of the migrate as ever did the Yankee rene
gade, Albert Pike, who brought into the field
tribe Of savages to scalp and tomahawk the
playmates of his boyhood Brooks campaign
speeches have been published and applauded
in the Charleston Mercury. He was once the
wholesale denouncer of slavery; now he is the
most bitter and blatant defender of it, and the
villifier of all who oppose it. Him have the
democrats elected, and hereafter his acts are
to be set down to the credit of democracy.
3. FERNANDO WooD.-Last though not
least we come to the Observation-Disclosures of
treason in the empire city"-the man who,
as Mayor of the commercial and popular me-
tropolis OF the New World, officially urged
her secession from the Union, and that she
should, ignoring her relations to the rest of
the country, set up on her own hook, to be the
gigantic broker, midde-man and supply mer-
chant of the two contending parties-rebels
and loyalsts. He is man of vast power for
mischief and that power he has seldom failed
10 exert except for purposes of mischief. His
whole soul is in sympathy with the rebellion,
and to-day he is doubtless as much traitor at
heart and in purpose as JEFF Davis himself
Him have the democrats elected He is their
man. BE is jewel in their crown If they
can feel p,ide in the election of such a man,
and the other two named, so be it; but don't
let those who rejoice in such triumph insult
common sense and abuse the English language,
by claiming to be the friends of the govern
ment as it is, or the enemies of the rebellion.