New Hampshire Statesman

Seymour chosen By Republican votes.

The Albany Journal—the leading Republican paper in the State of New-York—in its issue the day after the recent election, spoke as follows:

The returns received, although imperfect, indicate the election of the Democratic Ticket by a few thousand majority.

This result is none the less mortifying because it was not altogether unexpected. In the present terrible crisis of the country, New-York should occupy no equivocal position. That State does now, will embarrass the Government and give heart to its enemies.

All this should have been, because it might have been averted. Although unquestionably induced by an earnest desire to give emphasis to an important principle, the nomination, by the Republican-Union Convention, of a gentleman of conceded gallantry, patriotism and personal worth, but of extreme party views, was a fatal error; and none the less fatal because the example had been set by the Democratic party. That example was not relished by all ordinarily in sympathy with that party: and if advantage had been taken of this feeling, and a ticket presented—no more patriotic, for that could not be, but less distinctly partizan, the result of last year would have been repeated, with greatly increased emphasis and significance.

No fact is more palpable in the partisan political conflicts of the United States than that there is a large class of men in the Republican ranks, whose attachments are not so decided that they can be counted upon in all emergencies to vote for its candidates. If objectionable ones are put in nomination, and others, more to their taste, are found upon democratic tickets, they walk up to the polls, carry those names, and say nothing about it. They are men whom it is fashionable to style "fossils," "old fogies," "silver grays," and so forth. It is by precisely this class of men that Horatio Seymour was chosen Governor of New-York. Primarily, the State was lost because of preponderating numbers of Republicans in the war; but amongst the secondary causes of defeat was the defection of that class of men here spoken of; a class who always exist in the United States, and always will, so long as the human race contains men who shrink from extreme measures; who dread revolutions, and would prefer safety of person and estate under a bad but stable government, to alarm and vicissitude under one administered by visionary and radical rulers. Seymour's majority is probably less than twelve thousand, and twice that number of Republican votes was obtained for him by the constant cry of Democratic newspapers that Gen. Wadsworth was a radical and an abolitionist; who had spoken of Gen. McClellan as the "little railroad contractor of the West," and styled the President of the United States the "one horse lawyer from Springfield." That Gen. Wadsworth deserved the hearty support of every Republican throughout the State of New-York, there is no doubt. That he would have made an excellent Chief Magistrate is equally certain. But he was not acceptable to a class of men who are more fastidious than wise; and whose, some refusing to vote at all, and others going over to the Democrats—have brought about an event that is not merely an inauspicious one in partisan politics, but may prove calamitous in its influence upon public affairs.

It will do no good to rail at the class of men whose votes, diverted from the Republican candidate for a cause set forth above, have elected Horatio Seymour, Governor. The deed is done, and reproaches will neither bring back the deserters nor undo the work they assisted to perform. The only course is to accept the fact, that the Republican party contains great numbers of men who will not vote like the Democrats—for unacceptable candidates. Had the fact been seasonably heeded, John A. Dix would have been chosen Governor of New-York on the first Tuesday of this month. The difference between having John A. Dix and Horatio Seymour for Chief Magistrate of the Empire State at such an era as this in national affairs, we need not spend time to point out.