Year: 1862

The STATE ELEcroNs AND THEIR NEw
lssUEs.-The coming elections in this State for
Governor and other officers will exhibit one OF
taken place in this country The issues are
new and vastly important, and the struggle
Will be marked with extreme violence. The
democrats have united their discordant elements
upon conservative basis, and have selected as
candidate for Governor Horatio Seymour. The
republicans have not yet made their nomina-
tion, or announced the principles on which
the campaign is to be conducted on their part
But it is understood that the conservative ele-
ment in the party-including Mr.. Seward and
Thurlow Weed-has been defeated and crushed,
and that the radicals will .'rule the roast"
Their journals in this city are coming out in
very remarkable articles, shaping the issue, and
laboring hard to bring the whole party over to
their sanguinary and revolutionary views.


The Tribune Of yesterday, for example, pre-
sents the bloody programme of extermina-
ton Of the white race Of the South, as
did Thaddeus Stevens, short time ago, in the
House of Representatives. The organ of the
Jacobins SCOTS at "hunlanity" as sickly senti-
mentality. and denounces every attempt to re-
store peace on the basis of the constitution.
To do battle for that instead Of exterminating
slavery and shareholders would be game not
worth the candle; for "fghting for the Union,'
according to Greeley, is only Fighting for
pretty sentiment" and is mere poetry" 1t
would never "repay us for all the dark days
a oosr &ha 60 e
Fort Sumter" 1t would not atone for the troll
Of our killed, wounded and missing" and it
would bring no consolation to "the widows
and orphans Of the North" Just as if it would
be any atonement for the loss of the Northern
dead to add more Northern dead to the list, and
as if the widows and orphans of the North
would be consoled with the idea that thousands
Of others at the North were to be bereaved like
themselves.


Such is specimen of the rabid, bloodthirsty
spirit which the radicals are seeking to infuse
into this war-a spirit which would pro-
long the conflict for twenty years and desc
late the whole country. These Developments
foreshadow their platform and their deter
mination to nominate man for Governor
as Unsuitable for blood as themselves 1t
is stated that they consider Fremont man of
that stamp, and that he is to be the candidate
Of their choice. Tho present Governor, Mr..
Morgan, is spoken Of; but it is evident that he
has little chance. It is more than probable
that Fremont is to be their man. If the radical
leaders should succeed in completely aboli-
tionizing the republican party and nominating
General Fremont, singular state of things
would be presented to the people. Two par
ties would then be in the field. both bitterly
hostile to the administration, but the radicals
more bitter than the democrats. Their beauti-
full programme is universal emancipation, the
arming. of the slaves, servile insurrection,
massacre Of the white race, and turning the
whole South into "a waste bowling wilder
ness;' and If the administration will not fol-
low their leading they will seek to overthrow
it by revolution, and carry out this ferocious
and vindictive policy by dictatorship. Upon
such principles will they appeal to the people,
and already they are preparing to stir up the
worst passions of human nature in advance
It remains to be seen what success will attend
their efforts, especially after the heavy blow
they have received by the great victory Of
General Mcclellan.