The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-11-13
The New York Election.
From the New York Herald, 4th.

Yesterdays STATE ELEoTIoNs-THE VOICE
OF NEW YORK
The Empire State has spoken, and the
Democratic party, with its copperhead
affiliations, has been signally defeated.
The city alone has extinguished the ten
thousand majority by which Governor
Seymour was elected, and the State has
probably turned the table to the extent of
at least fifteen thousand majority the other
way.
A decisive popular reaction was so gen.
orally expected that it will create no sur
prise. The tide of public opinion, which
set in against the disorganizing copperhead
peace faction in the spring elections of
New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Con-
necticut, and which was strengthened with
national movement in the summer cleo
ton of Kentucky, became resistless and
still increasing flood in the autumnal cleo
tions of Maine, California, Indiana, Penn
sylvania and Ohio. Now to these States
we may add, as involved in this universal
popular movement in behalf of the war,
and the Administration charged with its
prosecution, not only Massachusetts and
New York, but New Jersey, Illinois, Wis
cOnsin, Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri and
Kansas; for we doubt not that all these
States, in which elections were held yes
terday, have been in a remarkable degree
influenced by this immediate, paramount
and absorbing questionable suppression
of the armed forces of the rebellion by the
fleets and the armies of the Union.
New York voted yesterday, as she vot-
ed in our last November election, for a
vigorous prosecution of the war. This
was the issue upon which Governor Sey-
mour succeeded, and this was the issue
upon which he and his party have been
defeated. His associations and sympa
thies with such intolerant and intolerable
copperhead peacemen as Thomas r. Sey-
1nour, of Connecticut; Bradbury, of Maine,
and Vallandigham, of Ohio, and his wish
washy, temporizing, double-faced, do
nothing policy as Governor of New York,
were too strong against him and his party
to be neutralized or palliated by the en-
forced war resolutions Of Dean Richmond's
see-saw Albany platform. Revolutions,
it is said, never go backward; and these
elections throughout the loyal States, of
1863, may be pronounced a sweeping pop
ular revolution against e demoralizing
peace faction, as those of 1862 were a re-
volution against demoralizing abolition
war faction
Now, the Administration at Washing
ton, fully instructed against both these
factions, and amply sustained by the peo-
pie upon the simple platform of the sup
preston of the rebellion, ought to know
what to do. The people, from Maine to
California, have overwhelmingly pro-
claimed to President Lincoln that they
are with him for vigorous prosecution
of the war, that the men, money and
means required to bring the war to a
speedy and successful issue, are at his
service, and that the country expects him
to push on the war to speedy termina-
ton. We need not admonish him that
these elections of 1868 indicate nothing in
reference to the election of 1864, in which
the merits or dement's of his Administra-
ton will turn the scales. Let President